Tools & Guidance

USAID’s approach to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, help partner countries build resilience and improve its own operations. In order to reach ambitious climate targets, climate adaptation will be mainstreamed...

This primer focuses on the use of climate information by USAID and implementing partners for climate risk management (CRM).

This technical brief outlines and expands upon the key considerations above to provide guidance to those working to improve the outcomes of USAID water resource management programs.

The U.S. Global Water Strategy envisions a water-secure world, where people and nations have the water they need to be healthy, prosperous, and resilient.

How can household resilience be measured using the 18 indicators of resilience capacity?

Capacities, response strategies and wellbeing outcomes are not homogeneous. There is growing acceptance that gender inequalities influence resilience.

What actions can enhance coherence between water, sanitation & hygiene and water resources management programming in shock-affected contexts?

Climate variability and change present both immediate and future risks to human health.

The cornerstone of the U.S. government's approach to to help more than half a billion people in developing countries adapt to and manage the impacts of climate change by 2030.

Climate change, environmental degradation and inequitable access to natural resources have sparked or aggravated conflicts.