Tools & Guidance

This technical brief provides 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.

Enhancing Flood Early Warning Services aims to build the resilience of communities in the Hindu Kush Himalaya region by increasing flood forecast lead times.

The Surface Water Mapping Tool documents the dynamics of seasonal flooding cycles on the Mekong River to better understand some of the impacts of dams.