Tools & Guidance

Curated evidence, insights and resources to plan, implement and integrate resilience approaches into your programs, as well as tools to measure resilience.

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Policy Brief

2018 State of the Sector (Graduation)

04 Mar 2020
Partnership for Economic Inclusion

This report presents findings from the Partnership for Economic Inclusion's 2017 graduation landscaping survey and presents an overview, identifies trends, and provides analysis of implementations of graduation...

Livelihood Diversification
Financial Inclusion
Policy Brief

Microenterprise and Pathways Out of Poverty

21 Feb 2020
USAID

This USAID report to Congress in 2018 discusses USAID's shift away from traditional microfinance and moving toward other approaches for poverty alleviation, including the graduation...

Financial Inclusion
Tomato farmers in Tanzania
Technical Guidance

Shock Responsive Programming and Adaptive Mechanisms

06 Feb 2020
USAID

This handbook provides guidance for project design and management teams on shock responsive programs.

children in classroom
Policy Brief

Education & Resilience: Transforming Systems in Adversity

31 Jan 2020
USAID Office of Education

This brief summarizes a USAID white paper on the linkages between education and resilience.

Conflict and Fragility
Education
Social Capital
Human Capital
Operational Strategy

Partnership for Recovery and Resilience Framework in South Sudan Two-Pager

23 Sep 2019
Partnership for Recovery and Resilience

This two-pager summarizes the Partnership for Recovery and Resilience's context, vision, and approach.

South Sudan
Operational Strategy

Partnership for Recovery and Resilience Brief

23 Sep 2019
Partnership for Recovery and Resilience

This brief summarizes the purpose and goals of the Partnership for Recovery and Resilience in South Sudan.

South Sudan
Operational Strategy

IGAD Drought Resilience and Sustainability Initiative

23 Sep 2019
IGAD

The Strategy serves as a common framework for developing national and regional programmes that will be designed to enhance drought resilience through building sustainability in the IGAD region.

Kenya
Ethiopia
Uganda
Somalia
South Sudan
Technical Guidance

Ending Drought Emergencies Common Programme Framework

23 Sep 2019
Republic of Kenya Ministry of Devolution and Planning

The Common Programme Framework to End Drought Emergencies epresents the first phase of a ten-year programme to end drought emergencies in Kenya by 2022.

Kenya
Technical Guidance

Global Food Security Strategy Guidance on Resilience

23 Sep 2019
USAID

This technical guidance provides a shared understanding of key concepts and best practices for integrating resilience in the design and implementation of Feed the Future programs under the Global Food...

Agriculture
Operational Strategy

Operational Strategy for the Shock Responsive RISE Portfolio

23 Sep 2019
USAID

The RISE portfolio aims to strengthen resiliency in communities and governments in selected, somewhat adjoining areas of Burkina Faso and Niger.

Niger Burkina Faso Climate Change Conflict and Fragility