Tools & Guidance

The Child and Youth Resilience Measure and the Adult Resilience Measure are self-report measures of resilience used by researchers and practitioners worldwide.

The ICAN Activity works with community structures to confront imbalances that undermine women’s economic opportunities and influence in communities.

Policy Implementation Assessment of USAID's Building Resilience to Recurrent Crisis: Policy and Program Guidance

Besides devastating the lives of the population of Ukraine and decimating key parts of the infrastructure and economy of the country, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has had wide repercussions outside the Ukraine...

Uganda experiences recurrent weather, environmental and socioeconomic shocks and stressors, including drought, erratic rainfall, floods, landslides, disease, crop pests, unemployment and intercommunal conflicts. As a...

Zimbabwe’s development progress depends on the productivity of its natural resources, principally land, water and wildlife. Yet Zimbabwe’s food, forests and wildlife are in steep decline.

USAID’s assistance in South Sudan consists mostly of humanitarian aid and some long-term development programs in economic growth, education, democracy and governance and health.

Poverty and economic insecurity in Nigeria is compounded by endemic corruption, unresponsive governance, violent extremism, intergroup conflict, displacement and climate issues.

The Sahel today is marked by food insecurity, persistent poverty, corrupt governance, high population growth rates and recurrent weather shocks made worse by climate change that often drive vulnerable communities...

In Malawi, risk and exposure to shocks and stresses are driven by a confluence of over-dependence on rainfed maize and tobacco, unmodernized agriculture sector, dependence on biomass for energy resulting in...