Education
Education helps build numerous resilience capacities, and disruptions to education systems can have a profound impact on communities and countries.

Interruptions to equitable access to education can have profound and lasting effects on countries and societies. Shocks and stresses can cause prolonged education disruption, permanent dropout of students, weakened learning outcomes, and long-term psychosocial concerns that can have fundamental effects on communities’ ability to recover and become more resilient to future shocks and stresses.
In addition, education plays an important role in building resilience capacities across a variety of sectors and parts of society. It helps build human and social capital, women’s empowerment and gender equality, and can contribute to knowledge about how to cope when shocks and stresses occur. It is also important to build the resilience of education systems themselves, ensuring that the resources and capabilities are in place to enable these systems to withstand crises and maintain access to education.
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This white paper explores the interaction between education and resilience and presents several recommendations on policy and programming.
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Training
This course introduces participants to the basics of resilience to recurrent crises.
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Join panelists from TANGO International and USAID for a presentation of the key findings from the RISE I (Resilience in the Sahel Enhanced) recurrent monitoring surveys (RMS). The RMS followed a group of RISE I households from August 2018 through April 2019 in both Niger and Burkina Faso to...
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This brief summarizes a USAID white paper on the linkages between education and resilience.
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This white paper explores the interaction between education and resilience and presents several recommendations on policy and programming.
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This synthesis paper reviews 20 years of research and focuses on the increasing socioeconomic differentiation in selected pastoralist areas, and the implications in terms of pathways to resilience.
HealthEducationDiversify Livelihood RisksSocial CapitalGender EquitySouth SudanKenyaEthiopiaUgandaSomalia