Evidence and Analysis
There is an increasing recognition that the resilience community needs to effectively measure and analyze resilience and resilience capacities.
As international stakeholders and national governments increasingly recognize the importance of strengthening resilience and resilience capacities, there is also increasing recognition of the need to effectively measure and analyze them. The resilience measurement community agree on several common resilience measurement principles:
- The need to measure not only well-being outcomes like hunger, poverty and malnutrition, but also the shocks and stresses that households and communities experience and the potential sources of resilience (or resilience capacities) that explain why some households and communities are able to maintain their well-being in the face of these shocks and stresses, while other (less resilient) households and communities are not.
- That resilience is best captured analytically through multifaceted measurement approaches, not a single indicator.
- Collecting both objective and subjective data using mixed methods is critical, as is capturing resilience dynamics —ideally through panel designs that follow the same households and communities across time.
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The Resilience Measurement Practical Guidance Note Series synthesizes existing technical documents into pragmatic guidance to assist practitioners...
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The guidance note draws on examples from multiple country and project contexts of what worked well, what challenges emerged and what solutions were developed while implementing an RMS. As such, this guidance note primarily focuses on measuring resilience at the individual, household and...
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This report documents the resilience analysis of the midline data set collected for the impact evaluation (IE) of the Resilience in the Sahel Enhanced (RISE) initiative.
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The objective of this research is to provide implementing partners, the Office of Food for Peace (FFP), the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance (FANTA) Project, and the United States Agency for International Development/Center for Resilience (C4R) with insights into factors that strengthen...
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The objective of this research is to provide implementing partners, the USAID Office of Food for Peace, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) with insights into factors that strengthen household and community resilience in Bangladesh.
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This series of cases explores central questions for practitioners interested in conducting a risk and resilience assessment. Each case explores various contexts where Mercy Corps conducted a risk and resilience assessment, the Strategic Resilience Assessment (STRESS), in Niger, Nepal and...
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The objective of this research is to provide implementing partners, Food for Peace (FFP) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) with insights into factors that strengthen household and community resilience in Nepal.
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REAL partners, USAID staff, implementing organizations, analysts and policy makers gathered in a day-long workshop to discuss unique resilience evidence emerging from the Horn of Africa and how the findings can be applied for programming.
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Nigeria has emerged as Africa’s largest economy, while remaining a cause for concern for humanitarian organizations. Economic growth is inextricably linked to oil markets, which has been sluggish in recent years.
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This study adapted a USAID/TANGO resilience analysis framework to use with secondary datasets. The goals were to describe the relationships between resilience capacity and well-being outcomes in the face of a drought.
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