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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Populations around the world work every day at maintaining a level of stability in their lives as they face ongoing challenges linked to poverty. With or without the necessary resources, they do their best to feed their families, maintain a roof over their heads, and provide a sense of safety...
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The Asia Resilience Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Workshop was held in Bangkok, Thailand from July 11-14, 2017. The USAID Center for Resilience (C4R) through the Resilience Evaluation, Analysis and Learning (REAL) Award supported the training event, to provide participants with...
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In this concept note the authors discuss the importance and the challenges related to the measurement of resilience across and between scales. "Scales" are understood as “natural levels of observation or analysis” and the most commonly used levels are: individual, household, and community...
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Resilience agenda within USAID was prompted by repeat large-scale humanitarian crises, and the increasing costs associated:
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Using baseline data (December 2013) and Recurrent Monitoring Survey data (collected monthly from Oct 2014-March 2015), the study examines which resilience capacities enabled households in two areas of Ethiopia to recover from the 2014-15 drought in ways that can help inform future...
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This study documents the detrimental effects of prolonged drought in four provinces of Zimbabwe. The data cover 2013-2016: two years prior to the onset of the drought and two years during the drought.
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Agriculture is the mainstay of the Kenyan economy, contributing to approximately 26 percent of the annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Pastoralist and agricultural activities are dependent on rain for sustainability. Erratic rainfall has led to...
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Senegal is one of the poorest countries in the world but thanks to its political and social stability has experienced a higher economic growth compared to its neighboring countries. Senegalese population strongly relies on agriculture and livestock rearing activities: 46 percent of the...
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Together with other key partners, FAO has been pioneering resilience measurement and analysis with respect to food insecurity through the Resilience Index Measurement and Analysis (RIMA) 2 model which has been used to undertake the present analysis.
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FAO has been pioneering resilience measurement and analysis with respect to food insecurity through the Resilience Index Measurement and Analysis (RIMA) model, which has been adopted in the present analysis. FAO-RIMA model identifies and weights pillars and their...
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