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.
Featured Resources
Resource
The Resilience Measurement Practical Guidance Note Series synthesizes existing technical documents into pragmatic guidance to assist practitioners...
More Resources
-
Resource
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.
Evidence and AnalysisNepal -
Resource
A report comissioned by USAID to assess the cost savings that could result from an earlier and more proactive response to drought in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia.
Value for MoneyEvidence and AnalysisEthiopiaKenyaSomalia -
Resource
There is now wide agreement that the interactions among climate change trends, ecosystem fragility and geo-political instability have produced new configurations of risks that are increasingly difficult to predict. The combined effect of these new risk configurations has in turn placed a more...
Evidence and Analysis -
Resource
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...
Evidence and AnalysisGender Equity -
Resource
The combined effects of climatic changes, economic forces and socio-political conditions have increased the frequency and severity of risk exposure among vulnerable populations. recognizing the challenges created by more complex risk scenarios, the concept of resilience has captured the interest...
Evidence and Analysis -
Resource
En Tchad, la vulnérabilité aux événements climatiques extrêmes est amplifiée par la faiblesse des structures administratives (...
Evidence and Analysis -
Resource
The Resilience in the Sahel Enhanced (RISE) program aims to increase the resilience of chronically vulnerable people, households, villages, and systems in targeted agro-pastoral and marginal agriculture livelihood zones of Burkina Faso and Niger.
Evidence and AnalysisBurkina FasoNiger -
Resource
This report documents the resilience analysis of the baseline data collected for the impact evaluation (IE) of the Resilience in the Sahel Enhanced (RISE) initiative. The overarching goal of RISE is to increase the resilience of chronically vulnerable populations in agro-pastoral and marginal...
Evidence and AnalysisBurkina FasoNiger -
-
Resource
This paper reviews more fifteen years of research by the Feinstein International Center to examine the nexus of conflict, livelihoods, and resilience.
Conflict and FragilityEvidence and AnalysisSouth SudanKenyaEthiopiaUgandaSomalia