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Curated evidence, insights and resources to plan, implement and integrate resilience approaches into your programs, as well as tools to measure resilience.

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Policy Brief

Improved Seed Use and Farming Practices Sustain after Program Ends in Uganda

15 May 2020
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience

Some development programs are designed on the premise that they can trigger lasting changes in poverty or food security. An intervention in eastern Uganda to increase the use of improved seed varieties and basic...

Uganda Agriculture
Policy Brief

Low-cost Cultivation Improvements Have Big Impacts on Food Security and Resilience in Uganda

15 May 2020
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience

Agricultural extension promotes improved inputs and more productive farming practices, which could boost food security and reduce poverty in developing countries. We evaluated how a large-scale agricultural...

Uganda Agriculture
Operational Strategy

IGAD Drought Resilience and Sustainability Initiative

23 Sep 2019
IGAD

The Strategy serves as a common framework for developing national and regional programmes that will be designed to enhance drought resilience through building sustainability in the IGAD region.

Kenya
Ethiopia
Uganda
Somalia
South Sudan
Technical Guidance

Strategic Resilience Assessment (STRESS)

28 Aug 2019
Mercy Corps

STRESS is a methodology that helps teams apply resilience thinking in distinct humanitarian or development contexts. Deepening understanding of risk and the systems communities rely on allows practitioners to adjust...

Uganda
Niger
Nepal
Bangladesh
Policy Brief

Food security, resilience and well-being analysis of refugees and host communities in northern Uganda

27 Aug 2019
FAO

In August 2017, FAO was asked by the Commissioner for Refugees (Office of the Prime Minister of Uganda) to support the implementation of a socio-economic analysis within the refugees’ settlements and host...

Uganda Agriculture
Policy Brief

Health, Resilience and Sustainable Poverty Escapes

25 Aug 2019
Chronic Poverty Advisory Network (CPAN) , USAID Center for Resilience

Health intersects with resilience and sustained poverty escapes in at least three ways. Poor health reduces well-being and can be a shock or stressor at the individual, household, community or systems level. It...

Tanzania Niger Malawi Ethiopia Uganda Kenya Philippines Nepal Cambodia Bangladesh Sustainable Poverty Escapes Health
Policy Brief

Resilience and Vulnerability of the Near-Poor: Evidence From Uganda and the Philippines

25 Aug 2019
Chronic Poverty Advisory Network , USAID Center for Resilience

Recent research by ODI CPAN, commissioned by the USAID Center for Resilience, investigated the resilience of households above the poverty line in Uganda and the Philippines. The research aimed to isolate the extent...

Uganda Philippines Sustainable Poverty Escapes
Policy Brief

Conflict and Resilience: A Synthesis of Feinstein International Center Work on Building Resilience and Protecting Livelihoods in Conflict-Related Crises

22 Aug 2019
Daniel Maxwell , Elizabeth Stites , Sabina C. Robillard , Michael Wagner

This paper reviews more fifteen years of research by the Feinstein International Center to examine the nexus of conflict, livelihoods, and resilience.

South Sudan
Kenya
Ethiopia
Uganda
Somalia
Conflict and Fragility
Livelihood Diversification
Technical Guidance

Risk and Resilience Assessment Case Study Series

20 Aug 2019
Organizational Author: Mercy Corps under the Resilience Evaluation, Analysis and Learning Award , Authors: Case 1,2,3: Rex, E., Lambert, K. , Case 4: Henly-Shepard, S., Jolicouer, D., Radcliffe, D., Kishan, R., Anderson, J.

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...

Niger
Nepal
Uganda
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