Tools & Guidance

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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Streamflow Prediction System in Bangladesh
Tools & Guidance

Enhancing Flood Early Warning Services in the Hindu Kush Himalaya

03 Aug 2021
ICIMOD/SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya, Brigham Young University, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, Nepal, Flood Forecast and Warning Centre, Bangladesh

Enhancing Flood Early Warning Services aims to build the resilience of communities in the Hindu Kush Himalaya region by increasing flood forecast lead times.

Climate Change
Water
Migration
Natural Resource Management
Map of Southeast Asia
Tools & Guidance

Surface Water Mapping Tool

02 Aug 2021
Deltares, Technical University Delft, SERVIR-Mekong, eartH2Observe, Google, ADPC, Stockholm Environment Institute, Spatial Informatics Group, Asian Disaster Preparedness Center

The Surface Water Mapping Tool documents the dynamics of seasonal flooding cycles on the Mekong River to better understand some of the impacts of dams. 

Climate Change
Water
Social Protection
Natural Resource Management
Policy Brief

Preparing for Future Shocks: Priority Actions for Social Protection Practitioners in the Wake of COVID-19

01 Sep 2020
Social Protection Approaches to COVID-19: Expert Advice Helpline; DAI Global, GSMA, Centre for Disaster Protection and High-Quality Technical Assistance for Results

Social protection strategies need to evolve in order to effectively manage risks in response to future shocks.

Social Protection
Social Capital
Social Inclusion
Policy Brief

Resilience-based Protection Blunts Climate Change's Impact on Poverty

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

Catastrophic weather shocks, such as severe drought or flood, are an important cause of poverty among rural households in developing economies. As the risk of these shocks is forecasted to increase, national social...

Climate Change
Social Protection
Tomato farmers in Tanzania
Technical Guidance

Shock Responsive Programming and Adaptive Mechanisms

06 Feb 2020
USAID

This handbook provides guidance for project design and management teams on shock responsive programs.

Operational Strategy

Operational Strategy for the Shock Responsive RISE Portfolio

23 Sep 2019
USAID

The RISE portfolio aims to strengthen resiliency in communities and governments in selected, somewhat adjoining areas of Burkina Faso and Niger.

Niger Burkina Faso Climate Change Conflict and Fragility
Policy Brief

Resilience analysis in Mali 2009/2010

27 Aug 2019
FAO

This report identifies the key pillars of resilience and related contributing factors at household level in Mali using the FAO Resilience Index Measurement and Analysis (RIMA) model. The study...

Mali
Social Protection
Policy Brief

Resilience analysis of Jordan 2013

27 Aug 2019
FAO

Jordan, in Western Asia, has a population of approximately 9.5 million people, of which a significant share (more than two million people) are registered Palestinian refugees. The country currently faces significant...

Education Water
Technical Guidance

An Overview of the Recurrent Monitoring Survey (RMS)

20 Aug 2019
Organizational Author: TANGO International under the Resilience Evaluation, Analysis and Learning Award , Authors: Frankenberger, T., Smith, L., Griffin, T.

This analysis seeks to undertake a deeper investigation to understand which resilience capacities enabled households to recover from the drought in order to provide future programming recommendations for the PRIME...