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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UNICEF’s framework for Shock-responsive Social Protection comprises four interconnected and mutually reinforcing features.
Tools & Guidance

Strengthening Shock-Responsive Social Protection Systems

19 May 2022
UNICEF

Social protection can play an important role in helping families prepare for, cope with and recover from shocks and stresses.

Social Protection
Technical Guidance

Exploration of a Simplified Index for Measuring Household Resilience Capacity

29 Mar 2022
Resilience Evaluation, Analysis and Learning (REAL) Award , Technical Assistance to NGOs (TANGO) International

How can household resilience be measured using the 18 indicators of resilience capacity?

Livelihood Diversification
Human Capital
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
Climate Information Services
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
A child holds bullets.
Policy Brief

Resilience and Food Security Amidst Conflict and Violence

01 Jul 2021
USAID Bureau for Resilience and Food Security, University of Denver and Peterson Institute for International Economics

Resilience investments are increasingly focused on conflict-affected countries. USAID has developed this brief to frame their work in this space.

Conflict and Fragility
Livelihood Diversification
Political Stability
Migration
Natural Resource Management
Access to Markets
Technical Guidance

What Are Future Financing Options for Shock Responsive Social Protection?

31 May 2021
Social Protection Approaches to COVID-19 Expert Advice Service, DAI Global

How can development partners finance shock-responsive social protection? This resource provides approaches to financing, financing instruments and more.

Conflict and Fragility
Sustainable Poverty Escapes
Social Protection
Social Capital
Financial Inclusion
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
Technical Guidance

Financial Services Brief

07 Aug 2020
Organizational Author: Mercy Corps under the Resilience Evaluation, Analysis and Learning Award , Author: Gash, M.

This brief aims to better equip practitioners and financial service providers in considering risk and resilience in financial service program design, as well as considering which meso and macro-level mechanisms can...

Financial Inclusion
Policy Brief

Incentives Could Create a Tipping Point in Conservation Agriculture Adoption

01 Jun 2020
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience

Conservation agriculture is widely viewed as an important strategy for maintaining healthy soils and improving long-term agricultural productivity, but also has the potential to help in managing waterways that...

Agriculture
Natural Resource Management
Policy Brief

Higher Aspirations Can Lead to Greater Investment in the Future

01 Jun 2020
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience

Research has shown that an individual’s beliefs about what she can achieve have an impact on how she invests in her future. Using baseline data from a larger study on an asset transfer program for women in rural...

Nepal
Psychosocial Dynamics