USAID/Ethiopia Resilience Learning Activity: Systems Mapping of Gendered Impacts from Conflict
This brief presents highlights from a Resilience Learning Activity (RLA) systems mapping analysis of gendered impacts of conflict on communities’ resilience to shocks across U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)/Ethiopia–supported resilience-based interventions.
This brief presents highlights from a Resilience Learning Activity (RLA) systems mapping analysis of gendered impacts of conflict on communities’ resilience to shocks across U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)/Ethiopia–supported resilience-based interventions. It provides an overview of the methodology, findings, and insights for adapting existing resilience-focused program interventions.
RLA is a five-year activity implemented by LINC that seeks to support USAID/Ethiopia and its implementing partners
(IPs) to better understand what relief and development interventions make households, communities, and systems more resilient to increasingly persistent shocks and stresses. As part of its support for resilience partners’ adaptive management, RLA conducted a rapid gender gap analysis with local IPs that identified a need for an in-
depth understanding of the complex and interrelated impacts from conflict experienced by women, men and youth. In
line with the activity’s goals, RLA identified an opportunity to apply and promote the increased integration of systems thinking and rapid feedback into IPs’ toolboxes to build a better understanding of the drivers of these gendered impacts of conflict.