Resilience Training: Measurement, Livelihood Diversification and Sustainable Poverty Escapes

Online Resilience Training
Photo: Marium ul Mutahara, CARE Bangladesh

Overview

Each one-hour, interactive, module is self-paced and covers key concepts, messages from thought leaders, and a review of frontier topics that contribute to successful resilience programming. 

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Contact: resilience@usaid.gov

This also available to USAID employees through USAID University.

 

Module 1: Resilience 101

In this module you will: 

  • Confidently describe how resilience relates to your work
  • Incorporate resilience approaches into design and implementation of strategies, projects, and activities
  • Participate in ongoing learning, use existing resources, and share knowledge regarding the integration of resilience approaches
  • Understand that the elevation of resilience within the agency reflects the increasing toll and more complex nature of shocks and stresses, and the need to treat recurrent humanitarian crises as a development priority
Continue to Module 1: Resilience 101

Module 2: Measuring Resilience

In this module you will: 

  • Learn USAID’s definition of resilience and how that definition directly shapes the measurement and analytic approach the Agency takes to capture resilience strengthening over time
  • Discover the conceptual framework that guides USAID’s resilience measurement framework
  • Understand to how measure shocks and resilience capacities over time
  • Comprehend the basics of resilience analysis
  • Recognize different monitoring and evaluation designs that have the potential to inform unique types of resilience-related questions
  • Explore resilience measurement “frontier topics” that describe where the expected future of field resilience measurement.
Continue to Module 2: Measuring Resilience

Module 3: Resilience and Livelihoods Diversification

In this module you will:

  • Review resilience concepts
  • Explore the association between livelihood diversification and resilience 
  • Understand how diversification strategies on and off the farm, and in and outside the agriculture sector, can contribute to comprehensive risk management
  • Discover key considerations that impact livelihood diversification
  • Gain knowledge in livelihood diversification for design application and intervention in related programs.
Continue to Module 3: Livelihoods Diversification and Resilience 

Module 4: Resilience and Sustainable Poverty Escapes

In this module you will:

  • Learn how USAID’s definition of resilience relates to sustainable poverty escapes
  • Recognize the difference between transitory and sustainable poverty escapes
  • Understand the interaction between poverty dynamics and resilience
  • Learn what household characteristics and sources of resilience improve the chance of sustainable poverty escapes
  • Be exposed to analytical methods and emerging areas that improve understanding of poverty escape dynamics.
Continue to Module 4: Resilience and Sustainable Poverty Escapes