Transcript Measuring Resilience - Food Security and Nutrition Network

Measuring Resilience:
Challenges
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promising approaches
April 25, 2012
Overview
1. Challenges in measuring resilience
2. Helpful frameworks and promising approaches
3. Common indicators
Measurement Challenge #1:
Temporal
Measurement Challenge #2:
Dimensional
Resilience Framework - TANGO International
TANGO International. The Resilience Framework, draft. March 2012.
Measurement Challenge #2:
Dimensional
Resilience Framework - Practical Action
Pasteur, Katherine . From Vulnerability to Resilience: A framework for analysis and action to build community
resilience. Practical Action, 2011.
Promising Approaches
Oxfam GB’s ‘Characteristics Approach’
FAO’s (Alinovi et al) Resilience Index
Income and food
access
Adaptive capacity
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Assets
Access to public
services
Stability
Social safety-nets
Common Indicators: Pre-shock Predictors
Variable
Indicators
Preparedness (institutional)
- Existence of disaster preparedness plans or committees
- Functioning early warning systems
Livelihood diversity
- Livestock herd diversity
- Crop diversity
- Number of household income sources
- Use of drought tolerant crops/livestock
Access to natural resources
- Access to grazing land (during drought)
- Access to productive agricultural land
- Access to water for productive use
- Local ecological health
Access to public services
- Access to veterinary services
- Agricultural extension services
- Access to health services
- Access to education (formal and non)
Financial resources, assets, and
support
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- Access to markets
- Social safety nets and support systems,
including insurance
Access to information
- Seasonal forecasting information
- Market demand information
- Information on disaster risks
Enabling environment and
institutions
- Levels of local conflict / insecurity / freedom of movement
- Strength of linkages between customary institutions and local government at different
levels
Confidence to adapt
- Risk tolerance (Interest willingness to try out new strategies)
- Aspirational index
- Locus of control
Level of savings
Remittances
Assets that can be readily sold
Access to credit
These indicators draw on work by: Oxfam BG, DFID, Practical Action, Mercy Corps, and others agencies.
Common Indicators:
Post-Shock Proxies
Variable
Indicators
Coping strategies
- Coping Strategies Index (consumption-related)
- Reliance on distressful / erosive coping
- Reliance on ‘positive’ coping
Food security
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Savings and assets
- (Value of) loss of assets (e.g. livestock or crops) due to shock
- Loss of savings
Dietary diversity
Meal frequency
Length of hunger gap
Food Consumption Score (WFP)
Group Work
Discuss and report back on:
1. Feedback on suggested resilience indicators. Do these indicators capture
the important elements of resilience? What could be added/ changed?
2. Design/ implementation for greater resilience. Based upon the
presentations on promising practices and frameworks/ indicators, what
lessons can be drawn for improving resilience among targeted
communities? Lessons for donors? Lessons for NGOs?