Measuring Resilience: Vulnerable Households and Children Growing dialogue and emphasis on resilience.

“If you haven’t measured it, you haven’t done it.” What is “it”? What is resilient? Measuring Resilience: Vulnerable Households and Children

Growing dialogue and emphasis on resilience. “If you haven’t measured it, you haven’t done it.” What is “it”? What is resilient and what is it resilient to? Measuring Resilience: Vulnerable Households and Children

Growing dialogue and emphasis on resilience. “If you haven’t measured it, you haven’t done it.” What is “it”? What is resilient and what is it resilient to? Why is resilience important to an organization focused on child well-being? Measuring Resilience: Vulnerable Households and Children

Growing dialogue and emphasis on resilience. “If you haven’t measured it, you haven’t done it.” What is “it”? What is resilient and what is it resilient to? Why is resilience important to an organization focused on child well-being? How can we tell if our interventions have actually increased resilience or not? Measuring Resilience: Vulnerable Households and Children

Resilience Assessment Framework

Adaptive Capacity AC = ƒ LA, LS, SP

Livelihood Assets: assets that allow individuals and households to meet basic needs. Six assets/capitals: financial; physical; political; human; social; and natural. Adaptive Capacity AC = ƒ LA, LS, SP

Livelihood Assets: assets that allow individuals and households to meet basic needs. Six assets/capitals: financial; physical; political; human; social; and natural. Livelihood Strategies: distinct or combined strategies that individuals and households pursue to make a living and/or to cope with shocks. Adaptive Capacity AC = ƒ LA, LS, SP

Structures/Processes: institutions that enable or inhibit resilience. E.g.: governments; civil society; religious institutions; trade associations; resource and social networks; shared customs and norms; informal/traditional governance structures; policies and laws; etc. Adaptive Capacity AC = ƒ LA, LS, SP

WVUS in the process of identifying the best measures of changes in adaptive capacity from its programming “Well, we’re probably already using a lot of those measures.” First selecting from established standard indicators: Food for Peace indicators Feed the Future indicators USG foreign assistance indicators WV Child Well-Being Outcome indicators Measuring Resilience: Vulnerable Households and Children

World Vision is a child-focused organization Measures of resilience must align with best practice, donor expectations, programming realities Resilience as it affects vulnerable children, and resilience of children, are inter-related The well-being of children, as the most vulnerable members of households, an important indicator of HH adaptive capacity and resilience. Measuring Resilience: Vulnerable Households and Children

Identifying a basket of indicators appropriate to WV programming (grant-funded and privately funded) AC = ƒ LA, LS, SP Measuring Resilience: Vulnerable Households and Children

Identifying a basket of indicators appropriate to WV programming (grant-funded and privately funded) Designing one or more indices, built upon our original questions: Who is resilient? What are they resistant to? AC = ƒ LA, LS, SP Measuring Resilience: Vulnerable Households and Children

Identifying a basket of indicators appropriate to WV programming (grant-funded and privately funded) Designing one or more indices, built upon our original questions: Who is resilient? What are they resistant to? Household resilience to drought. (HH capacity to adapt to drought and to the increased probability of drought.) AC = ƒ LA, LS, SP Measuring Resilience: Vulnerable Households and Children

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