Advancing resilience measurement: consultation report

This consultation aims to identify and affirm core principles and priorities for resilience measurement and evidence with a focus on demand-driven resilience measurement and evidence, psychosocial resilience measurement, systems level resilience measurement, and climate adaptation. Over the last decade, resilience has continued to be elevated as an analytic, programmatic, and organizing concept in development discourse and practice.

In line with this, approaches to measuring resilience have proliferated, giving rise to a nascent evidence base on both the impact of resilience programming and the sources of resilience that explain why some households, communities, systems, and countries fare better in the face of shocks and stresses than others. Despite clear progress, significant challenges and gaps in resilience measurement and evidence remain. The demand for resilience evidence has also grown exponentially as conflict, Covid-19 and the accelerating impacts of climate change have reversed development gains on a massive scale and pushed hundreds of millions of people into crisis levels of poverty and hunger.