TANGO InternationalTechnical Assistance to Non-Governmental

Organizations

Lutheran World Relief - Resilience Thought SummitJuly 19, 2016Elizabeth Cuellar

Expertise

o Food securityo Nutrition securityo Livelihoodso Resilienceo Climate change

adaptationo Disaster risk reduction

and recoveryo Social protection

initiatives

o Vulnerability analysiso Agriculture systemso Markets and value

chainso HIV/AIDS programmingo Gender equality and

social inclusiono Child labor

Where does TANGO work?

Partnershipso International NGOs

• Lutheran World Relief• Mercy Corps• Save the Children International• CARE International• World Vision International

o International organizations• African Union• Food and Agriculture Organization• World Food Programme

o Universities• Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia• Tulane University• University of Arizona

o Government/bilateral agencies• United Kingdom Department for

International Development (DFID)• United States Agency for

International Development (USAID)

o Partner firms• ITAD Limited• Kimetrica, Kenya

o Private sector• Land O’ Lakes, Inc.

o Foundations• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Institutional & Technical Support

o Monitoring and Evaluation• Designing and conducting

surveys• Qualitative, quantitative, mixed-

methods• Baseline, mid-term, endline

• Data analysis• Qualitative, quantitative, mixed-

methods• Intersectoral data

o Measurement guidelines (USAID)

o Vulnerability assessments (WFP)

Institutional & Technical Support

o Trainings• Training-of-trainers• Enumerators• Livelihood

assessmentso Impact Evaluationso USAID:

• Feed the Future-Feedback

• Bureau for Food Security

Resilience ExpertiseFrom Theory to Practice: Operationalizing Resilience and Resilience Measurement in Multiple Settings

o Membership in Food Security Information Network (FSIN)• FSIN

Technical Series No. 1: Resilience Measurement Principles - Toward an Agenda for Measurement Design • Resilience: The capacity that ensures adverse

stressors and shocks do not have long-lasting adverse development consequences

• FSIN Technical Series No 2. 2014. A Common Analytical Model for Resilience Measurement.

TANGO’s Resilience Framework

Frankenberger, T. R., M. A. Constas, S. Nelson and L. Starr. 2014. “Current Approaches to Resilience Programming among Nongovernmental organizations.” Building Resilience for Food & Nutrition Security. Paper prepared for the 2020 Conference. Paper No. 7. May.

Resilience Expertise

o DFID:• Building Resilience and

Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters (BRACED) Programme• Mercy Corps• Karamoja, Uganda and

Wajir, Kenya

From Theory to Practice: Operationalizing Resilience and Resilience Measurement in Multiple Settings

Resilience ExpertiseFrom Theory to Practice: Operationalizing Resilience and Resilience Measurement in Multiple Settings

o Building Resilience in Zimbabwe – Resilience Strategic Framework

o Ethiopia Pastoralist Areas Resilience Improvement and Market Expansion (PRIME) IE• FTF• Baseline (Nov/Dec 2013)• RMS (2014-2015)

Resilience Expertise

From Theory to Practice: Operationalizing Resilience and Resilience Measurement in Multiple Settings

o Resilience in the Sahel-Enhanced (RISE) Initiative• Baseline (2014-2015)• Increase the resilience of chronically vulnerable populations in agro-pastoral

and marginal agriculture livelihood zones of the Sahel • HH, community resilience and resilience capacities, HH wellbeing outcomes

Resilience Expertise

o Resilience framework and resilience measurement workshops • Burkina Faso• Cambodia• The Philippines

From Theory to Practice: Operationalizing Resilience and Resilience Measurement in Multiple Settings

TANGO-LWR Recent Worko Evaluation of Phase I Haiyan

Emergency Response Program (HERP) (Relief Phase)

o Baseline for Phase II HERP (Recovery Phase)

o LWR Senior Management Emergency Response Reflection Workshop

o Monitoring technical assistance to HERP Phase II

o Presentation of LWR/TANGO Partnership model at AEA 2015

o Evaluation of Phase II HERP (Recovery Phase w/ emphasis on building household/community resilience)

o Next steps?

‘Light’ versions of resilience measurement

o Examples:• Mercy Corps in Myanmar: ex-post use of community resilience

framework• CARE in Thailand: only qualitative methods, staff reflection workshop

as key approach• LWR in the Philippines: limited selection of variables for resilience

index, appreciative inquiry approach to emphasize pathways of change

o More limited selection of resilience index variableso Greater emphasis on qualitative methods

• Greater emphasis on project staff as key informants, i.e., through reflection workshops

Thank You!

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