Resilience Coordination Global Meeting
Important Dates
Objective:
To harness the success and further develop the potential of the USAID resilience programs and teams in resilience focus countries
Goals:
The participants will:
- Build and reinforce the USAID resilience network across regions and between DC and the field.
- Exchange lessons learned and best practices across the portfolio for programming and coordination (both internal and external), with a focus on learning initiatives/support contracts, government engagement and support, and key emerging themes (fragility, poverty dynamics, etc).
- Identify constraints and opportunities in the role of USAID resilience coordinators, share lessons learned.
- Reinforce a collective vision for resilience at USAID.
The Center for Resilience staff and Resilience Coordinators/focal points will come away from the meeting with:
- A better understanding of roles and responsibilities of the Center and of the Resilience Coordinators and Focal Points.
- Up-to-date resilience information and technical resources
- A strategic narrative to frame the story of their resilience work in communications activities.
Agenda
Monday, September 16 - 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
- The View from Washington: Defining Resilience in 2019
- Knowledge Sharing: Successes
- Working Lunch
- Knowledge Sharing: Challenges
- Working in Complex Environments
Tuesday, September 17 - 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
- Getting Buy-in for Resilience Activities
- The Resilience Narrative: Communicating About Resilience
- Working Lunch
- The Role of the Resilience Coordinator
- Resilience Integration Across Sectors
Wednesday, September 18 - 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
- Shock Responsive Programming
- Selected Tools and Resources for Resilience Coordination and Programming
- Working Lunch
- Consultations
An full, detailed agenda will be shared with participants closer to the event.
Location and Logistics
The Resilience Coordination Global Meeting will be held at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Dakar Sea Plaza, Route de la Corniche O, Dakar 16868, Senegal. Dress code for the meeting is casual.
Accommodation
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Radisson Blu Hotel for meeting attendees. Rooms are available from Sunday, September 15 through Thursday, September 19. To reserve a room, use the Promotional Code: USLEAR on the Radisson Blu's website.
Logistics
Guidance regarding visa letters and ECC as well as other pertinent logistics can be found in this logistics note.
Resources
Resilience at USAID Key Resources
Shock Responsive Programming and Adaptive Mechanisms
Resilience Measurement Practical Guidance Series
- An Overview
- Guidance Note No. 1 - Risk & Resilience Assessments
- Guidance Note No. 2 - Measuring Shocks and Stresses
- Guidance Note No. 3 - Resilience Capacity Measurement
- Guidance Note No. 4 - Resilience Analysis
- Guidance Note No. 5 - Designing and Planning for Resilience Monitoring and Evaluation at the Activity Level
- Guidance Note No. 6 - Recurrent Monitoring Surveys
Resilience and Resilience Capacities Measurement Options
Global Food Security Strategy Technical Guidance
- Objective 2: Strengthened Resilience Among People and Systems
- Diversifying Livelihoods, Resilience, and Pathways Out of Poverty