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Resilience Measurement OverviewSTEP 1 | Transfer and Prioritize
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Measuring resilience requires teams to:
What: Collect data on resilience capacities (i.e., sources of resilience), exposure to shocks and stresses, intermediate and wellbeing outcomes
When: Take seasonality, shocks, and stresses into consideration when planning for and collecting data.
How: 1). Regularly monitor how people anticipate, cope with and adapt to shocks and stresses, 2). Assess how systems function to support people to cope, adapt thrive in the face of shocks and stresses, and 3). Analyze relationships between access to resilience capacities, use of capacities, and wellbeing at the at the individual, household, community, and systems levels over time, and understanding how our programs influence and contribute to these relationships
Step 1a:Transfer theory of change results into column A in the Indicator Alignment Table
Step 1b: Review transferred theory of change results and prioritize results that you want to measure;
mark which results area priority in column B
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STEP 2 | Align
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(*hold off on this step if you do not have a MEL plan yet)
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Step2a: Review indicators in your Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) plan
Step 2b: Align indicators already in the MEL plan with prioritized theory of change results
Step 2c: Transfer the aligned indicators from the MEL into the Indicator Alignment table (Column C)
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How to Use this ToolSTEP 3 | Select
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Measuring resilience often requires teams to integrate resilience measurement into existing monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) frameworks and systems. These frameworks/systems often are not set up to effectivley measure resilience. This is because the M&E requirements and processes typically required by donors are not always designed to effectively measure resilience.

To overcome this challenge, teams can use the Indicator Alignment Tool. This tool helps teams to Identify which results in their theory of change they would like to measure, Align existing (and required) indicators against results in your theory of change, and Select new indicators to fill any measurement gaps. Follow the five steps outlined to the right to complete your Indicator Alignment Table. See below for the different result levels that are often present in a resilience-focused theory of change (i.e., resilience pathway). 		Step 3a: Take note of which Theory of Change results in the Indicator Alignment table do not have
indicators after alignment
Step 3b: Choose indicators from indicator alignment tool that measure the remaining prioritized
Resilience Pathway results
Step 3c: Transfer the resilience indicators selected from the indicator menu into the indicator alignment table
(Column C)
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STEP 4 | Create
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Step 4a: Develop additional custom indicators as needed to measure Resilience Pathway results
Step 4b: Transfer the custom resilience indicators into the indicator alignment table (Column C)
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STEP 5 | Finalize
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Step 5a: Review all indicators in the Indicator Alignment table (Column C) and check the "unique indicator"
box (Column I) once for each indicator used. If the indicator is used more than once in the table,
only check this box once.
Step 5b: List out all unique indicators in the Indicator Summary Table
Step 5c: Review Columns E - H and indicate which data collection activity you will use to measure the indicator (if known)
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