TANGO is a global leader in food security, livelihoods, and resilienceTANGO provides technical assistance in assessment, strategy and policy development, program design, monitoring, and evaluation for development and humanitarian programs.
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Learning together to improve
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Expertise in Resilience Measurement
Absorptive Capacity
Ability of households and communities to minimize exposure to shocks if possible and to recover quickly after exposure. |
Adaptive Capacity
Ability of households and communities to make active and informed choices about their lives and their diversified livelihood strategies based on changing conditions. |
Transformative Capacity
Relates to system-level changes that ensures sustained resilience, including formal safety nets, access to markets, infrastructure, and basic services. |
Community of PracticeIn November 2018, TANGO co-hosted the first Resilience Measurement, Evidence and Learning (RMEL) conference in New Orleans. An archive of the presentations may be found on the conference website: www.measuringresilience.org
To continue the discussions of this community of practice, TANGO contributed to the USAID Horn of Africa Resilience Workshop in Entebbe in May 2019. A summary brief of the learning event may be found here |