Community Resilience Assessment Tool

Household and committee surveys for measuring overall community resilience and for tracking changes following integrated interventions. This tool has been developed by the American Red Cross as part of its work with Red Cross Red Crescent national societies in Latin American and the Caribbean under the Resilience in the Americas (RITA) initaitive.

This document presents four complementary assessment surveys, based on a review of the academic literature and current best practices: a questionnaire focusing on critical components of community resilience; and sector-specific assessment tools, limited here to the two sectors most frequently prioritized by the communities in the RITA needs assessment process, namely Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Water / Sanitation (including health components addressed in Water/Sanitation programming). However, it is expected that additional modules will be developed to address other critical needs for which the Red Cross Red Crescent has experience (shelter, livelihoods, violence prevention, etc.), as well as interventions around components of resilience (building community capacity and cohesion, engagement of external actors, advocacy, etc.).

The approach draws extensively on:

  1. the Communities Advancing Resilience Toolkit (CART) developed by the Terrorism and Disaster Center at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
  2. the World Bank’s Social Capital Assessment Tool (SOCAT)

American Red Cross, 2014.

Are you sure you want to delete this "resource"?
This item will be deleted immediately. You cannot undo this action.
File Name File Size Download
ritaline_presentation_v2014_02.pdf 2 MB

Related Resources

Report
06 Aug 2022
This document presents the work of community flood resilience program of the Philippine Red Cross and IFRC that is implemented as part of the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance. It introduces the Alliance’s unique resilience measurement approach – ...
Tags: Report, Flood, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
Guidance material
08 Sep 2020
This is IFRC guidance on the use of face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic. These recommendations are based on the WHO guidelines on epidemic and pandemic-prone acute respiratory infections in health care, updated systematic review of randomized con...
Tags: Guidance material, COVID-19 (Coronavirus)
Guidance material
03 Jul 2014
قائمة الامور المطلوب مراعاتها للسلامة من العاصفة الرعدية التي تشمل علي طرح إجابات على الأسئلة التالية: “كيف يمكنني الإعداد مسبقا ؟”...
Tags: Guidance material, Thunderstorm
Scroll to Top