Guide Offers Resources for Evidence-Informed Decision-Making
The volume offers guidance on promoting collaborative learning around the evidence through sense-making workshops, and then translating learning into payam-level action plans at local action planning workshops.
Drawing on lessons learned in South Sudan, Policy LINK has issued the second in a series of resource guides for USAID and other donor implementing partners working to enhance resilience in the country. “A Resource Guide for Building Community-Led Resilience: Lessons From South Sudan” offers practical tips for working effectively in areas experiencing shocks and stressors such as drought, insecurity, and conflict. This guidance is anchored in Policy LINK’s five-step approach to helping communities set their own priorities for donor resilience programming.
Policy LINK’s five-step approach to helping communities set their own priorities for donor resilience programming.
Drawing on Policy LINK experiences in Jur River and Wau counties, this second volume offers good practices for helping communities use evidence to set and respond to resilience priorities. The volume offers guidance on promoting collaborative learning around the evidence (through sense-making workshops, Step 3), then translating learning into payam-level action plans (at local action planning workshops, Step 4). These workshops—which require careful planning, skilled facilitation, and attention to inclusion—build momentum toward county-wide local action planning with USAID implementing partners and other stakeholders. Most importantly, they instill a sense of agency in communities.
This guide builds on the first volume, which offers good practices for establishing a foundation of trust between communities and implementing partners. A forthcoming volume will focus on mutual accountability.