From May 2019-March 2020, USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA)-funded Strengthening Capacity in Agriculture, Livelihoods and Environment (SCALE) Award piloted an agriculture mentorship project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with a small group of agriculture technical...
To achieve the overall goal of designing a site that improves soil health and water management to develop a smallholder farm agro-ecosystem that is more resilient to environmental, social and economic shocks and stresses, the indicators are developed from the overall goal and the five main aims...
The Resilience Design (RD) in Smallholder Farming Systems approach evolved from initial discussions at a TOPS Symposium on Agroecological Principles, Design and Practice in Washington, DC in January 2015, designed to improve agricultural programming in USAID/FFP programs. The two-day event...
This Resilience Design (RD) Facilitator’sGuide is a training tool that can be used to cascade the Resilience Design in Smallholder Farming Systems approach (RD approach). Facilitators should ideally have received prior training in the RD approach, agroecology, or agriculture before conducting an...
As Resilience Design is increasingly implemented across multiple organizations, programs and contexts, these minimum standards serve as a guide for ensuring consistency and quality. They apply to all humanitarian and development programs implementing Resilience Design approaches, whether at a...
The Permagarden Technical Manual Third Edition explains the key concepts and techniques necessary to create permagarden growing systems. It then explains how these techniques can be incorporated into emergency and nonemergency programs that support home gardens, using a farmer-led process of...
Permagarden Monitoring Sheeton the areas including: DESIGN: Site has a contextspecific design that optimizes resources and external influences. WATER: Site has water harvesting strategies to slow, spread, sink and manage water. SOIL HEALTH: Site creates a healthy soil food web that supports...
This primer is designed to support those working in humanitarian and development contexts by highlighting a design process for increasing community resilience to shocks and stresses ranging from social and economic upheaval to natural disasters such as floods, drought, increased heat and aridity,...
This document presents one sector of the Sector Environmental Guidelines prepared for USAID under the Agency’s Global Environmental Management Support Project (GEMS). All sectors are accessible at www.usaidgems.org/bestPractice.htm. Purpose. The purpose of this document and the Sector...
The reverse in progress and the persistently high levels of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in recent years have put the world off track to meet Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Targets2.1 and 2.2 – to end hunger, foodinsecurity and all forms of malnutrition by 2030. Previous editions...