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There are several benefits to including an RMS in resilience-focused projects. Recurrent Monitoring Surveys have the ability to collect real-time (or near to real-time) data on resilience dynamics as they are unfolding. This allows teams to understand how individuals, households and communities are coping and responding in the face of these disturbances as they are happening. Collecting frequent data as shocks and stresses are happening or soon afterwards also reduces recall bias, and allows for more accurate data.4 If utilized, RMS data gives program teams the necessary information to make adjustments in program implementation and facilitates internal learning. For example, teams can use RMS data to identify optimal points for launching early shock responsive actions and other crisis modifiers. Recurrent Monitoring Surveys can also be combined with impact evaluations to shed light on short-term intervention effects to facilitate adaptive management and inform the overall impact evaluation to guide longer-term policy and programming change.