Building Resilience: A Meta-Analysis of Oxfam’s resilience Effectiveness Reviews

Author(s)
Fuller, R. & Lain, J.
Publication language
English
Pages
36pp
Date published
01 Oct 2017
Type
Meta-evaluation
Keywords
Disaster preparedness, resilience and risk reduction, Disasters, Gender, Recovery and Resillience
Countries
Mali, Niger, Ethiopia, Kenya, Zambia, Chad, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nepal, Thailand, Nicaragua, Bolivia
Organisations
Oxfam
Link
http://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/building-resilience-a-meta-anal…

Oxfam’s Effectiveness Reviews evaluate the impact of the organization’s projects on the lives of those they are intended to help.

This research paper uses statistical meta-analysis to summarise the results of all 16 Effectiveness Reviews carried out under the theme of resilience between 2011 and 2015.

The paper finds that projects evaluated had a significant positive impact overall, as measured by an index of contextually-appropriate indicators of resilience. However, there are important differences in impact between different regions of the world. The meta-analysis also reveals a difference in the level of resilience by the gender of the head of household, and provides some insights into the resilience measurement approach.