Annual Work Plan Year 2: REAL Associate Award

The project aims to identify, synthesize, adapt, and share the highest quality information and tools to build capacity and establish best practices among USAID Missions, implementing partners, and host country governments working together in resilience programming. The REAL Associate Award brings together a strong consortium of partners experienced in resilience program implementation, monitoring and evaluation, social and behavior change, and knowledge management. The consortium partners are Save the Children, Food for the Hungry, Mercy Corps, and TANGO International. The project is led by Save the Children and is managed in collaboration with the USAID Center for Resilience (C4R) staff. The REAL Associate Award aims to identify and respond to emergent priorities for resilience analysis, and share information, tools, and promising practices to improve resilience program performance. In Year 2, the project will continue to focus on developing practical guidance, carrying out assessments and evaluations, and providing strategic analyses, training and other field support to address the needs of various stakeholders in the resilience programming community of practice. The project's Strategic Objective (SO) is to identify, generate, adapt, and share the highest quality information, knowledge, and best practices for improved methodologies in resilience program design, measurement, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation. The project is organized around four Project Results, each of which is broken down into Intermediate Results (IPRs). The four Project Results are: 1. Knowledge Capture: The REAL Associate Award will identify the knowledge and skill needs of the community by engaging members through participatory processes and by soliciting their direct input. The knowledge capture process will provide an opportunity to identify promising tools and practices in current use, as well as gaps that must be filled to ensure quality resilience analysis and programming capable of achieving and measuring sustainable impacts. 2. Knowledge Generation: The REAL Associate Award will synthesize and respond to information gained through the knowledge capture strategies to produce reliable, high-quality information in formats that are useful to USAID Missions, the implementing partner community, and other key stakeholders. In close collaboration with the USAID Center for Resilience (C4R), the REAL team will identify, adapt, and develop (if necessary) promising tools and practices. 3. Knowledge Application: The REAL Associate Award will apply relevant knowledge through development and delivery of effective skill delivery approaches to strengthen the capacity of resilience practitioners. Moving beyond traditional, on-the-ground training, the project will focus on developing and delivering training programs that are tailored to the specific needs of resilience practitioners working in different contexts and environments. 4. Knowledge Sharing: The REAL Associate Award will support and expand information, skills, and knowledge exchange among members of the resilience community. The project will share information, tools, and promising practices through technical meetings, open and inclusive knowledge sharing meetings, the Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) Network REAL website, and other means. The REAL Associate Award Management processes, including challenges and lessons learned in Year 1, are described in Section D of the Annual Work Plan. The project's Performance Management Plan is outlined in Section E of the Annual Work Plan.