TANGO International provides technical assistance to non-governmental organizations on issues related to food security, nutrition security, livelihoods, resilience, climate change adaptation, and disaster risk reduction. It works with international NGOs, UN agencies, universities, governments, and private sector partners around the world. TANGO specializes in monitoring and evaluation, vulnerability assessments, trainings, impact evaluations, and building the resilience of at-risk communities through programs focused on strengthening household and community resilience capacities. It has developed resilience measurement frameworks and tools and applied them in multiple country contexts through baseline studies, resilience measurement scores, and workshops to operationalize resilience concepts.

1. TANGO International
Technical Assistance to Non-Governmental
Organizations
Lutheran World Relief - Resilience Thought Summit
July 19, 2016
Elizabeth Cuellar

2. Expertise
o Food security
o Nutrition security
o Livelihoods
o Resilience
o Climate change
adaptation
o Disaster risk reduction
and recovery
o Social protection
initiatives
o Vulnerability analysis
o Agriculture systems
o Markets and value
chains
o HIV/AIDS programming
o Gender equality and
social inclusion
o Child labor

3. Where does TANGO work?

4. Partnerships
o International NGOs
• Lutheran World Relief
• Mercy Corps
• Save the Children
International
• CARE International
• World Vision International
o International organizations
• African Union
• Food and Agriculture
Organization
• World Food Programme
o Universities
• Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia
• Tulane University
• University of Arizona
o Government/bilateral
agencies
• United Kingdom Department
for International Development
(DFID)
• United States Agency for
International Development
(USAID)
o Partner firms
• ITAD Limited
• Kimetrica, Kenya
o Private sector
• Land O’ Lakes, Inc.
o Foundations
• Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation

5. Institutional & Technical Support
o Monitoring and Evaluation
• Designing and conducting
surveys
• Qualitative, quantitative,
mixed-methods
• Baseline, mid-term, endline
• Data analysis
• Qualitative, quantitative,
mixed-methods
• Intersectoral data
o Measurement guidelines
(USAID)
o Vulnerability assessments
(WFP)

6. Institutional & Technical Support
o Trainings
• Training-of-trainers
• Enumerators
• Livelihood
assessments
o Impact Evaluations
o USAID:
• Feed the Future-
Feedback
• Bureau for Food
Security

7. Resilience Expertise
FromTheorytoPractice:
OperationalizingResilienceandResilienceMeasurementin
MultipleSettings
o Membership in Food Security Information Network (FSIN)
• FSIN Technical Series No. 1: Resilience Measurement
Principles - Toward an Agenda for Measurement Design
• Resilience: The capacity that ensures adverse stressors
and shocks do not have long-lasting adverse
development consequences
• FSIN Technical Series No 2. 2014. A Common Analytical
Model for Resilience Measurement.

8. TANGO’s Resilience Framework
Frankenberger, T. R., M. A. Constas, S. Nelson and L. Starr. 2014. “Current Approaches to Resilience Programming among Nongovernmental organizations.” Building
Resilience for Food & Nutrition Security. Paper prepared for the 2020 Conference. Paper No. 7. May.

9. Resilience Expertise
o DFID:
• Building Resilience
and Adaptation to
Climate Extremes and
Disasters (BRACED)
Programme
• Mercy Corps
• Karamoja, Uganda and
Wajir, Kenya
From Theoryto Practice:
OperationalizingResilienceand ResilienceMeasurement
in Multiple Settings

10. Resilience Expertise
From Theoryto Practice:
OperationalizingResilienceand Resilience
Measurement in Multiple Settings
o Building Resilience in Zimbabwe – Resilience Strategic
Framework
o Ethiopia Pastoralist Areas Resilience Improvement and
Market Expansion (PRIME) IE
• FTF
• Baseline (Nov/Dec 2013)
• RMS (2014-2015)

11. Resilience Expertise
From Theoryto Practice:
OperationalizingResilienceand ResilienceMeasurement in
Multiple Settings
o Resilience in the Sahel-Enhanced (RISE) Initiative
• Baseline (2014-2015)
• Increase the resilience of chronically vulnerable populations in agro-pastoral
and marginal agriculture livelihood zones of the Sahel
• HH, community resilience and resilience capacities, HH wellbeing outcomes

12. Resilience Expertise
o Resilience framework and
resilience measurement
workshops
• Burkina Faso
• Cambodia
• The Philippines
From Theoryto Practice:
OperationalizingResilienceand Resilience
Measurement in Multiple Settings

13. TANGO-LWR Recent Work
o Evaluation of Phase I Haiyan
Emergency Response
Program (HERP) (Relief
Phase)
o Baseline for Phase II HERP
(Recovery Phase)
o LWR Senior Management
Emergency Response
Reflection Workshop
o Monitoring technical
assistance to HERP Phase II
o Presentation of
LWR/TANGO Partnership
model at AEA 2015
o Evaluation of Phase II HERP
(Recovery Phase w/
emphasis on building
household/community
resilience)
o Next steps?

14. ‘Light’ versions of resilience
measurement
o Examples:
• Mercy Corps in Myanmar: ex-post use of community resilience
framework
• CARE in Thailand: only qualitative methods, staff reflection
workshop as key approach
• LWR in the Philippines: limited selection of variables for
resilience index, appreciative inquiry approach to emphasize
pathways of change
o More limited selection of resilience index variables
o Greater emphasis on qualitative methods
• Greater emphasis on project staff as key informants, i.e.,
through reflection workshops

15. Thank You!
Any questions?