The Resilience Evidence Forum (REF) was organized by USAID's Center for Resilience and TOPS/REAL. It was held in Washington D.C. on October 2-3, 2017 attended by over 150 participants including USAID headquarters and field-based staff, implementing partners, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), United Nations organizations, donors, universities, research organizations, and partner-country government officials.

The event was a good opportunity to get a deeper understanding of the breadth and depth of the growing body of evidence on resilience, as well as the importance of this evidence for ensuring donor, partner government, implementer and private sector engagement. In addition to consolidating this evidence, the REF was very much conceived as an opportunity to bring together the people responsible for generating it.  

As a whole, the REF provided a forum for attendees to:

• share and consolidate the emergent evidence and methodological approaches to resilience analysis;
• discuss ramifications of evidence for resilience policy and programming; and
• identify future directions and priorities for the resilience community of practice.

Presentations from the various forum sessions are available on the Resilience Evaluation, Analysis and Learning (REAL) web page.