- Published by
- USAID
A shared economic resilience metric could help policymakers, implementers and researchers to jointly measure what they are trying to achieve.
The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience developed the Cumulative Avoided Losses (CAL) Metric, a single number that quantifies the economic resilience of households over time.
The CAL Metric quantifies economic resilience in terms of the total compromise of current and future economic well-being as the result of a shock.
Built around cumulative losses and recovery around shocks, the CAL Metric reflects the actual economic resilience experience of households, as a result of the capacities they develop and the coping strategies they take.