The Resilience Capacity Score (RCS) indicator measures household’s perception of their resilience capacities to generic or country specific shocks and stressors. As WFP’s activities can contribute to building, restoring and maintaining key capitals and capacities in vulnerable communities, this indicator specifically refers to four kinds of resilience capacities (anticipatory, absorptive, adaptive, transformative) and five kinds of livelihood capitals (human, financial, social, political, and informational) that support the different resilience capacities.
The RCS is based on the Subjectively Evaluated Resilience Score (SERS) designed by L. Jones (2019) and WFP’s Climate Resilience Capacity Score (CRCS) and consists of a subjective approach to resilience measurement.
Please find below the resources that will help you in collecting, analysing and interpreting the RCS indicator:
The stand-alone RCS module extracted from WFP Survey Designer, to help simplify the authoring of forms in Excel. The XLS forms can be converted to ODK forms, a popular open-source data collection software, that allows you to author a form with complex functionality in a consistent way, across a number of web and mobile data collection platforms.
The STATA Code to calculate the RCS as well as scripts on Github - in R, STATA and SPSS - that are already created for you.
The Qualitative Question Guide for the RCS - Household level is a tool for collecting qualitative data at the household level to complement and explain the data collected by the RCS indicator. The Qualitative Question Guide for the RCS – Individual level is also available to collect individual level perceptions and experiences. RCS indicator data should first be analysed to identify information needs before qualitative research is conducted as a follow up activity with the same communities who responded to the RCS.
For more information, please contact the Field Monitoring Unit (HQ.RAMFIELDMONITORING@WFP.ORG) in HQ RAM.