Gender Sensitive Resilience Index Funding under this proposal supports the development of a Gender Sensitive Resilience Index will builds on the ActionAid International Federation’s community based reliance work to develop both a comprehensive a reliance framework and reliance index that is applicable to different risk contexts in South Asia.  The framework and index will consolidate data on community resilience to provide a useful baseline and policy analysis to inform governments and civil society to make well informed funding and policy decisions.  Gender analysis will be central to the resilience framework, which has been historically weak in resilience discussions, but a crucial component to developing accurate measures of reliance and capturing innovative lessons and solutions. The total value of this initiative is $0.5 million over 3 years, starting 2012-13.