(Photo: Shutterstock) July 15, 2021 SHARE To help address gaps in measurement and provide organizations with a tool to track the self-reliance of refugees and other displaced populations over time, researchers at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a Self-Reliance Index (SRI). “Humanitarian actors are increasingly recognizing the need to shift focus from providing refugees with immediate assistance to promoting their ability to obtain sustained self-reliance. Until now, we haven’t had a comprehensive tool to measure progress toward this goal,” said Ilana Seff, research assistant professor and lead author of the paper, “Measuring self-reliance among refugee and internally displaced households: The development of an index in humanitarian settings,” published July 10 in the journal Conflict and Health.