Innovation

There is a need for a safe space to test and scale disruptive and bold ideas. GRP surfaces and tests resilience innovations and incubates new ideas by designing and running innovation challenges and supporting peer-to-peer learning on innovation.

Projects on the Ground

We identify, co-design, and invest in resilience innovations on the ground.

PREPARE Call to Action to the Private Sector

GRP together with USAID and with input from the Office of the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy are collaborating on the Call.

Mobilising Business Schools for Adaptation (MBA)

GRP in collaboration with UNDP is working with prominent business schools on knowledge exchange, the business case for resilience, and innovation.

A small fishing boat and fishermen fish using a net.

Ocean Risk & Resilience Action Alliance (ORRAA)

This multi-sector collaboration aims to pioneer ground-breaking financial innovations that build coastal resilience.

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Ocean Resilience Innovation Challenge (ORIC)

The Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance (ORRAA)‘s Ocean Resilience Innovation Challenge (ORIC) acts as an incubator by providing mentoring, leadership training and, for some, funding to help promising projects scale up.

Latest news on Innovation & Scaling

The unseen pillars: How social capital empowers female smallholder farmers in Kenya

The Itanya Africa Group, one of the RAIN Challenge winners, through an intimate baseline study, explores the significant role social capital plays in the lives of female small-holder farmers in Kenya.

The rise of regenerative farming in Ikunu, Githunguri Sub-county

In this photo story, Benedict Isiaho of CAFAESUP, one of the RAIN Challenge winners, describes how the project is implementing regenerative agriculture to foster sustainable food systems within communities

Meet the RAIN Round 2 Shortlisted Candidates 

23 seed-level initiatives have been selected as part of RAIN Challenge Round 2 and over the next several months will work in collaboration with GRP to receive tailored mentoring and leadership training. 

CAFAESUP:  Empowering farmers through regenerative practices

Interview with Hamis Said Hincha, Project Lead of CAFAESUP, one of the nine winning projects of the RAIN Challenge

What I learnt over three years of reporting on the COP Resilience Hub

From resilience as ‘everywhere but nowhere at COP’ to resilience as central to equitable and efficient climate action – insights from COP26, COP27, and COP28 Resilience Hubs