About us
The Global Resilience Partnership advances resilience through identifying and scaling on the ground innovation, generating and sharing knowledge, and shaping policy. Resilience underpins sustainable development in an increasingly unpredictable world. We envisage an inclusive world in harmony with nature, that is better prepared to cope with shocks, adapt to change, and transform – all within planetary boundaries. GRP is made up of diverse organisations that have joined forces to work together towards this vision.
GRP operates as a partner organisation through two distinct yet aligned organisational units, one located in South Africa, through the independently registered GRP Non-Profit Company (GRP NPC), and the other in Sweden, through the Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC). While they share a unified vision and mission, each operates as a separate legal entity.
How we work
Our Theory of Change
How we intervene
GRP delivers a suite of strategic interventions through three work areas that set out
to add value to the work of our individual Partners:
Innovation:
We identify and support on the ground innovation by designing and running challenge competitions. Through these competitions, we surface bold, innovative ideas with real-world impact that may start small, but have the potential to scale and tackle the world’s most intractable problems. We provide training and mentorship for entrepreneurs and project leaders, and connect them to funders.
Knowledge:
We generate and share the latest resilience knowledge, promote transformative learning and advance research. We work to democratise knowledge generation, integrate different types of knowledge, and build communities of practice to increase the understanding of resilience and foster ongoing learning.
Policy:
We accelerate ambition and action on climate resilience to shape policy and increase investment flows to where they are needed the most. We focus on bridging the voices and experiences of local actors to the regional and global policy spaces to ensure they inform the global policy discourse and relevant resilience frameworks.
Three opportunities
Regenerative and equitable food systems
Reimagined finance flows and structures
Communities at the heart
Geographic focus
Our 4 long term outcomes linked to our programmes
Outcome 1
Restructuring food systems and nurturing resilience entrepreneurship in fragile regions
Outcome 3
Brokering dialogues, transformative learning for resilience professionals and centering young people’s perspectives
