About us
The Global Resilience Partnership brings together 90+ partners working towards a resilient world in a shifting risk landscape. Together, we translate resilience science and innovation into policy, investment, and impact.
Resilience is the capacity to persist, adapt, and transform in the face of change.
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.
The world is becoming more unpredictable.
Climate shocks, food insecurity, financial instability, and conflicts are interacting faster and hitting harder especially in communities already on the frontlines of risk. Yet the systems meant to respond remain fragmented. Promising solutions struggle to scale due to limited access to capital, high transaction costs, and disjointed support across the innovation lifecycle. Evidence of what works and what doesn’t in resilience building remains underused and often siloed within research communities. And too many decisions are made far from the people most affected by these.
GRP exists to transform this reality.
The Global Resilience Partnership brings together 90+ partners working towards a resilient world in a shifting risk landscape. Together, we translate resilience science and innovation into policy, investment, and impact. Resilience is the capacity to persist, adapt, and transform in the face of change.
We identify what is working on the ground, strengthen the evidence behind it, connect it to funding and influence, and ensure that local knowledge shapes global decisions.
Our work spans innovation, knowledge, and policy; not as separate tracks, but as one connected system. Innovation surfaces solutions. Knowledge strengthens them. Policy and convening help move solutions into wider use, garnering stronger financing and greater visibility. By connecting innovation, knowledge, and policy influence through an integrated resilience model, we translate evidence into implementation, local realities into global agendas, and resilience ambition into practical action.
We are also an ecosystem builder and provide fiscal sponsorship and organisational development support to a number of strategic resilience initiatives such as the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance (ORRAA), HERA (formerly Climate Resilience for All), and the CIFAR Alliance.
This is how we advance resilience from ideas into action.
How we work
GRP’s work is built around an integrated resilience model that connects innovation, knowledge, and policy influence. These are not separate programmes. They are one system. Together, this integrated approach strengthens pathways from ideas to implementation and from evidence to action.
Innovation:
We are the only global partnership that has successfully invested >USD 45 million into resilience building. Our Innovation Challenges promote the emergence of transformative solutions from the bottom-up. This approach differs from conventional funding processes as applicants have a large degree of freedom in designing innovative solutions to the most pressing problems. Funds are focused on outcomes and the implementation pathways are not prescribed. Our approach manages risk and maximises returns: invest small at idea stage, then concentrate larger resources on those that prove effective.
Knowledge:
We advance and translate resilience science and learning into practical, decision-ready knowledge. Grounded in resilience science excellence and connected to leading research institutions including the Stockholm Resilience Centre, GRP bridges the gap between evidence and implementation by making resilience knowledge more accessible, relevant, and actionable for decision-makers and practitioners. This includes synthesising resilience evidence, supporting shared learning, and ensuring knowledge flows both ways by connecting local and scientific knowledge and bringing lessons from communities, practitioners, and innovators back into research.
Policy:
We strengthen how resilience is reflected in decision-making, finance pathways, and implementation processes. Through strategic convening, partnerships, and platforms such as the Resilience Hub, GRP brings together communities, governments, researchers, multilaterals, philanthropies, and private sector actors to exchange knowledge, strengthen collaboration, and accelerate resilience action. GRP creates neutral, trusted spaces for difficult conversations, amplifies voices too often left out, and helps resilience move higher on policy and investment agendas.
What makes GRP different:
GRP’s distinct value lies in its ability to connect locally led innovation, resilience science, and strategic convening into one implementation-oriented partnership.
GRP combines:
- Scientific credibility grounded in resilience research
- Decade-long experience supporting and scaling locally led resilience innovation
- Strong connections across climate, development, and humanitarian aid
- The ability to translate resilience evidence into decision-ready action
- Trusted convener for collaboration and partnership building
- An extensive partnership with 90+ diverse organisations
This combination allows GRP to operate as both a resilience expert and a connector across sectors, institutions, and systems.
Our Theory of Change
Who we are
We implement projects drawing from our vast network of collaborators and partners, strengthened by additional technical expertise as required. Our capacity to implement at scale is enabled through funding and support from a diverse set of funders, such as Sida, FCDO, Trafigura Foundation, Shockwave Foundation, and Munich Re Foundation. The partnership consists of:
- GRP Partners – 90+ Organisations active in resilience that share GRP’s vision and values and who have formally joined the Partnership.
- Advisory Council – The Advisory Council is an independent advisory body, selected to enhance Partner capabilities, resources, and networks to increase the scale and impact of our work.
- GRP Secretariat – An agile team that convenes and catalyses actions by the Partners and implements specific activities on behalf of the Partnership.
