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Harnessing a Flood for a Drought

How ‘fast’ and ‘slow’ interventions support food & water security in Kenya

Article on ReThink highlighting GRP grantees’ work

Head over to Rethink.Earth to read an article highlight GRP grantee’s work on replanting and protecting mangroves to build flood resilience.  Building resilience one mangrove forest at a time

Vacancies at GRP

Vacancies at GRP POSTED ON 13 FEBRUARY 2018 SENIOR PROGRAM COORDINATOR FOR KNOWLEDGE AND NETWORKS TO THE GLOBAL RESILIENCE PARTNERSHIP The Global Resilience Partnership is currently seeking an individual for the position of Senior Program Coordinator for Knowledge and Networks. Headquartered at the Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC) at Stockholm University the person will coordinate resilience […]

Updates from the GRP Secretariat

The GRP secretariat is transitioning to the Stockholm Resilience Centre and looking for a new CEO. In September 2017 the GRP Partnership Council decided to move the GRP Secretariat from KPMG to be hosted by the Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC). KPMG was the host for GRP since its inception in 2014 during its start-up phase. […]

What next for climate resilience after cop23?

Getting a stronger rural economy

It is a sign of an economy that is thin on the ground and not diversified – the number and composition of shops in rural Ethiopia or for that matter in many parts of Sub Saharan Africa. Non-farm business is limited in number and is ‘much of the same’. There are only few shops and […]

World Water Day: Why tackling flooding remains a sustainability priority

Water-based crises are once again being thrust into the international spotlight on World Water Day. Yet, after decades of attempts – and billions wasted – flooding remains widely unaddressed by business and governments alike. The facts make grim reading. Research by Oxford Economics, commissioned by the Global Resilience Partnership (GRP), reveals the rate of severe […]

Water Window Challenge Winners Announced

Twelve innovative projects will share a US$10 million competition pool to tackle flooding in some of the world’s most vulnerable communities. The partnership between the Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) and Z Zurich Foundation of Zurich Insurance, sees grants of up to US$1m awarded to teams offering innovative solutions to issues affecting flood-prone communities in the […]

New Ideas Can Solve Age-Old Challenges

Today (15 March) we celebrate 12 innovative projects spanning Africa and Asia which have the potential to revolutionise how the world’s most at-risk communities tackle the devastating consequences of flooding. The Water Window Challenge, a partnership between the Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) and the Z Zurich Foundation of Zurich Insurance, awards grants of up to […]

GRP welcomes new Senior Policy Adviser and Policy Lead

We are delighted to welcome our new Senior Policy Adviser and Policy Lead, David Howlett, to the GRP team. David is seconded from the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID). He has over thirty 35 years’ experience in development in Africa, Asia and the Pacific with an academic background in chemistry, soil sciences, agriculture […]