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Contest Callout: Got a Great Idea for Reshaping Development in LDCs?

Apply and win the opportunity to present your development solution at the UNSG Summit or COP 25   The UN Climate Resilience Initiative (A2R) and the Global Resilience Partnership with support from the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) are looking for innovative, scalable, and practical nature-based solutions to restore degraded lands, helping vulnerable communities […]

Five Actions to Build the Resilience of Food and Agriculture Systems in Africa

“We want a summit of action, not another on pledges or commitments.” UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy Ambassador Luis Alfonso de Alba, Africa Climate Week 2019, Opening Plenary In March 2019, GRP, FAO and African Union Commission facilitated the full day event Stepping up Action on Building Climate Resilient Agriculture and Food Systems in Africa […]

How Direct Investment in Communities Can Break Chains

Constance Okollet, smallholder farmer & network founder, on building community resilience in Uganda   By mobilising women to share climate variability information, Okollet and her network have boosted food security, incomes and enhanced agricultural productivity in Tororo, Uganda. It isn’t every day that you meet a resilience leader who can speak the language of policy […]

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 […]