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GRP at EAT Forum ‘Food Transformation for All’

Wednesday, 12 June07:00-08:30, Venus Room, 3rd floor, Quality Hotel Globe, Stockholm  Join GRP and partners at our open Side Event Food Transformation for All: What Business can Do to Build Resilience during the 2019 EAT Stockholm Food Forum, a gathering of nearly 1000 top global thought leaders from science, politics, business, civil society and beyond. The GRP event features inspirational speakers […]

Webinar: Resilience and Women’s Empowerment

GRP hosted its first Partners Learning Webinar on Wednesday 29 May with Mahila SEWA Housing Trust.   The first half of the webinar was dedicated to creative inspiration. We heard from participants about the content series. Interactive activities included, discussions, polls and live shared documentation, where attendees could add their input directly into a shared google document. […]

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?