Established in 2014, we take pride in reflecting on the progress we have made. From a Partnership consisting of fewer than ten organisations, we are now over 90 active organisations, all united in the mission to advance resilience. We have transitioned from a primarily Global North-led organisation to a Secretariat that spans a diverse range of 14 countries. We have established ourselves as a recognised leader in measurement and evidence building for resilience, strengthening capacity, amplifying the voices of local communities, and engaging the private sector. Our efforts to date have supported millions of people, thousands of organisations, hundreds of new investments, policies, and actions, and have elevated the profile of resilience globally.
At a glance
Significant achievements
After having evaluated a large number of GEF projects around the world, this project is considered as an example for others. It is very impressive that the project has been able to reach its targets on time […] with a small budget, while working in fragile countries.
From the independent external evaluation of GRP's Peace and Stability, Food and Water Security Innovation Program, 2024
GRP has provided a space for Southern researchers to make a contribution to resilience, placing an emphasis on democratising knowledge generation. This has meant providing a platform to Southern practitioners to promote and exchange their on-the-ground knowledge of resilience, consolidating and synthesising this for other stakeholders, and then using GRP as a conduit to advance this knowledge more widely.
Excerpt from the independent Formative Evaluation, 2022
GRP’s commitment to scaling initiatives through its Challenge Funds is valued within the resilience space, filling an important market gap and putting the Partnership in a different place to other actors in the resilience space. Though initiatives that are both truly resilience-building and scalable are rare, GRP has on a number of occasions supported them where they exist, demonstrated their proof of concept, and then blueprinted and scaled them through external partners such as the World Bank. This focus on identifying and funding scalable initiatives is a unique offer, especially within a context in which the funding ecosystem in international development has a small appetite for risk. GRP thus provides an important missing element within the funding space for resilience through its Challenge Funds, clearly creating a space in which resilience innovation can flourish.
Excerpt from the independent Formative Evaluation, 2022
GRP’s increasing emphasis on this convening role was frequently praised, enabling the Partnership to support action on resilience from the top down, as well as from the bottom up. This shift has also raised GRP’s profile, with the Partnership playing an important role as a convener at major global events. GRP’s participation in such events has enabled it to raise the profile of resilience on the international stage, which is especially important within a context in which the development community’s focus is aimed squarely at climate mitigation. Moreover, GRP’s ability to support actors to collaborate after such events take place helps to ensure that momentum towards ambitious and actionable resilience commitments in policy and investment spaces is sustained.
Excerpt from the independent Formative Evaluation, 2022
Success stories
Incubating the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance
Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Plan 2024-2029
Indicator Guidance 2024-2029
Enabling Logic Model
Onward reflections and lessons learnt
As we embark into a new strategy and implementation cycle, we will build on the key lessons learnt:
Growing the market for and increasing the uptake of resilience solutions requires concerted efforts to support innovative products and services, as well as the entrepreneurs behind them. We will double down on our commitment to mobilise financial flows into resilience solutions through our Innovation Challenges, as well as continuing to cultivate the wider enabling environment for resilience innovation through our work with private sector companies, business schools, investors, and other key stakeholders.
Ensuring the uptake of resilience evidence – what works and what doesn’t – requires facilitation and dedicated knowledge brokering. We will create spaces for inclusive transdisciplinary learning, through facilitating communities of practice, like the Southern African Resilience Academy. For learning to be transformative, it needs to be designed and implemented as an active and relational process, rather than a passive ‘transfer of knowledge.’
Successful advocacy and policy influencing requires trusted convenors. We will build on our track record as a trusted leader in policy convening, collaboration and advocacy, ensuring that insights from our innovation and knowledge work areas inform policy processes.
An engaging and proactive approach to partnership building is key to the success of GRP’s programmes and the overall Partnership. We will continue to focus on ensuring that we build a partnership that is focused on adding value to our partners.
The success of all the above is enabled by organisational learning, robust internal processes, and a positive and thriving work culture.
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