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Job opportunity: Private Sector Partnerships and Business Development Officer

We are looking for a Private Sector Partnerships and Business Development Officer who will work as part of the GRP Secretariat. Applications are due by 30 June 2023.

Voices of vulnerability and effort: Kunburudhoo Island’s experience with climate change induced Loss and Damage 

The Kunburudhoo Island community in the Maldives plants trees to combat the effects of climate induced loss and damage like beach erosion and salinization. This is the first of the “Voices from the Frontline (Phase III)” stories by GRP and ICCCAD supported by Irish Aid.

Lives of the Lakes – Indigenous hydrological resilience in Valsad district

Photo story by one of our Knowledge Into Use Awards winners, Rhea Shah, showcasing how people in Sarodhi, India utilise indigenous knowledge to build community resilience.

Building foundations for gender equity and women’s empowerment in seafood production

A team of researchers have developed eight national “fact sheets” that cover gender dynamics in seafood production for countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

Shades of resilience in the Sundarbans

Story by our Catalytic Grant winner Esha on the intricacies of responding to communities impacted by climate change.

On Topic

Quick links to key initiatives, tools, and reports from the Global Resilience Partnership.

PREPARE Call to Action to the Private Sector

GRP together with USAID and with input from the Office of the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate is excited to announce the ten companies responding to the PREPARE Call to Action.

Resilience Perspectives

What does resilience building in the context of climate change look like? Activists and entrepreneurs share their experiences

Innovative Finance for Resilience

Over the next three years, GRP will be working with Mountain Harvest in Uganda and the Near East Foundation in Sudan to provide small-scale farmers access to fairly-priced loans.

The Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) advances resilience through identifying and scaling on the ground innovation, generating and sharing knowledge, and shaping policy.

Innovative Investments with Real-World Impact

7 million

People supported to become more resilient.

1,300

Organisations supported through capacity and partnership building activities.

1.4 million

Users of early warning system or climate information.

We are the Global Resilience Partnership

GRP is made up of organisations joining forces to work together towards a world where people and places persist, adapt and transform in the face of shocks, uncertainty and change. GRP believes that resilience underpins sustainable development in an increasingly unpredictable world.

Latest Uploads to the Resilience Platform

Visit the Resilience Platform and share your own resilience solutions, stories, initiatives, evidence and tools.

Promoting Indigenous Knowledge to strengthen community led adaptation

This story highlights how farmers in the Umzingwane District in Zimbabwe are addressing the unpredictable climate patterns through locally-led initiatives and the application of indigenous knowledge. Merilyn Nkomo, a widow and a farmer in the district shares her pain points and also what she and her fellow smallholder are doing to adapt.

Banishanta, Bangladesh: Local weathercasters combat climate change

Sanjay Mondol a farmer from the Banojibi community of Banishanta in the Sunderbans region is among several farmers that are exposed to climate risks such as floods, river erosion and extreme weather conditions. These are leading to significant loss of farm produce. Fortunately, Sanjay and other farmers were getting their challenges addressed through a local NGO called Bangladesh Environment and Development Society (BEDS) by introducing them to climate and information services (CIS), under the Delta Research Initiative (DRI) project, funded by the Global Network of Civil Society Organization for Disaster Risk Reduction (GNDR).

Months of persistent action: Kamarkhali’s fight to save their village from riverbank erosion

This story is about Shebika Shangma a woman who hails from the Kamarkhali Community in the north-central region of Bangladesh. She together with six others mobilised their local community to build an embankment to protect their village from riverbank erosion.

Sundarbans, Bangladesh: Locally-led mangrove nursery brings ecological and economic benefits in a changing climate

This story is about Nomita Mondol,a forest dweller based in the Sundarbans regions of Bangladesh. Based on the impacts of climate change and to improve livelihoods she established a mangrove nursery in her community.

Identifying Climate-Smart Solutions in SIDS and Coastal Cities using the Climate and Ocean Risk Vulnerability Index (CORVI)

The [Commonwealth Secretariat](https://thecommonwealth.org/) and the [Stimson Center](https://www.stimson.org/) are developing a suite of rapid assessment tools, based on the Climate and Ocean Risk Vulnerability Index [(CORVI)](https://www.stimson.org/project/corvi/). CORVI, supported by the Stimson Center, [AXA XL](https://axaxl.com/), the [Sasakawa Peace Foundation](https://www.spf.org/en/), Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance ([ORRAA](https://oceanriskalliance.org/)), [Bloomberg Philanthropies](https://www.bloomberg.org/), [TaiwanICDF](https://www.icdf.org.tw/wSite/mp?mp=2), and the Commonwealth Secretariat, brings together stakeholders and governments to produce comprehensive risk profiles that help leaders make climate-smart decisions and investments. Originally designed for coastal cities, it is now also being applied to small islands.