Building Community Resilience in the Face of Covid-19

Grassroots organisations are critical in responding to the global crisis of COVID-19.

Water

The Blue Acceleration: The Trajectory of Human Expansion into the Ocean

Does humanity's future lie in the ocean?

GRP x Rethink: Imagine all the people – a resilient future in 2050

The year is 2050, world population has reached 10 billion and the vast majority of people live in cities. The biosphere – for decades under catastrophic pressure – experienced a turn of fortune in 2030, when the sustainable development goals were declared a success. Climate change was halted below 2 degrees. Ecosystem restoration and protection secured degrading ecosystem services and coastlines. Investments in agriculture created resilient supply chains, and financial innovations placed resources in the hands of local communities. The tide was turned.

GRP and UNDP win Global Environment Facility Challenge Award

Global Resilience Partnership collaborating with UNDP were selected among a total of nine projects announced as winners of the Global Environment Facility’s inaugural Challenge Program for Adaptation Innovation, a new competition supporting private sector solutions to build resilience in developing countries.

Investing in Resilience: A Destination with Many Routes

Global Resilience Partnership’s 38 challenge winners are cutting multiple paths towards a resilient future, as our recent Investing in Resilience forum on 5 November 2019 showcased in London.

GRP at COP25 in Madrid

COP25 takes place from December 2-13, 2019 in Madrid, Spain.

Audio & Visual from Building a Resilient Future

Open Access Photography from Building a Resilient Future Please, note Global Resilience Partnership’s photo policy in the Privacy Policy.  Livestream: Opening Plenary Parallel Sessions Closing Plenary

Call for Action & Launched Initiatives

Call for Action on Adaptation and Resilience: Co-leads Egypt and the United Kingdom, together with coalition partners Bangladesh, Malawi, the Netherlands and St Lucia, supported by the United Nations Development Programme, have developed this call for action. The call has been endorsed by 117 countries and 86 organisations and institutions as of 17 October 2019. […]

Building a Resilient Future Event Documents

Building a Resilient Future Outcome Document Headline messages from ‘Building a Resilient Future’ prepared for the United Nations Secretary General’s Climate Action Summit Session Concept Notes: Session 1_The Intersection of Climate and Conflict Risk Session 2_Stepping up actions to build resilient food systems Session 3_Resilience Programming and Capacity Building Session 4_ Accelerating Resilience through Scaling […]

GRP Resilience Insights Report Launched

A new Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) and Itad report distils and illuminates the latest evidence from across the breadth of the GRP to inform future resilience programming at a time when it is more important than ever.   Building resilience where it is needed the most The world is increasingly unpredictable with more people than […]