“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 […]
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 […]
This past month, GRP was participating in the Resilience Measurement, Evidence and Learning Conference 2018 (RMEL) in New Orleans, Louisiana. The conference brought together over 200 resilience practitioners from dozens of countries and organisations. GRP co-sponsored the conference and participated in a number of sessions. Nathanial Matthews, GRP’s Program Director, gave a keynote on the […]
From participative dialogues to climate action awards, GRP will be well-represented at COP 24. The 24th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 24) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) takes place in Katowice, Poland from 2-14 December 2018. GRP has become a partner in organizing this year’s Development […]
Watch the documentary produced by the ResilNam project on women, Ecosystem Based Adaptation, and flood resilience in central Vietnam. All in the Same Boat follows the lives of three women, Tran Thi Phong Tien, Le Thi Xuan Lan, and Le Thi Hoa. All the women have faced challenges in regards to flooding and recount their […]
The 1.5°C report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) puts resilience of societies and Earth’s ecosystems at the heart of climate adaptation and mitigation. It goes further than previous IPCC reports, and sets the challenge of climate change within the context of sustainable development and planetary stewardship. It calls for climate-resilient development that […]
Register for the Development and Climate Days 8-9 December 2018 (D&C Days 2018) event at COP 24 in Katowice, Poland. D&C Days are held each year in the middle weekend during the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). They aim to influence the “ambition mechanism” process […]
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
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