Innovation

There is a need for a safe space to test and scale disruptive and bold ideas. GRP surfaces and tests resilience innovations and incubates new ideas by designing and running innovation challenges and supporting peer-to-peer learning on innovation.

Projects on the Ground

We identify, co-design, and invest in resilience innovations on the ground.

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 are collaborating on the Call.

Mobilising Business Schools for Adaptation (MBA)

GRP in collaboration with UNDP is working with prominent business schools on knowledge exchange, the business case for resilience, and innovation.

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Ocean Risk & Resilience Action Alliance (ORRAA)

This multi-sector collaboration aims to pioneer ground-breaking financial innovations that build coastal resilience.

Latest news on Innovation & Scaling

Resilient Planet Initiative: Co-designing digital solutions with communities

The Resilient Planet Initiative (RPI) bridges climate information gaps by co-designing digital solutions with communities, ensuring that climate data is inclusive, practical, and empowers local adaptation efforts.

Now Open: Resilience Innovation through Scaling Entrepreneurship (RISE) Urban Challenge 

RISE aims to convert idea and concept-level innovative urban ideas that are meeting resilience needs in informality contexts and scale them to sustainable initiatives.

Two job opportunities: MEL Manager and Innovation Officer

The application period for these positions is now closed.

End of year letter to our Partners and collaborators

Thank you for your support in 2024. We look forward to collaborating with you in 2025.

RAIN phase III is now open

GRP, together with Shockwave Foundation and Munich Re Foundation, invite agricultural innovators in East Africa to apply for the Resilient Agriculture Innovations for Nature (RAIN) challenge. Applications close 31 January 2025.