Projects on the Ground

GRP creates opportunities to surface, test, and scale resilience innovations through designing, running and investing in innovations through challenges or calls for proposals. Through these challenges and calls, GRP surfaces bold, innovative ideas with real-world impact that may start small, but have the potential to scale in order to tackle the world’s most intractable problems.

Resilient Agriculture Innovations for Nature (RAIN) Challenge

Agriculture innovation challenge for entrepreneurs in East Africa.

Innovative Finance for Resilience

Mentoring and scaling support for organisations working on innovative finance to promote resilience in fragile and conflict prone regions.

Global Resilience Challenge

10 projects received up to US$ 1million from USAID to implement and scale-up their solutions.
Read on for inspiring resilience approaches for fixing protracted issues.

Water Window Challenge

Backed by a US $10million commitment from the Z Zurich Foundation, the Water Window awarded up to US$ 1million in grants for innovative solutions to flood related issues.

GRP Innovation Challenge

16 projects received mentorship support for their innovative solutions to build resilience at the intersection between: Peace & Stability | Food & Water Security | Disaster Resilience