Policy

GRP works to build a diverse movement of organisations to raise the ambition on resilience and increase investments to where it is needed the most. We ensure that those at the frontline of resilience challenges play a leading role in this endeavor.

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Policy Events & Convenings

GRP convenes diverse voices through a number of regional and global policy events to advance inclusive and transformative resilience and foster radical collaboration.

Amplifying Local Voices

GRP works closely with grassroots organizations and partners to amplify the voices, stories and actions of communities on the frontlines of climate impacts.

Bridging the Gap between Ambition and Action

GRP works across diverse stakeholder groups to accelerate ambition and action on inclusive and transformative resilience.

Advancing a Unified Vision on Resilience

GRP works to advance an ambitious, coherent and actionable vision for inclusive and transformative resilience

Policy events

22May2023

Bangkok, Thailand

Partner

CBA17: Local solutions inspiring global action

04Sep2023

Nairobi, Kenya

Other

Africa Climate Week (ACW 2023)

30Sep2023

TBD

Other

Asia-Pacific Climate Week (APCW 2023)

09Oct2023

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Other

Middle East and North Africa Climate Week (MENACW 2023)

23Oct2023

Panama City, Panama

Other

Latin America and Caribbean Climate Week (LACCW 2023)

30Nov2023

Dubai, UAE

Other

UN Climate Change Conference (COP28)

Policy documents

COP27 Resilience Hub Synthesis Report

The report synthesises the main messages from the COP27 Resilience Hub and aims to help set the direction for future action towards COP28 and beyond.

COP26 Resilience Hub Synthesis Report

This report synthesises the main messages from the Resilience Hub and aims to help set the direction for future action towards COP27 and beyond. The report first provides an overview of the key adaptation and resilience decisions and announcements that took place during COP26; it then presents the key messages resulting from the events of the Resilience Hub and offers concluding remarks on next steps towards COP27 and beyond.

Statement: Water Governance for Resilient Food Systems for Future Climates

To mark the 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) a group of 31 globally diverse practitioners and researchers, sound a clarion call for water resilience to be brought to the forefront of building resilient and sustainable food systems that can provision communities, economies and ecosystems into a rapidly changing world.

Urban city scape in Latin America

Latin American Regional Resilience Dialogue Outcome Document

This dialogue is part of a series of regional dialogues convened with non-party stakeholders, organized by the Global Resilience Partnership together with Climate Resilience Network of the UNFCCC Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action (MPGCA) with the support of the Chile and UK High Level Champions (HLCs), Gonzalo Muñoz and Nigel Topping.

Women carrying a child walking up stairs to a floating house in Bangladesh.

South Asia Regional Resilience Dialogue Outcome Document

Fostering Adaptation and Resilience for a Post-COVID19, 1.5 Degree Future. This dialogue is part of a series of regional dialogues convened with non-party stakeholders, organized by the Global Resilience Partnership together with Climate Resilience Network of the UNFCCC Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action (MPGCA) with the support of the Chile and UK High Level Champions (HLCs), Gonzalo Muñoz and Nigel Topping.

Latest policy news

Policymakers need to work more closely with researchers to fight the global food crisis

We are facing the worst food crisis in modern history – Sweden and the EU need to take action to shift how food is produced and consumed. That was the message from researchers to policymakers during a high-level meeting for the Swedish government at Stockholm Resilience Centre

USAID’s Resilience Policy is open for review

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is pleased to share their new draft of the USAID Resilience Policy for review and comments.

Keys to building an innovation ecosystem in food and agriculture

At the COP27 Resilience Hub speakers from CLASP, Energy Saving Trust, REEEP, the Stockholm Resilience Centre and the World Economic Forum came together to identify innovations that could help build greater resilience within our food systems.

Changing with the tides of change: A women’s group journey towards climate resilience

In Kyamulibwa sub-county, Kalungu district, Uganda, we meet Beatrice Nakiweewa, who leads a women’s group to grow vegetables to use in their catering business impacted by climate change. This is the sixth of the ‘Voices from the Frontline (Phase-II)’ stories by ICCCAD and GRP.

GRP at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP27)

COP27 takes place in Sharm El Sheikh from 6 November to 18 November 2022.