Global Resilience Partnership
Accelerating innovations for climate adaptation
The Trafigura Foundation is supporting a programme to surface and scale innovations that help solve global resilience challenges from sustainable urban development to climate-smart agriculture.
The challenge
With climate change deepening the challenge of securing a sustainable future for people around the world, deploying innovative solutions that increase the resilience of societies and ecosystems is an urgent priority.
Yet such innovations often lack the financial and technical assistance needed to turn good ideas into practical solutions that can be applied at scale.
The solution
The Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) is an alliance of more than 90 organisations working together to advance climate resilience across the Global South by identifying and scaling innovative on-the-ground solutions, generating and sharing knowledge, and shaping policy.
Since 2014, GRP has invested more than USD 45 million in resilience programming, supporting more than 1,300 organisations through its capacity- and partnership-building activities.
As one of its activities, GRP runs Innovation Challenges, an accelerator-type programme to foster climate adaptation solutions in both rural and urban areas. GRP identifies promising ideas and innovators, provides them with financial support and builds their capacity.
The Innovation Challenge programme invites proposals related to a given theme and selects the strongest through an expert jury, with the winners receiving funding and tailored support. GRP also facilitates investor forums where winners pitch their projects.
GRP has already supported 47 innovations, 83% of which have secured follow-on funding.
Partnership impact
Support from the Trafigura Foundation will enable GRP to support 25 projects selected through Innovation Challenges focused on:
- Technology for Evolving Challenges in Humanitarian Contexts (TECH4Resilience)
- Resilience Innovation through Scaling Entrepreneurship (RISE)
- Resilient Agriculture Innovations for Nature (RAIN)
The supported projects are expected to see:
- 200,000 people benefit from climate resilience innovation
- 3,000 ha of land addressed with climate adaptation measures
- An additional USD 2 million mobilised for climate resilience
Visit the GRP website.
