Resilience Innovation Challenges Investing in locally-led innovations that advance resilience 2026 PORTFOLIO OVERVIEW AND PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

The Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) briefing outlines its Innovation Challenges model, which identifies and scales locally-led resilience solutions across agriculture, urban informality, and humanitarian technology. Since 2014, the GRP has invested over US$45 million into 102 solutions across more than 30 countries, supporting over 7 million people.

• The GRP utilizes a tiered funding model to manage risk and scale innovations, moving projects through four distinct stages: Idea (up to ~$50k), Seed (up to ~$250k), Scale (up to ~$1.5m), and Amplify (no funding limit).
• The GRP operates three primary innovation portfolios: RAIN, which focuses on nature-positive agricultural solutions in the Global South with specific funding for East African countries; RISE, which targets climate resilience in informal urban settlements in the Global South; and TECH, which applies Artificial Intelligence to humanitarian preparedness and response, with current interest in South East Asia.
• The GRP provides a comprehensive support ecosystem beyond funding, including a Leadership Academy, mentoring, monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) support, and access to investor forums and policy platforms to ensure innovators are investment-ready.
• A specific example of the GRP's impact is seen with Mountain Harvest in Uganda, which used GRP support to train over 1,000 farmers in regenerative agriculture and increase coffee productivity from 0.4kg to 0.65kg of green coffee per tree, subsequently securing a $300,000 commercial loan from Kiva Foundation and investment from Acumen.

APA

Global Resilience Partnership (2026). Resilience Innovation Challenges Investing in locally-led innovations that advance resilience 2026 PORTFOLIO OVERVIEW AND PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES. https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/grp-innovation-challenges-2026-portfolio-and-partnership-opportunities.pdf

Chicago

Global Resilience Partnership. Resilience Innovation Challenges Investing in locally-led innovations that advance resilience 2026 PORTFOLIO OVERVIEW AND PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES. 2026. https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/grp-innovation-challenges-2026-portfolio-and-partnership-opportunities.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{globalresiliencepartnership2026resilience, author = {{Global Resilience Partnership}}, title = {{Resilience Innovation Challenges Investing in locally-led innovations that advance resilience 2026 PORTFOLIO OVERVIEW AND PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES}}, institution = {Global Resilience Partnership}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/grp-innovation-challenges-2026-portfolio-and-partnership-opportunities.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }