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

The Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) utilizes a tiered 'Innovation Challenge' model to fund and scale bottom-up resilience solutions across the Global South. Since 2014, GRP has invested over US$45 million, supporting 102 solutions in more than 30 countries and benefiting over 7 million people. The 2026 portfolio focuses on three primary challenges: RAIN (nature-positive agriculture), RISE (informal urban settlements), and TECH (AI for humanitarian response). GRP provides a structured pipeline—Idea, Seed, Scale, and Amplify—combining financial grants with non-financial support such as mentoring and a Leadership Academy to make local innovators investment-ready.

• The GRP employs a four-stage funding pipeline to manage risk and scale promising resilience ideas: the Idea stage provides up to ~$50k for concept testing, the Seed stage offers up to ~$250k for validation, the Scale stage provides up to ~$1.5m for expansion, and the Amplify stage represents graduation into investment funds with no funding limit.
• The 2026 portfolio consists of three specialized challenges: the Resilient Agriculture Innovations for Nature (RAIN) Rural Challenge, which targets nature-positive food systems with earmarked funding for East African countries; the Resilience Innovation in Informality through Scaling Entrepreneurship (RISE) Urban Challenge, focusing on informal urban settlements in the Global South; and the Technology for Evolving Challenges in Humanitarian Contexts (TECH) 4 Resilience Challenge, which focuses on Artificial Intelligence (AI) for humanitarian response with a particular interest in South East Asia.
• Since 2014, the GRP has invested more than US$45 million in resilience building, implementing 102 innovation solutions across more than 30 countries and supporting over 7 million people.
• The GRP's support model extends beyond funding to include an ecosystem of non-financial services, including a Leadership Academy, mentoring, communications and MEL support, and access to investor forums and policy platforms, which helps grantees attract follow-on funding.
• A specific example of the model's impact is 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.

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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} }