Advancing Resilience Report

The Advancing Resilience Report by the Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) details strategies for integrating youth leadership and creative storytelling into climate adaptation. The report emphasizes the effectiveness of small, flexible grants, the role of arts-based communication in making technical climate data accessible, and the importance of shifting power to the Global South by embedding young people as core contributors in resilience programming.

• Small, unrestricted, and flexible grants are highly effective for empowering youth innovators and grassroots organizations, allowing them to experiment with unconventional methods and respond to community needs without the delays associated with rigid rules.
• Creative and arts-based formats—including murals, theatre, music, comics, and digital media—translate complex technical climate information into emotionally resonant and understandable narratives for diverse audiences, including children and policymakers.
• Combining financial support with structured mentorship, communications training, and global visibility significantly increases the capacity of young leaders to articulate ideas and secure further funding or professional opportunities.
• Meaningful youth engagement requires moving beyond symbolic participation to institutionalized co-leadership, where young people serve as co-designers, implementers, and advisors with substantive decision-making power.
• To ensure equitable participation from the Global South, programs must address systemic barriers such as limited internet access and language constraints by embedding translation and interpretation from the start.
• Youth-generated evidence, including community-generated data and citizen science, provides a more credible and actionable basis for resilience knowledge by reflecting the lived experiences of those closest to climate impacts.

APA

Kimaiyo, J., Engheepi, V., & Vora, S. (n.d.). Advancing Resilience Report. Global Resilience Partnership. https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/youth-learning-report.pdf

Chicago

Kimaiyo, June, Vilina Engheepi, and Shuchi Vora. Advancing Resilience Report. Global Resilience Partnership, n.d. https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/youth-learning-report.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{kimaiyondadvancing, author = {Kimaiyo, June and Engheepi, Vilina and Vora, Shuchi}, title = {{Advancing Resilience Report}}, institution = {Global Resilience Partnership}, url = {https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/youth-learning-report.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }