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This report summarizes the 'Resilience Day: Innovating and Investing for People and Planet' event hosted by the Resilience Hub and the Global Resilience Partnership at Climate Week NYC. The event focused on innovative funding mechanisms, the integration of nature-based solutions, and the challenges of attracting climate finance to fragile, conflict-affected regions and local communities.

The Resilience Knowledge Coalition is a "network of networks" hosted by the Global Resilience Partnership and co-led by SouthSouthNorth/CDKN and ICCCAD/LUCCC. It aims to bridge the gap between existing resilience knowledge and its practical application in policies, plans, and investments, with a specific focus on Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS).

The Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) is launching the Technology for Evolving Challenges in Humanitarian Contexts (TECH) 4 Resilience Challenge. This initiative seeks AI-driven technological solutions to mitigate the effects of extreme climate events and improve Anticipatory Action (AA) frameworks in emergency contexts within low- and middle-income countries.

This briefing by the Global Resilience Partnership argues that the private sector and capital markets currently fail to adequately account for resilience-related risks. It proposes a new definition of resilience that moves beyond 'bouncing back' to include the capacity to adapt and transform in response to global shocks, providing a framework of five key attributes—diversity, redundancy, connectivity, inclusivity and equity, and adaptive learning—to help financial institutions mitigate risk and stabilize returns.

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.

The City of Cape Town is implementing the Faure New Water Scheme (NWS), a large-scale water reuse project designed to produce drinking-quality water from treated wastewater. As part of a broader New Water Programme aiming to add 300 million litres of water per day by 2030, the Faure NWS will utilize a multi-barrier advanced purification process to enhance the city's water resilience and reduce the risk of severe water restrictions.

This document is a Request for Quotation (RFQ) issued by GreenCape for a service provider to conduct project close-out evaluations for an intervention titled "Active climate change citizenship for a just transition in South Africa." The project, co-financed by the European Union, aims to empower citizens, women, and youth to participate in democratic processes regarding climate mitigation and adaptation, specifically within the renewable energy sector.

This document presents the Terms of Reference (ToR) for a mid-term evaluation audit of the 'Active climate change citizenship for a just transition in South Africa' intervention. The audit is commissioned by the GreenCape Sector Development Agency to assess progress, identify drivers or hindrances of success, and provide recommendations for the remainder of the project's duration.

This case study by GreenCape details the lessons learned from the first resilience analysis of the City of Cape Town's capital infrastructure portfolio. Supported by UK Pact in early 2022, the project aimed to understand how capital investments impact climate resilience by implementing a tagging mechanism in the City's SAP Project Portfolio Management system. The report identifies gaps in project tagging, the importance of a consolidated project database, and the need for increased awareness among project managers regarding how basic service delivery contributes to climate resilience.

This case study by GreenCape examines how the Victoria & Alfred (V&A) Waterfront in Cape Town built water resilience over a ten-year period through a phased investment in green technologies and behavioral changes. By following a systematic 'Water Resilience Journey'—moving from low-cost efficiency measures to complex alternative water sources—the V&A reduced its annual water consumption by approximately 65% despite expanding its development.

This document is a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed on December 9, 2023, between the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) and the Executive Secretariat of the Central American Agricultural Council (SE-CAC) to establish a framework for cooperation in science, technology, and innovation.

This policy brief describes a transdisciplinary project in Chile that examines the intersection of urban heat, building energy efficiency, and public health. Using a case study from the municipality of Quilpué, the project identifies correlations between high temperatures and hospital visits, highlighting the need to integrate health criteria into building codes and housing policies to mitigate climate vulnerability and energy poverty.

This policy brief describes a project focused on integrating health criteria into the energy-environmental assessment of buildings to reduce urban heat exposure in Chile, specifically examining the commune of Quilpué.

This policy brief describes a transdisciplinary project in Mexico City that used citizen mapping and public consultation to analyze the relationship between extreme heat, public health, and green spaces. The project highlights a gap between official health statistics and the lived experience of the population, emphasizing the need to integrate green infrastructure into health policies to address socio-spatial inequalities.

This policy brief describes a transdisciplinary project focused on the relationship between extreme heat, public health, and green spaces in Mexico City. It highlights a significant underreporting of heat-related health symptoms in official statistics and advocates for the integration of green infrastructure into public health and climate adaptation policies to address socio-spatial inequalities.

A policy brief detailing a resilience mechanism in Micaya, Bolivia, that integrates ancestral knowledge with agroecological technologies to combat climate-induced frosts, droughts, and soil degradation. The project found that such an approach increased vegetable production by 30% and addressed severe nutritional deficiencies and pesticide-related genotoxic damage in the population.

This policy brief describes a transdisciplinary project focused on the intersection of climate change, health, and agroecology in Uruguay, specifically highlighting the experiences and contributions of the Women’s Group in the Uruguay Agroecology Network (RAU).

This policy brief describes a project focused on the intersection of climate change, health, and agroecology in Uruguay, specifically highlighting the experiences and contributions of the women's group within the Red de Agroecología del Uruguay (RAU). The project utilized a transdisciplinary 'ecosalud' (ecosystemic health) approach to identify climate-related health challenges and develop recommendations for public policy.

This case study describes a project supported by the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) and led by Bioversity International to improve the response of Guatemala's Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food (MAGA) to droughts. Through two emergency simulations conducted in 2014 and 2015 in the Chiquimula department, the project evaluated the effectiveness of the Institutional Response Plan (PIR) and identified critical gaps in communication and data collection within the public sector.

This report by the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research examines the challenges of managing scientific information on climate change and biodiversity conservation in the Andean region. It argues that a gap exists between scientific data and political decision-making, proposing the implementation of National Environmental Information Systems and the integration of traditional local knowledge to improve climate adaptation and sustainable development.