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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.

This research paper analyzes the potential for African countries to finance climate mitigation and adaptation by redirecting explicit fossil fuel subsidies (EFFS) and increasing environmental taxes. While these domestic fiscal tools can contribute approximately 1.7% and 1.1% of Africa's GDP respectively, the author concludes they are insufficient to close the continent's overall climate finance gap of 5–10% of GDP. The paper recommends establishing independent fuel reserve authorities to stabilize prices and adopting gradual subsidy withdrawal strategies to avoid social unrest and inflation.

This report examines the potential for Direct Air Capture (DAC) and other carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies in Africa, with a particular focus on Kenya and the East African Rift region. It highlights the region's competitive advantages in geothermal energy and basaltic rock formations for permanent carbon storage, while outlining the technological, financial, and regulatory innovations needed to scale these systems.

A Sustainable Asset Valuation (SAVi) assessment of the nature-based infrastructure (NBI) program in Kisumu, Kenya, indicates that an integrated approach combining agroforestry, sanitation, and fisheries could yield USD 940 million in net benefits over 26 years. Key drivers include USD 480 million in avoided health costs from improved sanitation and USD 62.85 million in carbon valuation, which exceeds the program's capital costs.

This briefing note by the Forum on Trade, Environment, & the SDGs (TESS) examines the intersection of international trade and the sustainable bioeconomy. It provides a typology of trade-related policy instruments—including price-based measures, economic incentives, and regulatory requirements—that governments can use to promote nature-positive economic growth. The document emphasizes the need for international cooperation, particularly through the G20, to align these policies, avoid trade frictions, and support low- and middle-income countries in their transition to a sustainable bioeconomy.

A case study detailing a collaboration between FSD Africa and Infrastructure Credit Guarantee Company Limited (InfraCredit) to provide local funding for DarwayCoast, a solar power company in Southern Nigeria.

The Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) 2024 End of Year Letter outlines the organization's strategic direction for 2024-2029, highlighting its focus on locally-led innovation, private sector engagement through the PREPARE initiative, and the launch of data-democratization tools via the Resilient Planet Initiative.

This report by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) provides a guide for developing financial instruments for climate adaptation, drawing on a decade of experience from the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance (The Lab). It identifies key barriers to adaptation finance—such as high perceived risk, limited investor awareness, and a lack of bankable pipelines—and outlines a five-step framework for structuring successful instruments: defining a resilience thesis, building robust pipelines, strategic funder engagement, cultivating collaborations, and measuring impact.

This policy brief outlines how small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries can use a 'gender lens'—business models and operations that promote women's economic empowerment—to enhance the sustainability and climate impact of low-carbon technologies. Drawing on the Gender Equality in a Low Carbon World (GLOW) programme (2021–24), the document provides evidence from Africa and Latin America showing that addressing gender-specific barriers in sectors like aquaculture and agriculture leads to improved productivity, increased revenues, and better market access.

This policy brief outlines how integrating a gender perspective into low-carbon and climate-resilient small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries enhances economic sustainability, productivity, and climate impact. Drawing on the Gender Equality in a Low Carbon World (GLOW) program (2021-24), the document demonstrates that addressing gender barriers in sectors like agriculture and aquaculture is a strategic success factor for climate-smart businesses.

This policy brief describes how integrating a gender perspective into low-carbon and climate-resilient business models enhances economic sustainability and climate impact for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries. Drawing on the GLOW (Gender Equality in a Low Carbon World) program (2021–2024), the document outlines strategies for women's empowerment in sectors such as agriculture and aquaculture, demonstrating that addressing gender-specific barriers leads to higher productivity, better market access, and increased attractiveness to impact investors.

This report explores how failure-aversion acts as a systemic barrier to innovation in climate resilience projects. It argues that because resilience involves complex systems with unpredictable outcomes, failure is a necessary pre-condition for innovation. The authors identify a conflict between the need for experimentation and the rigid, short-term funding structures imposed by donors. The report introduces a model to categorize responses to failure (Individual, Operational, and Organisational levels) and their drivers (culture, mental models, and power). It concludes with recommendations for donors, intermediaries, and implementers to shift toward a 'failure-positive' culture to enable the disruptive innovations required to tackle climate change.

The Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) 2024–2029 Strategy outlines a framework to advance climate resilience by focusing on three transformative opportunities: food systems, finance flows, and community-led action. The strategy aims to shift from fragmented, Global North-led approaches toward locally-led adaptation and systemic collaboration, targeting high-vulnerability regions in the Global South.

This fact sheet from the Institute for Economic Justice argues that a Universal Basic Income Guarantee (UBIG) can promote gender equality and social cohesion in South Africa by providing a guaranteed financial floor for all adults, reducing dependence on male partners, and fostering community inclusion.

This report examines the integration of voluntary sustainability standards (VSSs) into trade policies between developing countries (South-South trade) to enhance the trade of sustainable products and improve market access for small-scale producers and small and medium-sized enterprises.

This policy brief examines the vulnerability of Africa to transboundary and cascading climate risks, where climate impacts in one country affect others through trade, finance, migration, and shared ecosystems. It discusses the role of National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) in managing these risks and provides recommendations for the African Group of Negotiators (AGN) to seek support via UNFCCC processes.

The Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) 2022 end-of-year letter outlines the organization's efforts to catalyze resilience investments and initiatives, highlighting partnerships with the private sector, the launch of innovation challenges in East Africa, and the operation of the COP Resilience Hub.

Minutes from the Green Economy Coalition (GEC) Steering Group meeting on December 14, 2022, reviewing the 2022 work plan and establishing priorities for 2023. The meeting focused on the transition to a new social contract and green deal framework, the conclusion of the Economics for Nature programme, and the urgent need for hub funding and improved impact reporting.

This fact sheet from the Institute for Economic Justice argues that a Universal Basic Income Guarantee (UBIG)—defined as a regular government cash transfer provided as a right to all adult citizens or residents—can advance gender justice and social cohesion by decoupling income from waged labour and reducing poverty-driven instability.

This policy brief examines how the war in Ukraine has disrupted global supply chains and increased fertilizer prices across Africa, threatening food security and crop yields. It argues that while short-term input subsidies are necessary, African nations must pursue long-term industrialization to build local fertilizer manufacturing capacity using the continent's own natural gas, coal, and phosphate rock reserves.