1. Global Resilience Partnership
Investing in Resilience Forum Portfolio

2. The Global Resilience Partnership (GRP)
GRP is a partnership of public and private organizations joining forces towards a resilient, sustainable and prosperous future for vulnerable people and places. GRP collaboratively designs and advances knowledge, programs, policy and innovations that build resilience for the people that need it the most. We are building from a strong foundation:
Accelerated Resilience Innovation
Invested over US$30 million
Benefited more than 5 million people
Advanced Shared Knowledge of Resilience Programming
Synthesised learnings in 2019 Resilience Insights Report
Convening role in the Resilience MEL Community of Practice
Built a Diverse & Collaborative Movement on Resilience
Amplified the voice of LDC’s & grassroots organisations
Convened ‘Building a Resilient Future’ UN Climate Action Summit
Advanced the Understanding & Knowledge on Resilience
Hosted by the Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC)
Taking effective innovations to scale through the GRP incubator

3. A Partnership with Growing Momentum
GRP is comprised of around fifty partners spanning academia, policy think tanks, bilateral and multilateral development institutions, global and local Civil Society Organizations, and the private sector.
October 2019 – ca 55 partners

4. GRP Challenges 5.7 million 1,100 $725,000 90,000 ha People supported
The Challenges are a series of competitions hosted by the Global Resilience Partnership to tackle the world’s most intractable problems. Through the Challenges, the Partnership surfaces bold, innovative ideas with real-world impact that may start small, but have the potential to scale up with support from the GRP incubator.
GRP has overseen three challenges: the USAID Global Resilience Challenge (Round 1), the Z Zurich Foundation Water Window Challenge (Round 2) and the GRP Innovation Challenge (Round 3).
5.7 million
People supported
by GRP
1,100
Organizations receiving assistance
$725,000
Value of financial services support
90,000 ha
Areas under innovations

5. Challenge Winners

6. GRP Portfolio Overview
38 challenge projects representing 18 countries across 5 main intervention areas:
Empowering marginalised groups
Nature based solutions
Making finance and markets inclusive
Information
& Technology
Low cost infrastructure .

7. Round 1:
Global Resilience Challenge

8. Round 1: Global Resilience Challenge Portfolio
Ten projects focused on transforming risks around shocks and stresses experienced across the target geographies into opportunities.
See the GRP R1 Synthesis for more details:

9. Building resilience of smallholder farmers in southeast Asia
Grameen Foundation
PROJECT SUMMARY
Lead Organization
Grameen Foundation
Local Partners
Chokolate de San Isidro
Philippine Coconut Authority
Franklin Baker Company of the Philippines
People's Bank of Caraga
International Partners
Nutiva
Palantir
aWhere
Grameen Foundation builds resilience among coconut farmers in the Philippines, who, despite forming the backbone of the country’s top agricultural industry, are chronically poor and especially vulnerable to climate change. The team helps farmers improve productivity, access financial services, expand market access and use EWS to control pest and disease outbreaks. Working with government, agribusiness and financial services partners, the team leverages mobile technology to provide coconut farmers with real-time data and services to help strengthen their businesses and reduce losses to their families owing to extreme weather events and volatile markets.
Philippines
Intervention areas:
Key Achievements:
Services to 26,732 beneficiary households delivered
Progress was a result of SMS-based extension and EWS provided in partnership with the Philippine Coconut Authority as well as more intensive 1:1 extension support through a suite of mobile tools

10. Groundswell International
Resilient rural livelihoods in ecologically fragile drylands of the Sahel
PROJECT SUMMARY
Groundswell International
Lead Organization
Groundswell International
Local Partners
Association Nourrir Sans Detruire
Sahel Eco
Agrécol Afrique
International Partners
ETC
Groundswell International has engaged in building the resilience of communities in the Sahel’s ecologically fragile dry lands, giving particular attention to women in more vulnerable households. The team helped small-scale farmers experiment with agro-ecological innovations to increase climate-resilient food production and dietary diversity in their communities, while also regenerating soils, trees and vegetative cover. By enhancing women’s access to credit, land and water, the team aimed to empower female farmers in the process. These efforts were brought to scale by fostering intensive ‘farmer-to-farmer’ learning and exchange between communities, linking up with district government development programs and fostering more effective nationwide policies and programs to build resilience.
Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso
Intervention areas:
Key Achievements:
60,021 people within 148 villages across Mali, Senegal and Burkina Faso supported
10,102 farmers applied 13 technology/ practices
3 national-level policy briefs produced

11. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Satellite Technologies, Innovative and Smart Financing for Food Security (SATISFy)
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
PROJECT SUMMARY
Lead Organization
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Local Partners
Equity Bank, Kenya
Egerton University, Kenya
International Partners
Columbia University
Cornell University
Swiss Re
The project addresses the challenge presented by uninsured risks, which is a major cause of low agricultural productivity in the Horn of Africa. It proposed a market-based innovative risk management solution in the form of Risk-Contingent Credit (RCC), a social safety net that mitigates drought risks for the rural poor and improves farm productivity and livelihoods. RCC is a linked financial product that embeds within its structure insurance protection, which, when triggered, offsets loan payments due to the lender. RCC addresses the challenge that lenders are reluctant to lend to farmers because of the financial risks associated with crop failure or radical decreases in market prices. Because RCC targets downside business risk, it simultaneously reduces financial risk and exposure. This risk-balancing effect encourages increased supply of and access to credit but also encourages risk-rationed farmers to increase the use of credit.
Kenya
Intervention areas:
Key Achievements:
End line survey for 1,170 households in 5 sub-counties completed
US$430,000 in funding obtained from 3ie

12. Mahila Housing SEWA Trust
Devising local coping mechanisms and adaptation technologies to build climate-resilience capacities of urban poor in South Asia
Mahila Housing SEWA Trust
PROJECT SUMMARY
Lead Organization
Mahila Housing SEWA Trust
Local Partners
HomeNet South Asia
Centre for Environment Education
Indian Institute of Public Health (Gandhinagar)
SELCO Solar Light Pvt Ltd
Urban Management Centre
Development Alternatives
Vandemataram Projects Private Limited
International Partners
Freie Universistat Berlin,
Georgia Institute of Technology
MHT empowers women from slums in seven South Asian cities to take action against the most pressing climate-related risks facing their communities: heatwaves, flooding, water scarcity and water- and vector-borne diseases. Through the improved availability of real-time micro data, the team equips the urban poor with the tools and know-how to undertake vulnerability and risk assessments and implement their own resilience plans. Utilizing a network of woman advocates, it empowers these communities to influence city planning so that their cities adopt adaptation and resilience actions that reflect a pro-poor agenda.
Bangladesh, India and Nepal
Intervention areas:
Key Achievements:
27,055 slum families organized into community-based organizations.
135,275 people supported
280 experts, government officials and other representatives reached in 7 cities through multi-stakeholder partnerships

13. Taking Risk out of Agricultural Trade for Relief and Development Enhanced with Resilience (TRADER)
Mercy Corps
PROJECT SUMMARY
Lead Organization
Mercy Corps
Tango International
Local Partners
Crescent Takaful Sacco (CTS)
Medicina Chemicals Ltd
Kalif import and export plc
International Partners
Economic Intelligence Unit
Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya
Mercy Corps became a catalyst for transformation in the livestock market system, increasing resilience for hundreds of thousands of the most vulnerable people in one of the most shock-exposed places in the world: the Horn of Africa. The project designed an innovative sharia compliant financial product to support improved market functions within the livestock system in Wajir, Kenya. Some 2,000 livestock-keeping households benefited from livestock sales stimulated by the Mifugo Kash (MKK) pilot. Project partner and Islamic finance provider Crescent Takaful Sacco (CTS) disbursed US$124,940 in loans.
Intervention areas:
Key Achievements:
23,711 beneficiaries reached
US$124,940 disbursed in loans

14. Linking Social and Financial Capital to Enhance Resilience of Agro-Pastoral Communities (LEAP)
PROJECT SUMMARY
Mercy Corps
Lead Organization
Mercy Corps
PlaNet Finance
Local Partners
ASUSU SA
Universite Abdou Moumoundi de Niamey
Institute National de la Recherche Agronomique du Niger Soro Yirwaso
International Partners
Orange Money
Airtel Money
Mercy Corps worked to strengthen the resilience of agro-pastoralists in Mali and Niger by expanding their access to formal financial services. The project educated agro-pastoralist men and women so they could make informed decisions about their household finances and better manage risk. This unlocked access to new credit options, including warehouse credit for farmers and tailored credit products for women’s groups. Using mobile banking and other technologies, the project aimed to bring agro-pastoralists into the formal financial market.
Niger, Mali
Intervention areas:
Key Achievements:
Over 260,000 beneficiaries supported
10,756 people use AtmaGo, a mobile-based app to read public safety reports and other neighborhood news
ESII tool was used for cost–benefit analysis

15. New Roads for Resilience: Connecting Roads, Water and Livelihoods
PROJECT SUMMARY
Meta Meta Research
Lead Organization
MetaMeta Research
MetaMeta Ethiopia
Local Partners
Mekelle University
The Regional Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Development Amhara
ASAL Consultancy Ltd
MetaMeta Research and partners received funding to transform the way roads are planned and built in the Horn of Africa by introducing innovative designs and improved guidelines to harvest rainwater, prevent soil erosion and improve use of roadside land. By bringing together government authorities, water and climate experts and roadside communities – especially women and the poor – this team worked to ensure that road construction efforts produced multiple benefits for all communities and enhanced resilience. By combining capacity-building and communication activities, MetaMeta brought together diverse groups of actors. With a government organization as part of the consortium, MetaMeta was able to create a critical mass of national and international practitioners specializing in the subject of roads for water – formalizing stakeholder buy-in and contributing to the project’s sustainability.
Ethiopia and Kenya
Intervention areas:
Key Achievements:
Validation of all assessments and inventories completed
Participatory modeling undertaken and results presented
Co-creation of communication products

16. Harnessing the power of technology to catalyze value chain efficiency improvements to build resilience, catalyze inclusion and reach vulnerable smallholders
Producers Direct
Project Summary
Lead Organization
Producers Direct
Local Partners
KALRO
KENVO
Sireet Outgrowers Cooperative
Mabale Tea Factory
Gumutindo Coffee Cooperative
International Partners
MasterCard Labs
Vodafone
WeFarm
Restless Development
This project addressed the inefficient and fragmented value chains by utilizing technology to provide necessary data, tools and information to improve livelihoods, promote value chain inclusion and build resilience for smallholders. The project aimed to ensure empowered smallholder households had access to systems, tools, data and information that increase value chain efficiency and inclusion, improve market opportunities, economic growth and poverty reduction and ensure financial inclusion, especially for women and youth. The project used various technologies:
WeFarm - mobile-based technology to crowd source agricultural solutions.
MasterCard Labs Kenya - to expand digital financial services.
Vodafone - scaling Vodafone’s mobile solutions.
Kenya and Uganda
Intervention areas:
Key Achievements:
332,500 beneficiaries benefited
66,500 smallholder farmer households using Wefarm, 2Kuze and other digital tools
Active participated in a number of knowledge and policy engagement events.

17. Trans-African Hydro-Meteorological Observatory (TAHMO)
Meteorological Early Warning Systems to Build Resilience to Acute Climate‐Induced Shocks
Trans-African Hydro-Meteorological Observatory (TAHMO)
PROJECT SUMMARY
Lead Organization
Stitching TAHMO
Local Partners
African Centers for Lightning and Electromagnetics
Climate Change Adaptation Innovation
Uganda National Meteorological Authority
National Meteorological and Hydrological Services
International Partners
Earth Networks
Human Network International
TAHMO received funding to empower local communities and vulnerable agriculturists across Uganda with an innovative early warning weather system for severe weather across the drought prone Cattle Corridor, the accident-prone areas of Lake Victoria, Kyoga and Wamala, and Uganda’s flash flood-prone highlands. Leveraging the prevalence of cell phones across the country, the team partnered with mobile operators and the Ugandan National Meteorological Authority to provide low-cost, on-demand access to weather alerts to more than 16 million Ugandan cell phone users and free access to all 8 million Airtel subscribers.
Uganda
Intervention areas:
Key Achievements:
40 automatic weather stations deployed
8 UNMA staff trained
Delivery of EWS and agricultural information to approximately 1.2 million people in Uganda

18. Disability and Disasters: Empowering people and building resilience to risk
University of Sydney
PROJECT SUMMARY
Lead Organization
University of Sydney, Australia
Local Partners
KPC Consultant Co. Ltd
Inclusive Development and Empowerment Agenda (IDEA)
Cambodian Disabled People’s Organization (CDPO)
International Partners
Stockholm Environment Institute, Asia Centre
Monash University
Thailand, Philippines, Cambodia
University of Sydney, in collaboration with partners in Australia and Southeast Asia, strengthened the voices of People With Disabilities (PWD) in the region, who are disproportionately affected by climate-related disasters and often overlooked in traditional DRR efforts. Taking a multi-action approach, the team supported the generation of knowledge, risk awareness and skills needed to help PWD gain the institutional and social support needed to effectively prepare for hazards and disasters. Through coordinated advocacy, they also worked to empower PWD to influence governmental resilience strategies and become champions of resilience in their communities.
Intervention areas:
Key Achievements:
22,068 beneficiaries supported through DiDRR workshops, support activities and provision of DiDRR information.
912 people trained
280 experts, government officials and other representatives reached in 7 cities through multi-stakeholder partnerships

19. Round 2:
Water Window Challenge

20. Round 2: Water Window Challenge Portfolio
The Water Window Challenge comprises 11 grantees and has a focus on resilience to flood-related issues. Five are scale grantees receiving up to US$1 million to scale up their work and the rest are seed grantees funded with up to US$250,000 to surface new innovations.
See the WW Synthesis for more details:
Indicator progress against GRP 1 is updated for the grantees that submitted final reports. H2 reporting was used for other grantees because an indicator update was only requested as part of the final reports. A further update against indicators will be provided in the following donor report.

21. Nepal-India Trans-Boundary Resilience
Lutheran World Relief
PROJECT SUMMARY
Lead Organization
Lutheran World Relief (LWR)
Local Partners
Koshi Victim Society (KVS)
SAHAMATI
International Partners
Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC)
DanChurchAid (DCA)
Grameen Development Services (GDS)
Integrated Development Foundation (IDF)
Yale University Himalaya Initiative
Lutheran World Relief (LWR) worked with communities along the Gandak / Narayani and Koshi river basin across the Nepal-India border to boost their ability to absorb, adapt, and transform in the face of annual floods. Building on a successful 2016 pilot, the project focused on integrated strategies to improve Early Warning Systems (EWS) in a trans-boundary context, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and build resilient livelihoods through cross-border community-based structures, better agricultural practices, access to savings, credit and insurance schemes.
India, Nepal
Intervention areas:
Key Achievements:
Over 84,000 people received
107 CDMCs working to respond to annual flooding
Over 3,700 households have purchased agricultural insurance policies
Over 85 savings and credit cooperatives providing financial services
2 Transboundary citizen forums established

22. Trans-boundary Flood Risk Mitigation through Governance and Innovative Information Technology
Mercy Corps
PROJECT SUMMARY
Lead Organization
Mercy Corps
Local Partners
The Semarang City Development Planning Agency (Bappeda)
YMCI
International Partners
Atma Connect (Atma)
EcoMetrix Solutions Group (ESG)
Mercy Corps provided an information-based model for trans-boundary collaboration and investment to create flood resilience across watersheds in Indonesia. The project took an integrated approach to flood risk reduction, introducing innovative and user-friendly information tools for communities, government, and private sector organizations. Working with these stakeholders in vulnerable downstream urban neighborhoods and upstream rural villages, the project provided actionable, real-time information on flood risks and projected returns on investment from flood risk-reduction measures, strengthening structures for collaboration and coordinated action for flood risk reduction.
Indonesia
Intervention areas:
Key Achievements:
Over 260,000 beneficiaries supported
10,756 people use AtmaGo, a mobile-based app to read public safety reports and other neighborhood news
ESII tool was used for cost–benefit analysis

23. Roads to the Rescue MetaMeta Research PROJECT SUMMARY
Lead Organization
MetaMeta
Local Partners
Institute of Water and Flood Management
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)
MetaMeta supports the systematic use of roads for flood resilience and is upscaling this opportunity for wider use in Bangladesh. The project found ways to optimize the role of roads for flood resilience and water management, both technically and through improving governance. By bringing together government authorities, water and climate experts, and roadside communities – including women and the poor – the team ensures that road construction efforts produce multiple benefits for all, and develop productive livelihoods, despite recurring flooding and high-water conditions.
Bangladesh
Intervention areas:
Key Achievements:
Validation of all assessments and inventories completed
Participatory modeling undertaken and results presented
Co-creation of communication products

24. Agricultural and Water Resilience in Coastal Areas of Bangladesh
Practical Action
PROJECT SUMMARY
Lead Organization
Practical Action, UK
Local Partners
Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System
Practical Action used meteorological agricultural information services and the improved commercial production and marketability of flood-saline resilient crops to build resilience in vulnerable communities in Bangladesh. Focused on improving the physical, social and economic resilience of poor families in six flood-prone sub-districts of Jessore, Shatkhira and Khulna districts, the project mitigated the negative impact of flooding and salinity on livelihoods. In particular, the project enhanced economic opportunities for poor farmers, especially women.
Bangladesh
Intervention areas:
Key Achievements:
30,272 people supported
Increased agricultural productivity
18 women associations formed
5,455 beneficiaries trained
18 knowledge products developed

25. Building the resilience of vulnerable coastal communities against floods in Sri Lanka
Seacology
PROJECT SUMMARY
Lead Organization
Seacology
Local Partners
Sudeesa
International Partners
World Food Programme (WFP)
Sri Lanka
Seacology built resilience through a project focused on the conservation of mangroves among vulnerable communities in Northern and Eastern Sri Lanka. Mangroves are critical to building resilience: combating the effects of global climate change by absorbing up to 50 times more carbon than other types of ecosystems, acting as a natural buffer against the force of storm surges, and acting as critical nursery grounds for fish, enhancing employment opportunities. There were economic benefits as well, because thousands of women are receiving microloans and business training that will free them from cutting mangroves to subsist.
Intervention areas:
Key Achievements:
Recipient of the UN Momentum for Change Award in the Planetary Health category
5,543 community members joined CBOs
1,822 mangrove conservation awareness sessions carried out
3,592 women and youth trained
3,032 recipients of microloans

26. Development of Amphibious Homes for Marginalized and Vulnerable Populations in Vietnam
University of Waterloo
PROJECT SUMMARY
Lead Organization
University of Waterloo
Local Partners
Can Tho University
National Institute for Science and Technology Policy and Strategic Studies (NISTPASS)
Southern Institute of Water Resources Research (SIWRR)
Viet Nam Institute for Urban-Rural Planning Ministry of Construction
Vietnam National University
International Partners
World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
The University of Waterloo adapted a model for low-cost amphibious houses, based on those used in flood-prone areas of Louisiana, USA for decades, for the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, considering the local environmental, economic and social context. Data from the project was used to develop a business model for replicating the housing design and supporting climate change adaptation strategies in the region. The project has completed four amphibious houses, whereby the combination of academic research and expertise along with local knowledge, understanding of needs and context and local construction expertise were important success factors.
Vietnam
Intervention areas:
Key Achievements:
Can Tho University expressed interest to host the 4th International Conference on Amphibious Architecture, Design and Engineering 2021.
Two amphibious retrofits successfully completed in Vinh Phuoc Commune, An Giang Province in May 2018.

27. Floating houses: Community-Based Flood Resilience Innovations in Bangladesh
BRAC University
PROJECT SUMMARY
Lead Organization
BRAC University
International Partners
University of Dundee
The Centre for Climate Change and Environmental Research (C3ER) at BRAC University tested community-led innovations that enhance the resilience of households and communities before, during and after floods, and will develop a future implementation strategy at scale across Bangladesh. The project solution involved the design and testing of flood- resilient houses, and related integrated innovations such as water harvesting, cage fishing and renewable energy using a community-based participatory process. The impact of this project was recognized through BRAC receiving the 2019 Munich Re Foundation RISK award, presented at the Global Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction in Geneva.
Bangladesh
Intervention areas:
Key Achievements:
Three floating homes built
80 stakeholders trained
Flood-resilient homes turned into a landmark tourist attraction of Shariatpur district

28. Community Flood Resilience Project (CFRP)
Danish Refugee Council
PROJECT SUMMARY
Lead Organization
Danish Refugee Council (DRC)
Local Partners
Lotus Kenya Action for Development Organization (LOKADO)
International Partners
Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) helped refugees and host communities in Kakuma, north-western Kenya, deal with flood-related shocks and stresses. The aim was to enhance the ability of flood affected refugees and vulnerable hosting communities to anticipate, prepare for, and adaptively respond to recurrent floods and drought. This was achieved through promoting proactive flood risk mitigation and adaptive technological responses, while harnessing flood water to expand livelihood opportunities. The project also established a mobile phone-based warning system and share agricultural expertise, e.g., on the use of fast-maturing, hazard-resistant crop seeds.
Kenya
Intervention areas:
Key Achievements:
46,138 beneficiaries receiving support, including 1500 refugees
24,000m3-capacity water pan constructed benefiting 13,214 people, 40,000 small herds and 10,000 camels
73ha (180 acres) of land under various innovations

29. A River Basin Cross-border Flood Resilience Support Platform
ISET
PROJECT SUMMARY
Lead Organization
ISET
Local Partners
Da Nang CCCO
Da Nang University of Technology
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of Vietnam
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
National Center for Water Resources Planning and Investigation (NAWAPI)
International Partners
CARE International
Adaptive Resource Management Ltd
The Institute for Social and Environmental Transition (ISET) created a participatory platform for flood risk management across two provinces, Da Nang and Quang Nam, in central Vietnam. This platform allows the provinces to assess the potential flood impacts of current and planned development, as well as upstream reservoir management, and provides a mechanism for exploring trade-offs of different development scenarios and pathways. Incorporating the Quang Nam floodplain included the entire river basin flood plain and its infrastructure into one modelling tool, allowing for integrated planning and decision-making.
Vietnam
Intervention areas:
Key Achievements:
23,628 people use early warning systems or climate information
284 community members have participated
36 knowledge products have been generated – Blog posts: 15, Briefing note: 1, TV reports: 2, Newspaper articles: 17, Case study: 1

30. One Resilient Team: Tacloban
One Architecture
PROJECT SUMMARY
Lead Organization
One Architecture
Local Partners
Asian Institute of Management
Philippine Reclamation Authority (PRA)
International Partners
Wetlands International
One Architecture and the Philippines Reclamation Authority piloted a program of shoreline pond and mangrove restoration, composed, in large part of restored and reforested fish ponds in the Tacloban area, to kick off the much needed implementation of the DRR "Building With Nature" masterplan as well as to serve as a pilot project for similar restorations and soft-infrastructure implementations elsewhere in the Philippine archipelago. The pilot sites were monitored for ecological success, but also to assess economic impact and social/governance factors in individual project design, implementation, and maintenance.
Philippines
Intervention areas:
Key Achievements:
5,847 individuals supported
10,000 mangrove seedlings planted
18 women associations formed
5,455 beneficiaries trained
15 knowledge products generated

31. Ecology and Gender Based Flood Resilience Building in Thua Thien Hue,Central Vietnam (ResilNam)
University of Potsdam - Coastal
PROJECT SUMMARY
Lead Organization
University of Potsdam
Local Partners
Centre for Social Research and Development (CSRD)
International Partners
Institute for Earth and Environmental Science
University Amsterdam Vietnam Rivers Network
The University of Potsdam improved the resilience of societal groups especially vulnerable to pluvial, river and coastal flooding in the Thua Thien Hue Province of Vietnam. The project team of ResilNam – Coastal enhanced flood resilience in coastal communities by strengthening the role of women in disaster risk management and climate change adaptation through ecosystem based adaptation (EbA), such as the restoration, conservation and sustainable management of mangroves in South-East Asia’s largest lagoon.
Vietnam
Intervention areas:
Key Achievements:
1010 coastal and urban households reached
3 water bodies restored
Strengthening the role of women in ecosystem-based adaptation
Communication events on flood resilience and EbA held for almost 700 women
Comprehensive analysis of tangible costs and benefits over a 30-year period conducted

32. Ecology and Gender Based Flood Resilience Building in Thua Thien Hue, Central Vietnam (ResilNam)
University of Potsdam - Urban
PROJECT SUMMARY
Lead Organization
University of Potsdam
Local Partners
Centre for Social Research and Development (CSRD)
Institute for Earth and Environmental Science
International Partners
University Amsterdam Vietnam Rivers Network
To enhance the flood resilience of urban communities in the Thua Thien Hue Province of Vietnam, the project team of ResilNam-Urban worked towards the restoration, conservation and sustainable management of natural retention and drainage areas in Hue City, central Vietnam. These bottom-up nature-based solutions provided a means to strengthen the role of women in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. Together with local and regional authorities and stakeholders from civil society, ResilNam-Urban overcame existing gender differences that make women especially vulnerable to the negative impacts of floods.
Vietnam
Intervention areas:
Key Achievements:
1010 coastal and urban households reached
3 water bodies restored
Strengthening the role of women in ecosystem-based adaptation
Communication events on flood resilience and EbA held for almost 700 women
Comprehensive analysis of tangible costs and benefits over a 30-year period conducted

33. Round 3:
Innovation Challenge

34. Round 3: Innovation Challenge Portfolio
Innovation Challenge Winners
September 2019 GRP announced the 16 winners of the latest Innovation Challenge. The winning initiatives aim to build resilience at the intersection of Peace & Stability, Food & Water Security, and Disaster Resilience in the Horn of Africa, the Sahel, South Asia and Southeast Asia. The challenge winners receive mentorship support, technical advice, and media coverage support. They will also participate in a workshop focused on peer-to-peer learning, leadership skills and fine-tuning their pitches.
See the GRP website for more details:

35. Puntland Environmental Protection Effort (PEPE)
Amal
PROJECT SUMMARY
Lead Organization
Amal NGO
Partners
Centre for Social Research and Development (CSRD)
Institute for Earth and Environmental Science
University Amsterdam Vietnam Rivers Network
Puntland Environmental Protection (PEPE) is a constructive strategy that contributes a concrete foundation to preserve and protect the degraded environment in both rural and urban areas in Puntland. This project will help rural communities to preserve their grazing valleys and harvest rain-water to decrease the impact of surface runoff and flood control to stop soil and plant erosion that were active during the last three decades. The project will also establish a garbage recycling scheme to protect the urban and suburban environment where urban wastes are well managed and modernized in order to avoid environmental pollution in both land and sea. Besides that the project will produce employment for the local communities as well generating wealth from the recycled garbage that has negative impact to the environment. PEPE will establish a garden center to produce an affordable and efficient farm organic inputs for the local farmers to enrich their soil to boost their current poor yield.
Somalia
Intervention areas:
Credit: UN Photo/Ilyas Ahmed

36. Healthy Milk for Mali from Mali
Association Pro Milk Mali
PROJECT SUMMARY
Lead Organization
Association Pro Milk Mali
Partners
DJOM KOSSAM
Adapta Group
Nippotec
Mali is among the poorest countries and malnutrition is a serious concern. Reduced protein intake limits the development of cognitive capabilities and personnel wellbeing. Milk is an excellent protein source and well embedded in the local culture. Despite it’s 11.5M cattle, Mali relies on milk powder imports to ensure food security. The challenge to provide enough local milk at affordable prices for most socio-economic groups lies in a low performing local dairy industry. The team of international experts aims to improve the performance of the local dairy industry and make Mali an exporter of milk. The solution is to implement an integrated and optimized dairy value chain from feed production to consumer by integrating innovations and best practice at each step of the value chain. The integrated and optimized dairy value chain can be scaled in full, in parts or copied to other locations.
Mali
Intervention areas:

37. Catalyzing a Paradigm Shift: Community-Based Disaster Risk
Reduction At Scale
Atma Connect
PROJECT SUMMARY
Lead Organization
Atma Connect
Partners
Cisco Foundation
Ford Foundation
Palang Merah Indonesia
Ideo.org
Indonesia
Atma Connect, develops technology and movements to build resilience in low-income communities. In this project, Atma will develop a framework to build evidence that quantifies the benefits of community-based disaster mitigation strategies. By generating evidence for the cost-effectiveness of interventions targeted at community members who are “next responders” in disasters, Atma will be able to shift the paradigm to include bottom-up solutions. As an organization, more evidence will allow Atma to structure strategic partnerships with insurance and health companies and governments that will allow sustaining and expanding work to build resilience in more vulnerable communities globally.
Intervention areas:

38. Ethiopian Rainwater Harvesting Ecosystem and Blended Financing Facility
Danish Red Cross
PROJECT SUMMARY
Lead Organization
Danish Red Cross
Partners
Water.org
Ethiopian Rainwater Harvesting Association
Austrian Red Cross
Ethiopian Red Cross Society
The Red Cross, together with Water.org, Addis Ababa University, and private sector partners are developing an end-to-end Rainwater Harvesting (RwH) Ecosystem that prolongs the rainy season and promotes resiliency for 1M farmers and refugees by RwH is an integrated system for water management on rainfed land in semiarid areas. Underpinning the Ecosystem is a US$25M blended RwH Financing Facility. The proceeds from the Facility capitalize MFIs, who, in turn originate water loans to farmers. The RwH Ecosystem will increase water and food security, cultivate a sense of agency among farmers, catalyze household water financing, and transfers risk to private sector.
Ethiopia
Intervention areas:

39. FarmBetter Farm Better PROJECT SUMMARY Lead Organization Farm Better
FarmBetter is a mobile app that provides personalized mobile advisory services for commercial smallholder farmers in developing countries. FarmBetter starts by assessing the farmer’s resilience through a short survey and mining databases based on the farmer’s geolocation. It creates a personalized resilience profile of farmers in order to connect them with tailored solutions to improve their resilience and connect with each other and each other's knowledge. The databases provide data on environmental conditions as well as what practices they conduct on their farm and what they want to improve. In-depth information is provided in text, voice and visually to the farmer to learn and adopt solutions. While solutions are targeted to farmers, the platform is scalable worldwide.
Kenya
Intervention areas:

40. F-cubed project: Forecast and Financing for Famine (F^3)
Global Parametrics
PROJECT SUMMARY
Lead Organization
Global Parametrics
Partners
Mitiga Solutions SL
Barcelona Supercomputing Center
International Food Policy Research Institute
Westcoast International
Global Parametrics will build 1st generation F^3 for early warning in anticipating and financing crises before they get out of hand to save lives, reduce costs and build resiliency. The F^3 will use state-of-the-art data in climate science, High Performance Computing, and robust economic modeling to: (i) give early warning of extreme natural hazard conditions that signal major crop failure across any geography, and; (ii) estimate the price shocks and the associated increase in food insecurity using a general equilibrium model for price and household poverty models. The primary goal with F^3 will be to catalyze new financial response solutions for managing food insecurity. A web-based tool will inform stakeholders of impending crisis
Ethiopia
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41. Great Vision Research and Consultancy
Community Enterprise Development Impact Bond (CEDIB) for Climate Resilience in West Pokot County of Kenya
Great Vision Research and Consultancy
PROJECT SUMMARY
Lead Organization
Great Vision Research and Consultancy
Partners
Centre for Community Resilience Building (CECOREB)
The county of West Pokot in Kenya has witnessed frequent shocks & stresses that tends to perpetuate and recycle generational poverty including drought, floods, conflicts. And the future is hardly reassuring. Part of the problem is how initiatives are funded; their rigid funding cycles leave little room for innovation and too often, emphasis is put on inputs and processes rather than desired outcomes. The project seeks to pioneer a Development Impact Bonds (DIB), a flexible, innovative cost-effective financial instrument that holds the promise of accelerating economic, environmental and social growth away from traditional donor funding to build resilience to climate induced disasters among the West Pokot Community.
Kenya
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42. Climate Resilient Women Entrepreneurs “Sakchham Mahila Pariyojana"
Lutheran World Relief
PROJECT SUMMARY
Lead Organization
Lutheran World Relief
Women-led climate smart agricultural entrepreneurship models in Nepal can unleash unrealized economic potential, address marginalization and scale the adoption of climate resilient seed varieties and farming practices. The Narsahi Women’s Cooperative has demonstrated entrepreneurial success through $25,000 of savings and loans and seeks to formalize and expand its business operations. The cooperative leadership will develop a business model and marketing plans demonstrating the benefits of purchasing climate resilient seed varieties and inputs. The model will be tested and upon successful demonstration it will be replicated with other women’s enterprises in 100 communities where LWR runs its Transboundary Resilience Project. Promoting climate smart farming through entrepreneurial models will ensure sustainability and can quickly scale practices.
Nepal
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43. Building resilience of fishing communities using ICTs for promoting sustainable fishing and environment practices in coastal and marine ecosystems.
M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF)
PROJECT SUMMARY
Lead Organization
M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation
Partners
INCOIS
Qualcomm
Given the changing climate and frequent disasters, the uncertainty of life among small-scale fishers is very high. MSSRF has developed and piloted multilingual single window Fisher Friend Mobile Application in partnership with Qualcomm, INCOIS, Coast Guard and State Governments of Tamil Nadu & Kerala. The project is envisioned to support artisanal marine fishermen to respond to climate change by introducing adaptive capacities for minimizing economic, environmental and human losses, building resilient fishing communities by creating awareness on the importance of sustainable fishing practices, enable access to key real-time scientific information, and early warning by using affordable and energy efficient ICTs among fishers.
India
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44. Rainbow Resources Lanka (Pvt) Ltd
Local Business for Peace and Stability
Rainbow Resources Lanka (Pvt) Ltd
PROJECT SUMMARY
Lead Organization
Rainbow Resources Lanka Ltd
Partners
Business for Peace Alliance
inmedio peace consult GmbH
National Institute of Language Education and Training Ministry of National Languages and Social Integration
The project aims to create understanding amongst groups with ethno-political differences in Sri Lanka. Root causes for the brutal 26 year old war remain unaddressed. Key partners will be Sri Lanka’s network of Chambers of Commerce, Business for Peace Alliance and Ministry of National Integration. Sh:re Dialogue of Inmedio Peace Consult Germany, implemented in Nepal and piloted in Sri Lanka will be used. Based on dialogues, the business community will engage with other leaders to collaborate in activities to bridge cultural gaps and build a strong base for working together for common interest of ensuring a peaceful and stable environment. They will also develop mechanisms for early warning and mitigation of escalation of conflict.
Sri Lanka
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45. Resurgence Urban Resilience Trust
DARAJA (Developing Risk Awareness through Joint Action)
Resurgence Urban Resilience Trust
PROJECT SUMMARY
Lead Organization
Resurgence Urban Resilience Trust
Partners
Kounkuey Design Initative
Centre for Community Initiatives
The project is focused on providing residents of informal settlements across Nairobi and Dar es Salaam with localized extreme weather and climate information services. It brings together an alliance of scientists, Met Agencies, community development actors, city planners/responders and city media, working to a set of guiding principles. It simultaneously works to raise the institutional profile of met agencies which are currently resource-starved, cultivating more sustainable funding for the essential information services they provide for disaster risk reduction.
Kenya, Tanzania
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46. Tuklas Innovations Lab
SolveX38: Intelligent Flood Warning and Monitoring System
PROJECT SUMMARY
Tuklas Innovations Lab
Lead Organization
Tuklas Innovations Lab
Partners
Business for Peace Alliance
inmedio peace consult GmbH
National Institute of Language Education and
Training Ministry of National Languages and Social Integration
The integration of the SolveX38: Intelligent Flood Warning and Monitoring System in the contingency plan of the local DRRM has improved the response of the community for securing properties and livestock. SolveX38 will broadcast the time (calculated by the system) in local dialect (so that even little kids will be able to understand) via a public address system so that the community will have real time information about the impending danger of flooding and can respond better to the DRRM procedures agreed upon by the community and the local DRRMO. The sick and differently abled members of the community will be first priority in a flood scenario; pregnant women, old persons and the children will be evacuated to a safer place by the organized DRRM responders within the community.
Philippines
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47. Savia Atmospheric Fountains & Rivers
The Discovery of Ice being Atmospheric
PROJECT SUMMARY
Savia Atmospheric Fountains & Rivers
Lead Organization
Savia Atmospheric Fountains & Rivers
Partners
Atmoswater Research
Invierte PCT Cartuja
The project brings forth the discovery of Ice being Atmospheric - validated in 2016 and unknown historically - as ice readily harvests atmospheric waters altogether, right during its melt - in fact gaining 5% of its weight after its complete melt. The project can make it rain - and atmospherically – to never stop raining again – the Sahel & India & SE Asia in fact coinciding with the atmospheric maximums based on the equator. The atmospheric field provides unprecedented 100% universal coverage and 100% rural coverage. The atmospheric field also never dries up, even providing summer-time highs, requiring no heavy machinery and drilling altogether.
Nigeria
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48. Global Scale SMART Sustainable Safe Water
PROJECT SUMMARY
Lead Organization
Global Scale SMART Sustainable Safe Water
Global Scale SMART Sustainable Safe Water (S3W) Crowd Service Application platform aims to bring safe drinking water, sanitation, digital farming solutions and service providers on One Crowd Service Platform. The platform will feature real time customer service by freelance water and sanitation technicians as well as hydrologists, GIS, environment, AI and IoT consultants. The aim is to register 10,000 poor women in India on the Crowd Service Platform and train them on Social Entrepreneurship. This will facilitate poor end users to select, buy, install and maintain the most suitable, economical, environment friendly localized safe drinking water, sanitation and digital farming systems with pay per use financing.
India
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49. Promoting Solar-powered Integrated Fish and Crop (Aquaponics) Commercial Farming among Refugee and Host Communities in Uganda
Water Governance
Institute
PROJECT SUMMARY
Lead Organization
Water Governance Institute
While Uganda is endowed with 160 freshwater lakes and rivers that are endowed with diversity of fish species, fisheries are dwindling due to over-fishing. The country is hosting about 1.5 million refugees whose numbers are increasing. The refugee - host community relationship is exerting pressure on natural resources, which occasionally triggers conflicts. Refugees rely heavily on food rations offered by humanitarian actors that are usually limited in nutritional values. Solar-powered integrated fish and crop (Aquaponics) commercial farming innovations offer refugees and host communities alternative sources of quality fish protein, vitamins, mineral salts and income.
Uganda
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50. Disaster Information Management System for Resilience
Youth Innovation Lab
PROJECT SUMMARY
Lead Organization
Youth Innovation Lab
Nepal
YI-Lab provided technical assistance to the Government of Nepal, Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA) to develop an Integrated Disaster Information and Management System (DIMS) that is open and reliable for disaster targeting the current restructuring of Nepal into provincial and municipal governments as of the 2017 new constitution. The national portal on Government domain which is embedded with independent platforms for provincial and municipal level bodies provides adequate linkages on data inputs, data sharing, and data visualization. YI-Lab has acquired Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) from MoHA for the technical assistance of this project. The expected output is a one-stop solution for disaster-related data and information which would ensure risk-sensitive land use planning, data partnership, and efficient response.
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51. This portfolio is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents are the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID, the United States Government or of any of the organizations referred to in the report.