Resilience Innovation in Informality through Scaling Entrepreneurship - Launching the Rise Challenge

As the effects of climate change increase, building urban resilience requires facilitating collaborative solutions across sectors and stakeholders and the range of interdependencies among them. This is needed to deliver climate justice to the most affected, ensure urban equity by integrating diverse solutions while strengthening local capacity, facilitating experience sharing, and securing finance for practical approaches to scale existing solutions.
To effectively tackle the climate crisis in cities, municipal finance alone cannot meet the current funding gap. There is both a need and interest for scaling up innovative financing approaches and instruments that can incentivise diversified sources of finance at scale. This is most acutely felt across cities in the Global South, which face the double challenge of rapid and predominantly informal urbanisation and a lack of finance and appropriate instruments to support resilience solutions, all in the context of increasing losses and damages due to the effects of climate change. This presents both a challenge and an opportunity.
The Resilience Innovation in Informality Report, which will be launched during this event, is an initiative spearheaded by the Global Resilience Partnership (GRP). GRP advances resilience through identifying and scaling on the ground innovation, generating and sharing knowledge, and shaping policy. GRP is made up of 80+ Partners that have joined forces to work together towards this vision.
During this event, we will be launching the report, facilitate an interactive dialogue between key leading figures and organisations working to advance resilience in informal contexts, as well as host a networking lunch for attendees.