Resilience Innovation through Scaling Entrepreneurship (RISE) Urban Challenge – Apr 11

Posted by Global Resilience Partnership on March 25, 2025

Global Resilience Partnership invites applications for Resilience Innovation through Scaling Entrepreneurship (RISE) Urban Challenge

The Global Resilience Partnership advances resilience through identifying and scaling on-the-ground innovation, generating and sharing knowledge, and shaping policy.

The Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) has launched the Resilience Innovation through Scaling Entrepreneurship (RISE) Urban Challenge, with a goal to convert innovative urban ideas that are meeting resilience needs in informality contexts and scale them to sustainable ideas. Through the challenge, the partnership seeks innovative solutions addressing urban resilience challenges in informality contexts—a few examples include but aren’t limited to climate risk, resilience retrofit, water security, urban migration, and displacement. For this round of the RISE Urban Challenge, solutions that prioritize the resilience of women and youth are encouraged.

The challenge provides customized support to maximize each initiative’s potential for impact and aligns potential funders to these initiatives and drive attention to the urgent need for urban systems transformation. Selected projects will receive a tailored leadership and mentoring program, communications support, and be connected to investors. Subject matter experts will facilitate a leadership academy for the selected entrants. Winners can be awarded prizes up to $50,000, which will support scaling and implementation over 12 months.

RISE is open to urban entrepreneurs, innovators, organizations or consortiums of organizations across the private sector (start-ups, SMEs), and civil society and grassroots organizations based in low- and middle-income countries. Proposals from youth-led and women-led organizations are encouraged.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Global Resilience Partnership website.

Deadline: April 11, 2025