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WEBINAR:

LEARNING FROM FAILURE & SCALING

OF RESILIENCE-BUILDING INITIATIVES

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Conten tents ts

When What Who 5 minutes Welcome Simone (GRP) 5 minutes Introduction Deon (GRP) 10 minutes GRP Incubator Jesper (GRP) 15 minutes Learning from failure and scaling Sarah (Itad) 10 minutes Challenge winner reflections Peter (Groundswell Int) & others 15 minutes Q&A All

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Credit @ Producers Direct

Introduction ion

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Credit @ Lutheran World Relief

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GRP I Incuba ubato tor

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GRP Incub cubat ator o r overa rarch rching g ing goal al ‘Increasing resilience among communities, businesses and in the sector itself; surfacing bold, innovative solutions and creating partnerships and connections that support scaling these up and replicating them elsewhere’

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Incubatin ing p projects t to scale le

Step 1: Assess how the project builds resilience using resilience principles Step 2: Assess the potential scalability of the project, looking at: i. User appropriateness ii. Sustainability

• iii. Scalability

Step 3: Conduct capacity assessment and gap analysis Step 4: Work with the project according to the jointly agreed gap analysis and action plan

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Credit @ MetaMeta Research

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GRP Cha RP Challenges 1,300

Organizations receiving assistance

7 million

People supported by GRP

90,000 ha

Areas under innovations

$870,000

Value of financial services support

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 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).

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GRP Cha RP Challenges

38 challenge projects representing 18 countries across 5 main intervention areas:

Nature based solutions Empowering marginalised groups Making finance and markets inclusive Information & Technology Low cost infrastructure

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Tw Two ne new re reports CASE STUDY: LEARNING FROM FAILURE TO ACCELERATE SUCCESS IN RESILIENCE- BUILDING CASE STUDY: AN INCUBATOR APPROACH TO SCALING EFFECTIVE RESILIENCE SOLUTIONS

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Challe llenge W Win inners I Inclu cluded in in C Cases

• Groundswell International (scaling/learning case)
• IFPRI SATISFy (scaling/learning case)
• Mahila Housing Trust (scaling/learning case)
• MetaMeta Research (scaling case)
• Producers Direct (scaling/learning case)
• Mercy Corps TRADER (learning case)
• One Architecture (learning case)

Disc isclaimer: I Inc nclusion in in the l learning f fro rom f failure c case se st study in no in no way ay indic icate ates t s that t at the p proje

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FAI AIL: F First At Attem empt I In Lea earnin ing

• Failure for GRP is not viewed negatively or as an opportunity to

penalize projects.

• Instead, it represents a great opportunity to learn from and improve

the project (or aspects of it) and, crucially, to document and share that learning so others can avoid the same mistakes.

• This focus on learning has permeated the entire GRP ecosystem.
• Creating the space to test innovations, take risks and embrace and

learn from failure is important.

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Credit @ Mercy Corps

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Incubator s scalin ling d def efin init itio ions

Expanding geographically: grow the activities in the country or region Widening horizontally: add more closely related functionality Replicating geographically: copy, adapt and paste to another country or region Diving vertically: expand the scope and depth of activities

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Stage of framework 1: Increasing knowledge

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2: Building will and ability to implement 3: Ensuring sustainability Summary of Incubator support Engaging with challenge winners to understand resilience attributes and scalability of project and identify gaps in support of scaling planning Supporting connections with stakeholders, including funders, and linking them with communication support Supporting development of business plans and identifying additional funding sources

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• Models for sustainability need to move beyond business and social approaches, to

also address volatility and continued participation of the most poor and vulnerable

• Attention to context is needed, understanding that context continuously shifts with

increasing scale

• There is a need to develop particular leadership skills to be able to work with the

complexity of scaling

• The active participation of stakeholders is critical to scaling success
• The scaling process should be informed by ongoing evidence generation and learning
• Funding support needs to be flexible, reliable and long term

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Rec ecom

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ions: l lea earnin ing f from f failu lure

• Learn (quickly) from failure
• Consider the risks or implications of ignoring failure
• Projects must design in a culture of learning from the start and find

tools and mechanisms to respond

• Work closely with the projects in a structured way
• Identify failure thresholds and convey expectations clearly
• Consider phasing to allow testing at the right time

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Credit @ Groundswell International

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