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WEBINAR: LEARNING FROM FAILURE & SCALING OF RESILIENCE-BUILDING INITIATIVES #ResilientFuture

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 #ResilientFuture

Rules es o of t the e game • Mute yourself unless speaking • Do not show video to save bandwidth • Type your questions in the chat box • Contact Ida / Anastasia in the chat if you run into technical problems • Slides, case studies and recordings will be circulated • For more learning on GRP visit the Resilience Insights website Disclaimer: The webinar is being recorded, by participating you give consent for this. #ResilientFuture

GlobalResiliencePartnership.org #ResilientFuture Introduction ion #ResilientFuture Credit @ Producers Direct

Glob obal R Res esilie ilience P e Partner ership ip #ResilientFuture

GlobalResiliencePartnership.org #ResilientFuture GRP I Incuba ubato tor #ResilientFuture Credit @ Lutheran World Relief

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’ #ResilientFuture

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 #ResilientFuture

GlobalResiliencePartnership.org #ResilientFuture Learnin ing from f om failu ailure an e and scalin aling #ResilientFuture Credit @ MetaMeta Research

GRP Cha RP Challenges 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). 1,300 $870,000 90,000 ha 7 million Value of financial Areas under People supported Organizations receiving assistance services support innovations by GRP #ResilientFuture

GRP Cha RP Challenges 38 challenge projects representing 18 countries across 5 main intervention areas: Empowering Making finance Nature based Low cost Information marginalised and markets solutions infrastructure & Technology groups inclusive #ResilientFuture

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

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 ojects s were a a fail ilure! #ResilientFuture

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. #ResilientFuture

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Incubator s scalin ling d def efin init itio ions Expanding geographically: grow Widening horizontally : add more the activities in the country or region closely related functionality Replicating geographically: copy, Diving vertically : expand the adapt and paste to another country or scope and depth of activities region #ResilientFuture

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Incubator s suppor ort Stage of 1: Increasing knowledge 2: Building will and ability 3: Ensuring sustainability framework of what works to implement Engaging with challenge winners to understand Supporting connections with Supporting development of Summary of resilience attributes and stakeholders, including business plans and Incubator scalability of project and funders, and linking them identifying additional funding support identify gaps in support of with communication support sources scaling planning #ResilientFuture

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Les essons f for s scalin ling r res esil ilie ience i innova ovation ions • 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 #ResilientFuture

Rec ecom ommendation 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 #ResilientFuture

GlobalResiliencePartnership.org #ResilientFuture Challe llenge W Win inner R Refle lecti tions #ResilientFuture Credit @ Groundswell International

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