Posted on March 16, 2017
Zurich Insurance Group and the Z Zurich Foundation have partnered with the Global Resilience Partnership to support the Global Resilience Challenge Water Window (Water Window) addressing resilience issues of flood prone communities in the Sahel, the Horn of Africa, and South and Southeast Asia, and building on synergies with the existing work of the Global Resilience Partnership, the Global Resilience Challenge, and the Zurich Flood Resilience Program.
The Global Resilience Challenge is a competitive process intended to bring together multi-disciplinary teams to collaborate with local and regional stakeholders in the diagnosis of resilience problems and opportunities for viable, locally-driven, and high-impact solutions.
The Water Window will focus on surfacing new innovative ideas and solutions to help flood prone communities reduce their exposure to flood risks and increase their ability to grow successfully in the face of uncertainty. This moves beyond preparedness for shocks and stresses and towards enhancing resilience that sustain and improve a community’s wellbeing.
The projects need to fully embrace the concept of flood resilience to shocks and stresses in terms of human, financial, natural, social, and physical capital.
They should offer solutions to address real issues affecting flood prone communities and ideas that include a focus on one or more of the following programmatic features of the Resilience Partnership:
- Technology
- Innovative financing, including risk transfer mechanisms
- Measurement and diagnostics (e.g., diagnostic tools that provide a platform for data analysis, sharing, and storage)
- Policy and influence
- Learning and innovation (e.g., community practices that enhance awareness, community transformation, education, engagement, female empowerment, and action orientation)
Source: Global Resilience Partnership
