Global Resilience Partnership: Building a sustainable flood resilient future
Floods cause more damage worldwide than any other type of natural disaster and cause some of the largest economic, social and humanitarian losses. This session will showcase the outcomes of the $10-million-dollar Water Window Challenge funded by Zurich Insurance through the Global Resilience Partnership (GRP). The Water Window Challenge was designed to surface new innovative ideas and solutions to help flood prone communities reduce their exposure to flood risks, protect ecosystems 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 sustains and improves a community’s wellbeing in partnership with the environment.
The session will include talks from project leaders from the field to highlight both the challenges and successes of building a sustainable flood resilient future under the uncertainty of a changing climate. Presentations will highlight projects on ecology and gender based flood resilience in Vietnam, conservation of mangroves among vulnerable communities in Sri Lanka and using transboundary collaboration and investment to create flood resilience across watersheds in Indonesia. As a co-host IUCN will provide expertise on the role of nature based solutions. The session format will be interactive with short PechaKucha presentations.