Resilience Innovation through Scaling Entrepreneurship (RISE) Urban Challenge Grant

Resilience Innovation through Scaling Entrepreneurship (RISE) Urban Challenge Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Global Resilience Partnership
Amount: Up to US $50,000
Last Updated: May 16, 2025

Summary

The Resilience Innovation through Scaling Entrepreneurship (RISE) Urban Challenge Grant supports innovative urban solutions that address resilience challenges in informal contexts. Hosted by the Global Resilience Partnership, this initiative offers tailored leadership programs, mentoring, and potential funding up to $50,000. It encourages proposals that prioritize the resilience of women and youth, aiming to transform urban systems sustainably. Selected projects will connect with investors and experts to maximize their impact until December 2026.

Overview

RISE aims to convert idea and concept-level innovative urban ideas that are meeting resilience needs in informality contexts and scale them to sustainable initiatives. The Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) is launching the Resilience Innovation through Scaling Entrepreneurship (RISE) Urban Challenge to convert innovative urban ideas that are meeting resilience needs in informality contexts and scale them to sustainable ideas. The RISE Urban Challenge provides customised support to maximise each initiative’s potential for impact and aligns potential funders to these initiatives and drive attention to the urgent need for urban systems transformation. What will winners receive? Selected projects will receive a tailored leadership and mentoring programme, communications support, and be connected to investors. Subject matter experts will facilitate a leadership academy for the selected entrants. They will also be connected to potential investors and partners from GRP networks. Winners can be awarded prizes up to US$50,000, which will support their scaling and implementation over 12 months up to December 2026. What are we looking for? We are looking for 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, we encourage and welcome solutions that prioritise the resilience of women and youth.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Who can apply?RISE is open to urban entrepreneurs, innovators, organisations or consortiums of organisations across the private sector (start-ups, SMEs), and civil society and grassroots organisations based in low- and middle-income countries. We encourage and welcome proposals from youth-led and women-led organisations.