Global Recovery Fund

We support community-driven initiatives that address the root causes of vulnerabilities and help strengthen communities after disasters. In general, these include:

• Addressing systemic inequities, particularly in the face of a disaster or crisis.
• Advocating for marginalized populations and support for organizations focusing specifically on at-risk populations before, during and after a disaster through inclusive humanitarian action initiatives and systems changes. 
• Strengthening capacity for local and national actors working to support community recovery and resilience and support organizations that take a localization approach. 
• Support for organizations whose approach focuses on building response capacity and improving systems and infrastructure to mitigate risks to the most marginalized communities affected.  
• Implementing sustainable methods of preparedness or mitigation for disasters caused by climate change. 
• Providing support for mental health and trauma response, especially in complex trauma from repeated disasters. 
• Optimizing food security or providing access to food when a disaster has made access difficult or cost-prohibitive. 
• Supporting water conservation, strengthening operations and maintenance related to reliable water supply, and targeting community WASH programs. 
• Providing economic recovery and security for those affected by a disaster. 

With an intersectional racial equity lens and an emphasis on medium- and long-term recovery, CDP experts work to identify the most critical gaps in the recovery to confidently direct financial and technical support where it is needed most and where your contribution will have the greatest impact. These are the current priority funding areas CDP has identified:

• Addressing the needs of particularly marginalized populations (i.e., older people, people with disabilities, LGBTQIA+ populations, women, etc.) through inclusive humanitarian action initiatives and programming. 
• Addressing the needs of refugee and migrant populations during disasters and other humanitarian crises.  
• Provide funding for research initiatives that contribute to an evidence base that supports philanthropy to increase funding for local initiatives such as survivor and community-led response (sclr) and mutual aid. 
• Providing flexible funding for local organizations working on low-attention disasters or climate events that don’t fit within the scope of other CDP funding streams. 
• Collaboratively funding with other CDP international funds to expand the reach of grantee partners in areas that address preparedness, mitigation and equitable recovery.  
• Providing strategic funding for disaster risk reduction and climate change research or projects to address the effects of climate change on communities and set strategies to mitigate those effects. 

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