Dear colleagues and friends,
Following five and a half years of evolution, today PAN becomes rani, which stands for Resilience Action Network International.
Rani is a global advocacy network, coordinating advocacy to build societal resilience to overcome shifts, change, and crises. This new name is a better reflection of the work we do – it encapsulates our world view, and connects us with our partner, RANA (Resilience Action Network Africa).
We are proud of our roots, and remain committed to tackling pandemic threats. As many of you will recall, Pandemic Action Network (PAN) was established during the crisis response period of the COVID-19 pandemic, in six weeks of determined planning before our April 22 2020 launch.
The world has evolved over the past five years. Climate change, pandemics, conflict, and economic instability are compounding to disproportionately affect the most vulnerable. The world is a more dangerous place, and problems need to be tackled upstream. Focused, targeted advocacy to deliver real change is needed to deliver wins across a range of issues – health and pandemics, biosecurity and defence, finance, and climate – with a bigger focus needed on crisis prevention and building resilience.
To deliver across issues, we need three core ways of working. First, precise advocacy goals. We are at our best as a team and a network when we are laser-focused on our change objective. Second, a resilience agenda that can deliver multiple wins for the most vulnerable. Our discussion paper Reframing Resilience: An Agenda for a More Equitable Future is our work in progress on this. Third, we need the power of networked advocacy. Our rani team finds the best experts, helps shape ambitious advocacy strategies, and helps build civil society power.
Resilience is not only about absorbing crises but about preventing them from happening in the first place – and if they do happen, bouncing forward.
Our recent discussion paper Reframing Resilience: An Agenda for a More Equitable Future, reconceptualises a renewed resilience agenda across climate change, health and conflict to help leaders protect lives and livelihoods more effectively, while building the systems that will carry societies through to 2050.
We’re also helping create spaces for cross sectoral action, holding the inaugural Brussels Resilience Forum (BRF) on 4 December alongside our Forum co-creators, FIPRA Public Affairs. We aim for the BRF to contribute to thought leadership across issues, and together with a broad range of stakeholders, including through the development of a preparedness compendium over the course of 2026.
Precision advocacy is the thread that runs through our work. Fighting for the EU to maintain an ambitious external action budget as others walk away; pushing for an equitable multilateral pandemic agreement deal in Geneva that delivers real benefits to share as well as pathogen access for all; working with partners towards the High-Level Meeting on pandemic preparedness in New York next year; ensuring technological advances deliver safe innovation through the introduction of appropriate biosecurity measures; raising ambitious finance for catalytic R&D and impactful health and resilience initiatives; and seeking to switch up ambition to deliver climate-resilient health systems ready for a 2050 world. These issues – and the connective tissue between them – all build societal resilience to threats for the most vulnerable.
Our partners are everything. Just this last month, we have been working on the advocacy front lines with partners across our resilience priorities including AHAKI, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Aidsfonds, AUDA-NEPAD, Africa CDC, CEPI, the Centre for Future Generations, the Centre for Longterm Resilience, CONCORD Europe, DRASA Health Trust, E3G, EANNASO, Financing Alliance for Health, FOUR PAWS, Gavi, the Gates Foundation, Global Citizen, Global Health Council, the Global Health Technologies Coalition, Global Leaders Network, IBBIS, the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, Integrate Health, IVI, the London School of Economics and Political Science, ONE, the Pandemic Center at the Brown University School of Public Health, Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), the Panel for a Global Public Health Convention, Pour Demain, Public Citizen, RAND Europe, Reaching the Last Mile Foundation, Resolve to Save Lives, SecureBio, SecureDNA, Sentinel Bio, Sharing Strategies, Spark Street Advisors, SAHTAC, Swasti, The Elders, The Global Solidarity Levies Task Force, WaterAid, WACI Health, Wellcome, Women in Global Health, and many, many more.
How we work – networked advocacy – won’t change. Thank you to all who have been part of our evolution – from PAN to rani. We look forward to continued opportunities to partner for a resilient and equitable future. If you are interested in being a part of our network or want to share thoughts or questions, please contact us – we would love to hear from you.
Thank you to all our amazing partners and to the rani and RANA teams and advisors who pull together across space and timezones to keep on delivering change: your commitment inspires me every day,
In partnership,
Eloise Todd
Executive Director & Founder
rani (Resilience Action Network International)
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