Rani-RANA Impact Report 2026
Our 2026 Impact Report, a joint report
from rani + RANA, captures our
strategic evolution – in identity,
partnership, and regional focus –
to build societal resilience to global shifts.
The past year tested the very foundations of global cooperation. Geopolitical norms are being upended, and the global risk landscape is evolving faster than systems can adapt – with the most vulnerable in our societies caught in the cross-hairs. These shocks demand urgent attention to uphold equity, ensure human rights for all, and build resilient communities.
Resilience is built through networks, partnerships, trust, and the willingness to work differently – sharing power as well as purpose.
Rani (Resilience Action Network International) and RANA (Resilience Action Network Africa) emerged naturally from PAN, evolving from the central conviction that pandemic threats are cross-cutting, whole-of-society threats – with myriad intersecting drivers and impacts – and that equity can only be achieved when the lived realities, knowledge, and agency of the global majority are not peripheral to decision-making, but central to shaping it.
The RANA-rani partnership represents a deliberate departure from the traditional and often patronising North-South model that has shaped global development and health governance. Grounded in equality, complementarity, and mutual accountability, it functions simultaneously at two interconnected levels: locally, through RANA’s Country Working Groups and African regional network, and linked to global policy and diplomatic processes through rani’s convening reach and international policy engagement. Our partnership – focused on building societal resilience to future threats – is proving not only viable but effective.
Resilient societies – equipped to overcome health, climate, and economic shifts and crises.
Six years ago, we launched our advocacy network in a moment of global crisis. Our work on the COVID pandemic exposed the complex interlinkages between health emergencies and other global threats, as well as deeper causes of vulnerability and inequity, reshaping our purpose.
In November 2025, we cemented our evolution and rebranded PAN’s global identity to rani – an international network to build societal resilience to overcome shifts, change, and crises. Rani’s global advocacy network of hundreds of partners is leading change on policy, funding, and coordinated action across the resilience agenda.
In April 2026, RANA, likewise, marked a new phase of growth as it became an operationally independent organisation – a critical step to advance its advocacy and leadership on the African continent. First launched in November 2023, RANA was conceived as an African advocacy network to advance African-led solutions, informed by African needs, driven by African leaders. Two and a half years on, RANA now includes more than 100 partners and four country working groups, connecting community perspectives, into national, regional, and global advocacy.
The rani-RANA partnership is built on a deliberate and carefully nurtured architecture: two operationally independent organisations, united by shared purpose, mutual respect, and complementary strengths, each amplifying what the other alone could not achieve.
‘At this critical moment of inflection and change, we are mobilising advocates across the continent to meet the moment. I’m proud to be leading an incredible team at RANA and working with rani and our growing network to advance Africa’s resilience in the face of shifts, change, and crises.’
Aggrey Aluso, Executive Director, RANA
In Africa, we are working with communities adapting to intersecting climate and health crises to inform resilience policy solutions, including advancing collaborative surveillance nationally and regionally.
Through rani in Europe, we are working to protect the EU’s global development assistance, pair biosecurity safeguards with new innovations, and build societal resilience through a more holistic vision of security.
Globally, rani continues to push for equity-driven policies and investments in pandemic prevention, preparedness and response with a focus on preventing the emergence and spread of diseases and threats.
We have evolved since our launch in 2020, but the guiding principles of audacious goals, radical collaboration, constant connection – and ongoing evolution – have been key and constant from the outset. Together, rani, RANA, and our networks of hundreds of partners make our networked advocacy model impactful – working to put cooperation before competition and focusing on community-based practical policy solutions to complex challenges to make sure our advocacy is rooted in lived experience.
‘Walking the path of equal partnership in actions, not just words, will inspire better outcomes in our work – we’re already seeing and feeling the impact of our evolved relationship from Nairobi to Brussels.’
Eloise Todd, Executive
Director & Founder, rani
Launched modelling study by ODI Global on the impact of EU development assistance on EU economies
Impact Highlight: Celebrated a years-long push with the adoption of the Pandemic Agreement at the Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly (WHA78) and urged for equity with partners
Drove conversation with leaders and partners on Biosecurity: A Priority in the Era of Pandemics and AI on the sidelines of WHA78
Resilience policy and advocacy is most effective when it starts with the people who live through shocks. RANA and rani are putting that principle into practice, connecting community-level advocates to national, regional, and global processes across the resilience agenda.
RANA is systematically building a resilience-focused advocacy infrastructure across Africa – at both national and regional levels. Through co-created country working groups, RANA has established active platforms in Kenya, Uganda, Sierra Leone, and South Africa, with steering committees preparing to launch working groups in Zambia and Mozambique.
The network proved its agility when Kenya experienced devastating floods that claimed over 50 lives, as the Kenya Working Group mobilised rapidly to turn the crisis into a citizen-led resilience advocacy moment. RANA’s network also enabled a swift and widespread number of sign-ons for the PABS advocacy push, demonstrating the readiness and reach of an infrastructure built for rapid, coordinated action.
RANA’s expanding footprint is opening doors in global health governance, including participation in the high-level African ministerial committee reviewing global health architecture – a sign of the network’s growing relevance as a Pan-African advocacy voice.
Engaging those most affected by converging and reinforcing crises is the surest path to building strong citizen-led advocacy to catalyse the systems transformation needed to strengthen resilience. To surface frontline knowledge about how climate, health, and livelihoods intersect, RANA teams travelled across pastoral, farming, coastal and informal urban settings in Kenya, Uganda, Sierra Leone, and South Africa, conducting listening sessions. Conversations revealed a consistent pattern: climate shocks trigger cascading crises – livelihood collapse, rising disease risk, and mounting social tensions – that existing systems routinely fail to address. Surveys and fieldwork show that government partnerships with communities enhance resilience – highlighting the urgent need for integrated systems that link communities, governments, and development actors and combine effective early warning, inclusive governance, and community‑led adaptation.
RANA and rani are converting frontline knowledge into concrete policy asks, co-designed with community advocates and escalated through targeted engagements at national, regional, and AU/Africa CDC levels. Together, the national working groups and the continental platform form an interlocking advocacy infrastructure – one that is neither top-down nor ad hoc, but designed to be both locally rooted and regionally powerful.
Official development assistance (ODA) is undergoing unprecedented cuts globally, with severe impact for the most vulnerable communities.
As the EU works to advance the region’s leadership in biotechnology, it must also ensure safeguards against biological risks – both naturally occurring and manmade – arrive hand in hand with innovation.
Working with WHO leadership, Member State governments, and civil society partners, rani has continued to champion a strong, equity-focused Pandemic Agreement to meaningfully change status-quo global systems and right the inequity of the COVID-19 pandemic response.
With the fragmentation of the rules-based global order challenging multilateral cooperation, Europe is facing geopolitical instability, climate volatility, technological disruption, and systemic vulnerabilities.
Action Agenda – Objectives & Key Results
Together, rani and RANA are working to tackle the interlinked causes of crises and future shocks with a forward-looking approach. In the year ahead, we are driven by the following Action Agenda.
