New Paper to Inform Decision-Makers on What to Fund for a Resilient Future
New report on ‘reframing resilience’ from Resilience Action Network International – to be known as rani – the new brand for Pandemic Action Network.
Nov. 19, 2025 Brussels, Belgium — Resilience Action Network International, to be known as rani, launches as the new face of Pandemic Action Network (PAN), launching a paper on reframing resilience.
Addressing climate and health finance decision-makers gathered at COP30 in Belém, the new discussion paper, Reframing Resilience: An Agenda for a More Equitable Future, maps the growing risks of climate change, health crises, and conflict, reconceptualising a renewed resilience agenda to help leaders more effectively choose what to fund now to protect lives and livelihoods – while building the systems that will carry societies through to 2050.
Speaking about the change, rani Executive Director and Founder Eloise Todd said:
‘We are excited to have relaunched as rani – a brand with a focus on resilience that brings our work on pandemic prevention preparedness and response to catch up with our evolution, allowing us to recognise the links between health and pandemics, climate, finance, and biosecurity that have long formed the core of our work. We set up at the beginning of COVID. While we still believe passionately that pandemic preparedness is a whole-of-society endeavour, the urgency of our work has shifted from preparedness to the need to fight more actively to build resilience across our societies to tackle the world’s most existential threats.
Climate change, pandemics, conflict, and economic instability are compounding, disproportionately affecting the world’s most vulnerable and undermining resilience. Leaders are facing stark choices of where to invest and what to prioritise. Our new discussion paper offers policymakers a framework to guide resilience investments. The world has changed over the past five years, and so have we. Partnerships are central to this evolution, and we will continue to prioritise networked advocacy and collaboration to strengthen our collective impact’.
A key example of rani’s ongoing commitment to partnership and network-building is the launch and growth of Resilience Action Network Africa (RANA), a core partner in the new paper. RANA embodies a vision of a resilient and healthy Africa, safeguarded by African-led solutions, informed by African needs, and driven by African leadership. RANA’s Executive Director Aggrey Aluso shared: ‘This era of overlapping crises – including climate change, pandemics, health emergencies, and conflict – demands a reset of unequal power structures that hinder resilience. Our partnership with rani enables us to elevate community and national priorities to global platforms’.
Rani’s network encompasses hundreds of partners – from civil society to governments and the private sector – working collaboratively across policy, advocacy, funding, and coordinated action in areas such as health and pandemics, biosecurity and defence, finance, and climate.
About rani
Rani is a global advocacy network dedicated to building societal resilience to tackle shifts, change, and crisis. Rani’s network of hundreds of partners – from civil society to governments and the private sector – works together on policy, advocacy, funding mechanisms, and coordinated action across health and pandemics, biosecurity and defence, finance, and climate. Learn more.
CONTACT
Autumn Lerner
autumn.lerner@rani.co
NOTES TO EDITORS
The Reframing Resilience: An Agenda for a More Equitable Future discussion paper was developed in consultations with more than 40 stakeholders from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the U.S. who work in climate, health, conflict, finance, gender, and food systems, reconceptualising a resilience agenda with equity as a foundational principle.