Innovation in Disaster Management: Leveraging Technology to Save More Lives
Technological advances can help reduce the global death toll following extreme weather events, despite the increase in frequency and magnitude of such events and…
Quick guide on network engagement and coordination with humanitarian actors
This guide is designed to highlight how a business resilience organization in the Pacific, the Vanuatu Business Resilience Council (VBRC), has integrated itself into…
Quick planning guides in preparedness, response and recovery
This guide is designed to highlight how a business resilience organization in the Pacific, the Vanuatu Business Resilience Council (VBRC), has integrated itself into…
CBI Annual Report 2022
The Connecting Business initiative (CBI) Annual Report provides an overview of our activities in private sector disaster preparedness, response and recovery in 2022, plus a…
OCHA Business Brief: Türkiye/Syria Earthquake
On 6 February 2023, two devastating earthquakes, measuring 7.7 and 7.6 magnitude on the Richter Scale, struck KahramanmaraÅŸ, Türkiye. The initial earthquake was followed…
Ukraine: Humanitarian Response Plan
This document is consolidated by OCHA on behalf of the Humanitarian Country Team and partners. The Humanitarian Response Plan is a presentation of the…
The Unblocked Cash Experience in Vanuatu
This report provides details of the Vanuatu Business Resilience Council’s (VBRC) role and approach to supporting the businesses in the Oxfam UnBlocked Cash humanitarian programme in 2020-2021 in Vanuatu. …
Guidance Note: Putting People First: Accountability to Affected Populations in Private Sector Disaster Management
In recent years, businesses of all sizes have increasingly contributed to the humanitarian response to disasters. This is a welcome trend, because as humanitarian…
OCHA Business Brief: Humanitarian Overview and Call to Action – Pakistan Floods Response Plan
Pakistan has been enduring severe monsoon weather since June 2022, which saw area- weighted rainfall 67 per cent above normal levels in that month…
Resilient Tourism: A Guide for MSMEs in the Tourism Sector – Sri Lanka
Extreme events have catastrophic direct and indirect effects on corporate operations and continuity. These disastrous events have had a substantial influence on Sri Lanka’s…
Sustainable Tourism Practices for MSMEs
The Sri Lanka Tourism Vision 2025 states that Sri Lanka’s tourism sector is growing at an exponential rate. Tourism was the third largest foreign…
OCHA Business Brief: Horn of Africa Drought – Regional Humanitarian Overview and Call to Action
The Horn of Africa is suffering its worst drought in over forty years. People face the threat of starvation following four consecutive failed rainy…