Guidance Note: Conflict Sensitivity in Private Sector Disaster Management
The Connecting Business initiative (CBI) Guidance Note explains how conflict sensitivity is relevant to private sector disaster management. It provides an overview of the…
Guidance Note: Addressing the Gendered Impacts of COVID-19
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is deeply gendered: women and girls have experienced more negative consequences than men and boys. The pandemic has…
Gender, Disaster Management and the Private Sector
This Connecting Business initiative (CBI) report presents the importance of gender in private sector and disaster management, as well as the interconnections between these…
Briefing Note for the Private Sector: Venezuela Earthquakes 2026
As of 28 June, provisional official figures report 1,450 people dead, 3,150 injured and more than 12,700 people displaced, while at least 2,500 infrastructures…
OCHA Business Guide: Beirut Port Explosions
On 4 August 2020 at approximately 18h00 local time, a warehouse at the Beirut Port containing large quantities of ammonium nitrate exploded. After an…
OCHA Business Guide: COVID-19
On 11 March 2020, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that COVID-19 was a pandemic. WHO called all partners to seize…
Brochure: CBI COVID-19 response
CBI has been and is still working closely with the UN system, private sector networks and the broader business community to address the COVID-19…
Basic guidance for CBI networks to address COVID-19
This publication provides the basic guidance for CBI Member Networks to address the COVID-19 oandemic, including nine specific actions for business networks to take: …
CBI Progress Report 2019
CBI Progress Report 2019 provides an overview of the achievements of CBI in 2019 as well as the results of the CBI Annual Survey.…
Landscape Assessment Report on Private Sector’s Engagement in Disaster Management in Vietnam
The Connecting Business Initiative worked with UNDP Viet Nam to conduct a “Landscape Assessment on Private Sector Roles in Disaster Management” in the country.…
CBI landscape assessment report – Côte d’Ivoire
The report provides an overview of the context – both manmade and natural hazard related – in which the Plateforme humanitaire du secteur privé…
Engaging companies in manmade disasters – a guidance toolkit for private sector networks
Conflict remains the main driver of humanitarian needs, yet due to the elevated degree of (perceived or actual) risks associated with these types of…