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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…