30 SEPTEMBER 2020, MANILA—To mark another milestone in building the disaster resilience of the Philippines, the Office of Civil Defense Capacity Building and Training Service (OCD-CBTS) and the…
[The below article was originally published on Business Fights Poverty on 25 September 2020.]
By Karen Smith, Programme Coordinator, Connecting Business initiative
There were myriad…
When a disaster strikes, whether it is due to a natural phenomenon such as a hurricane or an earthquake, or a manmade conflict, women and men are not affected in the same way.…
By Shirin Pakfar, Chief of Private Partnerships and Philanthropy, UNHCR and Karen Smith, Programme Coordinator, Connecting Business initiative - CBi (UNDP and OCHA)
The COVID-19 pandemic has…
As COVID-19 continues to impact the world, with new waves of transmission in some regions, we continue to be faced with natural hazards and manmade disasters. From a cyclone season that promises to…
The Beirut Port explosions created immediate and urgent humanitarian needs, but also longer-term consequences to the country with a large population of…
World Humanitarian Day (WHD) takes place on 19 August every year. In 2009, the United Nations General Assembly formalized the day in memory of a bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, that took…