The Vanuatu Business Resilience Council (VBRC) was created in 2017, two years after Category 5 Cyclone Pam struck Vanuatu and caused widespread devastation. Since then, the VBRC has been developing and implementing programmes around disaster preparedness, response, and recovery.
This document presents a selection of five such initiatives alongside “Best Practice Takeaways” for each, with the intent of enabling other organizations, and in particular other island chambers, to learn from VBRC’s experience. The hope is that by using this document as a reference, entities will be able to start a step ahead, without having to reinvent the wheel but merely adapt VBRC’s learnings to their context for greater impact.
The five case studies are:
Solutions for expanding climate finance access for the private sector
Business continuity planning through South-South cooperation across the Pacific
Women as leaders for business resilience: “The Phoenix Project”
Coordinating disaster relief operations in hard-to-reach areas in the context of Cyclone Harold
Blockchain technology enables recovery with dignity
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Case study from Vanuatu: Best practices in risk reduction, emergency preparedness, response and recovery