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11 November 2021
The Asia Pacific Alliance for Disaster Management Sri Lanka (A-PAD SL) aims to coordinate and facilitate disaster preparedness, mitigation, disaster risk reduction (DRR), recovery, capacity building and relief activities in Sri Lanka.
Read more about A-PAD SL at https://www.…
13 October 2021
Integrating Conflict Sensitivity in Private Sector Disaster Management: Lessons from the Philippine…
When a disaster strikes, aid interventions can have unintended consequences, and lead to social tensions and ultimately more violence – even in otherwise peaceful contexts. As the private sector plays an increasing role in disaster management, businesses have to mitigate the risk of…
13 October 2021
The Connecting Business initiative (CBi) Guidance Note explains how conflict sensitivity is relevant to private sector disaster management.
It provides an overview of the concept and lists recommended actions for business networks to consider as they design and implement various…
24 August 2021
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 exacerbated existing gender inequalities, widening the poverty gap between women and men; it is estimated that COVID-19 will push 47…
23 August 2021
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is deeply gendered: it is intensifying the existing gender inequalities, widening the poverty gap between women and men, and it has already reversed decades of fragile progress on gender equality.
This publication was written by TÜRKONFED and published…
19 August 2021
The Alliance for Risk Management and Business Continuity (AGERCA) is an independent non-governmental organization (NGO) created in 2008 as a mechanism for the Haitian private sector to support the national system for risk and disaster management,and to enable businesses of all sizes to…
18 August 2021
On 14 August 2021, a strong, shallow earthquake rocked southwestern Haiti just 12 km northeast of Saint-Louis-du-Sud, about 125 kilometres west of the capital Port-auPrince. The 7.2-magnitude quake, which was 10 km deep, toppled buildings and homes and damaged infrastructure and roads,…