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09 December 2022
This report provides details of the Vanuatu Business Resilience Council’s (VBRC) role and approach to supporting the businesses in the Oxfam UnBlocked Cash humanitarian programme in 2020-2021 in Vanuatu.
While this report documents the learnings using…
22 September 2022
In recent years, businesses of all sizes have increasingly contributed to the humanitarian response to disasters. This is a welcome trend, because as humanitarian emergencies have grown more frequent and complex, it has become clear that helping people in need of urgent assistance…
16 September 2022
Pakistan has been enduring severe monsoon weather since June 2022, which saw area- weighted rainfall 67 per cent above normal levels in that month alone. Rainfall in the country
is equivalent to 2.9 times the national 30-year average. This has caused widespread flooding and landslides,…
18 August 2022
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 Micro, Small, and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) in recent years. Because they are resource constrained and less…
18 August 2022
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 exchange earner for the country in 2019, preceded by worker’s remittance and textile and garments (SLTDA, 2019). Very importantly, it…
25 July 2022
The Horn of Africa is suffering its worst drought in over forty years. People face the threat of starvation following four consecutive failed rainy seasons in parts of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, a climatic event not seen in at least four decades. The frequency and severity of droughts…
29 June 2022
Sri Lanka is facing its worst economic crisis since independence. Concurrent challenges in public finance and sovereign debt, as well as the availability and affordability of food, fuels, fertilizers, and medicines, have disrupted livelihoods across the country.
The significant reduction…