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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…
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,…
28 July 2021
This guidance note is meant for private sector networks who are currently engaged in emergency operations and who are interested to know more about the PDRF approach in emergency response in the Philippines. Please note, however, that this content is not specifically tailored to a…
30 June 2021
As COVID-19 continued to threaten business operations and health conditions, the Philippines had to also deal with Super Typhoon Goni (known locally as Rolly) and Super Typhoon Vamco (known locally as Ulysses) in the last quarter of 2020.
As a leading private sector network…