Sadhana Mohan, Connecting Business initiative When the 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck near Port Vila on December 17, 2024, it left devastation in its wake—14 lives lost, over 265 injured, and more...
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How the Filipino Private Sector Responded to 6 Tropical Cyclones
05 December 2024 Sadhana Mohan, CBi Secretariat In November this year, no less than six tropical cyclones landed in the Philippines, causing much destruction, flooding, and landslides, affecting over...
Ecuador + 1 more
Fostering Resilience: A learning exchange between Ecuador and the Philippines
02 December 2024 Shahnaz Radjy, Connecting Business initiative In September this year, a delegation from Ecuador that included the CBi Member Network, the Cámara de Industrias y Producción (Chamber...
The Philippines mobilizes to respond to Tropical Cyclones Trami and Kong-Rey
Sadhana Mohan, CBi Secretariat A few days ago, the Philippine Disaster Resilience Foundation (PDRF), a CBi Member Network, hosted a virtual Network Briefing with its member and partner companies to...
World + 1 more
Innovation for a more climate-resilient future: Inspiration from Singapore
By Sadhana Mohan, CBi Secretariat Last week, I was in Singapore for the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) Singapore Network Summit 2024, which included a site visit to Schneider Electric’s...
Turning the Tide: 20 Years of Tsunami Readiness and Resilience
Earlier this month, I represented the OCHA/UNDP Connecting Business initiative at the Symposium hosted by the Asia Pacific Alliance for Disaster Management Sri Lanka. It was both a homecoming – I...
The power of the right information at the right time for disaster preparedness and response
In any disaster, there is widespread confusion, breakdown of communication, and disorder. Such contexts make it challenging for any one entity to respond to the extensive needs of communities and...
Early Warning and Location Technology Saves Lives in Sri Lanka
Can you imagine being caught out at sea in a fishing boat when a storm hits – let alone a cyclone, surge, or a tsunami? That is the very real risk faced by the men working on 55,000 fishing boats...
How Artificial Intelligence is enabling disaster preparedness in Peru
In the aftermath of a storm or an earthquake, or any such “disasters”, we often wish we could have known what was coming so as to be better prepared. The truth is, however, that we have never known...
Sri Lanka + 2 more
Cómo las empresas están aportando innovación y tecnología a la gestión de desastres
Shahnaz Radjy Cuando se habla de inteligencia artificial (IA), la gente teme que robe empleos y se apodere del mundo o se entusiasman con todas las posibilidades que dicha tecnología abrirá para la...
Sri Lanka + 2 more
Comment les entreprises apportent l'innovation et la technologie à la gestion des catastrophes
Shahnaz Radjy Lorsque l’intelligence artificielle (IA) est évoquée dans les conversations, soit les gens ont peur qu’elle vole des emplois et conquièrent le monde, soit ils sont enthousiasmés par...
Sri Lanka + 2 more
How business is bringing innovation and technology to disaster management [EN/AR/RU/ZH]

Shahnaz Radjy When artificial intelligence (AI) is brought up in conversation, people are either afraid of it stealing jobs and taking over the world or they are excited by all the possibilities such...
Ecuador creates a trust for disaster management
A trust is a legal arrangement that ensures that funds are utilized for a specific purpose. In Ecuador, the Chamber of Industries and Production (CIP or Cámara de Industrias y Producción) created a...
Grenada + 1 more
Briefing Note for the Private Sector: Regional Overview and Planned Response for Hurricane Beryl

Hurricane Beryl hit Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada on 1 July as a Category 4 hurricane, increasing to a Category 5 thereafter. This makes it the earliest Category 5 Atlantic hurricane...
UN, Business and government leaders come together to prepare for the worst forecasted hurricane season on record
Building Public - Private Partnerships for Disaster Resilience in the Caribbean Bridgetown, June 26, 2024: With the 2024 hurricane season forecasted to be the worst on record, partners from the...
Côte d'Ivoire + 13 more
CBi Annual Report 2023

The Connecting Business initiative (CBi) Annual Report provides an overview of our activities in private sector disaster preparedness, response, and recovery in 2023, together with stories and...
“Disasters Do Not Discriminate”: Building Trust for Effective Crisis Response at HNPW 2024
08 May 2024 Emily Herzog, Connecting Business initiative (CBi) “Disasters do not discriminate,” said Vasiti Soko, Director of Fiji's National Disaster Management Office, during the panel discussion...
Innovation in Disaster Management: Leveraging Technology to Save More Lives

Technological advances can help reduce the global death toll following extreme weather events, despite the increase in frequency and magnitude of such events and population growth. For this reason,...
Türkiye + 1 more
Case Study - Türkiye earthquakes 2023: Lessons learned on business engagement in the humanitarian response

One year after the earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria: A case study on the role of business in the humanitarian response One year ago today, the first earthquake that devastated Türkiye and Syria took...
How private sector actors are building disaster resilience through mobile technologies in Asia and the Pacific
If information is the currency of coordination, then connectivity is the lifeline that brings different actors—businesses, governments, humanitarian agencies, together in a meaningful exchange of...