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The business case for disaster risk reduction: Final report

Source
Incheon Metropolitan City
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Office in Incheon for Northeast Asia and Global Education and Training Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction
Publication Year
2015
Number of pages
15 p.

This document reports on the Private sector forum: Making the business case for disaster risk reduction (DRR), held on 13-14 January 2015 in Suva, Fiji. It identifies the following main outcomes:

  • (i) Fijian business shared several good practices in disaster risk management;
  • (ii) Critical infrastructure entities in Fiji requested additional practical help from UNISDR to strengthen their disaster risk management;
  • (iii) The Fijian private sector agreed to work towards a ‘one-stop shop’ website for business contingency planning to reduce disaster risk;
  • (iv) The tourism sector requested further UNISDR collaboration as it works to protect its businesses and the customers they serve;
  • (v) The important role of engineering and the engineering community to strengthen national resilience was highlighted;
  • (vi) The insurance sector offered increased partnership to private business to strengthen their disaster risk management;
  • (vii) The forum boosted the already healthy state of public-private partnerships to reduce disaster risk in Fiji;
  • (viii) The Business Case for Disaster Risk Reduction was emphatically made in Fiji; and
  • (ix) UNISDR’s Global Education and Training Institute for DRR (GETI) was accepted as a relevant partner in future efforts to strengthen resilience.
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