SDG8: Decent work and economic growth

In South Sudan, people displaced by disasters have set up their small businesses after participating in a pioneering new approach to localisation.

The Aboitiz Group is building its capacity to build resilience on climate change impacts to assets and its employees. In our goal to be climate change-resilient, we developed a system to identify and assess risks, and to provide our stakeholders with relevant and updated information.

Tech Talent Hunt Initiative works to increase Disaster Preparedness of ten (10) vulnerable communities and create resilient recovery pathways for 750 displaced persons in North West Nigeria.

PDRF, through the Philippine Preparedness Partnership (PHILPREP), developed tools to increase the awareness of MSMEs to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters in the Philippines thereby strengthening disaster resilience of MSMEs in the Philippines.

The creation of an insurance facility for the aggregation of catastrophic risks written in the Philippines, to be able to increase capacity, more efficiently write such business, whilst ensuring its sustainability and being able to offer such cover to the more vulnerable sectors.

The Climate Community Dialogue project seeks to engage a broad range of stakeholders, particularly the most vulnerable, to engage them in climate change mitigation, adaptation and disaster preparedness, using the Talanoa Dialogue approach, and to address disproportionate negative impacts on them.

To sustain the National Consortium for Societal Resilience (UK+) to enhance the UK+ approach to societal resilience, so that individuals, community groups, businesses, and organisations can all play a meaningful part in building the resilience of our society

Local to Global Protection (L2GP) works for meaningful change in the humanitarian system by supporting, documenting and promoting local perspectives and responses to major humanitarian crises.

The Programme on Climate Change, Resilience and Informality supports communities - in partnership with local governments - to build resilient cities that reduce risk and vulnerability by strengthening urban ecosystems, promoting investment in resilience, and advocating for people-centred resilience.

The “Business Resiliency Program in Turkey” (“Saglam KOBI” in Turkish) is committed to support the business continuity of SMEs with a holistic approach. Saglam KOBI provides a comprehensive toolkit for improving disaster and digital resiliency and also carries out training and mentorship services.