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Promoting safer operations and emergency preparedness in China
Dow Chemical Company is a diversified chemical company that offers a broad range of products and services. A partnership between the ministry of environmental protection (MEP), UNEP, and Dow promotes chemical safety, emergency preparedness and safer production in the chemical sector in China.
Siemens helps to create a portable water filtration unit
Natural disasters often affect water infrastructure leading to contaminated drinking water and outbreaks of water born disease. As a part of their Siemens Caring Hands programme Siemens collaborated with SkyJuice Foundation to create SkyHydrant a portable water filtration unit.
Sompo Japan Insurance helps to develop puppet play that teaches disaster awareness
Under its “Education for Disaster Reduction” programme, Sompo Japan Insurance supports non-profits in presenting a puppet show for disaster awareness.
Indonesia's tourism industry is getting tsunami ready
Following the Asian tsunami the Indonsesian Ministry of Culture and Tourism has partnered with the Bali Hotels Association (BHA) to improve tsunami readiness amongst hotels. The initiative is supported by the German Centrum für Migration und Entwicklung (CIM).
Streamlined disaster policy improves customer safety
Tokyo Gas supplies natural gas to customers throughout Japan. Tokyo Gas has developed clear guidelines for earthquake preparedness in key phases - prevention policies, emergency policies, and restoration policies.
Public-Private Partnership Provides Health Insurance for the Poor in the Republic of Georgia
Since 2004, the USAID-funded, Abt Associates-led CoReform Project has provided on-the-ground technical assistance to the Government of Georgia. The assistance focuses on exploring different health financing, health policy, and service delivery options to overcome barriers to high quality health...
Mobilink Turns Billboards to Bags
The Mobilink Foundation, the non-profit arm of Mobilink, Pakistan’s leading cellular and Blackberry service providers, is turning plastic billboard skins into school bags for underprivileged children. The bags are distributed free of charge.
Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) in Nepal lends directly to small farmers
Standard Chartered started developing a formal microfinance programme in 2004, and is now active in Nepal, India, Pakistan, Ghana and Bangladesh.
The Veolia Foundation helps to improve conditions in Cambodian orphanage
The Veolia Environment Foundation provides financing and advice on the best sanitation system to be installed, by the the Association Droit, Développement et Partenariats Francophones (ADDPF), in an orphanage in Cambodia.
Mercy Malaysia trains PETRONAS employees in disaster response
PETRONAS, the multinational petroleum corporation, has partnered with Mercy Malaysia to develop a structured volunteer programme known as the PETRONAS volunteer opportunity programme (PVOP).
ICICI provides weather insurance for Indian farmers
Insurance company ICICI has partnered with Indian based microfinance institution BASIX to pilot the sale of rainfall insurance to farmers in India.
The Glass Power Campaign improves earthquake safety
In earthquake prone areas, broken glass window panes can cause serious damage and render evacuation shelters unusable. The Asahi Glass Company has developed laminated glass, a product which stays in the windowpanes when broken. The Glass Power Campaign was then developed to educate the community...
Disaster resistant telecommunications facilities maintain communications
Natural disasters can have adverse effects on telecommunications which can increase the magnitude of disaster related damage. Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Group (NTT) have developed measures to protect telecommunication cables during natural disasters.
Transporting the sick and injured to private or government hospitals in ambulances-- 1298 Ambulance service in India
1298 is the first private ambulance company in India that provides service for all, regardless of income, and is one of just three organized operators in the country.
Mirakle Couriers : A Courier Service Run by the Deaf in India
Mirakle Couriers is a courier delivery company with a difference. They employ underprivileged deaf people who have almost no other means to earn a livelihood. India has one of the highest deaf populations in the world. NGO’s and charities try to help individuals marginalized by society, but they...
LifeSpring Hospitals' low-cost and high-quality maternity services in India have captured 48% of the baby delivery market
LifeSpring Hospitals Pvt. Ltd tries to bridge the yawning gap between the substandard maternity services offered by underfunded public hospitals on the one hand and the expensive services available in private hospitals on the other.
LifeSpring Hospitals help to achieve Millennium Development Goals in India
LifeSpring Hospitals, a privately owned company, is increasing access to maternal health care for low-income Indian women in partnership with Business Call to Action, a global initiative that works to motivate businesses to design responsible investments that help to achieve the Millennium...
The Coca Cola - WWF partnership to clean the Yangtze river
The Yangtze River - the longest river in Asia and the lifeblood of millions of Chinese - was once said to be so clear you could see the bottom. Today, as China's massive economic growth takes its toll on the environment, it is at the top of the list of the 10 most-threatened rivers in the world,...
Meeting the demand of low-income women: Lifespring’s maternal care in India
LifeSpring Hospital in India is innovatively meeting the growing demand of low-income women who deserve affordable and dignified medical care. By focusing on a particular niche, maternal care, and different cost-saving strategies, this hospital provides maternal care at one-fifth of market...
Catastrophe insurance bond for Taiwan
The Taiwan Residential Earthquake Insurance Program (TREIF) provides basic insurance to residents of Taiwan, that is specifically tailored to the earthquake risk in the area.