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Relief Web - Samoa page

A UN project serving the information needs of the humanitarian relief world. Includes a country-by-country guide, with an entry for Samoa. Topics include disaster history, geography and economics, infrastructure, and media links. Also has a list of other country profiles websites and links to...

Relief Web - Sweden page

A UN project serving the information needs of the humanitarian relief world. Includes a country-by-country guide, with an entry for Sweden. Topics include disaster history, geography and economics, infrastructure, and media links. Also has a list of other country profiles websites and links to...

Relief Web - Tajikistan page

A UN project serving the information needs of the humanitarian relief world. Includes a country-by-country guide, with an entry for Tajikistan. Topics include disaster history, geography and economics, infrastructure, and media links. Also has a list of other country profiles websites and links to...

Relief Web - The Bahamas page

A UN project serving the information needs of the humanitarian relief world. Includes a country-by-country guide, with an entry for the Bahamas. Topics include disaster history, geography and economics, infrastructure, and media links. Also has a list of other country profiles websites and links to...

Relief Web - Trinidad and Tobago page

A UN project serving the information needs of the humanitarian relief world. Includes a country-by-country guide, with an entry for Trinidad and Tobago. Topics include disaster history, geography and economics, infrastructure, and media links. Also has a list of other country profiles websites and...

Relief Web - Turkey page

A UN project serving the information needs of the humanitarian relief world. Includes a country-by-country guide, with an entry for Turkey. Topics include disaster history, geography and economics, infrastructure, and media links. Also has a list of other country profiles websites and links to...

Relief Web - Turkmenistan page

A UN project serving the information needs of the humanitarian relief world. Includes a country-by-country guide, with an entry for Turkmenistan. Topics include disaster history, geography and economics, infrastructure, and media links. Also has a list of other country profiles websites and links...

Relief Web - Uruguay page

A UN project serving the information needs of the humanitarian relief world. Includes a country-by-country guide, with an entry for Uruguay. Topics include disaster history, economics, infrastructure, and media links. Also has a list of other country profiles websites, related news stories on...

Guidelines on Logistics and Transportation (Canada)

This publication is designed for individuals who need to understand the Canadian logistics process required for both the implementation of an aid project and the financial and technical supervision of the transportation operations. Although this document deals with overseas ocean transport, similar...

Business Case for Employee Volunteering: Race for Mentors -A Tripartite Relationship

Business Case for Employee Volunteering, a project report of Credit Suisse First Boston's engagement with students from a secondary school, shows how powerful and rewarding the experience was for all involved - to business, its employees and the community. It presents a clear business case for...

Mining minerals and sustainable development in Southern Africa

Report of the regional mining minerals and sustainable development process: Volume 1 focuses on the unique problems and opportunities of the South African mining context. It identifies the current trends in mining and makes future projections for growing sustainability efforts in this sector.

Twelve Habits of Highly Effective ICT-Enabled Development Initiatives

Twelve Habits of Highly Effective ICT-Enabled Development Initiatives are a set of best practice guidelines for project management, which aim to ensure the internal health of initiatives harnessing ICT for development. Like the Real Access criteria, the 12 Habits can be used proscriptively for...

Business for Development: Business solutions in support of the Millennium Development Goals

Business for Development: Business solutions in support of the Millennium Development Goals, a report by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, stresses the key role that business plays in creating opportunities for empowerment and development. It provides a host of examples of...

ReliefWeb - Iraq page

ReliefWeb is a UN project serving the information needs of the humanitarian relief world. It includes a country-by-country guide, with an entry for Iraq. Topics include disaster history, geography and economics, infrastructure, and media links. ReliefWeb also has a list of other country profiles...

Consultancy Project on the Development of a Public Private Partnership Framework and Action Plan for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in East Asia

As a follow up to the 3rd Asian Ministerial Conference on DRR (AMCDRR), the UNISDR commissioned a review of the current status and framework for public-private partnerships (PPP) for disaster risk reduction (DRR) in East Asia. The objective of the review was to develop a common action plan that...

Building Resilience to Natural Disasters: A Framework for Private Sector Engagement

This report is part of a series of multistakeholder projects aimed at catalysing action on key global challenges. These dialogues, organized in partnership with the World Bank and the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, were augmented by private sector interviews conducted in...

Partnership for disaster response

Partnership for Disaster Response aims to bring together the many resources and capabilities of the private sector to enhance and accelerate on-the-ground relief and recovery following major natural disasters in the United States and abroad.

Business and the millennium development goals: a framework for action

This report provides a framework for action on how companies and business coalitions can work with the UN system, governments, and civil society organisations to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), aimed at making globalisation a more positive force for more of the world's people.

Corporate Social Responsibility: The WBCSD’s journey

This document is a brief summary of World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)'s current thinking on CSR and suggests the transition step to the next generation of work on this topic: from being a key project to becoming a cross-cutting theme. The report is designed to encourage...

Community Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM) - Field practitioners' handbook

The concept of Community-based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM) has emerged during the past two decades in South East Asian countries. The promoters included NGOs, citizen’s organizations, humanitarian agencies and government departments in different countries in the region.