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This theme addresses the capacity of the private sector to understand and anticipate, mitigate and manage situations arising from natural and man-made hazards, as well as contribute to building the capacity and resilience of communities to disasters. 

Latest Private sector additions in the Knowledge Base

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Building flood resilience through private sector engagement

Private sector's role varies from corporate social responsibility activities and creating an interface between businesses and communities, to ensuring that innovative technical solutions for disaster risk reduction.
Flood Resilience Portal
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Empowering women for effective climate change adaptation: The role of the private sector

Compiled from interviews by the Private Adaptation Finance component at GIZ and supplemented by desk research, this brief highlights the private sector’s potential to empower women as catalysts for climate adaptation.
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Notes techniques et politiques sur le financement climatique

Cette étude analyse les lacunes du financement climatique dans l'Union économique et monétaire ouest-africaine, région très exposée aux impacts climatiques, et présente les implications politiques.
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Double trouble? Assessing climate physical and transition risks for the Moroccan banking sector

The purpose of this report is to understand the impact of climate risks on Morocco’s banking sector. This report also takes stock of the Moroccan banking sector’s current risk management practices and the response to climate-related financial risks.
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Climate risk landscape report 2024

The 2024 climate risk landscape report serves as a comprehensive resource delving into the available tools for financial institutions to assess physical and transition climate risks and boost their institution’s resilience to related impacts.
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Flood risk management: Leveraging finance for business resilience in Malaysia

This report looks holistically at the challenges of adaptation to climate change for businesses, exploring the complementarity among the public sector, the financial sector, and the private sector.
Residents exercise in Zhuji park, in China
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Chinese city commits on resilience

The city of Zhuji has been recognized as the first Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030) Resilience Hub in China, heralding a major milestone for the global partnership
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
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Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030)
People walking in front of small colorful shops in Mombasa, Kenya
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Terry Kinyua

Empowering Kenya's entrepreneurs: resilience lessons from the pandemic

A collaborative effort supported by the Mastercard Foundation has led to the development and implementation of the IIA-Kenya MSME Resilience Programme, aimed at empowering Kenyan MSMEs to navigate through crises and emerge stronger than before.

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