Insurance

The (re-)insurance industry has a critical role to play in DRR. With risk at the core of its business, the industry has an opportunity to lead both from an insurance/lability side as well as asset management to change the current single hazard, short-term business approach of the sector and encourage risk-informed business management strategies and practice.

Latest on insurance from the private sector

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Indonesian private sector embraces disaster risk reduction in introductory course

The course focused on enabling businesses to learn about the significance of investing in resilience and addressing disaster risks while considering the needs of employees, customers, suppliers, and communities.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Office in Incheon for Northeast Asia and Global Education and Training Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Geneva
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Documents and publications
Newsletter

ARISE Newsletter 2023 Q1

The quarterly ARISE Newsletter showcases the latest news and achievements of the ARISE networks and provides an outlook on key future events.
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Earthquake in Türkiye and Syria - The private sector can help communities

The private sector has an important role to play and we call on all businesses to support the response and recovery efforts, in any way they can. One way is to support some of the coordinated efforts of the United Nations.
UNDRR Private Sector Alliance for Disaster Resilient Societies (ARISE)
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EVENT: 2022 ARISE annual general meeting (AGM)

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UNDRR Private Sector Alliance for Disaster Resilient Societies (ARISE)
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Documents and publications
Tools

Subnational INFORM Models

The subnational INFORM models identify areas at a high risk of a humanitarian crisis that is more likely to require international assistance, based on risk concepts published in scientific literature.
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ARISE Japan-Philippines knowledge sharing session (Part 3: Insurance)

ARISE Japan and ARISE Philippines hosted their third Knowledge Sharing Session (KSS) on 22 July 2022.
ARISE Japan
ARISE Philippines
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Documents and publications
Annual Report

ARISE Annual Report 2020

ARISE Annual Report 2020 highlights key events, latest news and achievements of the ARISE Networks in 2020-2021

Development of Knowledge Management System (KMS) for ARISE.PH

The project supports the overall sustainable disaster management efforts by ARISE.PH member institutions; for easy consolidation and reporting of ARISE.PH members' documents, performance, and projects.

Analysis and evaluation of disaster risk

Support resilient private sector through multiple services to evaluate the risk for multiple types of natural hazards.

Development of smartphone apps

Development of smartphone apps (1) cmap.dev for realtime estimates of building damage/rates by LG unit, for typhoons, heavy rains, and earthquakes, (2) risk management app that suggest prevention tips, and guides evacuation during disasters.

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