Voluntary Commitments at a glance

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    Regional - Africa, Americas, Europe
    Completed

    European Emergency Circle Commitment

    The European Emergency Circle Commitment has the goal of promoting the democratization in access to training to act in medical emergencies and risk reduction. For this purpose, we facilitate a number of courses on related topics.
    Global
    Completed

    Capacity building to reduce animal vulnerability for animal owners and governments

    When disasters hit, animals also experience terrible effects as people do. This commitment aims at increasing the protection of animals exposed to disasters by, for example, providing online training on animal rescue and disaster management.
    National (or local) - Philippines
    Active

    Building Business Resilience through Climate Strategy in the Philippines

    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.
    National (or local) - Philippines
    Active

    Communities for Resilience (CORE): Partnerships Towards Climate-Smart Philippines Program

    Aboitiz Equity Ventures, Inc. partnered with the Climate Change Commission in conducting trainings on Local Climate Change Action Planning to increase capacities of local municipalities.
    National (or local) - Japan
    Progress not updated

    Creating a "plaza" where young volunteers, practitioners, and researchers working on disaster prevention can gather in Japan

    U-INSPIRE Japan provides a plaza where young volunteers, practitioners, and scientists can meet and exchange ideas.
    Regional - Asia, Timor-Leste, Oceania, Australia
    Deliverable update needed
    Progress not updated

    Promoting Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems for All - From Timor-Leste and Beyond

    Similie is a for profit social enterprise tech company. Similie has created an affordable and intuitive cloud-based end-to-end Multi-hazard Early Warning System to protect vulnerable communities in emerging markets from climate hazards and help them adapt to climate change.
    National (or local) - Australia
    Completed

    Delivery of Regional Resilience Strategies in Queensland

    Development of locally led, co-designed regional resilience strategies to support the coordination and prioritisation of future resilience building and mitigation projects across Queensland.
    National (or local) - Philippines
    Progress not updated

    Development of MSME Disaster Resilience Tools for the Philippines

    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.
    Regional - Asia
    Completed

    Contributing via Business Strengths, DRR Innovation and Partnerships

    Kokusai Kogyo commits to innovating and delivering geospatial information technology solutions that contribute to building resilience to disasters and accelerating Sustainable Development. We commit to make accessible these solutions not only in Japan, but across Asia and beyond.
    National (or local) - Japan
    Completed

    Resilience in the tourism sector: ARISE Japan Activity Plan 2019-2022

    ARISE is a UNDRR-led network of private sector entities, whose members voluntarily commit to align with the Sendai Framework. ARISE Japan is the network based in Japan. This SFVC is ARISE Japan’s Action Plan for 2019-2022.
    National (or local) - Philippines
    Progress not updated

    Philippine Catastrophe Insurance Facility

    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.
    Global
    Progress not updated

    Survivor and community-led crisis response

    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.
    National (or local) - United States of America
    Progress not updated

    Reimagining 2025: Living with Fire Design Challenge 2021 Cohort

    Wonder Labs created the Living with Fire Design Challenge to enable more impactful and inclusive convergence research with communities learning to live with fire. The 2021 Cohort focuses on developing 'reimagining living with fire' projects with communities.
    Global
    Progress not updated

    Global Earthquake Model (GEM)

    The GEM Foundation is a non-profit, public-private partnership that drives a global collaborative effort to develop scientific and high-quality resources for transparent assessment of earthquake risk and to facilitate their application for risk management around the globe.
    Global
    Completed

    Build Change Prevents Housing Loss Caused by Disasters

    Build Change, the global leader in systems change for resilient housing, works to make each house disaster resilient for safer homes and safer people.

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    The map reflects the number of countries/territories or regions covered by voluntary commitments. The numbers shown on the map represent the total commitments at the regional, national, and local levels. Regional voluntary commitments, which cover multiple countries, are counted together with national and local commitments to provide a comprehensive view of the engagement in each region.

    This map, the designations employed, and the presentation of the data do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the United Nations Secretariat concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area, or of its authorities, or concerning the delineation of its frontiers or boundaries.

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