SFVC Umbrella Initiatives: Driving collective action for a resilient future

The SFVC Umbrella Initiatives represent comprehensive programs, agreements, and plans that bring together a diverse range of stakeholders to achieve shared objectives. By fostering collaboration and partnership across sectors, these initiatives offer a joint approach to addressing common challenges and driving sustainable progress.

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With a broad vision and mission, each umbrella initiative extends its scope to include a wide network of partners, aligning their efforts towards common goals. Whether you are a local government, private sector entity, or civil society organization, you can contribute to and benefit from these coordinated efforts to create impactful, lasting change.

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"ARISE" Umbrella Initiative related Commitments

Group of local authorities and community members standing in a burnt landscape after a bushfire in Wompou, Guidimakha, Mauritania.
National (or local) - Mauritania
New
Community Mechanism for NbS and Eco-DRR in Guidimakha, Mauritania
This commitment strengthens climate and disaster resilience in Guidimakha, Mauritania through community-led Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and eco-DRR, addressing floods, drought, heatwaves and wildfires, with a replication and learning window for Nouakchott’s coastal/littoral resilience (2026–2028).
ARISE Japan Annual Symposium
National (or local) - Japan
Active
Organization of a series of ARISE Japan Annual Symposium
ARISE Japan is a national network of ARISE. ARISE Japan organizes "ARISE Japan Public Symposium" as its annual flagship public symposium to discuss a focused theme to contribute to the implementation of the Sendai Framework.
ARISE Japan and Philippines knowledge sharing session 4
Regional - Japan, Philippines
Completed
ARISE Japan and ARISE Philippines collaboration: DRR knowledge sharing
The ARISE Japan and ARISE Philippines, two active ARISE national networks, have come together to share their knowledge, experiences, and opportunities to improve disaster resilience in the private sector.
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) - 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
Community-based Education on Family Disaster Preparedness—3S Kadets Program
The 3S Kadets Program will equip select community members with the knowledge and skills needed for community-based disaster risk management and center/family-based disaster preparedness to improve community resilience.
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.
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.
National (or local) - Philippines
Progress not updated
High-Definition Clean Energy, Climate, and Weather Forecasts for the Philippines
High-Definition Clean Energy, Climate, and Weather Forecasts for the Philippines (ECW) project aims to address the present climate emergency by providing weather and climate information to support communities to enhance their climate and disaster risk resilience, and for clean energy development.
National (or local) - Philippines
Active
Adopt-a-Municipality Project - Tiwi Albay
Aboitiz Foundation, the corporate social responsibility arm of the Aboitiz Group and AP Renewables Inc., partnered with the National Resilience Council and the Municipality of Tiwi, to develop a comprehensive, science-based approach to community disaster and climate change adaptation.

Featured Umbrella Initiatives

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When submitting your Voluntary Commitment (VC), you have the option to specify whether your initiative is aligned with or in support of an existing umbrella initiative. These include global and regional frameworks like Making Cities Resilient (MCR), the Private Sector Alliance for Disaster Resilient Societies (ARISE), and Sendai Gender Action Plan, all of which exemplify the power of collective action in addressing resilience, climate change, and sustainable development.

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