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

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.
National (or local) - United States of America
Completed
Ready-to-Fund Resilience Toolkit and Guide
Ready-to-Fund Resilience is a package of resources describing how local governments and partners can design more fundable resilience projects by pulling specific policy levers, seeking key partnerships, using innovative accounting practices, inverting power structures, and rethinking processes.
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.
National (or local) - Philippines
Progress not updated
Negros Occidental Impact 2025
The project aims to build 10,000 housing units in Negros Occidental creating a housing ecosystem that enables low-income families to have access to land; safe and disaster resilient shelters through bamboo technology; and live in a clean, green and cohesive community.
Regional - Africa, Asia
New
The Arab Private Sector Stakeholder Group for Disaster Risk Reduction (2021 – 2024)
Acknowledging the critical role of the private sector in any given country and community, as employer, producer, exporter or investor. The group will work to integrate disaster risk disaster into business models and practices.
Global
Progress not updated
Strategies for Comprehensive Disaster Risk Management (CDRM) by CEMEX
CEMEX is a global building materials company focused on creating sustainable value by providing industry-leading products and solutions to satisfy the construction needs of our customers around the world. We strive to make the future better for our stakeholders.
National (or local) - United Arab Emirates
Progress not updated
ARISE UAE: First National ARISE in the Arab Region
ARISE UAE supports the implementation of the Sendai Framework by bringing together and changing the behaviors of stakeholders from the public and private sector through the conduct of specific activities, programs and projects, consistent with ARISE policies, goals and objectives.
National (or local) - Philippines
Completed
Honing Agents for National Disaster Awareness (HANDA) Program: Disaster Preparedness and Business Continuity Planning for MSMEs
The HANDA Program is conducted by the University of the Philippines Institute for Small-Scale Industries (UP ISSI) to promote business continuity planning and disaster preparedness awareness among micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the Philippines.
National (or local) - Philippines
Completed
Building Resilience of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the Philippines
The provision of Information, Education and Communication (IEC), capacity building and data back-up storage facility as one of the disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategies to SM's Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) will enable them to bounce back after an occurrence of any disaster.
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.

Featured Umbrella Initiatives

Further commitments and Umbrella Initiatives can be found by viewing the list of all commitments.

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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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