Blogs with tag Partnership

Partnership

Disaster Response Partnering Guidelines For Aid Providers and Mobile Network Operators

Takeaways Author: Jacob Korenblum Posted on May 03, 2017

GSMA Disaster Response and Souktel have unveiled an ambitious new guide: “Building Effective Partnerships In Complex Environments.” It’s a first-ever resource to help mobile network operators join forces with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) more rapidly and effectively.

Building urban climate change resilience in Indonesia

Since 2009, Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) has been working with multiple stakeholders to build urban climate change resilience in Indonesia. Together with local and national government we improved both capacity and ability to prevent, face and bounce back from climate change impacts. Even though the programme has officially ended in 2016, Mercy Corps Indonesia commits to continue building urban resilience in Indonesia.

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What’s the recipe to cook up networks for resilience?

Opinion Author: Megan Rowling Posted on March 17, 2017

Spreading the word about the need to get ahead of climate change and disasters, linking people and organisations so they can tackle problems better together, discovering new knowledge and resources to build resilience - apart from that, 'what have networks ever done for us?' we might ask, to steal the famous Monty Python line.

Tapping India’s potential on sustainable and resilient urbanization

Opinion Author: Divya Sharma Posted on March 23, 2016

India is on the cusp of major transformation in terms of how it translates and directs urbanization. The current urban development scenario and the Government’s interest in steering urban development towards creating liveable cities opens up a plethora of opportunities and planning mechanisms to be explored.

The ACCCRN Network’s first social gathering in Melaka

Takeaways Author: Ratri Sutarto Posted on March 23, 2016

ACCCRN has been established to strengthen the capacity of cities’ practitioners to support governments and communities to build urban climate change resilience. We plan to do this by connecting practitioners in Asia to exchange learning and collaborate to better serve their communities and cities to adapt and improve in the face of climate change. In order to do this, ACCCRN provides programs to enable its member to connect, learn, and collaborate, one of which is social gatherings, the first of which we held at Melaka, Malaysia, on 3 March 2016.