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Making Disaster Response and Economic Recovery Our Business
Latest Activity - Disaster Resource Network brings flood aid to Bangladesh
The cyclone in Bangladesh has caused the deaths of thousands of people and destroyed countless homes and livelihoods. The Disaster Resource Network, a World Economic Forum Initiative, is in the area, helping flood victims through the provision of public health engineering, supplies of building material and water treatment systems from the private sector. This work will just be the start of the DRN’s response as more detailed damage assessments continue in the coming days. More information
For information about how you can assist, please contact:
DRN-India
Niyati Sareen
Hindustan Construction Company LTD
Tel: +91 44 43144457
Mobile: +91 9940299155
niyati.sareen@hccindia.com
Mission
To mobilize the resources of the international business community to rebuild the lives and livelihoods threatened by natural and man-made disasters.
Vision
The vision of the Disaster Resource Network (DRN) is to make it easier for businesses to donate talent or in-kind goods and services to disaster relief and recovery operations in developing countries and to ensure that their help is delivered in a coordinated and effective manner.
Why DRN?
DRN provides a working framework that enables contributing companies to derive value from helping others. Through partnership with DRN, companies will:
- make a real difference in the people’s lives
- enhance brand identity both internationally and in the communities where they live and do business
- demonstrate that their core competencies can have a major impact on saving lives and livelihoods
- showcase their services, technology, products and practices while bolstering employee pride
- apply corporate social responsibility in a highly visible way, and
- enable promising mangers to develop their personal networks and skills through part-time assignments in a meaningful international context.
History
Coinciding with the 2001 Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, an earthquake devastated Gujarat, India. Forum members in the engineering, construction and logistics fields were ready to put their resources to work but found there was no established mechanism for getting this help to relief workers on the ground.
Faced with this, Forum members recognized that as global corporate citizens, the private sector must do more than simply fund relief organizations. In their view, business should proactively participate in a multi-sector effort to prevent and mitigate the effects of disasters.
In response, Forum members established the Disaster Resource Network (DRN) – a point of contact and coordination for companies that want to provide support to disaster management efforts in developing countries.
The DRN Today
The DRN, a Swiss non-profit private foundation (registration # CH-660-1202003-6), coordinates the donations of goods and pro-bono services contributed by members of the World Economic Forum. The in-kind donation of time and administrative expertise from these corporate executives keeps overhead costs to a minimum. The DRN solicits additional financial and in-kind support from companies around the world that want to make a difference when disaster occurs.
In just three years, through its global alliance of business partners, the DRN has contributed resources to humanitarian relief efforts on four continents. Its work demonstrates how much can be accomplished when in the face of disaster business is organized to effectively dispatch assistance to the site.
 Latest Responses and Projects
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Friends of the Disaster Resource Network
The DRN is pleased to announce the formation of Friends of the Disaster Resource Network, a New York City-based 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt organization founded to provide and foster assistance for disaster relief and recovery activities around the world. Friends of the Disaster Resource Network will benefit from the service and expertise of the following Directors:
Robert Bellhouse, President and Executive Director
Steven William Lawry, President, Antioch College
Tracy Sayegh, Secretary, Planner, Phillips Preiss Shapiro Associates, Inc.; Planning and Real Estate Consultants
Fred Moavenzadeh, James Mason Crafts Professor of Engineering Systems, Director Centre for Technology, Policy & Industrial Policy (CTPID), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Linda Rodman, Nonprofit Manager
Contact Information
If you have questions about the Disaster Resource Network, please contact:
World Economic Forum at drn@weforum.org
Disaster Resource Network at info@drnglobal.org
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