This study examines the global business community's response to the tsunami of December 26, 2004. It looks at what went well, highlights missed opportunities, and concludes with a set of recommendations for the aid community to improve and enhance business sector involvement in post-disaster recovery situations and disaster prevention and relief. Click here for more...

"Business and the United Nations might seem to have different purposes.  Business has traditionally focused on growth and profit.  The United Nations focuses its energies on peace and security, poverty reduction and human rights.  But many of our objectives are the same:  building and supporting strong economies and communities, providing opportunities for people to pursue a livelihood and ensuring that everyone can live in dignity.  In these goals, the UN and businesses are partners." Click here for more...

                                                                                             (Source: UN Photo/Mark Garten)

More than 800 families and 13 relief organizations benefited from TSF's satellite-based communications on Catanduanes Island in the Philippines in december 2006.Click here for more...

(Davos: 27 January 2007) The Acting Emergency Relief Coordinator participated as a panelist in a private session in Davos on “Humanitarian Relief: Moving Past Reaction to Preparedness” . Together with the WEF, OCHA presented guiding principles for private sector philanthropic engagement in humanitarian action. Click here for more...

(Berlin: 13 September 2006): Deutsche Post World Net and UNICEF have launched a global partnership under the motto "We deliver help." The goal of the initiative is to reduce child mortality around the world. Eva Luise Köhler, patron of UNICEF Germany, and Walter Scheurle, Board Member for Personnel at Deutsche Post World Net, announced the global partnership today at a joint press conference in Berlin. Click here for more...

(New York: 2006): A brief overview of the work of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs with a focus on humanitarian reform.  An Article by Christelle Loupforest, Donor Relations Office, OCHA. Click here for more...  

(Singapore and New York: 21 April 2006):  The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs participated in the launch of the DHL Disaster Response Team (DRT) in Singapore.  The DRT is a pool of some 80 DHL experts specially-trained to ensure that relief supplies reach people quickly and effectively in the case of a major natural disaster. Comprised of regular DHL employees who have volunteered to take part in the DRT’s humanitarian work, the team will aim to reduce bottlenecks at airports close to the scene of a major natural disaster by helping to organize the handling, warehousing and loading of relief supplies for onward transportation in an effective manner.  Each DRT will be deployable for a period of up to three weeks following a major natural disaster.

Singapore has been chosen as the site for the South Asia DRT due to its central location in the region and its excellent telecommunications and logistics infrastructure.  The next Disaster Response Team will be established in Miami.  It will cover the Latin America and Caribbean regions.  The Disaster Response Team's services are provided as an in-kind donation.  In addition to the existing work in the field of Disaster Response, the strategic partnership between DHL and the UN System will also cover other areas of disaster management such as disaster preparedness. Click here for more...

(NY :25 April 2006):  World Check one of the leading providers of structured intelligence on known heightened-risk individuals and businesses, has agreed to make its services available to the UN to help screen companies it does business with for known risk. Agencies that will use World Check services include UNDP, UNFPA, WFP and OCHA.  Click here for more...

		Workers unload material supplied under the Banyan Tree/Adopt-An-Island partnership to rebuild houses destroyed by the tsunami on island of  Nalaafushi in the Maldives. Click here for more...