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Corporate Social Responsibility and Disaster Reduction
Funder: Department for International Development (DFID) ESCOR programme (project no. R7893)Project holder: University College London
Principal BHRC researcher: John Twigg
Duration: April 2001 - September 2002
Private sector involvement in natural disaster reduction through its social responsibility/philanthropic programmes has not been researched, especially in developing countries. This project will look at the nature of such private sector involvement, and lay the foundations for further research and practical initiatives involving the sector.
The project is a preliminary investigation, at global level and in five South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka). It will concentrate on the formal sector and take a particular interest in pre-disaster preparedness and mitigation. The research questions focus on the process of private sector involvement and its results. Evidence will be collected by desk research, and correspondence and interviews with key informants in the private sector and partner agencies.
Project outputs will be: a global overview, research reports from the five South Asian countries, a set of case studies and a statement of key issues arising from the research and their implications for future work in this area.
All of these documents will be posted on the BHRC website.
The research team is: John Twigg (BHRC: project team leader), Madhavi Ariyabandu (ITDG Sri Lanka), Mihir Bhatt (Disaster Mitigation Institute, India), Deep Narsingh Karki (Organisation Development Centre, Nepal), Foqia Sadiq Khan (Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan), Nilufar Matin (independent researcher, Bangladesh) and Anshu Sharma (Sustainable Environment & Ecological Development Society, India).
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