UN Global Compact Leaders Summit: 15th – 16th June 2020
The UN Global Compact Leaders 20th Anniversary Summit will bring together thousands of leaders to decide how business can support countries and communities around the world to recover better, recover stronger, and recover together from the COVID-19 crisis. The Summit will virtually convene
World Food Programme (WFP) brings together Lankan businesses to address high malnutrition
The Scaling Up Nutrition Business Network (SUN BN), led by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) brought together 30 leading Sri Lankan businesses to bring in their support for three significant criteria, namely, workplace health and nutrition efforts, producing healthy food and
Participation of A-PAD at the World Humanitarian Action Forum
The 2nd World Humanitarian Action Forum (WHAF) 2019 was held on 15th and 16th October 2019 in Istanbul, Turkey. The two-day forum, with the theme “Dignity in Humanity”, brought together humanitarian actors from 65 countries to strengthen partnership and collaboration. the forum shared
World Conference on Drowning Prevention-2021 event launch held in Sri Lanka
The “World Conference on Drowning Prevention” (WCDP) is held once in two years to build an international platform to decrease drowning and drowning related deaths in the world. It is reported that Sri Lanka has progressed well in the sphere of Drowning Prevention
Public-Private Partnership- in establishing effective disaster management
The Sixth Session of the Committee on Disaster Risk Reduction and Economic and Social Commission Asia Pacific (ESCAP) Disaster Resilience Week was held in Bangkok, Thailand. A multi-sectoral session was organized by the Connecting Business Initiative (CBi) to identify successful outcomes of having