Mission
The Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance is a multi-sectoral partnership focusing on finding practical ways to help communities in developed and developing countries strengthen their resilience to flood risk. Find out more: https://zurich.com/en/corporate-responsibility/flood-resilience
In 2013, Zurich Insurance created a multi-sectoral Alliance with funding from the Z Zurich Foundation for five years, until 2018. During this first phase, the partners in the Alliance were: the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria, the Wharton Business School’s Risk Management and Decision Processes Centre (Wharton) in the U.S. and the international development non-governmental organization Practical Action.
In December 2017, the Z Zurich Foundation and Zurich Insurance agreed to provide long-term flexible funding, as well as in-kind support, for a second phase with a significantly enlarged Alliance for a further five years (until 2023) to replicate and scale up the work begun under phase 1.
The new Alliance partners are: Concern Worldwide, the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC), the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) the Institute for Social and Environmental Transition-International (ISET-International), the London School of Economics, MercyCorps, Plan International, Practical Action, Zurich Insurance.
Voluntary Commitments
The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.