Is your business readyfor disasters?
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Who We Are?

UPS Global Foundation

World Economic Forum

USCC Foundation

IDEMA International Development
Management Agency/saglamkobi@saglamkobi
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2About the Project• After the 2011 Van Earthquake in order to increase

community resilience towards disasters, Sağlam KOBİProject developed for increasing awareness of SMEs tobe prepared for disasters and ensuring business
continuity.
• Launched in September 2013.

Why SMEs?

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What We Do?

• Content development and awareness raising trainings on
disaster preparedness and resilience for SMEs
• Training of Trainers (ToT) sessions• Resilience in a Box tools for disaster preparedness• Research on disaster preparedness and resilience of theSMEs in Turkey• GIS supported incentive mechanism with private sector
partnership - insurance policies• Advisory Board meetings to scale up the project and its
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Advisory Board

Within the context of the project, designed by a multilateral stakeholder relationship, an “Advisory Board” wasestablished with the aim of promoting in partnershipwith different actors in Turkey and exchanging
information on the preparation of a comprehensive
disaster coordination plan in the business world andmaking the project sustainable.

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Trainings
25• Disaster and disaster types• Disaster stages; before, during, after• Disaster risk index• Social and economic costs of disasters• Best practices - globally and nationally• How to be prepared for disasters• Business continuity• Emergency action plan
• Resilience in a Box toolkits

Cities65
Trainings

3000
SMEs

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Resilience in a Box/saglamkobi@saglamkobi
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Disaster Readiness Checklist/saglamkobi@saglamkobi
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Top 20 Tips for Disaster Preparedness/saglamkobi@saglamkobi
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Workbook 101/saglamkobi@saglamkobi
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Disasters and Emergency Action Plan

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Disaster Resiliency Survey of the SMEs in Turkey

400
surveys/saglamkobi@saglamkobi
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5 cities in Turkey;
Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Bursa and AntalyaMore than 10 sectors

Disaster Resiliency Survey of the SMEs in Turkey

HAVE YOU EVER HAD
ANY DISASTERS AT
YOUR WORK PLACE?

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Disaster Resiliency Survey of the SMEs in Turkey
TURKEY’S EARTHQUAKE RISK MAP“My work place is on the earthquake fault line.”
Only 9% Agree/saglamkobi@saglamkobi
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Center of Excellence#Resilience4CompetitivenessIn order to support local business and local chambers ofcommerces to take a leadership role in facilitating thepreparedness phase of their communities; center ofexcellences are playing the role to support survival of
local businesses to be resilient and competitive at thenational level.

• 2 pilot cities in Turkey; Denizli and Mersin/saglamkobi@saglamkobi
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Cooperation and Collaboration

Private Sector Engagement for Disaster Risk Reduction
Saglam KOBI 2.0• GIS based mapping to visualise SMEs in Turkey• Resilience in a Box for pre-elimination• Field research for earthquake risk assessment• Insurance incentives for qualified SMEs
A cooperation and collaboration method developed for creating
win-win scenario for private sector engagement.

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