Senior Barbados private sector official pleased with GP2025

The executive director of the Barbados Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI), Misha Lobban Clarke, says the eighth Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP2025) held here last week highlighted the importance of the private-public partnership. 

GP2025 was held under the theme "Every Day Counts, Act for Resilience Today" and constituted an important milestone between the high-level meeting on the midterm review of the Sendai Framework held in May 2023 and the five final years before the Sendai Framework Disaster Risk Reduction ends. 

Lobban Clarke told the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC), "… we have quite a bit of learning, but I think my biggest takeaway is the importance of the private-public partnership as a powerful mechanism for any country." "We really do need to work hand in hand in partnership with government, civil society if we are going to bring about the kind of changes we need, and the changes that will end up benefiting not just the business sector, but our economy and our communities as a whole," she said. 

The BCCI is the Barbados focal point for the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) ARISE Network, which was started in 2015 to support the private sector to become a key partner in reducing disaster risk. 

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