Business Continuity for Building Financial Resilience

Business Continuity and Resilience Speaker Series

Business continuity and resilience are essential for ensuring that organizations can sustain operations and recover swiftly from crises. Business continuity focuses on maintaining critical functions during and after a disaster, requiring detailed planning, risk assessment, and the implementation of response and recovery strategies. This involves creating and testing business continuity plans (BCPs), establishing communication protocols, and ensuring the availability of necessary resources. Resilience, on the other hand, extends beyond immediate response to encompass the organization’s ability to adapt, learn, and strengthen its operational framework in the face of ongoing and future challenges. This includes fostering adaptability, investing in flexible infrastructure, and developing a culture that supports continuous improvement and innovation. By integrating business continuity and resilience practices into disaster management, organizations can enhance their capacity to withstand disruptions, minimize impact, and recover more effectively, ultimately ensuring long-term stability and operational excellence. During major disasters many businesses and organizations are impacted which increases the overall direct and indirect losses and costs of disasters. Similarly, the impacted businesses need to recover to enable and support the community and wider recovery and reconstruction. Unfortunately, despite the increasing frequency and intensity of disaster events, many businesses are not prepared for and able to minimize the impacts and recover from disasters. This speaker series aim to create a knowledge base, knowledge and experience sharing platform to enhance business continuity among, small, medium and large businesses globally.

Speaker: Krishna S. Vatsa, member NDMA, formerly regional advisor, South Asia, UNDP and disaster recovery advisor UNDP, New York

Register: yorku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_d0uTK7M3R9CtE_H2TWRhnQ#/registration.