Ambassador Corner

Opening deck for the October 2023 NGO Stakeholder Corner session, introducing the three presenters and the span the session covers — from first response in earthquakes and famines through to preventing future disasters by outreach and planning. Its first slide is the primary record of the session's organiser.

Program for the October 2023 NGO Stakeholder Corner event on Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Management — includes the full session agenda, speaker bios, and relevant quotations from ISO 26000 on community involvement and social responsibility in crisis contexts.

Joseph Denougbeto presents on post-disaster rebuilding — examining how communities recover from humanitarian crises and how ISO 26000 guidance on community development and social responsibility informs reconstruction efforts.

Horie Yoshiteru (Japan) presents on rescue missions in times of crisis — drawing on real-world disaster response experience and mapping humanitarian obligations to ISO 26000 principles on community involvement and social responsibility.

BK Khanna presents on stampede disasters from a social responsibility perspective — examining crowd management failures, accountability in public events, and how ISO 26000 principles apply to preventing and responding to mass casualty incidents.

Full 1h15m recording of the October 2023 NGO Stakeholder Corner event on Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Management — presentations by Horie Yoshiteru (Japan), BK Khanna (India), and Joseph Denougbeto on rescue missions, stampede disasters, and post-disaster rebuilding. Zoom will ask for a passcode: Qwu=65Wi — the SGN's own recording of its own event, never behind a login, stated here because the only page that used to publish it is the SGN's previous site, now closing.

Khawla Al-Muhannadi, President of Environment Friends Society (Bahrain) and the NGO Ambassador who organised this Global Dialogue, presents on the environmental dimension of the COVID-19 pandemic — economic shock figures from UNCTAD and the ILO, and what the disruption meant for environmental protection.

Nur Al-Aagha presents on the pandemic in the Gaza Strip — 2 million people in 365 km², among the most densely populated areas in the world and under blockade for over a decade, and what that combination meant for any COVID-19 response.

Pedro Cunha of LACEMOS presents the Brazilian picture — opening from the premise that the virus itself makes no distinction between those it infects, while the conditions people live in decide who survives it.

Raphael Obonyo of The Youth Congress (Kenya) presents on how the pandemic hit young people across Africa — and the case for treating youth as a distinct vulnerable group in social responsibility work rather than folding them into general population measures.

Reshma Sambare, Founder-President of the Jhep Foundation (India), presents the foundation's COVID-19 relief work and what it revealed about which groups fell through every safety net during the pandemic.

Horie Yoshiteru presents AAR Japan's pandemic response for persons with disabilities — an international NGO reaching the most vulnerable populations worldwide, and what disability considerations during a COVID-19 outbreak actually require in practice.

Audio transcript of the September 2021 NGO Global Dialogue on COVID-19 impacts on vulnerable groups — organised by NGO Ambassador Khawla Al-Muhannadi. Includes Carolyn Schmidt's presentation on ISO 26000 and vulnerable groups, plus contributions from NGO experts on local-specific impacts.

Carolyn Schmidt presents on NGO engagement with vulnerable populations through the lens of ISO 26000 — covering human rights due diligence, inclusive stakeholder identification, and community development approaches for the most marginalised groups.

Felicia Monye presents Nigeria's experience with ISO 26000 implementation — comparing the Nigerian context with China's approach in a peer learning session, covering regulatory environment, industry challenges, and paths to broader adoption.

Gefei Yin (China) presents on the development and implementation of ISO 26000 in China — covering national adoption milestones, industry uptake, and lessons learned from the Chinese experience with social responsibility standards.