Corporate Disaster Resource Network
MISSION OF CDRN
Facilitating an efficient real-time supply chain management system for effective deployment of resources – financial, material, volunteers, and skilled professionals for preparedness, response, and rehabilitation in times of emergencies.
Corporate Disaster Resource Network (CDRN) is a web-based supply chain management system that helps Relief agencies, Response and Government agencies to access and feed in real-time information on products and services required for emergency humanitarian relief. The project was launched on 8 November 2008 as a national-level program under the auspices of the corporate task force of the National Disaster Management Authority, GOI (NDMA) as an initiative of CSO Partners and Responsenet Development Services. NEED FOR CDRN
India is vulnerable to disasters be it floods, storms, droughts, cyclones, earthquakes, snowfall or avalanches. The scale and intensity of disasters has and is increasing over the years. The present lack of an organized information system for disaster response to match needs at District, State, and National levels with partnerships of Corporates, Government and Relief agencies is required. Thus the need of the hour is to operate a supply chain management system that would connect the local Needs with available resources i.e., human, financial or products impactfully and immediately for and at times of disasters.
This is to work towards getting The Right Aid to the Right People at the Right Time.
How you can help rapid response for Disaster Relief:
Response Needs:
Support Cash Transfers as cash helps the fastest for emergency and disaster affected families.
Family Kits consisting of Food and household needs. #BackToHome
School children’s needs of bags, books, uniforms, stationary #BackToSchool
Livelihood support to help rehabilitate incomes #CashTransfers #CashForWork
Rehabilitation for homes and community infrastructure of schools and hospitals
Minor reconstruction
Major reconstruction
WHAT IS CDRN?
Community Disaster Resource Network (CDRN) is a web-based supply chain management system that helps Relief agencies, Response agencies, and Local governments access and feed in real-time information on products and services required for emergency humanitarian relief. Thereby enabling an efficient logistics, administrative and financial resources based emergency preparedness, response and rehabilitation tool.
MISSION OF CDRN
Facilitating an efficient real-time supply chain management system for effective deployment of resources – financial, material, volunteers and skilled professionals for preparedness, response, and rehabilitation for times of emergencies.
Our Strengths: Communication, Technology, Partnerships
Impact: Over 28 disasters responded across India, 6,000,000 disaster-affected individuals and communities since 2007
Disaster Risk Reduction:
Community Resilience Fund to enable adaptation and growth of a community after disaster strikes through community collaborative planning, situation analysis, collective understanding of goals and objectives, planning development/redevelopment, process implementation for review and approval within communities, implement and adapt projects for the sustainability of communities and ecosystems.
COVID-19 Emergency relief and rehabilitation ongoing initiatives across India
In the Media:
Latest update on Flood Relief operations 2016: https://www.responsenet.org/assam-flood-relief-2016/
INTERVIEW: Website plays matchmaker for India disaster aid: news.trust.org/item/20090702135100-703hv
INTERVIEW: Website plays matchmaker for India disaster aid
NEW DELHI – In India as elsewhere, the challenge of getting aid to disaster survivors often boils down to supply and demand.
Relief workers identify specific needs – tents, say, or generators. They then have to scrabble around for suppliers, negotiate prices and figure out how to get the goods where they’re needed in time to make a difference.
Until recently, the process has often been ad hoc and slow. But now an online matchmaking service promises to link aid groups with local firms best placed to deliver the goods quickly and cheaply.
“ItÂ?s about providing the right aid to the right people in the right time,” Kuldip Nar, managing director of the Corporate Disaster Resource Network (CDRN) initiative, told AlertNet.
“This will mean relief will reach affected populations quicker as time will be saved by aid agencies that have to look for such items locally or overseas and these items will be made available at discounted prices.”
India is considered one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world, vulnerable to all kinds of natural hazards including droughts, floods, earthquakes and cyclones.
The scale and intensity of such disasters often take a heavy toll on communities, leaving them dependent on the government and humanitarian agencies for their most basic needs.
CDRN allows government officials and aid workers to feed in real-time information on the most pressing requirements. Then companies working in fields ranging from telecommunications and transport to healthcare and food can tap into the system and respond.
The network, which is supported by India’s National Disaster Management Authority and a civil society group called CSO Partners, also lets firms make cash donations and supply skilled volunteers during emergencies.
International organisations such as Global Hand and Global Impact have long acted as brokers between the private sector and humanitarian groups, but CDRN bills itself as the first of its kind in the developing world.
According to Nar, its chief point of difference is that it lets relief workers source all their materials locally, saving time and money and helping boost the national economy.
He said there were plans to set up a similar initiative in Afghanistan and possibly in other countries in Asia.
Udyama, a local aid agency based in the disaster-prone eastern Indian state of Orissa, registered on CDRN earlier this year.
Â?We have managed to source 20,000 tarpaulin sheets and 20,000 tents through the CDRN,Â? said Pradeep Mahapatra, team leader at Udyama, which focuses on building sustainable rural livelihoods as well as providing post-disaster relief.
Â?Normally we have to go to individual donors, which takes time and does not always yield results, but the CDRN is easier as you just feed in what you need and then you get an email telling you someone can help.Â?
Since it was launched in November, 600 companies and business federations and 146 non-governmental organisations have registered on the site.
Companies include Britannia, a maker of biscuits and cereals; Eureka Forbes, a supplier of water purifiers; J.K. Generator, which produces power back-up systems; and B.D. Industries, which makes plastic products such as food containers.
Registered aid agencies include ActionAid and environmental group WWF, as well as small, local organisations that often lack the contacts to source relief materials on their own.
Nar said interest in the network was growing as companies sought to boost their corporate social responsibility credentials and tap into new markets for their products.
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