Monthly Archives: December 2015

New Zealand is prone to the uncertain and catastrophic potential of natural hazards to impact our homes, businesses and communities. Our ability to recover when disaster strikes is vital to our prosperity and wellbeing.

New Zealand needs to create an environment in which businesses are proactive in becoming more resilient and, when disaster strikes, contributing to the recovery of their communities.

The leadership of recovery can come from many places in the community. There is a strong belief that businesses can take a leadership role, both through the recovery of their own organisations and their contribution to wider community recovery.

We know that businesses can make a major contribution to recovery but there is not always a clear understanding of the different roles they can play and how they can best collaborate with other sectors of the community.

If businesses don’t survive they can’t contribute. Functioning businesses are critical to the economy and recovery through providing and consuming goods and services, employing people, paying tax and contributing to their local communities.