Developing tools and resources to increase the resilience of small and medium-sized enterprises.
The SME program area is focused on developing tools and resources to increase the resilience of small and medium-sized enterprises, from hospitality to retail to restaurants.
Founder and CEO of Hytropy.com, the country's largest small business disaster planning company.
Develop custom resources and tools that can be used by jurisdictions around the world to prepare SMEs.
Sustain vibrant growth worldwide by fostering and supporting pilot SME preparedness programs.
Act as thought leaders for new and innovative strategies that will create long-term SME sustainability.
Finalize new and unique partnerships to grow sustainable SME preparedness programs.
Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are not adequately addressed in any of the current scorecards, including the UNDRR's Disaster Resilience Scorecard for Cities. Most existing matrices that track private sector interactions typically merge large companies and SMEs as they evaluate and catalogue existing frameworks, especially public-private partnerships. These are inadequate for several reasons.
First, SME operational models (particularly those of micro-enterprises) do not closely resemble those of larger companies, and existing preparedness, response and recovery schemes do not create an economy of scale that fits into a realistic SME operational model. Second, SMEs do not have the financial resources or access to equity markets (and therefore political or economic influence) that would permit them to host full-time emergency management teams.
This scorecard seeks to create a clear evaluative mechanism to distinguish SME interaction with existing public sector disaster and emergency management agencies from private sector interactions generally (which may include SMEs as well as large companies). The Addendum can be used in conjunction with the UNDRR Scorecard or as a standalone.
We are looking for jurisdictions in the United States and Europe to use the scorecard, and others to help us to localize it so we can expand the program to other countries. The scorecard will also be continually updated, improved and expanded. This version is less than 100 questions, can be completed in less than 15 minutes, and has the option at the end to receive custom feedback from an SME partnership expert.
There are no fees to join. ARISE-US members contribute their time, knowledge and experience.