Disaster Management Initiative

Moving capital toward disaster-affected communities across Asia

AVPN and A-PAD connect funders to vetted local Impact Organisations across the full disaster cycle — preparedness, response and recovery.

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What it is

Building an always-on collaborative platform for disaster management

When disaster strikes in Asia, capital is rarely the binding constraint. Speed, trust and coordination are.

What we aim to achieve:

Collaborative Visibility & Action

Surfacing projects, local partners, and funding opportunities enabling collaboration rather than fragmented responses.

From Disaster Response to Resilience

Connecting disaster with broader climate adaptation and community resilience agendas to engage a wider ecosystem of stakeholders.

Partnership-Centered Impact

Showcasing how foundations, corporates, and local actors can work together through a coordinated intermediary model.

Three Key Functions of the Disaster Management Initiative

Through the partnership between AVPN and A-PAD, we will provide AVPN members and the wider community with three key functions:

Resource mobilisation and on-the-ground coordination

During and after disasters — connecting local needs, frontline organisations, and available resources.

Advisory for effective disaster support programmes

Providing foundations, corporations and financial institutions with consultation and timely information when they want to support affected communities and frontline organisations. This may also include establishing dedicated funds to enable effective monitoring and ensure that resources are directed to where they can have the greatest impact.

Learning opportunities on disaster response

Creating engagements to learn from practical experiences, good practices, and lessons from disaster response and recovery.

Value proposition

How the Hub Unlocks and Facilitates Resource Flows

Why partner with us

Complementary Capabilities & Co-Creation

Most disaster intermediaries have one side or the other. The hub holds both, so a funder’s decision and a community’s need are separated by as few intermediaries as possible.

Platform Partner

(Convening & Infrastructure)

Direct access to a network of 700+ prominent philanthropic and corporate members.
ImpactCollab infrastructure enabling cross-border giving from HNWIs to social causes including disaster management; it also provides live project tracking and impact reporting.

Field Coordinator

(On-Ground Trust)

1,300+ partner institutions across 6 countries (JP, KR, PH, ID, LK, BD).
255k+ direct beneficiaries reached in FY2025 emergency responses.

Express your interest

There are three ways funders engage with the hub. Pick the closest one — you don’t need a figure or an approved budget to start the conversation.

Fund a response or a programme

Give to a live response, to preparedness and recovery work, or to a disaster management programme designed with AVPN and A-PAD.

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Establish a fund under the hub

Set up a branded or thematic fund with its own focus, and let the hub handle vetting, routing and reporting.

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Contribute expertise, not capital

Offer logistics, technology, insurance, in-kind capability or employee volunteers where they are most useful.

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Are you a local organisation working in disaster response in Asia? Apply to join as an Impact Organisation.

Foundations & Corporates

Deploy matching funds or create dedicated thematic funds under the hub; contribute specialised resources (logistics, technology, etc) or employee volunteers.

Private Banking Clients & HNWIs

Channel personal giving spontaneously when disasters strike. Money flows from accounts through AVPN's ImpactCollab trust mechanism to A-PAD, then to vetted on-ground partners.

A-PAD

Acts as the credible 'Field Coordinator'. Screens local implementers, establishes credibility, and provides full transparency, reporting, and advisory services to donors.

AVPN

Bridges 700+ institutional funders and private banking advisors & HNWIs in the Asia-Pacific region with A-PAD's field-ready disaster response ecosystem.

What “vetted” means here

Recipients are onboarded onto ImpactCollab before any funding is routed to them. That process establishes four things:

Legal and governance standing

Registration, a functioning governing body, and a governance score against AVPN's Governance Maturity Framework.

Financial and operational capacity

Whether the organisation can absorb and account for funding at the scale proposed — assessed through the due-diligence application, not assumed from its size.

Track record and local presence

Demonstrated delivery in the communities concerned, rather than a project office opened after the event.

Compliance screening

Board members screened against sanctions, watchlist and adverse-media sources (sanctions.io and LSEG World-Check One), with continuous monitoring available where a funder requires it.

This sits on top of A-PAD’s country platforms, whose partners hold standing relationships in disaster-prone communities rather than arriving with the response.