Prescriptions on Business Survival and Resilience:  ‘ASKS’ to the private sector in the response to COVID-19

by | Jun 19, 2020 | Prescriptions on Business Survival and Resilience

In May 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) released another edition of their guidance for the private sector in addressing and responding to COVID-19. The keynote brochure prominently featured ‘ASKS’, the International Organization of Employers’ COVID-19 business response platform and related publications on managing the crisis, teleworking and safe back to work.

The document outlines the critical roles that the public sector has to undertake locally, nationally, and globally in addition to public health measures that have to be followed to support countries to prepare for and respond to COVID-19.

The WHO lists the following “Asks” for businesses to take concrete actions to protect against COVID-19:

  1. Protect your stakeholders
    1. Protect the health of your staff, community, service providers and clients
    2. Protect jobs and livelihoods
    3. Support WHO
  2. Protect your business
    1. Put business continuity plans into action
    2. Prioritize supply chain continuity
    3. Maintain essential support infrastructures and services
    4. Protect jobs
    5. Act responsibly towards your suppliers
  3. Essential supplies
    1. Produce, where possible, essential supplies
    2. Repurpose, where feasible, production facilities
    3. Provide in-kind contributions
    4. Make supplies and services available
  4. Financial
    1. Provide financial support through the WHO COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund
    2. Support NGO and community needs

 

To access the full brochure, please click the link below:
https://www.ioe-emp.org/fileadmin/ioe_documents/publications/COVID-19/20200518_N256_WHO_Asks_to_private_sector_COVID-19_May_2020.pdf

 

Click here to access the brochure

 

 

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Edgardo Lacson

Chairman of the Board

Edgardo G. Lacson is currently the Chairman of the Board of the Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP), and Director of the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE). He was formerly President and Honorary Chairman of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI).  He was the President of ECOP from 2010 to 2016. Ed Lacson also serves as the President of various business firms, including MIS Maritime Corporation, Safe Seas Shipping Agency, Marine Industrial Supply Corporation, and EML Realty. He serves as Chairman of Metrostore Corporation, MIL Export Philippines, Beacon Environmental Management Services and Primelode, among others.

He is likewise Trustee of both the De La Salle Canlubang, Inc. and Philippine Petroleum Sea Transport Association (PHILPESTA), Managing Director of Link Edge, and a member of the Management Association of the Philippines (MAP), Philippine Interisland Shipping Association (PISA), and Makati Business Development Council (MBDC).

An alumnus of then De La Salle College and now De La Salle University where he earned his degree in Bachelor of Science in Commerce (BSC) Major in Accounting, Ed Lacson indeed through the years has expanded his horizons.

Edgardo Lacson serves as Honorary Chairman at PCCI. His previous business affiliations include the Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC), Marine Chemical Corporation, VLK Traders Philippines, Inc., and Esso Standard Eastern.