# Centro Nacional de Apoyo para Contingencias Epidemiológicas y Desastres (CENACED)
## OVERVIEW
### RISK PROFILE
Mexico faces a complex risk environment driven by increasing climate-related hazards and structural economic challenges. The country is highly exposed to hurricanes, floods, droughts and rising temperatures, which threaten infrastructure, water resources, agricultural production and livelihoods. At the same time, economic growth remains constrained by weak productivity growth, investment challenges and uncertainty in the external environment. Strengthening climate resilience, mobilizing investment in infrastructure, and addressing longstanding productivity constraints will be critical to supporting sustainable and inclusive long-term development.
The National Center for Epidemiological Emergencies and Disasters (Centro Nacional de Apoyo para Contingencias Epidemiológicas y Desastres, or [CENACED](https://www.cenaced.org.mx/index.php/es/)) is the organization representing the National Council of Civil Protection in Mexico – convening companies, civil society, the government and others to support disaster prevention and emergency response. With the support of the Connecting Business Initiative (CBI) and other partners, CENACED is strengthening private sector engagement in disaster risk reduction, emergency preparedness, response and recovery.
CENACED, CBI and other partners are collaborating in Mexico to:
- Increase information dissemination to the private sector and build a multi-stakeholder collaboration platform;
- Build the capacity and strengthen the resilience of businesses, particularly small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), to withstand and recover from emergencies;
- Embed the private sector in resilience and disaster risk management strategies and programs, including programmes on urban and rural resilience and SMEs reactivation;
- Analyze available data on disaster risks and vulnerabilities to facilitate risk-informed investment and to develop programmes to reduce those risks and vulnerabilities;
- Map and monitor private sector engagement and the coordination of activities, targeting programmes to address gaps and measuring the impact of those programs;
- Share best practices from Mexico on private sector engagement regionally and internationally, and;
- Establish a regional private sector network for Latin America and the Caribbean.
In 2021, CENACED continued to offer support to communities affected by the impacts of COVID-19 through a psychological assistance hotline, which received 14,100 calls in 2021, the donation of hygiene kits for medical personnel and the provisioning of pre-paid cards to families who had lost their jobs due to the pandemic.
Together with ARISE, the Tigres soccer team, and KPMG, CENACED also distributed hygiene kits to over 100 families affected by flooding in Tula, Hidalgo, during the hurricane season.
Additionally, in solidarity with Haiti, CENACED also collected donations and sent 200,000 masks to the country after the August earthquake.
To learn more about the network, please visit [CENACED's](https://cenaced.org.mx/) website.
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## Network at a glance
Host organization
Non-profit civil association (Asociación Civil, A.C.)
Headquarters
Mexico City
Number of members
54 core members and a network of 200 organizations and businesses
Scale / Business reach
National
Contact person
Cynthia Espinoza Aranguré
Contact email
informacion@cenaced.org.mx
Areas of focus
Earthquake
## Most recent emergencies
- Flood
- Mexico
### Mexico Floods October 2025
October 2025
27 JUL 2026 9:08 pm
[Read more about Mexico Floods October 2025](https://connectingbusiness.org/our-impact/mexico-floods-2025/)
- Tropical cyclone
- Mexico
### Mexico Hurricane Otis October 2023
November 2023
28 JUL 2026 1:54 pm
[Read more about Mexico Hurricane Otis October 2023](https://connectingbusiness.org/our-impact/mexico-hurricane-otis/)
## **l**atest from Mexico
News Case Studies Publications
News November 1, 2023
### Mexican business network mobilizes in response to Hurricane Otis
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[Mexican business network mobilizes in response to Hurricane Otis](https://connectingbusiness.org/news/hurricane-otis-mexico-response/)
News March 24, 2023
### Mexican businesses launch collaborative platform to improve disaster risk reduction
Mexico, 23 March 2023 – A coalition of Mexican businesses has launched a virtual platform to foster collaboration between the private sector, the Government,…
[Mexican businesses launch collaborative platform to improve disaster risk reduction](https://connectingbusiness.org/news/mexican-businesses-launch-collaborative-platform-improve-disaster-risk-reduction/)
News May 28, 2021
### Aid organizations and the private sector join forces to combat COVID-19 in Mexico
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News September 24, 2025
### Distributing traditional foods to help communities recover from Hurricane John in Mexico
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[Distributing traditional foods to help communities recover from Hurricane John in Mexico](https://connectingbusiness.org/news/mexico-hurricane-john-recovery/)
News September 2, 2025
### Hurricane Season Reflections: How business engagement is shaping a safer future for Mexico’s Pacific coast
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[Hurricane Season Reflections: How business engagement is shaping a safer future for Mexico’s Pacific coast](https://connectingbusiness.org/news/lessons-learned-hurricanes-mexico/)
Case Study
February 6, 2024
### Türkiye earthquakes 2023: Lessons learned on business engagement in the humanitarian response
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News June 8, 2023
### Mexican Government to partner with the private sector network CENACED for rapid response warehousing
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[Mexican Government to partner with the private sector network CENACED for rapid response warehousing](https://connectingbusiness.org/news/cenaced-govt-warehouse-rapid-response/)
News July 19, 2023
### Investing in business resilience through disaster management in the Americas
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News June 21, 2023
### The private sector participates for the first time in the Regional Simulation Exercise for Central America
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News April 28, 2025
### A case for cross-sector partnership: The power of logistics
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News June 27, 2025
### Enabling resilient MSMEs for a resilient nation: Initiatives from Indonesia and Mexico
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News October 9, 2025
### Speaking the Same Language: Sphere Standards for more effective business engagement in emergency response
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News December 4, 2025
### From Vaults to Villages: How Banks Build Financial Resilience in Crisis Response
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News December 10, 2025
### “We’re Planting Hope”: Jamaica and Mexico unite for Agricultural Recovery in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa
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Report
April 14, 2021
### CBI Progress Report 2020
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CBI publications
May 28, 2021
### Brochure: CBI COVID-19 response
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CBI publications
May 28, 2021
### CBI Progress Report 2019
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[CBI Progress Report 2019](https://connectingbusiness.org/knowledge-hub/publications/cbi-progress-report-2019/)
Report
May 28, 2021
### CBI Progress Report 2018
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[CBI Progress Report 2018](https://connectingbusiness.org/knowledge-hub/publications/cbi-progress-report-2018/)
CBI publications
May 28, 2021
### CBI Progress Report 2017
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[CBI Progress Report 2017](https://connectingbusiness.org/knowledge-hub/publications/cbi-progress-report-2017/)
CBI publications
June 25, 2021
### Situational Reports for COVID-19 activities in CBI Member Network countries
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