Building Resilience in Nepal through Public-Private Partnerships
The World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Risk & Resilience is developing resilience use cases to demonstrate how resilience can be built and strengthened through public-private partnerships, and to learn from specific events and/or risks that affect the global community.
This resilience use case reviews the 2015 earthquake in Nepal, which killed over 8,000 people and destroyed or damaged hundreds of thousands of buildings. It assesses how buildings and key parts of the economy, such as tourism, can be made more resilient, and describes potential resilience-building public-private partnership activities. As with the World Economic Forum’s report, Managing the Risk and Impact of Future Epidemics: Options for Public-Private Cooperation (June 2015), this use case aims to expand dialogue between the private sector, civil society, the international community and leaders, both in Nepal and in other countries that are at risk from such disasters.
