Bangladesh: Staving off disasters together - Op-ed

Nicola Banwell, writing for the Dhaka Tribune, argues that collaboration between the public and private sectors, also known as Public Private Partnerships (PPPs), can create an enabling environment for community resilience and disaster risk reduction.

Using as example the promotion of safety and resiliency of communities by the private sector through investment in disaster risk reduction, which would at the same time protect their own business continuity as well as the community to which their employees and suppliers belong to, the article calls for disaster risk reduction to be a responsibility shared equally between the public and private sectors.