What Role for Business in "Post-conflict" Economic Recovery? - Perspectives from Nepal

This series of four country case studies explores the ways in which the economic causes, drivers and impacts of conflict have been tackled in different ways in a number of conflict-affected countries where Alert works. The aim is to encourage cross-country learning, and inform what has become a vibrant international debate in the last few years on how to adapt economic development interventions to conflict contexts, to make them conflict-sensitive, and able to support longer-term peacebuilding. The report discusses the complex links between political and economic causes, as well as legacies, of conflict. To address them, effective partnerships need to be forged between different actors, including government, development agencies and civil society. In particular, the report highlights that reaching out to the business community is key, bearing in mind however the huge diversity of the Nepali private sector, and the numerous challenges it currently faces.