A new business model for humanitarian assistance? A challenge paper

Published November 2009

In this challenge paper, the members of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council propose a new vulnerability and protection business model for humanitarian assistance.

This new model has six requirements:

a comprehensive risk framework
a reworked balance of spending between response, prevention and recovery
a big investment in national and local capacity
fuller engagement of the private sector
linking of the humanitarian to broader social and economic development issues
regional and international readiness to address cross-border humanitarian issues

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