Nepal Business Forum gets Howard Awa

 The Nepal Business Forum (NBF), Nepal’s first national platform for public-private dialogue, received a global award for outstanding achievement at the seventh International Symposium on Public-Private Dialogue, held on March 3-6 in Frankfurt, Germany.

The NBF was given the global Howard Award for Outstanding Achievement in Public-Private Dialogue (PPD). The selection was made between 145 participants representing 33 public-private dialogue forums across the world. Morocco and Kenya won special category award s. This was the inaugural Howard Award and was presented to the Nepali delegation by Marita Brommelmeier, Director of Economic Development and Employment Division, GIZ on behalf of the Global Community of Practice for PPD. The Nepali delegation was led by Industry Secretary Krishna Gyawali.

Gyawali presented the Nepal experience, and also spoke as a panellist in a plenary session on sustainability of the PPD process in a country like Nepal, and highlighted the need for engaging country partners including the government, private sector, civil society and external development partners including experts and facilitators in cultivating, continuously nurturing and institutionalizing the PPD process on a sustainable basis to produce visible and measurable results for the economic development of the country.

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