Conquering COVID-19 strategic plan released
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KATHMANDU, JUNE 3
A brand new publication ‘Conquering COV- ID-19’ Strategy for Making Nepal Stronger and Resilient – Strategy Exploration Summary has been launched right here, which states the nation is in a singular place to beat the pandemic and convey extra prosperity and well-being to its residents.
“The authorities and residents are at a essential juncture, the place they’ll collectively take a greatest practices-based strategic strategy to the disaster and actively assault this dilemma or they’ll enable the nation to be victimised by the disaster and unhealthy governance as many nations on the planet have suffered,” a media launch has quoted David Frigstad, chairman of Frost & Sullivan, California, as saying. “Nepal has many property at its disposal regardless of being thought-about a poor nation. We consider that Nepal is in a singular place to beat COVID-19 and convey extra financial prosperity and well-being to its residents.”
The Strategy Exploration doc has been ready as a dialog starter to foster collaborations in order to collectively discover potential greatest practices that may be embraced by Nepal in face of the COVID-19 disaster. The doc explores the methods in three phases — reply, reset, rebound. Due to the uncertainty and altering nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, the doc estimates that it may take wherever between two years to four-and-a-half years to reply and rebound from the consequences.
A supply mannequin of Adopt, Adapt, and Leapfrog, a brand new idea possible for Nepal, has additionally been proposed within the doc. “Strategic supply is vital to reaching any technique; the Adopt-Adapt-Leapfrog Model empowers the strategic supply to attain the precise desired impression, stated Mangesh Lal Shrestha, contributing professional and coordinator of the research.
Finally, the doc concludes with 5 main priorities as key areas for the best way ahead. The contributing specialists have expressed their views on manner ahead priorities based mostly on their experiences.
The Strategy Exploration doc is a dwelling and dynamic doc in that the Institute will hold it up to date often because the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds. The contributing specialists have hoped that the doc can be helpful for policymakers and decision-makers in Nepal.
The publication was ready by Frost & Sullivan Institute, with the assist of the contributing specialists —Frigstad; Bindu N Lohani, former vice-president of Asian Development Bank; Shankar P Sharma, senior economist and former vice chairman of National Planning Commission; Lal Shanker Ghimire, former secretary at Ministry of Finance; and Shrestha, entrepreneur and international vice-president for development at Frost & Sullivan.