Resilience in Action: Lessons from Public‐Private Collaborations Around the World

The document details nine global case studies where public-private collaborations (PPCs) implemented resilience-building activities. These include logistics training for airports (GARD), IT-based fertilizer market intelligence in Sub-Saharan Africa, decentralized water kiosks in Zambia, multi-sectoral adaptation in Malawi, sustainable coffee supply chains in Rwanda, flood-resilient brick-making in Tanzania, water-efficient rice seeding in India, community micro-hydropower in Sri Lanka, and biomass energy combined with desertification control in China.

• The 'Get Airports Ready for Disaster (GARD)' programme, a collaboration between Deutsche Post DHL and UNDP, has trained over 150 airport personnel across 6 countries (Nepal, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Lebanon, Turkey, and El Salvador) since 2010 to manage logistical challenges during natural disasters.
• AfricaFertilizer.Org (AFO) uses ICT tools, including SMS, to improve food security in Sub-Saharan Africa by providing fertilizer statistics and market intelligence to an estimated 10,000 agro-dealers and millions of farmers.
• In Zambia, the 'Devolution Trust Fund' (DTF) Water Kiosk project has provided over 500,000 people with access to safe water through more than 300 kiosks, with approximately 50 per cent of the entrepreneurial kiosk operators being women.
• The Lake Chilwa Basin Climate Change Adaptation Programme (LCBCCAP) in Malawi increased revenues for women-operated fish processing micro-enterprises by 125 per cent through the introduction of solar fish dryers and improved packaging.
• A partnership between Thanksgiving Coffee Company and Rwandan farmers led to the planting of over 89,000 trees by 567 farmers between 2010 and 2011 to combat erosion and reduce farm temperatures.
• The Mwanza Rural Housing Programme (MRHP) in Tanzania established 60 brick-making enterprises that produced over 400 million bricks using agricultural waste as fuel, saving 110,000 m3 of fuel wood and avoiding 75,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions.
• PepsiCo India's DirectSeeding machine, used in over 13,000 acres of rice fields, reduces water usage by 900 kilolitres per acre compared to traditional cultivation methods and lowers cultivation costs by approximately US$30 per acre.
• Between 1997 and 2011, public-private partnerships in Sri Lanka added 2 megawatts of off-grid micro-hydro capacity, providing electricity to over 7,700 villagers.
• The Maowusu Biomass Thermoelectric Company (MBTC) in China treated over 24,000 hectares of the Maowusu Desert since 2008 by planting shrubs for biomass power, producing over 240 million kilowatt-hours of electricity.

APA

Becker-Birck, C., Crowe, J., Lee, J., & Jackson, S. (2013). Resilience in Action: Lessons from Public‐Private Collaborations Around the World. Climate and Development Knowledge Network. https://cdkn.org/sites/default/files/files/MCG-Resilience-in-Action-Case-Studies-web.pdf

Chicago

Becker-Birck, Christina, Jon Crowe, Joanne Lee, and Summer Jackson. Resilience in Action: Lessons from Public‐Private Collaborations Around the World. Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2013. https://cdkn.org/sites/default/files/files/MCG-Resilience-in-Action-Case-Studies-web.pdf.

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BibTeX

@techreport{beckerbirck2013resilience, author = {Becker-Birck, Christina and Crowe, Jon and Lee, Joanne and Jackson, Summer}, title = {{Resilience in Action: Lessons from Public‐Private Collaborations Around the World}}, institution = {Climate and Development Knowledge Network}, year = {2013}, url = {https://cdkn.org/sites/default/files/files/MCG-Resilience-in-Action-Case-Studies-web.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }