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The Government of Nepal is prioritizing disaster preparedness to prepare for earthquakes and flooding, to which is it particularly vulnerable.

Nepal is at extremely high risk for earthquakes and floods. Kathmandu Valley is the most at-risk seismic urban area in the world, and glacial melting from the Himalayas is creating new lakes and enlarging existing ones, increasing the risk of flooding. The Government of Nepal has taken steps in recent years to prioritize disaster preparedness by approving a National Strategy for Disaster Risk Management in 2009 and a Nepal Risk Reduction Consortium in 2011, which coordinated national and international partners to reduce disaster vulnerability.

Following the 2015 earthquake, it took further steps to centralize disaster recovery. Nepal is working to increase resilience to natural disaster by improving physical infrastructure and building safety; increasing government capacity to respond to disasters; building climate resilient infrastructure and flood risk management; and increasing local first responder capacity.

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30 Sep 2021, GMT -4 - ReBUILD for Resilience , Health Systems Global

Close-to-community health care providers play a vital role in supporting local health systems. 

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Climate risk profile: Nepal

12 Feb 2021 - ATLAS - Adaptation Thought Leadership and Assessments

This profile provides an overview of climate risk issues in Nepal, including how climate change will potentially impact infrastructure, water resources, agriculture, ecosystems and human health. The brief includes an...

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What Facilitates Integration in Resilience Programs? A Case Study on Nepal

23 Oct 2020 - Kim, J., Scantlan, J. , Organizational Authors: Mercy Corps as part of the The Resilience Evaluation, Analysis, and Learning (REAL) Award

Building resilience requires a long-term commitment and an integrated approach to strengthen the capacities of individuals, households, and communities to respond to, recover from, and prevent (where possible) shocks...

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Integrated Resilience Programming: Lessons from Uganda, Nepal, and Ethiopia

08 Oct 2020, GMT -4 - Sagar Pokharel (panelist) , Michael Mulford (panelist) , Jeeyon Kim (lead author) , Emilie Rex (moderator)

Join REAL and team members from USAID-funded programs in Uganda, Nepal, and Ethiopia for an interactive discussion on successes and challenges of implementing integrated resilience programming in food security...

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