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Wendy Cue
Senior Disaster Risk Reduction Advisor
UN/ISDR Kathmandu
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Nepal DRR Priorities
National Strategy for Disaster Risk Management
DIPECHO Partners meeting, Kathmandu
21 September 2010

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3. Earthquake History in Nepal
• Estimated Rupture Area of major Himalayan earthquakes (M>7.5)
• Bilham (2004), Ambraseys and Bilham (2000), Kumar, et al. (2006) Lavé, et al. (2005)
• India/Eurasia Plate Motion
• (Bettinelli et al., J. Geodesy, 2006)
Major Seismic gaps

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Institutional Framework
National Calamities (Relief) Act 1982
- focus on Relief and Response, compensation
Local Development Act, 1989
- DDCs and VDCs to be responsible for preparedness
Three Year Interim Plan, 2007-2010
- chapter on DRM, recognition of institutional gaps
National Strategy for Disaster Risk Management, 2009
- not yet Disaster Law

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National Strategy for Disaster Risk Management
(NSDRM) 2009
Based upon commitments to Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-
2015. Elaborated through multi-stakeholder consultation process.
Objectives:
Integrate DRR in Sustainable Development Strategies
Strengthen institutions, mechanisms, and capacities
for developing resilience to disaster,
Incorporate DRR concepts in Preparedness, Response
and Recovery programmes

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National Strategy for Disaster Risk Management
(NSDRM) 2009
5 Priority Actions ; 29 Strategic Activities.
Priority Action 1:
Ensure that Disaster Risk Reduction is a
national and local priority with a strong
institutional basis for implementation
Priority Action 2:
Identify, assess and monitor disaster rsks and
strengthen early warning system

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National Strategy for Disaster Risk Management
(NSDRM) 2009
5 Priority Actions ; 29 Strategic Activities.
Priority Action 3:
Better Knowledge Management for a culture of
safety and resilience
Priority Action 4:
Reducing the underlying Risk Factors
Priority Action 5:
Enhance preparedness for Effective Response

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Cabinet
(Policy, Budget, Emergency Declaration)
Central Natural Disaster Rescue Committee
(Coordination, Response, Rescue, Relief)
Regional Disaster Rescue Committee
(Regional Resource Mobilization)
District Disaster Rescue Committee
(Policy/program Execution, Rescue & Relief, Information Management )
Existing Institutional Arrangement on Disaster Management

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National Council for Disaster
Management (PM)
Technical Committees
• Preparedness Management (MOLD)
• Rescue and Relief Management (MOHA)
• Rehabilitation and Reconstruction (MOPPW)
National Disaster
Management Authority
Regional Disaster Management
Committee
District Disaster Management
Committee
Local Disaster Management
Committee
Proposed Structures in the NSDRM

10. CNDRC
Chaired by MOHA
Includes
NA/NP/APF/Line Ministries/NRCS/Humanitarian Coordinator
CNDRC Emergency Operation Centre (EOC)
Chaired by MOHA
Includes
Line Ministries/Valley Div/Regional Police HQ
(APF/PF)/NRCS/NGOs/Community Based Organisations/MNF
LO/IASC LO
DDRC (Emergency Operation Centre (EOC)
Chaired by CDO
Includes
Line Agencies/Bdes/District Police HQ
(APF/PF)NRCS//NGOs/Community Based Organisations/MNF
LO/IASC LO
District Level
Field/Tactical
Coordination
Operational/National Level
Operational Coordination
Strategic/National Level
National Command and
Control

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Achievements and Priorities
• Monsoon season preparedness, DP at Regional, District level
• NEOC – Emergency Operations Centre
• INSARAG EQ exercise 2008
• Model Customs Agreement
• GARD – Get Airports Ready for Disasters
• IDP sites in KTM valley
• NAPA
• National Platform
• NRRC – Nepal Risk Reduction Consortium

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Consortium
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5 Flagship Programmes Coordinat
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Amount
School and hospital safety – structural and
non-structural aspects of making schools
and hospitals earthquake resilient
AsDB $52.1 million
Emergency preparedness and response
capacity
OCHA $20.5 million
Flood management in the Koshi River
basin
World Bank $24.2 million
Integrated community based
DRR/management
IFRC $22.8 million
Policy/institutional support for disaster risk
management (DRM)
UNDP $11.7 million
Total $131.3
million

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• To support the Government of Nepal in developing a
long term DRR Action Plan building on the new
National Strategy for Disaster Risk Management
(approved October 2009).
• To initiate a multi-stakeholder participatory process
with the Government of Nepal and civil society
organizations.
• To identify short to medium term disaster risk
reduction priorities that are both urgent and viable
within the current institutional and policy
arrangements in the country.
Consortium objectives
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• Formed May 2009, launched October 2009
• Flagship Coordinators: ADB, IFRC, UNDP, UNISDR,
OCHA and World Bank, Led by the HC/RC
• Reflects priorities of the Hyogo Framework for Action
• Follows main recommendations of the 2009 Global
Platform
• National Strategy for Disaster Risk Management
approved by the Cabinet of Nepal October 2009
• Proposed programme budget: US $131 million (for 3
years)
• Steering Committee formed, high-level event
planned.
Facts and figures
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Observations
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• Clear added benefit of coordination: more actors
involved in DRR and efforts should be
complementary:
- Lack of coordination leads to duplication, some areas receive
less focus than needed
• Good to get all main partners working towards a
common set of government-approved DRR activities.
• Good to ensure that all in-country resources are being
mapped against those targets.
• Inclusion of NGOs and civil society.
• Explicit linkages/synergies with CCA still needed.

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United Nations, secretariat of the
International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
cue@un.org