Shesh Kafle
shesh.kafle@gmail.com
A disaster and development practitioner with over 20 years of leading and implementing experience in Disaster Risk Reduction and development programs. He has worked for International Development Research Centre (IDRC, Canada) and United Nations Development Program (UNDP) programs in Nepal, Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre (ADPC), Thailand, Canadian Red Cross in South and Southeast Asia, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in Pakistan, German Red Cross in the Philippines and is now working with the Swedish Red Cross in Sudan.
Training material
The book is one of the pioneer reosurces in the field of community based disaster risk management for local authorities in the countries of Southeast Asia. It provides constructs and definitions of key terms used in community based disaster risk mana...
Research
The Hindu Kush Himalayan region is extremely vulnerable to various types of water-induced disasters, particularly floods and landslides. In Nepal, more than 300 people are killed annually on average as a result of floods and landslides. Inequalities ...
Research
A two-hectare plot of a deciduous dipterocarp-oak forest of Doi Suthep-Pui National park of northern Thailand protected against fire for 28 years was compared with a similar, but frequently burnt forest nearby with respect to changes in plant diver...
Case Study
More than 400,000 ha of land have been damaged by river floods in Nepal. Agro-forestry activities were implemented in those areas with the twin objectives of countering land degradation problems and meeting the demands of local people for fuelwood, f...
Research
This paper analyses an integrated community-based risk reduction model adopted by the Pakistan Red Crescent. The paper analyses the model’s constructs and definitions, and provides a conceptual framework and a set of practical recommendations f...
Research
Abstract The purpose of this paper is to propose a mathematical index to measure the resilient capability of drought-prone desert communities in Tharparkar, Pakistan. The paper analyses the constructs and definitions of the term resilience, describes...
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Vulnerability reduction and resilience building of communities are central concepts in recent policy debates. Although there are fundamental linkages, and complementarities exist between the two concepts, recent policy and programming has focused mor...
Case Study
Early warning systems (EWS) are recognized in both the Hyogo Framework for Disaster Reduction (2005-2015) and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030) as an important element of disaster risk reduction and hence to the achievement...
Research
The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the disaster risk reduction and management systems and its challenges in the countries of South Asia Region. All the member states of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) ...