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CaLP – Cash transfer programming

28 Apr 2015
Since 2010, the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department has been supporting a partnership between IFRC, CaLP and British Red Cross. The partnership seeks to use cash where it’s appropriate and to help ensure...
Video
Other type of resource

NSET materials on earthquake resistant construction

28 Apr 2015
A consolidation of the experiences of mason training gained in the Kathmandu Valley Earthquake Risk Management Project of the Asian Urban Disaster Mitigation Programme. Earthquake Resistant Construction of Buildings Curriculum for Mason Training, Feb...
Other type of resource, Earthquake
Case Study

Analysis of legislation related to disaster risk reduction in Nepal

28 Apr 2015
The geology, topography and tropical location of Nepal means that the country is faced with frequent natural hazards or risks that can lead to disasters causing displacement, loss of life, property and livelihoods. These include the annual monsoonal ...
Case Study, Disaster Law
Report, Research

Risk-Sensitive Land Use Plan: Kathmandu Metropolitan City

28 Apr 2015
‘Land use planning has been identified as one of the most effective ways to take the HFA forward. For highly vulnerable cities like Kathmandu, a land use plan offers an opportunity to incorporate risk reduction into development and spatial plans by...
Report, Research
Report

The Kathmandu Valley Earthquake Risk Management Action Plan

28 Apr 2015
An outline of objectives, strategies, and specific initiatives to identify, coordinate and focus risk management activities to reduce Kathmandu Valley’s earthquake risk over time. The plan also provides background information on Kathmandu Valley’...
Report, Earthquake
Assessment or evaluation

International Disaster Response Law (IDRL) in Nepal: A study on strengthening legal preparedness for international disaster response

28 Apr 2015
This report reviews Nepal’s legal and policy framework for disaster response with a focus on large-scale emergencies that exceed national coping capacities. It analyses Nepal’s legal preparedness for disasters by assessing its legal framework a...
Assessment or evaluation, Disaster Law
Case Study

Nepal’s Emergency Preparedness and Response System: Good practices, lessons learnt, and gaps

28 Apr 2015
“Though landslides, floods and epidemics occur annually right across Nepal, this study focuses on just nine of the nation’s 75 districts: six in the Far- and Mid-West and three in the Eastern development regions. It further narrowed its f...
Case Study, Communicable Disease, Early Warning Systems, Flood
Report

IFRC Framework for Community Resilience

28 Apr 2015
This document presents a clear overview of the IFRC’s Framework for Community Resilience (FCR), which builds upon the original Framework for Community Safety and Resilience published in 2008. This framework has the objective to: ‘Establish a...
Report, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
Report

Refugee Economies: Rethinking Popular Assumptions

28 Apr 2015
Significantly, some 10.2 million of these people are in protracted refugee situations. In other words, they have been in limbo for at least 5 years, with an average length of stay in exile of nearly 20 years. Rather than transitioning from emergency ...
Report, Post-Disaster Recovery
Video

Earthquake preparedness in Nepal

27 Apr 2015
Nepal is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world, ranked 11th most at risk in terms of its vulnerability to earthquakes and 30th in terms of flood risks. In particular, the highly populated Kathmandu Valley faces significant risk of a c...
Video, Earthquake

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