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A man treks the banks of a lake high up Nepal near Mt. Everest
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Despite earlier mitigation measures, the ‘critically dangerous’ Tsho Rolpa glacial lake has expanded further, with 6,000 households facing an imminent threat.
Dialogue Earth
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Public education, improving warning systems & integrating disaster risk reduction into policy frameworks have been the focus.
Down To Earth
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Private sector's role varies from corporate social responsibility activities and creating an interface between businesses and communities, to ensuring that innovative technical solutions for disaster risk reduction.
Flood Resilience Portal
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This report and its brief present the learnings from a workshop organized in the context of a project aiming to link social protection programs (SPP) and anticipatory action (AA) in Nepal.
A strong DDR leader in her home country Nepal, Krishna is happy to look back on her career: “Initially, I started working in the governance sector in Nepal to support the country’s democratization process".
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The terminologies - natural disasters and natural hazards - sometimes seem interchangeable at first glance, but the nuances in their definitions highlight the complexity of understanding and mitigating the impacts of environmental events.
OnlineKhabar
Cover and source: United Nations Development Programme
Documents and publications
This report attempts to capture the status of the human security situation in its seven dimensions, in the two municipalities of Western Nepal – Barekot Rurual Municipality and Nalgad Municpality.
Cover and source: World Bank
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This briefing note presents summary findings from the crisis preparedness gap analysis (CPGA) in Nepal. The CPGA provides a shock-agnostic assessment of Nepal’s capacity to deal with crisis events.

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