Mission
OnlineKhabar is a Nepali news website based in Kathmandu.
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Climate change poses unprecedented threats to urban and rural sustainability, demanding innovative, scalable solutions. Nature-based Solutions offer a nature-based approach to tackle multiple hazards with a single, integrated strategy.
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.
Landslides are major disasters in Nepal and now landslide dam outburst flood (LDOF) is also challenging.
Preparedness measures have not been taken yet to face landslide risk during the monsoon season in Nepal.
Only six metropolitan cities and 11 sub-metropolitan cities among 73 municipalities have fire engines.
Fourteen young people participated in the Disaster Risk Reduction-Young Leaders Fellowship (DRR-YLF) programme hosted by Youth Innovation Lab (YI-Lab).
In the past month alone, there have been over 500 forest fires in nearly 60 districts across the country.
Water-induced disasters are on the rise globally and in Nepal.
Voluntary Commitments
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The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.
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