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'Despite making progress in flood forecasting, Nepal has yet to develop sufficient mechanisms that help use real-time data for saving people´s lives. As of now, only government officials and some community persons get real-time flood data, which hardly reaches the grassroots level,' according to Om Astha Rai writing for Republica...
'Efforts to reduce risk before disasters strike need to be enhanced. ALNAP reports that investment in disaster risk reduction amounted to only one percent of the 150 billion dollars spent over the past five years. In the long-run, planning and preparation saves lives and capital,' according to Hari Krishna...
'We are making plans under a multi-step strategy to respond to hazard. The first one is to check the risk, and second is to reduce risk, make people aware and develop community groups for immediate response,' said hadga Sen Oli, advocacy officer at the National Society for Earthquake Technology-Nepal...
As per the report, 'Future of Climate Finance in Nepal,' more than 50% of the total money invested in climate change was spent on awareness and advocacy but the real victims – the poorest in the country – are fully unaware of the money spent, or the programs launched in their names...
'There is no doubt that our relief and rescue efforts need to be fine tuned with the changing times, but surely not before we devise effective preventive measures which could potentially save thousands of lives and a colossal amount of property'...
In his article for Repúplica, Hari Krishna Nibanupudi reviews the state of disaster preparedness in South Asia and calls for greater international, national, and individual commitment for reducing disaster risks...
'We have added disaster risk reduction as one of the core areas in our portfolio. Nepal has made much progress but if a major disaster occurs, the developmental gains could be lost in no time. Our focus in the days to come will be in developing policies for more effective inclusive development, empowering women and the marginalized groups.'...
In an interview for Republica, Shoko Noda, the newly appointed country director of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Nepal, says UNDP has added disaster risk reduction as one of the core areas in their portfolio...
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