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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...
'The conference expressed satisfaction over the notable progress made in the enforcement of the Hyogo Framework for Action and over the national priority given to disaster risk reduction by almost all the countries' reports Sriram Singh Basnet for the Nepalese-based República on the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, held last week in Geneva...
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation member states have agreed to push the agenda to strengthen the SAARC Disaster Management Center and disaster risk reduction measures at their forthcoming Summit, reports the Républica. More from SAARC at the Global Platform...
Corporate houses in the country have expressed commitment to perform key role in climate change adaptation, according to the news agency República. 'Institutions like ours can provide corporate houses new opportunities [..] that benefit our environment and the communities at large' said ICIMOD's Naina Shakya...
UK Minister of State for International Development, Alan Duncan, unveiled a new development plan for Nepal yesterday, which is hoped will reduce the climate vulnerability of three million poor people, lifting 570,000 people out of poverty through forestry programs alone. Duncan also highlighted the need to work toward reducing the risk of possible earthquake in Kathmandu...
'We are going to increase development aid to Nepal. And quite a lot of money will go into disaster risk reduction,' Alan Duncan, UK Minister of State for International Development told República after his visit to earthquake prone localities in Chhetrapati area of Kathmandu this week...
'Disaster risk management and disaster risk reduction (DRR) are relatively new concepts in Nepal, government and non government bodies have not yet managed to grasp the explicit and implicit meanings behind the terminology' says Komal Raj Aryal, research associate at Northumbria University, UK in an editorial...
'Despite efforts from various sectors including government and non-government institutions, Nepal is yet to make concrete progress in disaster management' says Bishnu Kharel in an editorial for Républica...
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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.