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The 2015 Gorkha Nepal earthquake caused severe damage. The Asian Development Bank is supporting the reconstruction of 154 schools to strengthen disaster resilience.
In five Sri Lankan schools, tsunami drills were conducted to build resilience and reduce the loss of lives. The drills aim to assess the readiness of school administrations to be vigilant and prepared, proactively engage in disaster risk reduction activities, and ensure the safety of the students in the event of a disaster during school hours.
'The ISEA for the northern province is thus needed to work with a large number of stakeholder agencies in order to formulate a broad, multi-sector and multi agency analysis to integrate disaster risk management into development plans and programmes' said Dr. Ananda Mallawatantri of UNDP...
The Environment Ministry has taken steps to formulate a National Climate Change Policy with UN-Habitat support. The policy includes mapping and establishing an inventory within the vulnerable areas of the one metre sea level rise along the Western coast...
Sri Lanka's Ministry in charge of Disaster Management commits to focus more on disaster mitigation rather than planning to provide relief for flood victims...
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