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Displaying 60 of about 1533 resultsThis document provides an overview from project implementation to outcomes for community-based flood early warning system (CBFEWS) in the Hindu Kush Himalaya.
Outcomes include:
With the successful implementation of CBFEWS in Assam, India, with local partner Aaranyak for communities in the Jiadhal and Singora rivers, the Assam Disaster Management Aut…
This project infosheet presents the pilot demonstration project focused on building a resilient community capable of adaptation and implementing sustainable development solutions. Considering the community’s needs, strengths, and aspirations, particular emphasis was placed on addressing infrastructural frailties, reducing socioeconomic vulnerabilities,…
This brief provides an overview of social protection programmes in the context of disaster risk management and adaptive capacity in Nepal. The country has a large portfolio of social protection programs, which, however, are not yet adaptive. The programs are mostly categorical in nature and not designed to build resilience of the poor and vulnerabl…
A key challenge in Nepal is the intersection of predictable chronic or seasonal poverty and vulnerability, with rapid-onset and acute shocks. Nepal in the last few decades has epitomized the 'perfect storm' in which a number of different factors—disasters, conflict, political uncertainty, and challenges to economic growth—coincide with deleterious effec…
This publication is a collection of summaries of ten selected Himalayan Climate Change Adaptation Programme (HICAP) studies. The studies are published in scientific peer-reviewed journals or as working papers.
The selected studies exemplify the scientific and thematic scope of HICAP’s research and the various scales that HICAP’s research has covered –…
This paper introduces a framework of practical entry points at the national and local level for addressing climate change adaptation and resilience and maps them across the agriculture value chain and non-farming options in South Asia. The paper also identifies and discusses the critical challenges and knowledge gaps that currently exist in in…
This SOP is prepared to make the inspection of housing reconstructions and retrofits easy and systematic for safer and strong construction on the basis of Grant Distribution Guidelines 2015, for reconstruction of houses that were damaged by the Nepal earthquake of April 25, 2015.
To facilitate all the stakeholders- home owners, beneficiaries, loca…
This document provides a description of each of the activities in the core socio-technical assistance package, which is required to complement the financial assistance and support households through the 2015 Nepal earthquake reconstruction process.
The overall objective is that all affected households reconstruct or rehabilitate their homes a…
This paper reviews the current state of practice and debates related to the mainstreaming of adaptation finance and synthesises experience and key lessons from the Action on Climate Today (ACT) programme that may be of relevance to practitioners and governments working to mobilise financing for climate-resilient growth and development.
In particular, t…
About Asian Disaster Preparedness Center
ADPC is an autonomous international organization with a vision to reduce disaster and climate risk impacts on communities and countries in Asia and the Pacific by working with governments, development partners, international organizations, NGOs, civil society, private sector, media, and other key stakeholders. E…
About Asian Disaster Preparedness Center
ADPC is an autonomous international organization with a vision to reduce disaster and climate risk impacts on communities and countries in Asia and the Pacific by working with governments, development partners, international organizations, NGOs, civil society, private sector, media, and other key stakeholders.…
The course is designed to provide a general understanding on emerging issues, challenges and opportunities with regards to global, regional, national, community and household food security issues and impacts. The course focuses on the four dimensions of food security namely: availability, access, utilization and stability. Participants are to critically…
The ADPC Regional Consultative Committee on Disaster Management has been established since 2000. The Committee comprises members of the ADPC Board of Trustees/Advisory Council who are heads of national disaster management systems of countries of the Asian region. The role of the consultative committee is to provide an informal consultative mechanism for…
A simulation exercise led by OCHA, UNICEF and other emergency actors with the Government of Nepal to test the preparedness of the Humanitarian Country Team for a major earthquake centred in the Kathmandu Valley.
Nepal is highly vulnerable to climate-related hazards. While every year Nepal faces predictable seasonal weather patterns which often result in floods, droughts or fires, the country also experiences more severe natural hazards which are likely to increase in frequency and intensity in the future.
Nepal’s approach to disasters has shifted in recent yea…