Nepal

South Asia is a disaster hotspot zone with annual episodes of several hazards causing huge loss of lives and properties across the region. Among hazards, flood ranks the highest in terms of human casualties, loss and damage of property, and the number of

This paper addresses the question: What are the characteristics of transformational adaptation and development in the context of profound changes in land and climate? To explore this question, this paper contains four case studies: managing storm water

This paper discusses the need of community level coordination and collaboration for flood information exchange across Indo-Nepal Border. Presenting a case study from Ghagara (Karnali/ Sharda) River basin where border communities are taking initiatives for

This project aims to contribute to sustainable urban development by creating scientific tools to forecast the future state of urban water environments.

This status paper has been prepared by HRRP with the objective of providing a snapshot of progress in urban reconstruction to date, the challenges and opportunities in urban reconstruction, and some suggestions for next steps in Nepal

This report focuses on the moderately, or less, affected districts; those in the ‘hit with heavy losses’, ‘hit’, and ‘slightly affected’ categories of the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake in Nepal. Comparing the grant disbursement data for the 14 most affected districts and the 18 moderately affected districts it is clear that there is a big difference in the progress between the two groups.

This study seeks to assess the difference that disaster risk reduction (DRR) made: were project-supported communities in fact better prepared, and to what extent? If so, what was the impact in terms of avoided damages and losses? Finally, to what extent

This report aims to unpack some of the main issues that are contributing to this plateau in progress. It presents the collective analysis of the Housing Recovery and Reconstruction Platform (HRRP) and the Inter-Agency Common Feedback Project (CFP) of the key factors that are preventing progress in the reconstruction programme.