Nepal

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

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

This document presents a timeline of key points so far in the 2015 Nepal earthquake housing recovery. Analysis of the timeline infersthat there is a limited time during the year when construction is possible - as a result of cold, snow, storms and rain.

This guide outlines the minimum requirements (MRs) for housing reconstruction from the Nepalese National Reconstruction Authority.

The MRs clearly state that for buildings with stone/brick masonry in mud mortar, the number of stories is restricted to

This report is an overview of points raised by the HRRP at stakeholder consultation meeting with the World Bank held on the 24 July 2018, following reconstruction after the 2015 Nepal earthquake.

This report comments on a survey that was carried out by the HRRP in relation to reconstruction after the Nepal earthquake in 2015, following the election of local officials at ward and municipal level in 2017.

This report comments on a survey initiated as part of a joint effort launched by the Housing Recovery and Reconstruction Platform (HRRP) and the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), with a wide range of reconstruction actors, in November

This report presents the findings of two rounds of HRRP data collection on the production and use of Hollow Concrete Blocks (HCBs) across the districts affected by the 25 April 2015 Gorkha earthquake.