Nepal

The spring 2016 issue of Liaison focuses on lessons from Nepal and other recent disasters. This issue features articles exploring lessons learned from the Nepal earthquake response, in the field of logistics, partnerships and civil-military cooperation

This handbook is designed to provide decision-makers, planners and responders a basic understanding of regional disaster management plans and structures, including information on key domestic organizations present in the region.

This case study highlights the achievements in disaster risk management in Nepal in the context of the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake.

The publication summarizes key findings about geohazards induced by the 2015 Gorkha earthquake that struck Nepal and neighbouring countries. The main quake—a massive M7.8 event—on April 25, 2015, was followed by hundreds of aftershocks, including one of

This pedagogic document, prepared by the French Association for Earthquake Engineering, aims at applying these simple but efficient earthquake resistant principles to traditional houses in Nepalese high valley villages using available materials in these

This paper addresses the information and evidence on the seasonal vulnerability and risk calendar in Nepal at a national and sub-national level, including: floods, landslides, fires, droughts and diseases. Findings of this rapid review indicates that:

This report presents the Save the Children's one-year response and recovery efforts to the 2015 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal.

As reconstruction begins in Nepal after 2015 Earthquake, this paper looks at land rights and resettlement, and considers Nepal’s opportunity to ‘build back better’ and ensure greater land equality, especially for marginalized people, such as the Dalit caste, indigenous groups (Janajatis), many of whom are also landless, and women. It presents recommendations to help address historic social inequalities and rebuild a stronger more equal Nepal.