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This report presents the institutional and legal framework for disaster risk reduction in South Asian countries, and describes their common disaster risks and natural hazards, such as flood, drought, land slide, earthquake and cyclone.
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This document reports on an international workshop on risk to resilience: strategic tools for disaster risk management intended to initiate a dialogue on the findings of recent action research in South Asia, particularly in India, Nepal and Pakistan, on

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This inception report provides a synthesis of the available information on climate change in Nepal. It includes information on current climate, future climate projections, socio-economic data, and existing information on vulnerability and adaptation. The

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This report summarizes the implementation plans for the main phase of the Economic Impact Assessment of Climate Change in Key Sectors in Nepal study, including the approach and methods proposed. The primary objectives for this study are to (i) provide

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This report presents the institutional and legal framework for disaster risk reduction in Nepal, and describes its common disaster risks and natural hazards, such as land slide, wild fire, flood, epidemic and earthquake.
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This report presents Nepal's disaster risks and natural hazards and describes governmental and institutional structures responsible for disaster management.
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This document reports on an event that discussed the most recent research on snow, glaciers, glacial hydrology, and capacity building in cryospheric research in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) in order to assess, mitigate, develop plans and install early

Policies and plans
Nepal’s national action plan on disaster management consists of four main plans on: disaster preparedness, disaster response, disaster reconstruction and rehabilitation action, and disaster mitigation. The plan is presented in the form of a matrix indicating priority item groups, activities, time schedule, and executing agencies.

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