Disaster risk management localization manual: An operational training manual for DRM capacity building of local governments

The core purpose of this training manual is to strengthen disaster risk management governance in all Nepali local governments and to support them to move beyond the narrow vision of disaster relief distribution and towards the wider responsibilities of disaster risk reduction, preparedness and response management, with particular focus on the following points:

• Enhancing understanding, among the elected representatives and key officials of selected rural and urban municipalities on disaster risk reduction and management related governance system at the federal, provincial, district and local levels;
• Enhancing the capacity of such elected representatives and key officials on the roles and responsibilities of local governments on disaster preparedness and response;
• Building capacity of municipalities in developing local disaster risk management acts, institutions, policies and procedures for disaster risk reduction and management;
• Building capacity to mainstream DRR in annual and periodic development plans of municipalities and enabling municipalities to include Gender Equality and Social Inclusion in overall DRM process;
• Enhancing mutual cooperation between municipalities for sharing resources and addressing common disaster risks; as well as pooling resources for disaster financing.

In order to achieve this, the 16 training sessions are designed around the four SFDRR-based priorities mentioned in the National DRR Strategic Plan and other gender equality and social inclusion guidelines such as the IASC Gender Policy and Accountability Framework:

• Implementing local context specific Local DRM Act, Rules, Strategy, Procedures and plans;
• Strengthening DRM institutional mechanism;
• Managing Local DRM Fund operations;
• Mobilising DRM trained human resources;
• Promoting inter-municipality cooperation for common DRM issues; and
• Mainstreaming GESI informed DRM in development planning of all municipalities.