Structuring and implementing a competent disaster risk management function

This report summarizes the activities, findings, accomplishments and recommendations for a project work output titled "Structuring and Implementing a Competent Disaster Risk Management Function at Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC), Nepal," through: (i) institution building, including the process, activities and tasks undertaken to create, structure and build the competency of the Disaster Management Section (DMS), the new administrative organization within KMC for disaster risk management; (ii) training sessions for capacity development of KMC; (iii) development of the KMC emergency operations plan, its objectives, goal, vision, challenges, framework, roles of various stakeholders in city, and other supplemental information; and (iv) accomplishments, conclusion and future work, which provides a summary of the accomplishments of the project and discusses the proposed next steps for continuing work to sustain and further build the capacity of KMC on city emergency management.

This is the third of six reports under an umbrella project titled, "Disaster Risk Reduction in Megacities - A Pilot Application in Metro Manila and Kathmandu," a collaborative undertaking between KMC, Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative (EMI), and the National Society for Earthquake Technology - Nepal (NSET), with support from the German Federal Foreign Office (FFO) through the Deutsches Komitee Katastrophenvorsorge (DKKV).