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Strengthening disaster risk reduction and management at the local level: A report on capacity and needs assessment of six rural and urban municipalities of Nepal (September 2020)
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Nepal is exposed to recurring seismic and hydrometeorological disaster risks. While earthquakes and floods in the recent past have claimed more lives, fires have caused the most damage to assets and investments in Nepal. The Nepal Disaster Report 2019 shows fire caused 94 per cent of the NPR 6.84 billion (USD 57.62 million) worth of disaster-induced damage in 2017–2018. While avalanches and snowstorms occur frequently in the northern high mountain ranges, dry landslides are common in the young mountains and hills, shaken more by recent earthquakes. The situation is aggravated further during the rainy season, when excessive precipitation cause heavy rainfall, inducing wet landslides, floods, debris flow and inundation. Such disasters are more destructive in the southern lowland T
Report on identification and Geographical Information System (GIS) mapping of open spaces for humanitarian purposes in Bhimeshwor municipality
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In 2015, the Constitution of Nepal was promulgated and the country initiated its federalization process which divided the Government into three tiers: federal, provincial, and local. Before the federalization, 83 identified open spaces were a national level responsibility and protected through the publishing of a national gazette in 2013 that listed all open spaces. The national gazette also includes provisions for monitoring of 83 open spaces to prevent encroachment of the sites. Since the federalization, the local government is also responsible for the protection of such areas in their urban or rural municipalities.
Updated Report on 83 Open Spaces Identified for Humanitarian Purposes in Kathmandu Valley
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In 2015, the Constitution of Nepal was passed, and the country initiated its federalization process, which divided the Government into three tiers: federal, provincial and local. Before the federalization, 83 identified open spaces were a national-level responsibility and protected through the publishing of a national gazette in 2013 that listed all open spaces. The national gazette also includes provisions for monitoring of 83 open spaces to prevent encroachment of the sites. With the federalization, the local government is also responsible for the protection of such areas in their urban or rural municipalities.