Project Description: The project aims to restore affected houses with multi-hazard resistant core housing units in targeted areas and to enhance the government's ability to improve long term disaster resilience.
Accomplishment: Risk assessment and local disaster plans
Local Disaster Resilience Framework
Accomplishment: Click Here >> Godam / गोदाम
Godam - Ware House in Bipadportal
Accomplishment: Click Here >> e-Learning Platform आपदा जोखिम न्यूनीकरण र व्यवस्थापन (DRRM) डिजिटल ई-लर्निङ प्लेटफर्म
Earthquake Housing Reconstruction Project Second Additional Financing (EHRPAF2)
Rapid Visual Screening and Detailed Multi-hazard Risk Assessment
BACKGROUND
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After Gorkha Earthquake 2015, WB supported to carry out Structural Integrity and Damage Assessment (SIDA) of all educational institutions in 14 most - affected districts.
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The SIDA of more than 18,000 structures; 50% of the infrastructure assessed was found to be structurally vulnerable, whereas 30% had completely collapsed.
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SIDA's major findings prompted the need to understand risks and vulnerabilities of schools and other critical infrastructures and take immediate action to mitigate the risks in terms of Multi Hazards.
PRIMARY OBJECTIVE
Develop and provide technical and management tools to undertake a nationwide building-by-building multi-hazard risk assessment of educational, health, and public facilities.
Geo-Referenced National Building Exposure Platform
Nepal is one of the most disasters prone countries affected by multiple recurrent hazards. Every year, the country suffers from substantial loss of human lives and property damage due to natural and non-natural disasters. In the last 45 years (1971 to 2015), more than 40,000 people have lost their life due to disasters. This number is more than two persons losing lives every day. In addition to the high rate of casualties in the period mentioned above, more than 75,000 people have been injured, and about 3,000,000 have been affected. These disasters have become a severe burden to the people and the community all over Nepal. In the majority of the districts of Nepal, disasters occur recurrently, where more than 90 % of the population are at high risk of death due to two or more two types of disasters