Street seller in Chitwan
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Julie Pollard
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30/01/2015 , 10/05/2010
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Disasters
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IA15000307NEP EWS Phase III - Early Warning Systems
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To reduce disaster risk of the most vulnerable communities in flood-prone districts of Nepal. The specific objective is to strengthen the capacity of vulnerable flood-prone communities and district authorities in Nepal to understand, mitigate and respond to risk, and benefit through the use of flood EWS. Key activities EWS extended and scaled up in Banke, Bardia, Chitwan and Naralparasi districts of Nepal Scaling up of EWS in the previous sites from visual flood monitoring systems to upstream information sharing system through telephone Extension of EWS to new VDCs and communities for replication in additional geographic areas Raising awareness on EWS for the stakeholders and the communities Increased capacity of flood-prone communities to reduce their vulnerability and institutionalise Community-Based Disaster Management (CBDM) Development of CBDM plans Capacity building of communities and stakeholders Small-scale mitigation activities and infrastructures support by utilising low-cost and replicable technologies to assist DRR at community level National and international level stakeholders influenced to incorporate EWS in their plans and programmes Facilitation and support for institutional strengthening and capacity building of government and other stakeholders Sharing the lessons and influencing for EWS at national and international workshops, conferences and seminars Produce and disseminate knowledge products on EWS for wider use
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