Disaster Risk Management (DRM)

Disaster Risk Management (DRM) - UNDP Nepal

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Thematic areas of engagement of UNDP Nepal in this sector

Integration of Disaster Risk Reduction into development

Strengthening National Capacity for Risk Reduction

Community Level Disaster Risk Mitigation and Preparedness

Early Recovery

Post Disaster Relief and Rehabilitation

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For more information contact

Ms. Jenty Kirsch-Wood
Head, Disaster Risk Management Unit

Dr. Victoria Kianpour
International Programme Manager

Karmachari Sanchaya Kosh Building 4th Floor
UNDP Annex IV, DEX Project Office
Pulchowk, Lalitpur
P.O. Box 107
Kathmandu, Nepal

Tel: 977-1-5010058/60/64
Fax: 977-1-5010081
Email: registry.np@undp.org

UNDP Intervention on Disaster Management

UNDP in Nepal has had an engagement in this sector for over two decades now. This is perhaps one of the longest among all the country offices in the region. Nepal itself had come out with a Natural Calamity Relief Act as early as in 1982. One of the key achievements of the CO has been to keep disaster risk reduction in the fore front of the development debate as a pre-disaster engagement, even when the global attention was drawn towards other countries in the region that were plagued by major natural disasters. More...