Improved Flood Resilience of Communities in Morang and Sunsari Districts
District: Morang, Sunsari
End Date:
Funding: Plan International
Major Activities:
- Trainings to community members in the relevant DRM aspects.
- Design and implement extracurricular activities on DRM (with emphasis on flood risk) in schools.
- Provide lifesaving equipment for search and rescue and first aid to communities.
- Protect physical infrastructure, i.e. hand-pumps, tube-wells, toilets, schools, hospitals from floods (After FRM tool testing, the result of baseline survey).
- Build a community evacuation centre.
- Improve the quality and quantity of the ecosystem services.
- Protect riverbanks by gabion walls and bio-engineering.
- Train flood affected farmers in alternative livelihoods.
- Establish saving and insurance activities (life, livestock & crop, infrastructure) through strengthened cooperatives/Self Reliant Groups
- Modify/adapt the tool following feedback and results from testing of Flood Resilient Measurement (FRM) tool after baseline.
Objectives:
- To develop tested model for increasing communities in Nepal's resilience to floods.
- To enhance communities skills and capacity for managing flood response.
Outputs:
- Enhanced Disaster Risk Management (DRM) awareness, skills, resources and infrastructure for better management of flood response.
- Reduced flood risk.
- Diversified livelihoods.
- Strengthened social safety nets.
- Tested and customized the Flood Resilience Measurement Tools per community.
- Developed integrated project model to build flood resilience.
Program Type: Completed
Project Location: Sunsari and Morang
Start Date:
Target Group: The project mainly targets school teachers and children but also includes communities prone to flood
Thematic Area: Natural Resource Management
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