Nepal is hazard prone country to natural disasters. It ranks 11th in terms of earthquake risk and 30th in flood risk in the world. Each year many people lose their lives and properties to natural disasters. In this backdrop many national and international institutions are helping to mitigate the impacts of hazards by understanding them and implementing from the results.
Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) is going to undertake the Nepal Hazard Risk Assessment activity and will develop a synthesis report on Nepal’s major hazards, carrying out desk review of already available reports, studies analysis and assessments regarding vulnerability and hazards carried out at the national and sub-national levels, to present an overview of vulnerability assessment for the country, to develop detailed economic analysis using loss probability modeling of the country’s risk with projected economic losses form forecasted hazards, and map high risk geographic regions. The project will be jointly executed and in close collaboration with Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) and Center for International Studies and Cooperation (CECI). The study will be carried out in close collaboration with Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology, Ministry of Environment, Nepal etc. The project is funded by the World Bank and is planned from July 2009-November 2010.
It can be hoped that the outcome will help a lot in disaster mitigation activities.
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