Disaster Preparedness for Natural Hazards: Current Status in Nepal

This publication is one of a series produced under the project ‘Living with risk – sharing knowledge on disaster preparedness in the Himalayan region’, implemented bythe International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) during a 15-month period in 2006 and 2007. The project was funded by the European Commission through their Humanitarian Aid department (DG ECHO) as part of the Disaster Preparedness ECHO programme (DIPECHO) in South Asia, and by ICIMOD.

This report is one of four status reports on disaster preparedness planning covering four countries; Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. The purpose of these reports is to provide an opportunity for the reader to get a quick overview of the current status on disaster preparedness documents in place and the institutions governing the implementation of these documents in the respective countries.