Rebuilding Nepal by Implementing SFDRR

Rebuilding Nepal offers most exciting opportunities. And here is a small but important collection of such opportunities described in terms of ideas, concerns, approaches, and experiences. This issue of Southasiadisasters.net focuses on the theme of 'Rebuilding Nepal by Implementing SFDRR'. As three months have passed since the earthquake, it is time for the Nepalese government and other donors to chalk out a plan for the country's long term reconstruction. Consequently, a donors' conference is being organised to decide on the best course of action. All such efforts should be aligned with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR).

A lot of experts have different perspectives on what should be the nature of this recovery and reconstruction. This issue of Southasiadisasters.net tries to highlight these eclectic perspectives to all who are interested to learn about the challenges and opportunities of rebuilding Nepal. This issue's contents includes: (i) Preface by Dr. Govind Nepal, Member, National Planning Commission, Government of Nepal; (ii) Foreword by Margareta Wahlström, UNISDR; (iii) Lessons Learned from Nepal Earthquake by Kamal Kishore, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), New Delhi; (iv) Nepal Earthquake: Agenda for SFDRR Compliant Donor Response by Mihir R. Bhatt; (v) Disasters: A Creative Moment; (vi) Making Gender Central to Nepal Recovery; (vii) Reconstructing Shelter in Nepal; (viii) A Model Response by Government of India to Nepal Earthquake; (ix) Building Back Better after the Earthquake; (x) Rebuilding Nepal: What Donors Must Fund; (xi) Role of AIESEC Nepal in Earthquake Recovery; (xii) Rebuilding Nepal: Ideas for Designers; (xiii) Rebuilding Nepal: What Donors Must Know; (xiv) Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women in Humanitarian Response; (xv) Nepal Earthquake: Lessons for Indian Himalayan Region (IHR); (xvi) Community Resilience Plan Nepal; (xvii) FINDER Search and Rescue Technology Helped Save Lives in Nepal; (xviii) Women to Women Relief; (xix) Nepal Quakes: World Vision India's Response; (xx) Coordination as Humanitarian Action in Nepal; (xxi) Livelihood Recovery Agenda for Nepal; (xxii) Research Agenda for Nepal: A Country Recovering from a Mega Disaster; (xxiii) Evidence Aid Response to the Nepal Earthquake; (xxiv) Demands for Rehabilitation; (xxv) Financial Requirements for Recovery; (xxvi) Priorities for DRR and Building Back Better (BBB) in Nepal; (xxvii) Round Table Meeting on Nepal Earthquake 2015: From Relief to Recovery.

This issue highlights the critical everyday connections that link local processes with SFDRR implementation in Asia.