A one day Planning Workshop for the project Disaster Preparedness Response Plan (DPRP) Framework for Safe Drinking Water in Lalitpur Sub-metropolitan City, Nepal, was organized jointly by NSET, UNICEF and LSMC on 31st October, 2006. The workshop was participated by Executive Officer of LSMC, Chief District Officer of Lalitpur, Joint Secretary of MOLD, Chief of CWE, UNICEF, Joint Secretary of MPPW, President of NSET, Executive Director of NSET, Program Officer of UNICEF and other representatives from different national and international organizations, media sources, local clubs and guthies. The representatives from different organizations, during the opening session, highlighted the importance of the workshop and pointed out the need of identified evacuation sites and provision of emergency water supply in the event of major earthquake and other disasters, and also the need of collaborative effort of all the institutions towards it. The representative from OCHA presented the Role of Inter Agency Standing Committee (IASC) in Emergency Relief Operation/ Learning Experiences and Program Officer; UNICEF gave a brief overview of the current project, DPRP. Likewise an Earthquake Engineer from NSET presented the earthquake risk of Kathmandu Valley and Lalitpur with the loss estimation of previous studies and Disaster Management Expert and Hydro-geologist presented a brief view of existing open spaces within LSMC, identified evacuation sites and potential deep tube wells for emergency water sources. A consensus building session for the identification of evacuation sites, and selecting the deep tube wells was conducted in the workshop. Many arguments and discussions were made in the session. However, the identified evacuation sites and deep tube wells were agreed by the participants.

Thus the organized workshop was for sharing the key roles of different agencies (LSMC, NWSC, Ministry of Home Affairs/ MOHA, Ministry of Physical Planning and Works/ MPPW, Department of Water Supply and Sewerage (DWSS) and Nepal Red Cross Society (NRCS) and further Memorandum of Understanding was also signed on the same day.