- Action Planning Workshop for Tomorrow's Khokana held in Lalitpur
- "Action Planning Workshop for Tomorrow's Rapti Valley (Deukhuri) Capital City" Held in Lamahi, Lumbini Province
- Media Interaction held on plan for Tomorrow’s Rapti Valley (Deukhuri) Capital City
- Art Competition on Tomorrow’s Rapti City held in Rapti Valley (Deukhuri) Capital City
- National Tabletop Simulation Exercise by NDRRMA MOHA
- Workshop on Earthquake Hazard Assessment and Aftershock Forecasting was held in Lalitpur
- 26th National Symposium on ‘Earthquake Risk Reduction and Management in Nepal’ held in Kathmandu.
- Mason Training begins in Darjeeling, India
- 26th Earthquake Safety Day observed in Nepal with the slogan: Let's promote use of Local Resources and Technology for Earthquake Resilient Structures
- Shaping Visioning Scenarios for Rapti, the Lumbini Provincial Capital City in Nepal
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PEER Regional Course Review Workshop held
As the National Society for Earthquake Technology – Nepal (NSET) embarked on implementing the Program for Enhancement of Emergency Response (PEER) Stage 4 (2014-2019), NSET gathered senior PEER instructors from the region to the Regional Course Review Workshop held in Kathmandu, Nepal on July 24-28, 2015. This workshop primarily aimed to present and arrive at a common understanding on the PEER courses by the partner organizations and promote linkage of the PEER courses. Senior PEER instructors presented the general issues and concerns from each of the PEER courses, namely, Medical First Responder (MFR), Collapsed Structure Search and Rescue (CSSR), Hospital Preparedness for Emergencies (HOPE) and Community Action for Disaster Response (CADRE).
During the five-day workshop, the senior PEER instructors also reviewed the present form of the courses and analyzed the suitability of these in the regional and national context. A side activity of the workshop was an initial brainstorming on Swift Water Rescue course development. During the closing program, Mr. Surya Narayan Shrestha, Deputy Executive Director of NSET, expressed NSET’s gratitude to the group of senior PEER instructors for their invaluable inputs during the workshop that will contribute to the overall improvement of PEER implementation. Mr. Shrestha also emphasized NSET’s role to strengthen program efficiency and institutionalization in each of the beneficiary countries. Workshop participants represented various PEER partner organizations from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Nepal.
In general, the workshop concluded with the apparent need to revise the courses taking into consideration new concepts, technologies and also take into account local equipment that can be used in during the conduct of trainings. The recently concluded course review workshop supports one of the program’s key activities, which is to continue implementing PEER training courses using improved curricula and plan with broader engagement of government, academic and private sector institutions in the future. PEER Stage 4 PEER is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development / Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA), and implemented by NSET in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan.
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