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Public polls to evaluate earthquake risk and resilience at Lalitpur


To make people aware of disasters and its risk and to evaluate earthquake risk and resilience through public's poll, one day workshop has been conducted at Karyabinayak To make people aware of disasters and its risk and to evaluate earthquake risk and resilience through public's poll, one day workshop has been conducted at Karyabinayak Municipality and Lalitpur Sub-Metropolitan City simultaneously. Workshop on 'Earthquake Risk and Resilience Evaluation' was held on 18th May 2016 at Community Hall, Karyabinayak Municipality and the same workshop was conducted at Lalitpur Sub-Metropolitan City at 19 May 2016.

The main objectives of the workshop were to evaluate earthquake risk and resilience, to share information on Post-Earthquake situation survey and analysis, to make people aware of disasters and its risk and make people familiar with a new technology of voting through GEM scorecard.

t Karyabinyak there were 76 participants in which 42 were males and 34 were females from different field and profession; social/political leaders, mason/contractors, and ward representatives, members of women group, female health volunteer, social mobilizer and municipal staffs). At Lalitpur Sub-Metropolitan City there were 80 participants where most of the participants represented Women Group and social leaders.

rogram at Karyebinayak started with the welcome speech of Mr. Bhakta Shahi, Chairman, Karyabinayak Municipality and followed by the presentation of  Dr. Basanta Raj Adhikari, Deputy Director, Center for Disaster studies, IOE) on Need, Importance and Disaster Management Cycle and Dr. Kenji Okazaki (Professor, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, and Kyoto University, Japan) discussed with the participants about the worldwide disasters and focused especially on the case studies of Japan.

Dr. Ramesh Guragain Deputy Executive Director of NSET-Nepal presented the Building Damage Patterns and Building Inventory Survey results for earthquake risk assessment in Karyabinayak Municipality and ensured the technical support of NSET-Nepal for the project disaster risk and resilience evaluation.

Program ended with the two hour long voting program where participants used the GEM scorecard. Total 35 questions divided in 6 theme related to disaster risk management was asked for the voting.  Participants actively participated the new voting technology where they got the instant result. Workshop was jointly organized by the Kyoto University Japan, Center for Disaster Studies(IOE), Respective Municipalities (karyabinayak & Lalitpur) and NSET-BCIPN.


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