- 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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Owner Builders Trainings on Earthquake Risk Reduction
With the main goal of making the urban communities safe from earthquake and to enforce the implementation of Nepal National Building Code five different Owner Builders Trainings on Earthquake Risk Reduction were conducted under the program “Support Quality and Implementation of Nepal National Building Code (NBC)”. The training was jointly organized by UNDP, the municipalities and NSET. The prime objective of this endeavor was to orient and train the owner builders on earthquake risk reduction through such training programs in the selected municipalities of the valley.
The training programs were held in two municipalities; Kirtipur and Lalitpur Municpality, two trainings in Kirtipur and the next three in Lalitpur Municipality.
» 7-9 November, 2012 at Kirtipur Hillside Hotel, Kirtipur
» 20 - 22 November, 2012 at Kirtipur Hillside Hotel, Kirtipur
» 26 - 28 November, 2012 at Staff College (Lalitpur)
» 29 Nov- 1 Dec, 2012 at Staff College (Lalitpur)
» 3-5 Dec, 2012 at Staff College (Lalitpur)
Approximately 165 community members including housewives, volunteers, and social mobilizers got trained on Earthquake Risk Reduction including basic nonstructural earthquake risk mitigation. The training curricula included the awareness, education as well as skill based deliverables. It consisted of background information on earthquake basics, the existing earthquake risk in Kathmandu Valley, earthquake preparedness and mitigation measures and the safe construction methods of load bearing buildings and Pillar system buildings. The training also included hands on exercise on Non Structural Vulnerability Assessment and the basic earthquake preparedness activities for an individual, family and neighborhood level.
Community volunteers, social mobilizers and women are the most important part of the community; they are the backbone of the community for development and play a vital role in the society for awareness raising, safe building constructions and other activities as well. In addition, Women or the Housewives in Nepal, urban housewives in particular play important role in housing and building construction as they play a direct role on making the decisions for any action to be taken by the family like repairing a house, adding up of floors or construction of a new house, buying a house, buying new furniture etc. Therefore this training program is believed to leave a significant impact on the earthquake risk reduction of the community.
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