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- Strengthening Resilient and Green Education: Equipment Handover for Safer, Sustainable Schools in Kirtipur and Lalitpur
- Climate Change and Environmental Awareness Campaign held in Mahalaxmi Municipality
- Resource-person development program held focused on comprehensive school safety (CSS) including climate change and green school concepts
- International Symposium on Earthquake Risk Reduction in Himalayan Region held in Kathmandu
- Nepal commemorates 27th Earthquake Safety Day with the slogan: "Lessons from the Past Earthquakes: Resilient Structures and Better Preparedness!"
- USAID supports education system restoration in Jajarkot and Rukum West
- Symposium on “Lumbini’s Path to Disaster Resilience and Tomorrow’s Rapti” concludes with “Rapti Declaration 2024”
- Geospatial Information Management Workshop is underway at NSET
- Co-Creation Workshop on Update of Comprehensive School Safety Master Plan and Green School Guidelines held
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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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