Community Based Disaster Risk Management (SAMADHAN II) Project
Location: Doti and Kailali
Project Period: 1 October 2007 to 31 December 2008
Major Donors: DIPECHO, Austrian Development Agency and CARE Osterreich
Total Budget: 442,201 EURO
Partners: Equality Development Center, Silgadhi Doti
Tel: 094- 420009/420340
Email: edcdoti@ntc.net.np

Conscious Society for Social Development (CSSD), Dhangadhi, Kailali Tel: 091-523846
Email:cssdk@ntc.net.np
Target Group: A total of 22,208 persons will directly benefit from this program. These direct beneficiaries are: 20,775 members of at least 30 communities from 9 village development committees in two districts, 6,297 school children, 60 school teachers from 19 schools, and 460 village development committee personnel. Beneficiaries are poor, marginalized and socially excluded people, including women, children, differently abled, Dalits, Janajati, Kamaiya, and people affected with HIV/AIDS.

Goal:

To contribute to the achievement of Hyogo Framework for Action in Nepal through the development of community resiliency.

Objectives:

  To Increase awareness and capacity of poor, marginalized and socially excluded communities for disaster preparedness.
  To Increase capacity of communities to plan, mobilize local resources implement and sustain small-scale mitigation measures.
  To increase education and capacity of students and teachers for disaster preparedness.
  To enhance capacity of implementing partners, local NGOs, and other district stakeholders to support community based disaster risk management.

Key Focus:

The development objective of the program is to: "To increase the awareness and the response capacities of the local communities and schools in Nepal to potential and frequent natural disasters and to reduce the effects of these disasters on the most vulnerable populations."

To attain the development objective the specific objective has been set forth:" The most vulnerable communities and schools, CBOs, cultural groups and other stakeholders in the two districts of Doti and Kailali in Nepal have developed their capacities to be forewarn, to effectively mobilize response to the potential impact of hazards, and to undertake physical measures that will protect lives and property, thereby minimizing the adverse impacts of natural hazards."

Sectors of activity:

  Disaster preparedness and mitigation
Advocacy and public awareness
Mitigation works
Education
Research and dissemination
Facilitation of coordination
Local capacity building/training
Institutional strengthening