Source: International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies, Shelter Cluster
Country: Nepal
NEED ANALYSIS
Annual monsoon season typically occurs in Nepal during July and August, with heavy rains and winds damaging housing, roads and other infrastructure as well as bringing increased flood and landslide risk.
Ahead of the 2016 monsoon, Shelter Cluster Nepal is implementing contingency planning focusing on the 14 earthquake priority districts which are prone to landslides and flash floods, along with the 22 Terai districts that have in the past been affected by widespread flooding during monsoon seasons.
EMERGENCY RESPONSE PREPAREDNESS
Key achievement includes
- Monsoon Contingency plan 2016 for shelter cluster coordination during preparedness and response in Nepal has been prepared with the list of prepositioned stocks for monsoon and updated contact list of shelter partners and circulated
- Shelter Cluster Nepal REACH Monsoon Preparedness Assessment
- Successfully organized various meetings with Government of Nepal, Shelter partners in National and District level for development of Shelter Cluster Coordination (SCC) National Guidelines and District level Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) in three piloting districts- Dang, Banke and Bardiya.
GAPS/CHALLENGES
- Due to end of fiscal year, government official were occupied with various activities for closure of year. This made frequent rescheduling of coordination meetings for development of SCC National guidelines and SOPs in national and district level.
- SCN now has caseloads numbers of 14 EQ affected districts and 22 Terai Flood prone districts from the REACH assessment draft report, however it’s difficult to estimate the gap since very few agencies have provided the information regarding the available resource stored for monsoon preparedness.