Summary of major revisions made to emergency plan of action:
The emergency appeal was revised on 24 November 2014. The main changes and shifts in the operation include:
Reduction in budget by around 40 per cent to the initial budget;
Reduction in number of target beneficiaries from 10,000 families to 8,000 families (40,000 people);
Focus of a recovery component on the four worst affected districts: Banke, Bardiya, Surkhet and Dang;
Construction of progressive shelters1 and toilets as core recovery component;
Reduction in the initially planned number of NFRIs, hygiene kits and shelter kits;
Removal of planned activities from the plan as alternative funding mechanisms have been identified, including bilateral contributions and/or streamlining into ongoing projects/programmes