Tayar Nepal - Improved Disaster Risk Management Project

Project overview

With the financial support from USAID’s Tayar Nepal under Technical Assistance Grants (TAG), World Vision International Nepal implemented Tayar Nepal - Improved Disaster Risk Management Project that aims to strengthen the capacity of Nepal’s disaster risk management and preparedness institutions. The project has two sub-projects: Cash Transfer Programme Technical Assistance and Household Disaster Preparedness Project.

Household Disaster Preparedness Project (HDPP) aims to enhance the capacity of individual households and communities for better disaster preparedness and response. Implemented in partnership with Conscious Society for Social Development (CSSD), a Kailali based NGO, the project will benefit 550 households directly and 1,647 households indirectly in Kailali District. This year-long project, designed through need assessments and using past learning and input from consultations with stakeholders and beneficiaries, has been implemented in Lamkichuha Municipality of Kailali District in Sudurpachchim Province. The project seeks to solve four overarching and recurrent problems: a) Target communities have prolonged exposure to disasters, in particular annual floods which affect life and livelihoods; b) There is limited understanding of tools and criteria for the identification and categorization of vulnerable households, at community levels, to address basic and specific needs of the most vulnerable households (e.g. children, senior citizens, persons with disabilities, single/pregnant/lactating women, etc.); c) There is an inability of existing DRR mechanisms to link household vulnerability to community and municipality level risk reduction plans and programmes; and d) There is inadequate efforts to reach at household level to foster capacities and to reduce vulnerabilities.

Cash Transfer Programme Technical Assistance aims to provide implementation support to prepare, support, and strengthen Nepal’s disaster response and recovery system to assess and respond to the second-order impacts of COVID-19. World Vision conducted an integrated mix of cash transfer programme interventions, which included market assessment; capacity building of municipalities on developing beneficiary selection criteria; developing mechanisms for cash for work; and conditional cash transfer interventions, among others. The project was implemented across 12 municipalities of 10 districts (Kailali, Bardiya, Surkhet, Dailekh, Dang, Nawalparasi West, Dhading, Rautahat, Sarlahi and Dolakha).

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Schemes completed

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Schools repaired

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Drinking water facilities improved

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Roads improved

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Lake clearance and Irrigation canals improved

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Foot trails improved

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Compound walls and fencing completed

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Community buildings constructed

Cash for Work made access to clean water possible in Kailali

The pipeline that connects the community with the reservoir of 225,000 liters capacity, now supplies safe drinking water to more than 600 vulnerable households with children. The impact of this Cash for Work will directly benefit almost 3,000 people including children in the two wards of Godawari Municipality.

Publications

Tayar Nepal: Cash Transfer Program Technical Assistance

With financial support from the USAID's Tayar Nepal, World Vision has been implementing Cash Transfer Program Technical Assistance with an overarching goal to provide implementation support to prepare, support, and strengthen Nepal’s disaster response and recovery system to assess and respond to the second-order impacts of COVID-19.

Tayar Nepal: Household Disaster Preparedness Project (HDPP)

World Vision is also implementing Household Disaster Preparedness Project (HDPP) of USAID’s Tayar Nepal under Technical Assistance Grants (TAG). The is project aims to enhance the capacity of individual households and communities for better disaster preparedness and response.

Search and rescue mock drill

Participants engage in search and rescue mock drill during a four-day training of USAID's Tayar Nepal supported Household Disaster Preparedness Project in Kailali.

Performing triage during search and rescue mock drill

A participant performs triage as a part of the search and rescue mock drill during a four-day training of Household Disaster Preparedness Project in Kailali.

Learning Bucket Relay Method

Participants learn to apply Bucket Relay Method to extinguish fire during a four-day training of Household Disaster Preparedness Project in Kailali.

Packing Throw Bag

A participant learns to pack Throw Bag during a four-day training of Household Disaster Preparedness Project in Kailali.

Construction of drinking water pipeline

Community people of Ghorahi, Dang involved in the Cash Transfer Program of USAID’s Tayar Nepal engage in constructing drinking water pipeline.

Construction of retention walls to mitigate landslide risks

Community people of Dullu, Dailekh involved in the Cash Transfer Program of USAID’s Tayar Nepal engage in constructing retention walls to mitigate risks of landslide.