Adopting Cutting Edge and Frontier Technologies for Building Resilience through Anticipatory Action (ACT FIRST) , Nepal
Donor/Partner

UK Aid/GSMA, Institute of Himalayan Risk Reduction (IHRR), DCA Nepal, Viamo Nepal

Implementation Country

Nepal

Implementation Location

Bhimdatta Municipality and Dodhara Chandani Municipality

Duration

October 2023-March 2025

Thematic Area

Household

Categories

Floods

Rationale

Nepal faces major disaster risk management challenges due to lack of access at household level to reliable disaster risk information, early warning, awareness & preparedness measures making Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM) interventions reactive, response-driven and ineffective.

38335

Total population

7159

Total Households

2126

Senior Citizens

331

People with disability

119

Pregnant women

525

Chronic illness

Objectives

To lessen disaster impacts on households through improved anticipatory actions, fostering collaboration among diverse stakeholders for a unified approach.

Sub Objectives

1

Unify disaster response through stakeholder collaboration and align with Nepal's early warning initiative.

Major Activities & Deliverables/Outputs

Activities

Deliverables/Outputs

Deploy risk assessment platform to compute vulnerability, exposure and risk scores, and to generate household level risk profiles.

Households are more aware of their exposure, vulnerability and risks to hazards, in both digital and printed forms.

Integrate real-time & forecasted weather information into the visualization platform to regularly monitor the triggers and highlight the exposure, vulnerability and risk.

A mechanism in place to continuously monitor trigger values to dispatch early warning.

Design and develop hazard-specific, and area-specific early action messages and alerting protocol in consultation with local stakeholders and Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (DHM).

Households have increased access to tailored and localized early warning and early action messages.

Dispatch the early warnings & early action messages through IVR, SMS & push-notifications and monitor effectiveness during monsoon.

The most at-risk households have increased capacity to cope with disaster events by receiving CVA support.

Partner with government and humanitarian agencies (Dan Church Aid) and encourage them to use the information to design Early Action and Cash and Voucher assistance (CVA) programmes for at-risk households based on risk profiles.

Local government & stakeholders are capacitated to design and implement better-targeted DRRM & CVA programs.

Consult with local government stakeholders and sensitize/train them to be able to operationalise the platform themselves.

Outcomes

1

Household Disaster Preparedness

Enhance households' ability to anticipate and withstand disasters through education, training, and resource provision

2

Enhanced Risk Communication

Implement more efficient, effective, and technology-aided local risk communication mechanisms.

3

Household Disaster Preparedness

Foster collaboration between Local Governments and Humanitarian agencies to implement better-targeted and inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM) programs.

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