Nepal Red Cross Society has been working in disaster risk management since the commencement of humanitarian work by the Society in 1963. The whole work began with disaster relief activities and was later broadened to disaster preparedness, both at the organizational and community level.
Disaster and Crisis Management (DCM) department has been continuously working in the field of disaster management planning, disaster risk reduction, population movement, the response in disasters, livelihood and restoring family links for saving lives, protecting livelihood and strengthening recovery from disaster and crisis.
The department adopts the NRCS’s first strategic aim, to save lives from disasters and crisis situations: promote relief, recovery and resilience building. The key components to achieving the aim are:
- Scaling up resilience building and DRR interventions in urban and rural communities
- Strengthening organizational capacity to ensure effective DRR programming
- Contextualizing plans, policies, guidelines, systems, and procedures.
- Strengthening organizational preparedness and response tools and mechanisms
- Ensuring preparedness and effective delivery of emergency response services
Read more about the Disaster Management Department’s work on the Risk Reduction Policy and Risk Reduction Strategy Framework and Risk Reduction Operational Approach.
Contact
| AME | DESIGNATION | CONTACT |
| Sagar Shrestha | Director | sagar.shrestha@nrcs.org |
Programs
| PROGRAM | PARTNER | TARGET POPULATION | DISTRICTS | ||
| 1 | Emergency Response and Preparedness Project | UNFPA | Direct: 1300 Indirect: 150,000 | Province 2, 5 and 7 | |
| 2 | Ending Child Marriage Project | UNFPA | Direct: 7,250 Indirect: 70,000 | Rautahat, Rolpa, Bajhang, Baitadi | |
| 3 | Paschim Disaster Preparedness Project | American Red Cross | 1940 households | Doti, Baitadi | |
| 4 | Prepare Project | American Red Cross | – | Makwanpur, Nuwakot, Rasuwa, Okhaldunga, Ramechap | |
| 5 | Building Community Resilience through DRR Programme (RACE-II) | Finnish Red Cross | 99,464 | Panchthar, Morang, Sunsari, Solukhumbu | |
| 5 | Communit Actions for Resilience to Disasters (CORD) Phase Second | Japanese Red Cross Society | 51,249 | Udayapur, Chitwan and Gulmi | |
| 6 | Strengthening Urban Resilience an Engagement (SURE) Programme | British Red Cross | 475,000 | Kathmandu, Lalitpur, Bhaktapur, Kaski and Kailali | |
| 7 | ECHO-DP DRR | European Union (EU) | 1,168 | Banke, Bardiya, Dang, Kailali, Darchula | |
| 8 | Child-Centered Disaster Risk Reduction (CCDRR) | UNICEF Nepal | 20,000 | Direct Implementation: Baitadi, Bajura, Dhading, Dhanusha, Parsa Indirect Implementation: Achham, Dolakha, Saptari | |
| 9 | Enhanced Community Resilience Programme (ENCORE) | Danish Red Cross | 65,200 | Dang | |
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| 11 | Mahakali River Inclusive Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction | American Red Cross | 4,000 | Kanchanpur and Dadeldhura | |
| 12 | Urban Disaster Risk Management Project (UDRMP) – Surkhet | Swiss Red Cross | 21,087 | Surkhet | |
| 13 | The Tayari (Readiness) Project (Enhancing NRCS Readiness to respond capacity) | USAID and American Red Cross | 535 | Dhankuta, Sunsari and Udayapur | |
| 14 | Flood Response Operation (Recovery) | IFRC, American Red Cross, British Red Cross | 41,405 | Sunsari, Saptari, Siraha, Udayapur, Mahottari, Rautahat, Sarlahi, Jhapa | |
| 15 | Restoring Family Links RFL Program | ICRC | 1,942 | 77 districts | |
| 16 | ICBDRR – Kavre | Danish Red Cross | 30,275 | Kavrepalanchok | |
| 17 | Flood response Programme | Qatar Red Crescent Society | 25,000 households | 2 Districts | |
| 18 | Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction Koshi River Basin Programme | Korean Red Cross, Australian Red Cross, Hong Kong Red Cross | 25,485 | Bhojpur, Khotang, Saptari, Sunsari and Udayapur | |
| 19 | Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction (CBDRR) Programme | Luxembourg Red Cross | 6,964 | Dhading | |
| 20 | Forecast based Financing | Danish Red Cross | Bardiya | ||
| 21 | Cash Based Intervention Program | IFRC |