Hazards & National DRR Strategic Plan

of Action (2018-2030)

Bikesh Yadav
 Hazards and disaster

hazards disaster
• A potential source of harm that • Results from the interaction of
initiates disaster hazards and vulnerability
• Uncontrollable • The damage can be reduced
• Includes natural, technological or • Has environmental, social,
human induced agent. economic, political, and cultural
consequences
 Types of hazards

Natural Hazards Technical Hazards Civil/ Conflict Hazards

Geological (landslide) Industrial Mass Shooting

Wildfire Nuclear War

Atmospheric (Tornado, Computer  Riot

hurricane, thunderstorm)
Hydrologic (flood, strom, Transportation Terrorism
drought)
Seismic and volcanic Environmental Panic Fight
(earthquake, volcanic eruption)
Biological Structural collapse
 Natural hazards

Nepal earthquake in 2015 with 7.8 richter scale results unbearable damages
and losses
 Technical hazards
Fukushima nuclear disaster:
Date: March 11, 2011 A.D
Location: Fukushima nuclear power plant, Okuma, Fukushima, Japan
Cause of the disaster: Earthquake and tsunami
Outcome: International Nuclear Event Scale (INES) labeled it Level 7,
1 death due to cancer, 16 were physically injured due to hydrogen
explosions, 153,000 people were evacuated, radioactive elements
were released in the atmosphere as well as water (Pacific ocean)
 Civil hazards

Russia and Ukraine war 2022

 National DRR Strategic Plan of Action (2018-2030)

• Based on SFDRR’s principle the DRR strategic Plan of Action has identified four priority areas and 18
priority actions.
• The strategic activities are identified for 2018 to 2020 as short term interventions, 2018 to 2025 as mid-term
interventions, 2018 to 2030 as long-term interventions and continuous actions under each priority actions
• Aims to reduce the disaster mortality rate, reduce the number of disaster affected people, reduce the direct
economic loss in GDP from disasters, reduce the damage to critical infrastructure and disruption of basic
services enhancing resilience, developing DRM strategies and action plans at the provincial and local levels
• Substantially increase the availability of and access to multi-hazard early warning systems and disaster risk
information and assessments.
• Significant reductions in disaster risk and loss of life, as well as the economic, physical, social, cultural, and
environmental assets of individuals, businesses, and communities throughout the country, are key targets
aimed at reducing the impact of disaster.
 14th periodic plan (2016- 2018)

• The fourteenth Three Year Plan (TYP) emphasizes disaster risk management as an
inherited character of sustainable development and has given priority to disaster risk
reduction
• The Government of Nepal through the TYP aims to reduce human and physical loss
caused by disaster by integrating disaster management in all phases and dimensions of
development.
• This periodic plan has adopted the policy to carry out a special program on capacity
building for emergency search, rescue, treatment and immediate relief.
• The approach paper of 15th periodic plan (2019-2023)has focused on reducing disaster-
induced losses to contribute to the goal of a safe and resilient Nepal.
Thank you!