Project Duration: November 2017 – May 2018.
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck central Nepal on 25 April 2015, causing more than 8,700 deaths and 25,000 injuries as well as damaging properties and assets worth around $7 billion. A Post‐ Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) estimated a reconstruction needs amounting to approximately $6.7 billion. The earthquake sequence destroyed 490,000 houses; mostly traditional mud‐brick and mudstone houses built and occupied by the rural poor, and rendered another 265,000 houses at least temporarily uninhabitable. The largest single need identified in the PDNA was housing and human settlements, accounting for $3.27 billion (or almost half of the total needs). In a response to the damages caused by the earthquake, the Government of Nepal (GoN) has undertaken a host of plans and actions, particularly addressing housing. It has established the National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) under an Act of Parliament, shouldering the overall responsibility of policy formulation, providing guidance, planning, coordination and oversight of the Housing Reconstruction Program (HRP). During distribution of relief packages, a quick assessment of housing damage was carried out. In order to have a technically sound IT based exercise, the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) conducted a door‐to‐door assessment of the damages to private houses in the effected districts through an Earthquake Household Damage Characteristics survey.
Following the earthquake, the Bank began providing advice and support to the GoN on how to consider and design reconstruction and recovery efforts. The Bank has demonstrated global and regional experience in post‐disaster housing reconstruction and social protection ‐ in such countries as Pakistan, India, Haiti, the Philippines, and Indonesia ‐ and is well positioned to bring its expertise and experience to support GoN through recovery and reconstruction
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