Strengthening Community Preparedness, Rapid Response and Recovery (SCOP R3)

Project Overview

NEEDS Nepal has been implementing the Strengthening Community Preparedness, Rapid Response and Recovery in Nepal Project in partnership with Oxfam in Nepal since January 2021. Said project has formed 40 Community Disaster Management Communities (CDMC) and 22 Ward level Disaster Management Committee (WDMC) in four municipalities of Kanchanpur and Dadeldhura districts, and 40 Women Empowerment Centers (WECs) in respective palikas. This project builds on the previous Nepal program which implemented different humanitarian and disaster risk reduction program. The project aims to strengthen the capacities of the governments and communities to mitigate and prepare for disasters with improved early warning systems (EWSs), risk information, community-level response mechanisms, and improved linkages with Disaster Management authorities, and community-based disaster risk reduction measures and improved livelihoods.

Project Objectives

• Community Disaster Committees (CDCs), women, people with disabilities local disaster management authorities have improved knowledge, skills, and capacities to prepare for and respond to small-scale disasters in a timely manner.
• 40 communities have access to pre-disaster risk information, early warning systems and have developed trigger protocols (floods) in collaboration with local humanitarian actors and financial service providers to better anticipate, adapt to, and take timely action in response to humanitarian crises.
• Establish partnerships and strengthen the capacity of humanitarian actors, private sector, UN agencies and disaster management authorities to promote insurance mechanisms, financial literacy, and market-based programming to mitigate the impact of disasters in the (up to) 40 target communities.
• Contribute knowledge and learning on DRR and Anticipatory Actions through research, learning and reflection, and share best practices across the humanitarian sector
• enhanced capacity to lead on anticipatory actions and response to small scale disasters through access to the Emergency Response Fund (ERF), which allows for flexible funding to ensure that population affected by these crises receive timely and effective humanitarian assistance.

Key Expected Results

• 40 vulnerable communities are able to carry out disaster risk reduction activities (from preparedness to response) to save lives and livelihoods in the event of disasters.
• 40 vulnerable communities have access to diversified livelihoods and external resources.
• Communities have generated and shared, internally and externally, their knowledge of disaster preparedness and anticipatory action gained through the project.
• Enhanced capacity to lead on anticipatory actions and response to small scale disasters through access to the Emergency Response Fund (ERF).