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Ministry of Agriculture Food and Agriculture and Cooperatives (MOAC) Organization of the United Nations District Disaster Risk Management Plan (DDRMP) Kapilvastu District April 2011 Priority Framework for Action Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management in Agriculture Publisher: Government of Nepal Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives Kathmandu, Nepal Copyright: April 2011 Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives Government of Nepal Prepared under the FAO Technical Assistance to the Government of Nepal (TCP/NEP/3201 (D) and UNJP/NEP/OO5/UNJ) Table of Content Acronyms and Abbreviations Preface Executive Summary Page 1. Introduction ....................................................................................................... 1 1.1. Rationale for District Disaster Risk Management Plans .......................................... 1 1.2. Objectives of the Kapilvastu DDRMP ................................................................. 1 1.3. Methodology .................................................................................................... 4 1.3.1. Framework for DDRMP Preparation ......................................................... 4 1.3.2. Building the picture–Assessing the disaster context in Kapilvastu ................. 4 1.3.3. Data collection methods .......................................................................... 6 1.3.4. Tools Used for Primary Information Collection .......................................... 6 1.3.5. Participatory Hazard Assessment .............................................................. 6 1.3.6. Impact and Vulnerability Analysis ............................................................ 8 1.3.7. Institutional Identification and Capacity Assessment ................................... 8 1.3.8. Identification of weaknesses and key priorities of the district ....................... 8 1.3.9. Detailed Planning ................................................................................... 9 1.3.10. Secondary Data Collection and Analysis ................................................... 9 1.4. Layout of the Plan ............................................................................................. 9 1.5. The DDRMP in application .............................................................................. 10 1.5.1. DDRMP as a Planning Document ........................................................... 10 2. DDRMP in context ............................................................................................ 11 2.1. Background .................................................................................................... 11 2.1.1. Risk of Disasters in Nepal ...................................................................... 11 2.1.2. Agricultural Loss due to Disasters .......................................................... 12 2.2. Institutional responses to disasters ..................................................................... 14 2.2.1. International Framework and conventions................................................ 14 2.2.2. National Acts and Legal Provisions ........................................................ 14 2.3. Linking the National Strategy to the District Context ........................................... 17 2.3.1. Core elements of the National Strategy for DRM in Nepal ......................... 17 2.3.2. National Strategy as a framework for the DDRMP .................................... 17 Table 8: National Strategy Priority Sectors ............................................................ 17 3. Kapilvastu DDRMP .......................................................................................... 18 3.1. Introduction to Kapilvastu ................................................................................ 18 3.1.1. Physiography ....................................................................................... 18 3.1.2. Climate ............................................................................................... 18 3.1.3. Configuration of Social Fabric ............................................................... 19 3.1.4. Natural resource endowments, land use and farming ................................. 21 3.1.5. District Infrastructure Services ............................................................... 23 3.1.6. Cultural Heritage .................................................................................. 24 3.2. District Hazard Analysis .................................................................................. 25 3.2.1. Hazard Analysis: Prioritization of hazards in the District ........................... 25 Hazard Calendar ................................................................................................. 31 Timeline of Prioritized Disasters in Kapilvastu District ........................................... 32 3.3. Impacts and Vulnerability Assessment ............................................................... 32 3.4. District Capacity Assessment ............................................................................ 38 3.4.1. Livelihood Assets ................................................................................. 38 3.4.2. Natural Resource Endowments ............................................................... 39 3.4.3. Household-level capabilities .................................................................. 39 3.4.4. Institutional Capacity ............................................................................ 41 3.5. Action plan ..................................................................................................... 56 3.5.1. District Weaknesses and Key Priorities ................................................... 56 i 3.5.2. Extending the National Priorities ............................................................ 58 3.5.3. Overall recommendations ...................................................................... 59 3.5.4. Hazard Focus ....................................................................................... 60 3.5.5. Detailed Plan of Activities ..................................................................... 61 4. References ........................................................................................................ 68 5. Annexes.........................................................................................................71 Annex 1: Summary of National Plan for Disaster Risk Management ................................ 72 Annex 2: Standard Operating Procedures for District Departments and Agencies .............. 74 Annex 3: Schedule of Program .................................................................................... 81 Annex 4: Participants of PVA Exercise in Udayapur District........................................... 82 Annex 5: Field Tools Used for Detailed Planning .......................................................... 86 Annex 6: Outputs from VDC level PVA Exercises......................................................... 88 Annex 7: Contact Lists of Service Institutions ............................................................... 95 Annex 8: Central Level Cluster Details ....................................................................... 116 Annex 9: Name list of District Implementation Task Group (DTITG) ............................ 121 ii List of Tables Table 1: Aim, goals and objectives of Kapilvastu's DDRMP ...................................... 3 Table 2: Steps to assessing the disaster context of Kapilvastu .................................. 5 Table 3: Information collection and management ...................................................... 8 Table 4: Summary of Disaster Events between 1971 and 2007 in Nepal ................. 12 Table 5: Major Losses in Agricultural Sector by Natural Disasters ........................... 12 Table 6: Status of flood damage on major crops in Nepal........................................ 13 Table 7: Implementation of the strategy: .................................................................. 16 Table 8: National Strategy Priority Sectors .............................................................. 17 Table 9: Kapilvastu Climate ..................................................................................... 18 Table 10: Kapilvastu Climate – Graph ..................................................................... 19 Table 11: General demographic trends of Kapilvastu .............................................. 20 Table 12: Educational statistics for Kapivastu (1) .................................................... 20 Table 13: Educational statistics for Kapivastu (2) .................................................... 20 Table 14: Educational statistics for Kapivastu (3) .................................................... 20 Table 15: Educational statistics for Kapivastu (1) .................................................... 20 Table 16: Land cover details of Kapilvastu .............................................................. 21 Table 17: Land use system – Kapilvastu ................................................................. 22 Table 18: Production figures for Kapilvastu for the last 5 years ............................... 23 Table 19: Kapilvastu's telecom services .................................................................. 23 Table 20: Types of road in Kapilvastu (in km) .......................................................... 24 Table 21: Road connections in Kapilvastu ..............................................................