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HRRP Bulletin Housing Recovery and Reconstruction Platform, Nepal

Gyan Laxmi Ligal, from Bhaktapur, received mason training through the British Red Cross and now works as a head mason using earthquake-safe techniques to build new houses. Photo credit: Laura Oakley / British Red Cross.

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Bal and Ishwori Bisunke, from Lalitpur, using earthquake-safe techniques they learnt in a British Red Cross supported mason training programme, to help build safer houses. Photo credit: Laura Oakley / British Red Cross.

Featured Technical Staff People

One of this month’s featured technical staff people is Saroj Kumar Yadav. Saroj is from Janakpur and has been working in Rasuwa since April 2016. He was initially deployed as a ward engineer in ward no. 4 of Gosaikunda Rural Municipality in Rasuwa. After a year he was transferred from Gosaikunda to Dhunche (the district headquarters) as focal engineer.

Saroj shares his experience working in the recovery phase. He found the move from his home place in the Terai to the hills and mountains of Rasuwa challenging. He also faced language barriers as he does not speak the local language and found it hard to communicate Saroj Kumar Yadav with people. Focal Engineer, Dhunche, Rasuwa

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One of this month’s featured technical staff people is Aashutosh Joshi. Aashutosh is from Doti in the far west of Nepal. He is based in Nechasalyan Rural Municipality, Solukhumbu which is almost a 3 day journey from his home.

Aashutosh shares that the main issue identified in all wards of Nechasalyan Rural Municipality is that the majority of houses are damaged, but people are living in them and they are unwilling to build a new house to receive the government grant. The small number of houses that have been rebuilt are non-compliant and require corrections. Aashutosh has been working to provide information on retrofitting and applying correction measures to house owners and supporting Aashutosh Joshi them through this process. DLPIU Engineer, Nechasalyan Rural Municipality, Solukhumbu

Highlights

• Number of households that have received the third tranche of the Government of Nepal (GoN) housing reconstruction grant crosses 400,000 mark • NRA Newsletter March 2019 • Request for resource materials for training curricula related to engineers, social mobilisers, and mobile masons • In wards 1 & 3, Naukunda Rural Municipality, Rasuwa most people have built single room houses and due to not having enough space are continuing to live in their earthquake damaged houses. • ‘After the Earth’s Violent Sway: the tangible and intangible legacies of a natural disaster’ project website, sway.soscbaha.org, and Digital Library, digital.soas.ac.uk/SWAY • Urban Profiling for Better Responses to Humanitarian Crises, Global Alliance for Urban Crises • Guidance Note on Protocol of Engagement between Local Governments and Humanitarian Actors, Working Paper, Global Alliance for Urban Crises • Building Urban Resilience in the Face of Crisis, A Focus on People and Systems, Global Alliance for Urban Crises

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National Updates NRA, CLPIU GMALI and Building, Grant Disbursement Data, as of 15 April:

Reconstruction Grant 18 February 18 March 15 April Total No. Eligible HHs 812,056 818,851 824,452 HHs Enrolled 754,204 756,127 761,445 HHs Received 1st Tranche 749,296 751,986 756,214 HHs Applied for 2nd Tranche 564,639 574,043 578,835 HHs Received 2nd Tranche 541,774 554,775 564,820 Non-compliant at 2nd Tranche 4,728 4,519 4,326 HHs Applied for 3rd Tranche 402,852 416,491 422,951 HHs Received 3rd Tranche 371,279 390,448 403,561 Non-compliant at 3rd Tranche 2,931 2,327 2,363 Houses Completed 370,250 378,935 382,112 HHs with Completion Certificate 5,964 7,465 8,390

Retrofit Grant 18 February 18 March 15 April Total No. Eligible HHs 61,860 63,019 63,693 HHs Enrolled 17,198 18,342 20,106 HHs Received 1st Tranche 16,186 17,437 19,170 HHs Received 2nd Tranche 27 27 27

Progress with the disbursement of the GoN housing reconstruction and retrofit grants based on NRA, GMALI CLPIU, and Building CLPIU data from July 2016 to 15 April 2019.

Vulnerable Support Working Group (VSWG) Meeting, 11 April: the meeting was held in the NRA Conference Hall and was presided over by NRA Executive Committee Member, Dr. Chandra Bahadur Shrestha. The participants of the meeting discussed the draft content for the planned Vulnerability Support Handbook, capacity building strategy for new field staff (engineers, social mobilisers, and mobile masons), caseload verification survey, advocacy matrix and action plan, and update on the house cost technical working group. A core team was formed to work on the draft content for the vulnerability support handbook. CLPIU Building agreed to circulate draft TORs for new field staff for feedback. It was agreed that the caseload verification survey questionnaire will be shared with the NRA. The advocacy matrix is to be updated as the situation unfolds. Some best practices for low cost housing solutions were shared. The next VSWG meeting (date TBD) will include participants from CLPIU-GMaLI, Building, MUAN, NARMIN, NRA-MIS, NRA-GESI, and Livelihood Section of EHRP. 15 April 2019 Page 4 of 17 HRRP Bulletin Housing Recovery and Reconstruction Platform, Nepal

Hollow Concrete Block Manual Technical Sharing Session, 1 April: the session was organised with the purpose of disseminating the HCB Manual. The session included a presentation on the work of the HCB working group and an in-depth review of the content in the HCB Manual. The floor was then opened for a question and answer session with the brief closing remarks from CLPIU-Building, Project Director Mr Nawaraj Paykurel. Project Director, Nawaraj Pyakurel thanked the HCB Working Group for the production of this comprehensive manual, which is a milestone in the housing construction sector. He asked for support in the printing of the manual to distribute to the DLPIUs and local government institutions. It was suggested that a letter from CLPIU-Building quantifying the required numbers of the HCB Manual copies would be helpful to approach with potential partners for the printing and publication support.

District & Municipal Updates Orientation programmes on the resurvey and reverification process for local officials, Partner Organisations, and technical staff: the orientations for local officials and Partner Organisations (POs) have been held across 13 districts to provide an overview of the resurvey and reverification process, grievance management, mobilisation and monitoring of engineers, and the roles and responsibilities of local officials in the resurvey process. The orientations for technical staff have been completed across 14 districts. The orientation for technical staff covered the methodology for resurvey, reviewed the household questionnaire, provided a briefing on the engineering aspects of the survey, use of tablets for the survey, and relevant administrative procedures. It also covered monitoring, coordination with different stakeholders such that no one is left behind, and assurance of quality. The technical staff were requested to maintain a systematic plan, and to display discipline and timeliness during the survey. The technical staff were also informed that district resurvey committees, under the coordination of the Chief of District Coordination Committee, have been formed in the respective districts. This round of resurvey is primarily focused on households that were missed in previous surveys. The resurvey will also address grievances filed at the NRA.

HRRP District and Municipal Coordination Meetings, 15 March – 11 April 2019: during this period district coordination meetings took place in Dhading (18 March), Lalitpur (18 March), Makwanpur (14 & 19 March), Dolakha (26 March), Sindhupalchok (26 March), Gorkha (28 March), Nuwakot (28 March), and Ramechhap (29 March). Municipal level meetings took place in municipalities and wards across Dhading, Dolakha, Gorkha, Kavrepalanchok, Makwanpur, Nuwakot, Ramechhap, Rasuwa, Sindhuli, and Sindhupalchok. Some of the highlights from these meetings include: • In Dhading, technical staff discussed non-compliance issues in the district. For RCC structures these included plan and elevation irregularities, column reinforcement in columns being less than 8, room area more than 13.5 m2, improper column spacing, one bay building, inappropriate column size, aspect ratio more than 3, and steeped footing. For load bearing structures these included a lack of horizontal and vertical reinforcement, lack of sill band, lintel band, and roof band, no through stone or stitch band, houses made of concrete blocks, and hybrid structures. Durable Solutions shared that out of a total of 388 resettlement and landless cases, 193 have been solved and 195 are remaining. NSET Baliyo Ghar shared that 19,240 households have benefitted through various types of technical assistance activities. • In Lalitpur, NRCS is working in WASH, DRR, and livelihoods in 16 wards of 4 Municipalities. NRCS ensured construction of 6 ‘child, gender, and differently able friendly’ toilets in its project wards. Love Green Nepal has supported reconstruction of Saraswoti Adharbhut School in Ward 2, Lele, Godawari Municipality where 53% of work has been completed. RICOD has provided top-up support to 127 marginalised families to take forward reconstruction of their houses. Durable Solutions is supporting displaced earthquake households with their resettlement in Gimdi, Bagmati Rural Municipality, Lalitpur. Homenet Nepal with support from Action Aid Nepal has constructed Bani Bilas school (3 storey and 9 rooms) in ward 11, Godawari Rural Municipalility, Lalitpur and will be handed over to school authority at the end of April. Patan Durbar Square Monument Protection Office is ready to provide support to municipalities to conduct a field-based survey and study of archeologically important monuments that were damaged partially or fully by the 2015 earthquake.

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• In Makwanpur, concerned stakeholders agreed to take action to ensure effective monitoring and mobilisation of technical staff. It was also agreed that 10 families in a category 3 risk area in Namtar and landless households in Raksirang Rural Municipality will be supported to resettle in Manahari Rural Municipality. A committee will be formed for the final evaluation of the land which is proposed for resettlement of 65 landless families. It was decided that local authorities will be informed in writing about the revisions to the grant distribution procedures and to support them with implementation of these. • In Dolakha, Government and Partner Organisations (POs) working in reconstruction were requested to focus on expediting the reconstruction process for the completion of reconstruction on time and to declare settlements as reconstruction completed areas. • In Sindhupalchok, according to EHRP/JICA MIS, there is gap in the data entry by the POs involved in tranche distribution and POs were urged to update the data on a regular basis. Based on EHRP/MIS initial analysis of tranche data from POs, there are 556 HHs with first tranche duplication but due to gaps in the data GMALI is facing difficulty in verifying the duplication status. EHRP/MIS also requested POs to provide details of beneficiaries including PA number, tranche status, and the cheque numbers to expedite the verification process. Digitisation of PA agreements has been slow due to a lack of proper record maintenance at ward level as well as at DLPIU offices with approximately 27,000 records left to be completed. GMALI highlighted the issue of 14 HHs from Listikot, Ward 1, Bhotekoshi Rural Municipality that have very poor economic condition and are not able to start reconstruction and requested if POs could support them. • In Gorkha, GMALI MIS, DLPIU Building noted a significant progress in CS entry and PA digitisation processes. Vulnerable household’s status analysis and progress, first tranche return analysis and one room house primary assessment progress were discussed during the meeting. Out of 1,429 vulnerable beneficiaries 100 have not still received the first tranche. 24 beneficiaries not intending to start reconstruction have returned the first tranche to the Government. HRRP Gorkha in coordination with GMALI, DLPIU Building and POs has started developing a scope of work with an estimated sampling size of 50% out of total beneficiaries. • In Nuwakot, UNOPS/Government of India supported housing reconstruction started in March 2018. It has plan to support 23,088 HHs through Socio Technical Facilitation Center service. Purnima Project funded by UKAID is focusing on four components: technical assistance to Palika, support to reconstruction, private sector support and leave no one behind in three Municipalities. Oxfam and its implementing partners working on relocation of families from Lachyang, Urleni and Bhalche are in final stage and plan to complete in June 2019. CSRC requested support to facilitate reconstruction of landless people who are willing to stay in the same place in Bidur Municipality where they have been living for 20 years. GMALI Chief emphasised on coordination among stakeholders during planning and implementing phases to ensure quality outputs. • In Ramechhap, Building DLPIU reported that 1,750 non-compliant cases have been registered, 1,513 have been recommended for correction by DSE and 905 have already applied correction measures and recommended from subsequent tranche. It was highlighted that the beneficiaries are now more dependent on technical support from NRA Engineers due to ending of project of some partner organizations. Some POs have completed the project and working towards hand over process to GMALI and local level. • Kalinchok Rural Municipality, Dolakha, 26 March 2019: the meeting focused on vulnerable households that have received red and blue cards from the Government but have not started reconstruction. Further, issues related to landless, integrated settlement, distribution of reconstruction completion certificate, declaration of areas as completed, and resurvey and reverification process were discussed during the meeting. A gap in coordination between ward and municipality, lack of information on reconstruction at ward level, and some households being in India for work not able to start reconstruction were discussed in the meeting. • Wards 1 & 3, Naukunda Rural Municipality, Rasuwa, 28 March 2019: in ward 1 it was reported that 85% of households have received the third tranche but the completion certificate distribution to the beneficiaries has not started yet. The price of construction material is also high in the area. In ward 3 88% 15 April 2019 Page 6 of 17 HRRP Bulletin Housing Recovery and Reconstruction Platform, Nepal

of households have received the third tranche. There are some households listed as reconstruction beneficiaries who have not signed the partnership agreement and there are a few that have not taken the second tranche. There was also discussion on the guidelines and policies for resurvey and reverification. One of the major challenges in ward 3 is that beneficiaries are not willing to take the second tranche although they have constructed houses. This is because they would like to take a bank loan and think they will not get the loan if they take the second tranche. In both the wards, most of the beneficiaries have built single room houses and due to not having enough space are continuing to live in earthquake damaged houses. • Wards 2, 9, 10, & 11, Banepa Municipality, Kavrepalanchok, 27-29 March 2019: some common concerns raised were delays in tranche disbursement and files missing at DPLIUs, non-compliant houses constructed immediately after the earthquake, and difficulty in encouraging these beneficiaries to apply correction measures as suggested by DSE. There is also high rate of migration in all wards from different areas and slow rate of reconstruction in the core areas. • Ward 5, Panchkhal Municipality, Kavrepalanchok, 28 March 2019: it was reported that 50 new grievances have been filed. The Ward Chief was requested to inform the beneficiaries who have already done reverification of their houses to go through the appellate process rather than filing new grievances. There are about 25 households with land issues in Rayle but these beneficiaries are not willing to resettle in new areas. Minutes of a recent NRA meeting regarding land issues was shared with the Ward Chief. A detailed record of 5 houses built before the deployment of technical persons from NRA has been prepared which will be sent to DLPIU soon. • Wards 1 & 3, Jwalamukhi Rural Municipality, Dhading, 25 March 2019: discussion in ward 1 was on support to vulnerable beneficiaries, support for grievance handling, delays in tranche release and files missing at DLPIUs, non-compliant houses built immediately after the earthquake and beneficiaries not willing to apply correction measures as suggested by DSE. In ward 3, there have been issues regarding delays in tranche release, missing files at DLPIUs and reconstruction of vulnerable households and misunderstanding among wards, municipalities, and communities due to delays in grievance result. The distribution of completion certificates was also discussed. • In Netrawati Rural Municipality, Dhading, 2 April 2019: the municipality Chief mentioned that the reconstruction has progressed well with only a few beneficiaries remaining to reconstruct their houses. Some other issues raised were delays in tranche release by the banks to the beneficiaries that has hindered reconstruction and some earthquake affected households not being included in the reconstruction beneficiary list. The municipality suggested establishing reliable branches of banks at an appropriate location to facilitate services to the beneficiaries. • Ward 8, Ramechhap Municipality, 5 April 2019: a satisfactory reconstruction rate was noted in the ward. A total of 88 households have been listed in retrofitting list but none of them have done partnership agreement with the Government as they would like to switch to full reconstruction beneficiaries. Almost 400 households have been registered for resurvey at the ward office. Many of the beneficiaries as reported have taken loan from neighbors or other rich people. • Barhabise Municipality, Sindhupalchok, 8 April 2019: the final inspection of houses has not started in wards 5 and 6 even beneficiaries have completed reconstruction. There are about 16 households that have not been able to start reconstruction due to issues related to the land on the right of way and the Municipality is facing problem to relocate these beneficiaries as they have no land elsewhere. There are 4 non-compliant houses in ward 9 that are RCC structure but with no bands in which the engineers are finding it difficult to apply correction. There are about 16 households in ward 9 who have received first tranche but have not started reconstruction. • LisankhuPakhar Rural Municipality, Sindhupalchok, 10 April 2019: main concern was regarding the support to vulnerable households. Palika Chief mentioned that several rounds of data were collected on vulnerable households, but no any updates or progress have been made so far. Another concern was with

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grievance list, the one provided to the engineers does not include all the names recommended by wards. So, there is a confusion if the households not included in the list should re apply or request the engineers to survey all the houses. • Ward 5, Meghang Rural Municipality, Nuwakot, 9 April 2019: Ward Chief noted that 85% of reconstruction has completed in ward 5. The meeting discussed to find the beneficiaries who have not enrolled and those who have not received second tranche. UNOPS is providing socio technical support through technical center. There were some issues with quality of construction especially in the rural areas and houses being modified both vertically and horizontally after receiving the third tranche. • Ajirkot Rural Municipality, Gorkha, 10 April 2019: Palika level coordination meeting took place in Ajirkot Rural Municipality in presence of ward Chiefs of wards 1 and 3. The meeting mainly focused on action plan updates and palika profile. The meeting also decided to collect information on the non-compliant houses constructed immediately after the earthquake and submit to DLPIU Building. Delay in deployment of senior engineers at the palika level and retrofitting issues were raised during the meeting, Meeting was also held in Ward 5, Ajirkot RM, Gorkha, where issues related to retrofitting, beneficiaries having houses in another places and reverification were discussed. Ward Chief briefed on the reconstruction status, issues and challenges in reconstruction in the ward. • Bhimfedi Rural Municipality, Makwanpur, 9 April 2019: the reconstruction is satisfactory, major discussion was on ongoing data collection on actual earthquake affected households registered in grievance list by the engineers. Beneficiaries who have taken first tranche but have not started reconstruction have been notified to cancel the PA if they are not intending to start construction except the vulnerable households. No retrofitting of houses has been done so far. Further, final inspection of houses, completion of CS entry and distribution of completion certificate were discussed during the meeting. • Thaha Municipality, Makwanpur, 10 April 2019: the reconstruction is satisfactory, major discussion was on ongoing data collection on actual earthquake affected households registered in grievance list by the engineers. Build Change is planning to carry out demonstration on retrofitting of house. Build Change along with Palika level is also trying to organize awareness program on retrofitting to beneficiaries and technical persons. Further, final inspection of houses, completion of CS entry and distribution of completion certificate were discussed during the meeting. • Dudhouli Municipality, Marin Rural Municipality, Hariharpurgadhi Rural Municipality and Sunkoshi Rural Municipality, Sindhuli, 3 – 5 April 2019: discussion was mainly on the municipal action plan update and municipal profile update and upload on Municipal websites.

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HRRP District Coordination Team Dhading, Weekly District Report, 15 Mar – 11 Apr 2019

Ward No. 2, Netrawati Rural Municipality, Dhading: a hybrid structure with stone and cement mortar masonry ground floor and light timber first floor. The floor area is less than 1,000 sqft. The home owner has received all three tranches of the GoN housing reconstruction grant.

HRRP District Coordination Team Gorkha, Weekly District Report, 15 Mar – 11 Apr 2019

Ward No. 5, Ajirkot Rural Municipality, Gorkha: two room, brick and cement mortar masonry with RCC bands. The home owner has received all three tranches of the GoN housing reconstruction grant. The house was constructed with financial and technical support from INF.

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HRRP District Coordination Team Kavrepalanchok, Weekly District Report, 15 Mar – 11 Apr 2019

. Ward No.2, Panchkhal Municipality, Kavrepalanchok: two storey, RCC structure house. The home owner has received all three tranches of the GoN housing reconstruction grant.

HRRP District Coordination Team Nuwakot, Weekly District Report, 15 Mar – 11 Apr 2019

Ward No. 5, Meghang Rural Municipality, Nuwakot: single storey, two room, brick and cement mortar masonry house. The home owner has received all tranches of the GoN housing reconstruction grant.

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HRRP District Coordination Team Ramechhap, Weekly District Report, 15 Mar – 11 Apr 2019

Ward No. 4, Ramechhap Municipality, Ramechhap: stone in mud mortar structure with timber bands and light roofing materials. The correction has been applied to the house. The home owner has received all three tranches of the GoN housing reconstruction grant.

HRRP District Coordination Team Rasuwa, Weekly District Report, 15 Mar – 11 Apr 2019

Ward No. 3, Naukunda Rural Municipality, Rasuwa: load bearing, stone and mud mortar masonry with RCC bands. Two single room houses, belonging to father and son. There is a gap in between the houses but they have a common roofing. Both the home owners have received all three tranches of the GoN housing reconstruction grant.

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HRRP District Coordination Team Sindhupalchok, Weekly District Report, 15 Mar – 11 Apr 2019

Ward No. 6, Helambu Rural Municipality, Sindhupalchok: single storey, two room, load bearing, brick and cement mortar masonry with CGI roofing. The home owner has received the second tranche of the GoN housing reconstruction grant.

Case Studies Saroj Kumar Yadav, Engineer, Gosaikunda Rural Municipality-4, Rasuwa: one of this month’s featured technical staff people is Saroj Kumar Yadav. Saroj is from Janakpur and has been working in Rasuwa since April 2016. He was deployed as a ward engineer in ward no. 4 of Gosaikunda Rural Municipality in Rasuwa. Saroj shares his experience working in the recovery phase. He found the move from his home place in the Terai to the hills and mountains of Rasuwa challenging. He also faced language barriers as he does not speak the local language and found it hard to communicate with people. The remoteness of the working area, and the challenges with transportation made it difficult to visit households. It also impacted take up of the technical staff roles in the area. Initially 40 engineers were selected to work in the Rasuwa but only 23 engineers joined leaving gaps in coverage. This made the reconstruction work more challenging. Saroj has to walk around 9 to 10 hours by foot to collect data from households. During the initial phase it was very difficult to convince people to sign the grant agreement because half of the community were listed as eligible for the government’s financial assistance and the other half were not so the people who were listed did not want to sign the grant agreement as they felt a sense of neighbors being left behind and not getting justice. It was also difficult to convey earthquake safety methods and compliant housing reconstruction requirements.

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Saroj conducting mason training. He has conducted mason training in Haku, Gatlang, and Dhunche.

After a year of working in Gosaikunda RM-4, Saroj was moved to Dhunche to be a focal engineer. After he was appointed as focal engineers he focused on improving the system and transparency of working. Day-to-day and continuous interaction with the ward technical staff improved the rate of compliant-structures and made information dissemination easier. The most challenging technical cases they faced were the timber houses in Gosaikunda RM-2. The houses were timber floating structures with no proper connection between the sub- structure and the super-structure. None of the structures were approved for the second tranche. The scenario was a burning issue for the district. Finally, a method for making those timber structures compliant and earthquake resilient was found. Saroj’s experience of working on the reconstruction has been positive, especially as households and masons and have been very open to his advice and have constructed accordingly. He shares that all the manuals have been an important step for the area and the disbursement of the tranches has progressed because of this. After the NRA introduced the correction and exceptions manual which addressed most of the non-compliant issues of load bearing structures helped the reconstruction progress in Rasuwa. He also shares that the most critical factor in the progress in Rasuwa is the collective effort from all governmental and non-governmental organisations.

Aashutosh Joshi, DLPIU Engineer, Nechasalyan Rural Municipality, Solukhumbu: one of this month’s featured technical staff people is Aashutosh Joshi. Aashutosh is from Doti in the far west of Nepal. He is based in Nechasalyan Rural Municipality, Solukhumbu which is almost a 3 day journey from his home. Aashutosh shares that the main issue identified in all wards of Nechasalyan Rural Municipality is that the majority of houses are damaged, but people are living in them and they are unwilling to build a new house to receive the government grant. The small number of houses that have been rebuilt are non-compliant and require corrections. Aashutosh has been working to provide information on retrofitting and applying correction measures to house owners and supporting them through this process. He shares however that many households are of the opinion that engineers provide useless house designs which they refuse to follow or apply. Further, they are unwilling to rebuild their houses up to 2 storey and by following the minimum requirements, as the government provided financial assistance is insufficient for them to build brick masonry and cement mortar masonry. A large number of people wants to build their house in stone and mud mortar masonry up to 2 storey. This technical problem has created negative responses with people during inspection visits. Transportation costs are high in this rural municipality making cement and brick materials that are not feasible for people to use. Aashutosh has participated in two training programmes to date; a 10 day TOT training in Kathmandu organised by MOUD-CLPIU and a 3 day training in Rumjhatar, Okhaldhunga on applying retrofitting measures for houses in rural Nepal, organised by DLPIU Building Okhaldhunga. Aashutosh found the TOT training very useful and based on the knowledge gained he has conducted 3 mason trainings, organised in coordination with DLPIU Building Solukhumbu and Nechasalyan Rural Municipality. He thinks that retrofitting training is useful to apply correction methods for non-compliances houses. In Nechasalyan Rural municipality, almost 150 houses which were reconstructed before the engineers were mobilised

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can be corrected by applying relevant correction methods. During inspection of houses, he along with his technical field members have suggested for application of correction methods, however households have cited reasons of lack of personal funds for applying correction methods. Aastutosh states that as in current phases of housing reconstruction, large number of houses across many earthquake affected districts and his working district too are passing through reconstruction phase and reconstruction of other infrastructures like schools, offices, and other buildings too so it is very important to rebuild safe buildings. He hopes that the safer construction methods learnt during the reconstruction will be applied more widely to the whole country in future. He suggests that the NRA and DLPIUs should convey the message of build back better to the wider public for construction of safe, sound, and resilient structures.

Aashutosh delivering an orientation session on safer building practices.

Requests for Partner Support Request for resource materials for training curricula related to engineers, social mobilisers, and mobile masons: the NRA is planning to recruit a significant number of Senior Engineers (SE), Social Mobilisers (SM) and Mobile Masons (MM) to provide technical assistance and accelerate the housing reconstruction work. The new staff will require orientation and training before and during their deployment. NRA/CLPIU Building is leading the work on developing the required training, particularly the social aspects. As there are many resources already available, Partner Organisations (POs) are requested to share all relevant materials (IEC materials, training schedules, training curricula, lesson plans, training manuals, list of resource persons with contact details, etc.) with Diwat Shrestha ([email protected], 9851196789) by 17 April. A one-day interaction session on this topic is also tentatively planned for 19 April. An invitation with more details will be circulated soon.

GoN Products NRA Newsletter March 2019

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HRRP Products 5W Products are prepared based on the latest round of 5W data, as of 25 February 2019. Housing reconstruction progress maps are prepared based on Building CLPIU data as of 5 April 2019.

Technical Assistance for Housing Sector Wise Maps Housing Reconstruction - Coverage of of EQ affected Reconstruction Activities districts Progress Maps

5 TA Activities-32 districts Disaster Risk Management PA agreement between HHs and GoN 7 TA Activities-32 districts Education Construction Started Short Training Coverage Employment and Livelihood 1st tranche received Vocational Training Coverage Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Compliance rate 2nd tranche Community & HHs Orientation Health Compliance rate 3rd tranche Demonstration Construction Nutrition Construction completed Door to Door Technical Assistance Agriculture, Livestock Development, Helpdesks/Tech. Resource Centres and Irrigation Social Protection Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Number of POs in each ward Number of sectors in each ward

Partner Products ‘After the Earth’s Violent Sway: the tangible and intangible legacies of a natural disaster’, project outcomes: the project, funded by the UK government’s Global Challenges Research Fund through the Arts and Humanities Research Council, launched two years ago and has shared two outcomes. The first is the project website - sway.soscbaha.org - which contains research blogs, abstracts of all papers presented at the January 2019 ‘Epicentre to Aftermath’ conference (including the paper presented by Leonard Tedd from DFID Nepal) and a transcript of the plenary discussion, an extensive bibliography (with a second bibliography focusing on media coverage coming soon, and links to other research projects on the earthquake in Nepal. The second is the SWAY Digital Library. This may be accessed via the project website or directly at digital.soas.ac.uk/SWAY. It currently contains nearly 900 documents, in both English and Nepali, and a number of videos. Any feedback on either the project website or digital library is welcomed and should be sent to [email protected]. Anyone engaged in research relating to the Nepal earthquake is encouraged to write a short summary of their research questions or findings for the project’s blog, so that others can find out more about the research. Offers of material for the Digital Library are also encouraged.

Milijuli Nepali, Episode 1186: this is an on-location programme from Khani Gaun, Parbat. Deepak Sharma, the Ward Chairperson, guides the presenter through his village and discusses progress on retrofitting in the area. The first house they visit is of Jagat Bahadur BK and Lal Mati BK who are husband and wife. Jagat Bahadur shares his experience of working as a mason. Deepak, along with Santosh Nepali the government engineer, provides an overview of what retrofitting is and the process involved in retrofitting. The second story is of Raj Kumar Sunwar. He has not been listed as eligible for the government’s financial assistance but has filed a grievance. Deeepak discusses the importance of engaging young people in the reconstruction process and providing training opportunities for them to facilitate this. The final story is of Jagadis Sharma, the NRA district chief. He shares the plan for moving forward with retrofitting in Parbat. 15 April 2019 Page 15 of 17 HRRP Bulletin Housing Recovery and Reconstruction Platform, Nepal

Urban Profiling for Better Responses to Humanitarian Crises, Global Alliance for Urban Crises: this document represents a step towards consolidating aspects of the Global Alliance for Urban Crises members work on developing shared assessment and profiling tools, promoting joint analysis, and adapting coordination mechanisms to support tailoring of humanitarian response to the urban context. Part 1 of the document includes an overview of what urban profiling is and why it is useful for responding to a crisis and a definition of urban profiling is proposed by the Alliance. Part 2 presents four lessons from practice, bringing in experience from various approaches used by members of the Alliance to collect and analyse data on urban crises. Challenges and opportunities are described within each lesson followed by identification of good practices that can overcome the challenges. Where possible, examples are provided.

Guidance Note on Protocol of Engagement between Local Governments and Humanitarian Actors, Working Paper, Global Alliance for Urban Crises: the objective of the working group that produced this product is to facilitate stronger engagement between local governments, humanitarian and development actors, and built environment professionals in response to urban crises, acknowledging the various mandates, legitimacy and perspectives of these stakeholders. Engagement between each stakeholder group can be strengthened by identifying the roles, responsibilities, capacities, internal structure and ways of working of each constituency group. Furthermore, an articulated overall framework for collaboration or protocol may assist in structuring and guiding this process. The genesis of this protocol of engagement arose from discussions between humanitarian, local authority and built environment representatives, with explicit discussions throughout Alliance all-members meetings held in 2017 and 2018. This paper aims to outline the various stakeholders’ potential roles and responsibilities within each component of the program management cycle (assessment and analysis; planning and design; implementation; financing and resource mobilization; and monitoring and evaluation). This working paper is intended to be the starting point of an extended consultative process facilitated by the Alliance, bringing together local governments, represented by UCLG and humanitarian actors represented in the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC).

Building Urban Resilience in the Face of Crisis, A Focus on People and Systems, Global Alliance for Urban Crises: this paper begins with an explanation of the value of resilience in relation to crisis response. It then discusses how towns and cities can be viewed as systems (interconnected components), and how a focus on the interconnectedness of people and systems such as water, power, housing and healthcare, for example, may provide a more relevant and appropriate response to urban crises. The aim of focusing on resilient urban systems and people before and after a crisis is to bring about a more sustainable urban future in line with global frameworks, such as the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the New Urban Agenda, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. To this end, the paper presents five priorities for building resilient urban systems and people before, during and after a naturally-triggered or human- induced crisis; 1: Respond to today’s needs while planning for the future, 2: Develop a common understanding of the situation through urban analysis tools, 3: Prioritise essential services as a starting point in crisis response, 4: Support local actors to re-imagine and re-design urban systems, and 5: Understand and act on the pledge to leave no one behind.

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