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Bagmati Province Emergency Response Preparedness VULNERABILITY INDICATORS BAGMATI PROVINCE EMERGENCY RESPONSE PREPAREDNESS as of June 2021 Water and Sanitation Human Development Indicators Source of Drinking Water Improved Source of Drinking water 30,636.40 Gross Domestic Product 97.3% NPR million ie n t Infant Mortality Rate (MICS) Unimproved Source of Drinking water 16 per thousand 2.7% Human Development Index (HDI) 0.66 Type of Toilet Used 72.01 Life expectancy (HDI) Improved Sanitation facilities 97.8 % Unimproved Sanitation facilities Note* : 2.2 % This is a living document. We will be continuously editing and updating with revisions. 76.7 % of household population with E. coli in source water Early Childhood Development Attitude towards Domestic Violence Index score of children age 3-4 years are developmentally on 29.5% of women age 15-49 years believes a husband is justi�ied in 73.9% beating his wife in various circumstances track in literacy- numeracy, physical, social-emotional, and learning domains 56.5 % of women age 15-49 years believes a mother-in-law is justi�ied in verbally abusing and threatening her daughter-in-law 6.9% of children age 0-17 living with neither in various circumstance biological parent Icons : https://thenounproject.com/ Source : Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys 2019 and HDI 2019 report VULNERABILITY INDICATORS BAGMATI PROVINCE EMERGENCY RESPONSE PREPAREDNESS as of June 2021 Adult / Child Disfunctioning Shelter Natural floor Other Rudimentary wall Functional dif�iculties in at least one domain: Other Seeing, Hearing, Walking, Communication ie n t 2.4 % Mud bonded bricks/stone Age 18 - 49 1.3 % Finished floor Finished wall Age 02 - 04 1.0 % Type of House Foundation Type of Outer Wall Health Insurance covergae Finished roof It is one protection scheme that present the percentage of men and women covered by health insurance Age 15 - 49 5.2 % 6.3% Type of Roof Age 05 - 17 5.9% Rural Urban The Nepal Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) is an international % of women using appropriate multi-purpose household survey. A total sample of 512 enumeration areas menstrual hygiene materials 95.7 % 94.1% and 12,800 households was selected for the survey. It was designed to provide estimates for many indicators on the situation of children Menstrual % of women with a private and women. 91.4 % 95.6 % Hygiene place to wash and change Note* : This is a living document. We will be continuously editing and updating Icons : https://thenounproject.com/ with revisions. Source : Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys 2019 and HDI 2019 report Nepal: Annual expected exposed people to perennial river floods (Bagmati Province) Administrative Boundary International Boundary Province Boundary District Boundary RASUWA a angtang o l i L Kh d Major Rivers a N Ya L a n a g g r B r k a n a l i e a l o K G K e a h i h l p l h o h K u o h la o i o h K u s Kh l l i u a h h K a k r k h o A a i T l l a h a h c i DHADING P l a d a o m a h l N o K a h Tadi l i lK e t a a Ch M a p w ku o a Kh h NUWAKOT r ol T d a DOLAKHA M K n a ol I h pu i es a d Khol a h Kh KATHMANDU N ola i a l B h o hola alkhu K os h h K ola k a a l K r BHAKTAPUR a m o i y a h r a T e K K la g KABHREPALANCHOK ho u a i K h hol t ik h K a i Nadi ri im L K t a CHITAWAN Rapa ah h n hola iK K R a ne K Ros h e M MAKAWANPUR s ol wa o a h K T S hol B u RAMECHHAP a K agm nko arra a ti N shi Kho la a Na di d l a Ko i Kho khajor Kh a uda Kho o la iy a la k h a C B No. of people expected to be exposed SINDHULI to Perennial Flood per year K a Low Note* : ma ola This is a living document. We will be continuously l a r Kh N u ad k Moderate editing and updating with revisions.. i a h T High The indicator is based on the estimated average number of people expected to be exposed to perennial river floods per year. It results from the combination of the The classification is based on quantile distribution of perennial flood hazard zones as defined by the perennial flood hazard map (25-year the calculated values at municipality level. The map return period) and the total population living in the exposed areas as per the shows the relative classification across the country. population density map. The expected number of people exposed in the hazard zone Map data source(s): in one year is the yearly average of the total population living in the exposed area. World Food Programme (WFP) UNCT, HCT and Partners under Transition Support Strategy (TSS) Vulnerability Indicator - Bagmati province Age dependency ratio % Legend Administrative Boundary Inequality Dalit Population: GDI: Inequality GEM: Map data source(s): Nepal: Disease Burden Rate Map (Bagmati province) Acute Gastro Enteritis rate Administrative Boundary Acute Gastro Enteritis rate Sudden Acute Respiratory Illness (SARI) rate SARI rate Map data source(s): Household affected by natural disaster 2016-2020 (Bagmati province) Administrative Boundary International Boundary Province Boundary District Boundary Household affected by natural disaster 2016-2020 Low RASUWA Moderate High The classification is based on quantile distribution of the calculated values at district level. The map NUWAKOT shows the relative classification across the country. SINDHUPALCHOK DOLAKHA DHADING KATHMANDU BHAKTAPUR CHITAWAN MAKAWANPUR KABHREPALANCHOK LALITPUR RAMECHHAP SINDHULI To account for increased vulnerability during the recovery period after a disaster, households affected by recent shocks in the past five years are considered. The affected households from the most recent year are considered fully while affected households from the previous years are scaled down with the factor 0.8, 0.6, 0.4, and 0.2 for the second, third, fourth, and fifth Note* : year, respectively, assuming that recovery decreases This is a living document. We will be continuously Map data source(s): vulnerability progressively. editing and updating with revisions.. Nepal Disaster Risk Reduction Portal UNCT, HCT and Partners under Transition Support Strategy (TSS) Nutritional status children (0-23 months) - Bagmati province RASUWA SINDHUPALCHOK NUWAKOT DOLAKHA DHADING KATHMANDU BHAKTAPUR CHITAWAN KABHREPALANCHOK MAKAWANPUR LALITPUR RAMECHHAP Administrative Boundary International Boundary Province Boundary SINDHULI District Boundary Nutirtional status (0-23) months children less than 2% 2- 4 % greater than 4% Note* : This is a living document. We will be continuously Percentage of newly registered children aged 0- Map data source(s): 23 months with a moderate or severe nutritional editing and updating with revisions.. Health Management Information Sysytem (HMIS) status UNCT, HCT and Partners under Transition Support Strategy (TSS).
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