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EARTHQUAKES in NEPAL: ONE YEAR UPDATE APRIL 25, 2016 ACT/Paul Jeffrey ACT/Paul 7.8 Magnitude April 25 EARTHQUAKES IN NEPAL: ONE YEAR UPDATE APRIL 25, 2016 ACT/Paul Jeffrey ACT/Paul 7.8 magnitude April 25 7.3 magnitude CHINA May 12 (Tibet) NEPAL INDIA (Bihar) Districts LWR Worked In VDCs LWR Worked In ROAD TO RECOVERY – BY THE NUMBERS1 ONE YEAR AFTER 7.8 & 7.3 THE EARTHQUAKE magnitude earthquakes 8 MILLION+ n April 25, 2015, a powerful 7.8-magnitude people affected earthquake struck Nepal with the epicenter near the border between Gorkha and Lamjung districts, about 8,891 O people reported dead 48 miles (77 kilometers) northwest of Kathmandu. The quake caused landslides and avalanches, including the most deadly avalanche ever recorded to hit Mount Everest. The most 20,000+ people injured severely affected areas included small rural communities near the epicenter. A second earthquake, at 7.3 magnitude, 605,254 struck on May 12, 2015, its epicenter about 47 miles (76 houses totally destroyed kilometers) northeast of Kathmandu, near the Chinese border, resulting in significant aftershocks as well as further 288,255 casualties and damage. houses damaged Immediately after the April 25 earthquake, the government 1 Source: UN OCHA, “Humanitarian Bulletin: Nepal Earthquake,” Issue 4, 1-30 September 2015 of Nepal declared a state of emergency and requested international humanitarian aid for the affected areas. Lutheran World Relief (LWR) was already working in Nepal with existing development programs close to the epicenter, and we mobilized our emergency response within the first From June to September, the torrential rains of the monsoon 24 hours after the first earthquake hit. LWR Nepal staff, season precipitated more deadly landslides. Working in remote in cooperation with our local partner COPPADES, began mountain communities throughout the monsoon, LWR began by assessing the needs of the people affected by the implementing our early recovery and livelihood activities, earthquake and attending response coordination meetings including cash-for-work (CFW), seed and livestock distributions, with the Government of Nepal, the United Nations and other and improved agriculture and livestock skills trainings. international and local humanitarian organizations, such as the Nepal Red Cross Society. From May to July, LWR After the rains passed, internal challenges arose. A 4-month- distributed food packs, Quilts, Personal Care Kits, water long blockade of the India-Nepal border, delay of the filtration units, tarpaulins and corrugated galvanized iron Government of Nepal’s National Reconstruction Authority’s (CGI) sheets to affected families most in need. (NRA) start, and the onset of winter hindered recovery efforts and threatened the health and safety of millions without permanent shelter. One year after the earthquake, the Government of Nepal and the international humanitarian community, including LWR, are now poised to begin supporting the reconstruction of permanent shelter. THE FIRST YEAR – LWR’S RESPONSE n response to the conditions in Nepal, LWR has thus far Since the April 25 earthquake, LWR has been implementing Icommitted close to $2.5 million for a year and a half to projects to address food security, non-food items (NFIs) meet the immediate relief and long-term recovery needs of and material resources (MR), shelter, early recovery and five earthquake-affected VDCs2 in Lamjung and one in Gorkha, livelihoods, and quality and accountability (Q&A). We are reaching more than 23,000 people in total. LWR will continue informed by needs assessments, coordination with other to actively fundraise in order to extend our reach in four of humanitarian actors, and input from local partners, local these five communities as they transition from emergency government officials and the affected people themselves. relief to early recovery and long-term rehabilitation. • Blockade of India-Nepal border • LWR begins Cash-for-Work activities continues. Fuel, medicines, and other • LWR trains additional partner necessary goods are not entering staff on quality and accountability Nepal, and supplies are running low • First earthquake strikes Nepal • LWR begins working with new • LWR assists partners in implementing • LWR assesses the targeted • LWR headquarters and regional local partner, SSICDC, on temporary feedback mechanisms for projects in VDCs to gauge the beneficiaries’ staff deploy to support the response shelter in Gorkha District every targeted VDC readiness to transition into early • LWR and COPPADES staff conduct • LWR provides CGI sheets to • LWR forms additional farmers livelihood recovery rapid needs assessments in 1,708 households and cash transfers groups in Lamjung, now totaling 27, • The continuing blockade forces LWR Lamjung and Gorkha to 577 households for the construction as well as in Gorkha, totaling 9, to postpone some activities that • LWR coordinates response with local of temporary shelter in preparation for livelihood require fuel and supplies, which government and other INGOs/ NGOs • Monsoon season begins recovery activities are no longer available APRIL 2015 JUNE 2015 AUGUST 2015 OCTOBER 2015 MAY 2015 JULY 2015 SEPTEMBER 2015 • LWR distributes 2,914 food packs, each • LWR begins distribution of soybean • Monsoon season ends sufficient for 15 days of consumption seeds to support early recovery • India begins unofficial blockade for a family of five; 9,240 Quilts; 1,000 of agricultural livelihoods and of Nepal border Personal Care Kits; tarpaulins to provide food security • LWR trains COPPADES and SSICDC staff temporary shelter for 4,699 households; • LWR completes a post-distribution on the participatory tools to and 100 water filtration units for schools satisfaction survey on its relief items use when gauging the community’s ability • Second earthquake strikes Nepal • LWR continues the local procurement to transition into early livelihood recovery • LWR trains local partner, COPPADES, and distribution of CGI sheets • LWR steps up food security and livelihood staff on quality and accountability • LWR forms 12 farmers groups in rehabilitation activities during emergencies Lamjung District in preparation for • LWR trains farmers on new farming • LWR releases the Earthquake Response livelihood recovery work to take place technologies and crop diversification Interim Strategy document after the monsoon season ends 2 A VDC, or Village Development Committee, is the village or municipal level of government administration in Nepal. A district is made up of several VDCs, and each VDC has several wards LWR EMERGENCY DISTRIBUTION FOOD PACKS CASH TRANSFER 2,914 HOUSEHOLDS 577 HOUSEHOLDS QUILTS TARPULINS 9,240 QUILTS 4,699 TARPS KITS CGI SHEETS 1,000 KITS 1,708 HOUSEHOLDS WATER FILTRATION UNITS SEEDS 100 UNITS 2,963 HOUSEHOLDS • LWR continues cash-for-work activities4 • LWR continues cash-for-work activities • LWR provides agriculture seeds, tools, • LWR begins training farmers on how • LWR provides agriculture seeds, and other inputs as well as livestock to map and access potential markets tools, and other inputs • The trainings on the construction of • LWR provides agriculture seeds,tools, • LWR continues trainings on improved earthquake resilient houses continues and other inputs as well as livestock agriculture and livestock techniques • LWR continues to support the • LWR continues to support the • The trainings on the construction of preparation of community and preparation of community and earthquake resilient houses continues VDC-level DRR plans VDC-level DRR plans DECEMBER 2015 FEBRUARY 2016 APRIL 2016 NOVEMBER3 2015 JANUARY 2016 MARCH 2016 • LWR begins training masons in affected • LWR provides agriculture seeds, tools, • LWR continues cash-for-work activities communities on the construction of and other inputs as well as livestock • LWR provides agriculture seeds, earthquake resilient houses • LWR continues trainings on improved tools, and other inputs agriculture and livestock techniques • The trainings on the construction of • LWR conducts trainings on community- earthquake resilient houses continues based disaster risk reduction (DRR) • LWR trains the staff of local partners, • LWR supports the preparation of LWR Nepal and other INGOs on Sphere community and VDC-level DRR plans Minimum Standards for Emergencies 3 LWR planned to begin our support of permanent shelter reconstruction in November. However, the delayed start of the Government of Nepal’s National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) forced LWR to put these activities on hold until further guidance from the Government on INGO/NGO’s permanent shelter support was received. LWR expects to begin our permanent shelter support, in collaboration with the government, in April. 4 Given the severe extent to which main access roads, community buildings, and irrigation systems were damaged, LWR decided to continue cash-for-work activities in these areas at the communities’ request. ACT/Paul Jeffrey ACT/Paul INDIA-NEPAL BORDER BLOCKADE n September 20, 2015, Nepal adopted a new schools and businesses closed and most vehicles off constitution, which was eight years in the making. the streets. Other imported necessities, like cooking gas, OThough many Nepalese lauded it as a milestone medicines, and food staples, were in short supply, and the in their new democracy, some members of the Madhesi prices of what was available in the markets sky-rocketed. and Janajati ethnic minorities were angered over several The blockade, which dragged on from the end of September provisions, which, they said, would lead to their political and to early February, also severely crippled the recovery
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