District Disaster Risk Management Plan for Siraha District
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Ministry of Agriculture Food and Agriculture and Cooperatives (MOAC) Organization of the United Nations Disaster Risk Management Plan Siraha 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) 2 Table of Contents Acronyms and Abbreviations Preface Executive Summary Pages 1. Introduction ....................................................................................................... 1 1.1. The Rationale for District Disaster Risk Management Plans ................................ 1 1.2. Objectives of the Siraha 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 Siraha ........................ 4 1.3.3. Data collection methods ............................................................................. 6 1.4. Layout of the Plan ......................................................................................... 9 1.5. The DDRMP in application........................................................................... 10 1.5.1. DDRMP as a Planning Document .............................................................. 10 1.5.2. Assumptions of the DDRMP ..................................................................... 10 2. DDRMP in context ............................................................................................ 11 2.1. Background ................................................................................................ 11 2.1.1. Risk of Disasters in Nepal ......................................................................... 11 2.1.2. National Scenario of Disasters ................................................................... 11 2.1.3. Agricultural Loss due to Disasters ............................................................. 12 2.1.4. Disasters and Climate Change ................................................................... 13 2.2. Institutional responses to disasters ................................................................. 14 2.2.1. International Framework and conventions................................................... 14 2.2.2. Implementation Strategy and Follow Up ..................................................... 16 2.3. Linking the National Strategy to the District Context ....................................... 17 3. Siraha DDRMP ................................................................................................... 18 3.1. Introduction to Siraha ................................................................................... 18 3.1.1. Geo-physical Settings............................................................................... 18 3.1.2. Configuration of Social Fabric .................................................................. 20 3.1.3. Natural Resource Endowment ................................................................... 20 3.1.4. Natural and Historical Landmarks ............................................................. 21 3.1.5. Livelihood Assets .................................................................................... 21 3.2. District Disaster Scenario ............................................................................. 22 3.2.1. Hazard analysis: Prioritization of hazards in the District ............................... 22 3.3. Impacts and Vulnerability Assessment ........................................................... 25 3.4. District Capacity Assessment ........................................................................ 31 3.4.1. Livelihood Assets .................................................................................... 31 3.4.2. Natural Resource Endowments .................................................................. 32 3.4.3. Household-level capabilities ..................................................................... 33 3.4.4. Public Service Facilities ........................................................................... 35 3.4.5. Institutional Capacity ............................................................................... 36 3.5. Action Plan ................................................................................................. 51 3.5.1. District priorities on disaster risk reduction ................................................. 51 3.5.2. Linkage between district and the National Priorities ..................................... 51 3.5.3. Overall recommendations ......................................................................... 53 3.6. Hazard Focus .............................................................................................. 54 3.7. Detailed Plan of Activities ............................................................................ 55 4. References ........................................................................................................ 67 5. Annexes ............................................................................................................ 70 Annex 1: Summary of National Plan for Disaster Risk Management ................................ 71 Annex 2: Standard Operating Procedures for District Departments and Agencies .............. 73 Annex 3: Schedule of Program .................................................................................... 80 Annex 4: Participants of PVA Exercise in Siraha District ......................................... 81 Annex 5: Field Tools Used for Detailed Planning ..................................................... 84 Annex 6: Contact Lists of Service Institutions ............................................................... 86 Annex 7: Central Level Cluster Details ....................................................................... 111 Annex 8: Name list of District Implementation Task Group (DTITG) ............................ 116 ii List of Tables Table 1: Aim, goals and objectives of Siraha's DDRMP inline with the HFA and National Strategy for Disaster Risk Management (NSDRM) in Nepal ................................................ 3 Table 2: Steps to assessing the disaster context of Siraha .................................................................. 5 Table 3: Information collection and management .............................................................................. 8 Table 4: Summary of Disaster Events between 1971 and 2007 in Nepal (Source: Dis-Inventar Database, NSET) ................................................................................................................. 12 Table 5: Major Losses in Agricultural Sector by Natural Disasters ................................................. 12 Table 6: Status of flood damage on major crops in Nepal during 2004 ((Bimonthly Bulletin of Crop and Livestock Situation, ABPSD and MoAC 2004) .................................................. 13 Table 7: Implementation of the strategy: Responsibility and Use by Different Stakeholders.......... 16 Table 8: National Strategy Priority Sectors ...................................................................................... 17 Table 9: Siraha (Lahan) climate ....................................................................................................... 18 Table 10: Siraha (Siraha) climate ..................................................................................................... 19 Table 11: Siraha (Lahan) Climate - graph ........................................................................................ 19 Table 12: Siraha (Siraha) climate - graph ......................................................................................... 20 Table 13: Topographical Distribution and Land Use (Area in ha.) (DADO 2009) .......................... 20 Table 14: Important Historical Landmarks in Siraha ....................................................................... 21 Table 15: Identified Hazards in the District ..................................................................................... 22 Table 16: Historical Account of major floods in Siraha ................................................................... 23 Table 17: Epidemic prone VDCs in Siraha District ......................................................................... 24 Table 18: Prioritized Hazards in Siraha District ............................................................................... 24 Table 19: Siraha priority hazards...................................................................................................... 25 Table 20: Siraha hazard calendar ..................................................................................................... 25 Table 21: Impacts and Vulnerability on Agriculture and Food Security .......................................... 26 Table 22: Impacts and Vulnerability on Health ................................................................................ 27 Table 23: Impacts and Vulnerability on Education .......................................................................... 28 Table 24: Impacts