HRRP Bulletin Housing Recovery and Reconstruction Platform, Nepal FAQs | Briefing Pack | Meeting & Events | 5W | Housing Progress | Housing Typologies 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. 15 April 2019 Page 1 of 17 HRRP Bulletin Housing Recovery and Reconstruction Platform, Nepal 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 15 April 2019 Page 2 of 17 HRRP Bulletin Housing Recovery and Reconstruction Platform, Nepal 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 15 April 2019 Page 3 of 17 HRRP Bulletin Housing Recovery and Reconstruction Platform, Nepal 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