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Nepal Hazard Risk Assessment
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The project team owes its deepest gratitude to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA), Government of Nepal for its immense support during the implementation of this project. MoHA facilitated the project through
constitution of the National Project Advisory Committee (PAC), encompassing all national technical departments including the Department of Health, the Department of Mines and Geology, the Department of Water
induced Disaster Prevention, the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, the Department of Agriculture and the National Planning Commission. The members of PAC provided full support throughout the project
implementation in terms of data provision and the development of the methodology. The project team extends warm gratitude to the Global Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction and the World Bank Nepal for providing
the necessary financial support to implement this project and develop the national risk profile of Nepal. This report will be one of the essential guiding tools for the implementation of disaster risk reduction measures in
Nepal.
The project team extends the greatest thanks to its project partners, the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute and the International Centre for Cooperation and Studies (CECI), for providing all technical support needed to
complete the project. This mutual technical cooperation and collaboration has rendered immense benefit to project outcomes, as well as furthering institutions in building their professional capacity. The International
Institute of Applied System Analysis (IIASA) has rendered its services in the development of economic modeling for disaster impacts. The team extends its heartiest thanks to the IIASA team for their support in
developing the economic model for Nepal.
The team would like to thank all stakeholders with whom the project team consulted with during the course of the implementation of this project. These interactions have greatly enriched the quality of the project
outcomes. We would like to thank all technical consultants and advisors, particularly Dr. KWD Nandalal for the floods hazard and risk assessment, Mr. Kamal Budhathoki for the drought hazard assessment, Mr.
Dharanidhar Gautam for the epidemic and disease mapping, Mr. Mahesh Nakarmi for the scoping the project needs and Mr. Ramhari Gaihare for the data collection and analysis.
The project team would like to thank all ADPC colleagues and staff who provided the necessary support for the development of the GIS based database, data analysis, report preparation and financial and administrative
support. The team extends gratitude to Ms. Emma Lovell and Ms. Katerina Telonis for all editorial support in bringing the report to its current format.
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