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development intervention planning to save these children and the communities from being
fallen in the vicious of circle of poverty. There is no doubt that the prevention measures
are main concerned areas to be focused to avoid any natural calamity. As seen in the past
globally, not much attention given in regards, particularly in developing countries.
Moreover, there has not been enough debate socially yet in the design and the content of
any mitigation and rehabilitation development approach.
AJRACHARYA Rojan, Technical Review Group Pvt. Ltd., P. O. Box: 12558, Kathmandu,
Nepal, E-mail:
The Importance of Sound Education Delivery System for the Regular Schooling of the
Natural Disaster Affected Children: The Paradox of Far and Mid Western Regions of
Nepal
Nepal has high risk of Natural Disasters (ND) specifically - flooding and famine- and their
frequency is regular in Mid and Far Western Region (MFWR) of the country. So, the
children’s schooling is vulnerable in the region which consequently makes the children of
this region less competent and live fragile livelihood forever. Government of Nepal is
cognizant of this dearth and has brought out different measures for the regular schooling
in ND regions. Nevertheless, the country is not able to address the chaos schooling
situation in MFWR. Local Development Partners (LDP) of the region often complain the
government on undermining their suggestions, specifically, while designing the
development policies which consequently result the unfavourable outputs. In this regard,
the theme of the paper is to address the importance of sound education delivery system
for the regular schooling of the Natural Disaster Affected Children (NDAC) from MFWR of
Nepal. In consistence to this overall theme, the paper has following objectives: i) to
review the government policies and LDP’s measure that address the irregular schooling of
NDAC, ii) to analyze the impact made by both measures and iii) to conclude the effective
measures. Specifically, the study adopts deductive method and it is based on the
secondary information. The study finds that the measure of LDP is more affective to
address the irregular schooling of NDAC from MFWR. Specifically, the measures of the LDP
being generated within the communities of affected region are effectively implemented
despite of the limited funding. So the study concludes that the government needs to
borrow the ideas of LDP while designing education delivery system for NDAC.
BELLE, Joshua Okello, University of Nairobi, Kenya, E-mail:
The Effect of Flooding and Famine Cycle on Educational, Psychological and Social
Development of Children
In recent decades, Kenya has experienced natural calamities in form of prolonged drought,
famine and flooding regimes. This has affected about 3.5 million people in north eastern
parts, while putting about 10 million people under threat of starvation. Most parts of
Kenya have registered high levels of rainfall and a number of people have been reported
dead due to floods, crops damaged, roads made impassable, communities displaced, and
drinking water sources contaminated by over flown pit latrines. The objective of this study
was to determine the impact of flooding, drought and famine on children’s educational,
social and psychological development. The study areas were done in AdhuKulu in north
eastern Kenya, at a village in Kalach and eastern parts of Kenya, mainly Makueni,
Machakos and Kitui districts, and in western Kenya, especially Budalangi and Kano plains.
Case studies on drought and famine indicated that children dropped out of school due to
hunger. Starvation also weakens their body resistance to opportunistic diseases. Suicides
and attempted suicides were often common due to grief, and fear of eminent death.
Flooding has caused destruction of schools, homes, and access roads rendering education