Lead organisation: Lutheran World Relief (LWR)
Partners
- Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC)
- DanChurchAid (DCA)
- Grameen Development Services (GDS)
- Integrated Development Foundation (IDF)
- Koshi Victim Society (KVS)
- SAHAMATI
- Yale University Himalaya
Lutheran World Relief (LWR) has worked with communities across the Nepal-India border to boost their ability to absorb, adapt, and transform in the face of annual floods. Building on a successful 2016 pilot, the project focused on integrated strategies to improve Early Warning Systems (EWS), Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and building resilient livelihoods through cross-border community-based structures. The project has also bolstered the capacity to document and influence policy at the national and regional level through working with the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC).
Key Achievements:
- 107 Community Disaster Management Committees (CDMCs) functional in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Early Warning System (EWS)
- Over 75,000 people received real time flood early warning information
- More than 3,000 households adopted and applied flood resilient tools
- The project was acknowledged by the Governments of Nepal and India An MoU with Department of Hydrology and Meteorology in Nepal was signed to strengthen the flood early warning system for five years
- Over 85 savings and credit cooperatives providing financial services.
- Two Trans-boundary citizen forums have been established to empower communities to take on policy advocacy with local level government
- More than 3,500 HHs have purchased agricultural insurance policies