1. European Commission – DG ECHO
Humanitarian Aid & Civil Protection
DIPECHO South Asia
SPEAKING POINTS - NEPAL
DIPECHO Partners’ Meeting, Nepal, 2010

2. ANALYSIS OF CONTEXT AND PROBLEM
STATEMENT
The DP / DRR environment is evolving fast in
Nepal, particularly the legal framework.
Besides, numerous core issues have NOT
evolved.
→What are the major evolutions and what
priority issues did not evolve?

3. PRIORITIES: SECTORS &
REGIONS
5th
Action Plan priorities:
Hazards: Earthquakes, floods, landslides &
avalanches and droughts.
Geographical priorities:
• Districts affected by more than one hazards.
• Neglected areas/insufficient support.
• Coordination / Complementarities with ongoing
government / NGO activities & strengthening decision
making capacities.
• Limited follow up of previous operations / DIPECHO
projects.

4. PRIORITIES: SECTORS &
REGIONS
Hazards geographical prevalence:
• Earthquakes: Kathmandu valley
• Floods: Mid & far Western, Central & Eastern Terai
regions
• Landslides and Avalanche: West & Far-western hills
and Central & Eastern hills
• Drought: Mid & Far-western hills and Terai districts
bordering India
→WHAT HAS CHANGED SINCE 2008’
IDENTIFIED PRIORITIES?

5. Main issues in sector priorities
Local disaster management:
Early Warning Systems.
→What has evolved and how could it be scaled
up?
Capacity building.
→How to ensure adequate expertise in-country?
→Should we “rethink” capacity building
approaches?

6. Main issues in sector priorities
Institutional linkage & advocacy:
Whether “pilot” or more advanced, advocacy initiatives
are real but limited in scope and impact.
To effectively support the development of national
preparedness and response capacities, new ways of
advocacy and new partnerships must be found.
→How to ensure a significant impact through
advocacy?

7. Main issues in sector priorities
Institutional strengthening:
The national strategy does not translate into
mobilization of adequate human & material resources.
The coordination mechanisms remain insufficiently
effective in times of disasters.
The ECHO mandate leaves little room for interaction
with government bodies.
→How could DIPECHO strengthen institutional
capacities?

8. Main issues in sector priorities
National initiatives:
Large scale, nation-wide and long term multi-sector
initiatives are emerging (e.g. Flagships…).
There is an insufficient coordination at all levels, from
donors to implementing agencies, that do not allow
individual projects being fully part of a comprehensive
approach.
→How could DIPECHO work alongside such
initiatives?

9. Main issues in sector priorities
Education:
Many DIPECHO projects have a school component on
safety and preparedness.
Other projects interact with schools to build shelters.
No education policy systematically tackles DP in
schools.
→How can DIPECHO influence the education
sector policy?

10. Main issues in sector priorities
Infrastructures & mitigation:
Many DIPECHO projects have a mitigation works
component, whether structural or non-structural.
Pilots and researches have been done and
documented.
Replication remains limited, particularly from local
authorities.
→How to make mitigation a district development
priority?

11. Main issues in sector priorities
Cross-cutting issues:
Cross-cutting issues remain to often just “cross-
cutting”: gender, disabilities, vulnerable groups, global
campaigns...
They are not systematically tackled at all stages of the
projects.
Related achievements do not consist in “ticking
boxes”.
→How can cross-cutting issues become “core”
issues?

12. Replication of success stories
Many success stories have developed models that are
adequate, effective and affordable and that would
deserve to be replicated.
The replication of these models remains extremely
limited and, sometimes, inexistent.
Replication is particularly linked to awareness,
advocacy and coordination.
→Does replication need a strategy? Then, which
one?

13. Linking Relief, Rehabilitation and
Development
Where does DIPECHO stands in the LRRD concept?
Many different projects could bring different answers.
There is not a standard DIPECHO project but all
could, to some extent, be linked to other initiatives.
It is the responsibility of all stakeholders to make
these links effective and beneficial.
→Is there room for DIPECHO to “feed” a LRRD
approach?

14. All questions to be answered jointly in
view of a better and deeper impact on
forthcoming DIPECHO projects!