International Recovery Platform

This report focuses on the first five months after the Nepal Earthquakes of 2015 and reviews the current legal and institutional framework for disaster risk management in Nepal and highlights its gaps and limitations in the context of the recent disaster.

IRP Herald Volume 13 is the knowledge report for the workshop on “Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation into Development Policies and Planning”, the IRP Strategy Retreat, and the annual report meeting for the DRA.

This report presents the outcome of a project carried out with the aim to establish an efficient system of infection surveillance to cover all of the clinics in Rikuzen-Takata of Japan in the wake of the the Great East Japan Earthquake – using only the resources that were locally available: The project also aimed to maintain this system until most of the evacuation centres would be closed.