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About NSET
National Society for Earthquake Technology-Nepal (NSET) is a community of Nepali professionals belonging to various physical and social sciences with a common goal of contributing towards disaster risk management. It is a multidisciplinary professional society registered with the Government of Nepal as a Not-for-Profit Non-Government Organization. NSET was founded by a group of professionals on June 18, 1993, with the vision of contributing to build "Earthquake Safe Communities in Nepal by 2020". An interim Management Committee was then formed comprising eminent persons Mr. Shiva Bahadur Pradhanang as President, Mr. Amod Mani Dixit as General Secretary; and Mr. Jyoti Prasad Pradhan, Mr. Madhav Raj Pandey, Ms. Shanti Malla, Mr. Mukunda Prakash Singh Pradhan, Mr. Mahesh Nakarmi, Mr. Yogeshwor Krishna Parajuli and Mr. Shreeram Singh Basnet as Members.
NSET was founded for the broad but very explicit cause of ensuring earthquake safety in the hazard-prone urban as well as backward societies of Nepal and contributing to the regional and global level at large. NSET has had rich experiences and lessons gathered from working in the field of earthquake risk management in the past 3 decades and we believe that such experiences, knowledge, and lessons could be leveraged effectively in managing multi-hazard risks. In addition, the focus of global and national frameworks related to disaster resilience has encapsulated the aspects of multi-hazard risk management. NSET, hence envisioned to widen, deepen, and scale up its area of contribution in enhancing disaster resilience of communities.
Building upon the achievements made, NSET has developed 10-year Strategic Plan (2021-2030) with the idea to expand its scope and works to managing multi-hazard situations, climate change adaptation and risk management, and integrate this synthesis of disaster risk management (DRM) and Climate Risk Management (CRM) into economic development efforts.
VISION & MISSION
VISION
"Disaster Resilient Communities in Nepal by 2050"
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STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES
Our Strategic Objectives are our priority areas of achievement to be accomplished within 2030. During 2021-2030, NSET will focus on the following strategic objectives which are connected to our...
MORENSET HISTORY/ACTIVITIES
1988
Udaypur Earthquake
• 721 deaths
• 22 districts of eastern Nepal affected
• Total direct loss of 5 billion rupees
• Earthquake...
VALUE
NSET has been guided by its institutional beliefs, values and principles developed internally and adopted from good practices of various institutions; local, regional and/or global.
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CORE IDEOLOGIES AND VALUES
We at NSET, in order to enjoy enduring success through institutionalization of intended impacts in the communities in long term, have absolute clarity in our core values and a core purpose that...
MORESTRATEGIC INTENT
Our strategic intent is what defines our "winning" and obsession towards it at all levels of the organization and we would like to sustain that obsession for decades.
1. Our envisioned...
STRATEGIC GOALS AND PRIORITIES 2021-2030
In order to pursue our strategic intent, to accomplish our mission and to realize our vision; followings are the strategically prioritized goals we shall strive to achieve by 2030.
