Disaster Risk Reduction through School Project
Supporting Agency: Action Aid Nepal
Country: Nepal
Location within Country:Kathmandu Valley, Makwanpur, Rasuwa and Banke Districts
Project Period:October 2007- September 2009
The Program:
An MOU has been signed among National Society for Earthquake Technology – Nepal Action Aid Nepal, Centre for policy research and consultancy CPReC), Education Network (ED Net) and Disaster Preparedness Network (DPNet), to implement the Disaster Risk Reduction through School Program in 4 districts of Nepal. The overall goal of the project is to reduce people’s vulnerabilities to disasters by contributing towards the implementation of the Hyogo Framework whereas the objective is to make schools in higher disaster risk area, safer and enabling them to act as a locus for disaster risk reduction and to engage the education sector in the Hyogo Framework of Action(HFA).
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