increasing resilience of school students through sbdrr
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Background Nepal is at risk of one or more natural disasters, the Kathmandu Valley is particularly vulnerable to a major earthquake. The seismic record of the country suggests that a major earthquake of high magnitude occurs approximately every 80 years, with the most recent one on 25 April 2015. This demonstrates that major earthquakes are an unavoidable part of Nepal’s future. As the population of Kathmandu is increasing rapidly there is a immediate need of proper preparedness and planning to reduce the risk of future probable mega disasters.TRANSCRIPT
Increasing resilience of School students through SBDRR* orientation program
Seventh Youth Looking Beyond Disaster (LBD7) Action Plan
A plan to empower children and Youths of Schools.
Nepal
*School-Based Disaster Risk Reduction
By Binod Parajuli, Deepak Kushwaha, Shivahari Mainali
Background
Nepal is at risk of one or more natural disasters, the Kathmandu Valley is particularly vulnerable to a major earthquake. The seismic record of the country suggests that a major earthquake of high magnitude occurs approximately every 80 years, with the most recent one on 25 April 2015. This demonstrates that major earthquakes are an unavoidable part of Nepal’s future. As the population of Kathmandu is increasing rapidly there is a immediate need of proper preparedness and planning to reduce the risk of future probable mega disasters.
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Rationale A study of school earthquake safety in 2003 by Nepal Risk Reduction Consortium revealed that of the 1,100 buildings in 643 public schools in Kathmandu Valley, over 60% were at risk of collapse during a major earthquake. In the 2015 earthquake this prediction proved correct.
It’s fortunate that recent earthquake occurred on a Saturday when there were no classes, so the loss of lives in schools and colleges were less.Several studies suggest that if another mega earthquake occurs in near future it will claim more lives for sure. To reduce this vulnerability there is immediate need to increase the resilience of the schools and school students through capacity building and empowerment.
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Objectives
o Enhance knowledge and skills of the Students and School Staff on basic concepts of Disaster Risk Management.
o Develop basic understanding to Student and School Staff on the disaster risk management cycle.
o Identify the hazards of Schools, Vulnerable School areas, risks and capacities of the School to develop Disaster Preparedness plans in future.
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Expected Outcomes5
o School staff and Students strengthened their knowledge and skills on DRM and CCA.
o School staff and Students will be aware of the Participatory tools and techniques, and some basic terminologies, i.e. hazards, vulnerability, risk and capacities of their Schools and are ready to plan for disaster risk management.
Activities1. Orientation on concept of disasters and disaster
preparedness
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o First phase of the program will be the coordination and finalization of the at least 10 schools around Kathmandu valley and we will make a series of orientation programs in close coordination with schools and conduct the orientation programs. This will help us to understand the basic concept of DRR and preparedness measures.
Activities2. Formation of Child and youth club in schools
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o To sustain the program and the knowledge we deliver in the first phase we will form a club of young people including at least 11 students and one focal teacher to guide them. They will be continuously engaged in DRR related activities.
Activities3. Mock Drill
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o To enhance the understanding of the students and teachers about disaster and disaster risk management, we will organize mock drills creating the scenario of earthquake.
Implementation plan9
Activities 2015 2016
Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun July Aug Sept Oct
Coordination and Communication
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Planning and finalization of orientation materials
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Orientation Program* √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √
Monitoring and Evaluation √ √
Final report Preparation and Submission to stakeholders
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Budget10
S.N Name of Activity Unit Number Days Rate /Per Day Total (USD)
1 Coordination and communication Days 3 60 $5 $900
2Material collection and resource preparation Days 3 60 $5 $900
3 Transportation Days 3 60 $2 $360
4Stationary packs
Number 10 schools $50 $500
Total $2660
Management of Funds11
o Approach NGOs/ INGOs in the field of School based disaster risk reduction.
o Coordination with like-minded youth networks and see if we can co-organize the program to reduce the cost.
o Volunteers provide in-kind support and their time.
Monitoring12
o Formation of Joint monitoring committees including our team, school teachers and students itself.
o Final monitoring will be done at the end of the all the planned activities and a short evaluation report will be prepared.
Estimated framework of a monitoring committee (One per school)• 3 members from our team• 5 from students (from each school)• 3 teachers from each school
Indicators of Success13
o Child or youth clubs formed in the schools
o Students have basic understanding on Disaster Risk Reduction and Preparedness Measures (survey)
o Short disaster management plan of school is in place
Challenges14
o Lack of funds.o Gap in coordination and
communication.o Since most of the schools are
partially and completely devastated by recent earthquakes, the orientation program might be affected.
Contact details
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Binod Prasad Parajulibinodpparajuli@gmail.com9779849476569www.binodparajuli.com.np
Shivahari Mainali( Sital)[email protected], Nepal
Deepak Prasad [email protected], Nepal