| Om Prakash Yadav Engineer
Manahari Rural Municipality, Makwanpur | | | fEATURED TEchnical staff story: Om Prakash Yadav, engineer Om Prakash Yadav, has been working as an engineer in Manahari Rural Municipality for the past 2.5 years and is also a member of Retrofit Task Force in the same Municipality.
The main issues in Manahari Rural Municipality are the reconstruction of landless households and retrofitting. Many of the houses in this area are timber-framed hybrid structures. Generally, the ground floor is of hollow concrete block with wooden posts infill and the first floor is timber structure causing challenges in retrofitting.
Though challenges exist, Mr. Yadav is determined and hopeful that with continued support from the local government, he will be able to achieve full reconstruction in Manahari Rural Municipality. Read more... | | | | Ward No 5, Konjyosom Rural Municipality, Lalitpur: Single storey, three-roomed brick in cement mortar structure. The homeowner has received all three tranches of the Government housing grant. | | | | Ward 5, Ghyanglekh Rural Municipality, Sindhuli: Single storey, two-roomed load bearing stone in mud mortar with an attic. The homeowner has received the second tranche of the Government housing grant. | | | | Ward 5, Siddhalekh Rural Municipality, Dhading: Single storey, two-roomed,stone in mud mortar Structure. The homeowner has received all three tranches of the Government housing grant. The total cost of construction was 450,000 NPR. | | | | Ward 6, Shankarapur Municipality, Kathmandu: Four storey load bearing brick in mud mortar structure plus attic. The house is enlisted in the retrofit grant list. The homeowner has added extra elements such as veranda and one storey of brick in cement mortar which makes the house vulnerable and not feasible for retrofitting. | | | | Ward 12, Panchkhal Municipality, Kavrepalanchok: Two-roomed, RCC framed structure. The homeowner has received a second tranche and applied for the third tranche of the Government housing grant. The total cost of construction was 14,00,000 NPR. | | | | Ward 5, Manahari Rural Municipality, Makwanpur: A hybrid structure, ground floor is of HCB and the upper storey made up of timber. The homeowner has received both the tranches that is 100,000 NPR of Government retrofitting grants. Splint and bandage technique was used to retrofit the house. The total cost of retrofitting was 150,000 NPR. | | | | Ward 3, Kalika Rural Municipality, Rasuwa: Originally, the house was single storey, two roomed bricks in cement mortar (red one on the left). However, the homeowner modified the house by adding a single room on the side and a storey on the top making the house L-shaped. The homeowner has received all three tranches of the Government housing grant. | | | | Ward 10, Besisahar Municipality, Lamjung: Single storey, two-roomed stone in mud mortar house with CGI roofing. The homeowner has received a second tranche of the Government housing grant. The house does not have roof bands thus is non-compliant and is also situated in a landslide-prone zone. | | | | Ward 9, Likhu Rural Municipality, Okhaldhunga: Single storey, two-roomed stone in mud mortar house with RCC bands and CGI roofing. The homeowner has received all tranches of the Government housing grant as well as the completion certificate. | | | 
Helping hands makes vulnerable life easy Chintamani Paudel, from Kalika rural Municipality ward no. 5, Rasuwa aged 78, has had a physical disability since his young age. This may lead him to single for his entire life. He might have an imagination of family life in his age, he enjoyed his affectionate life only with his parents. After the demise of his parents, his brother lived separately, no one had supported him as family, but the community had supported him for his regular needs. He used to support some household needs of hand crafts, so people supported him.
His brother and other community people had supported him to build a two-story house at that time. Gorkha Earthquake 2015 destroyed his house. At that time most of the house was destroyed so people could not help him properly. Humanitarian organizations supported him with a temporary shelter. A different organization assisted his food and winterization needs. He waited for support for his house for the next two years.
Finally, Nepal Red cross Society (NRCS) selected him as a vulnerable beneficiary for a model house. There was provision of extra support of 50k as top up. He was listed as reconstruction beneficiary. NRCS has conducted masons' on- job-training (OJT) for local masons. The beneficiary provided materials from the government tranche, and the reconstruction was completed in a planned time frame.
Now he is living in the reconstructed house, which is sufficient for him. His former house was made of stone and mud mortar. The new one is brick and cement mortar with bands. He thinks this is more reliable and stronger during disasters. He spent two years in temporary shelter that was less protective through extreme weather conditions. Based on the observation of Social Mobilizer, Saraswati Dhakal, he seems happier and more satisfied. He used to get social security allowances regularly, but this was not adequate, and seeks more support for his regular medication and food. She clarified that the cost of construction was around 4 Lakh, and some support was made from local people as well to finish his house. | | 
Ms. Dil Maya Kami, is a regular beneficiary of NRA, who is eligible for 3 lakhs government grant. She lives at Kami dada, Bocha, Bhimeshwor Urban Municipality ward no. 8, Dolakha District. She is 72 years old. Her main source of income is farming and animal husbandry. After the 2015 Gorkha earthquake that collapsed her house, given to her by her father, Dilmaya Kami survived in one single room, sharing it with her two goats for nearly 2 years. She was never married and had been living on her own. She is not included under the vulnerable beneficiary group, but she is financially poor to conduct the reconstruction of her house from the NRA housing grant support. She is very thankful for the support from UNDP to reconstruct her house. She is confident of the strength and durability of the new house. She first refused to accept the help from UNDP, when her name was chosen as one of the beneficiaries by the Ward Selection Committee. She was afraid that she would not be able to help UNDP complete the work because she was alone.
Therefore, her stance was that the support (which was thought to be only cash as the government tranche support) alone will not be able to construct the house. Consequently, she asked to cancel her name from the list. But with the assurance that UNDP provided, which is, not just to provide tranche but start from scratch supporting her with labour, technical and in-kind support and help access to government grants. She shares: "I can't express how happy I am with the house (showing the grains being dried at her front yard) that allows me to dry my field yield products and live till I die." She received her third tranche in August 2018. | | | Vulnerable Households Reconstruction (August 2020): Of the total 18,505 NRA identified vulnerable households, 88% (16,301) have received the first tranche, 64% (11,842) have received second tranche and 55% (10,214) have received third tranche. In total 2,698 HHs have been supported by various partner organizations. Grievance Update: As of 28 August 2020 , 25,423 grievances have been addressed by NRA of which 17, 108 HHs have been enlisted as Reconstruction beneficiaries and 8,315 as Retrofitting beneficiaries.
| | | Reconstruction Caseload Remaining (31 Aug 2020):
Retrofitting Caseload Remaining (31 Aug 2020):
Vulnerable Households Reconstruction Caseload Remaining (31 Aug 2020):  The recovery profiles contain various updates on the reconstruction and recovery at the Municipal level for all 282 earthquake-affected municipalities . The municipalities are updating the profiles on a monthly basis with technical support from HRRP.
|  These highlights the reconstruction and retrofitting progress in all 32-earthquake affected districts at the municipal level. This data is updated by HRRP district staff in close coordination with municipal focal persons. The links will be automatically updated to provide the reconstruction snapshot (PDF) for the month. |  [CSV] , [PDF] A composite data-set for 282 municipalities (urban status, damage grade, reconstruction, retrofitting and vulnerable HHs as identified by NRA can be assessed here as CSV and PDF. The data-set is updated by the municipalities with support from HRRP. | | | HRRP conducted its fourth phase (August 2019- July 2021) Partner Satisfaction Survey (PSS) during the month of July-August with the objective of gathering feedback on HRRP activities, to assess how HRRP is working with its partners, and get to understand the perception of stakeholders involved in the platform. The preliminary results from the total 192 PSS respondents comprised of GoN (75%); INGOs (10%) and NGOs (9%) followed by UN (2%) and Private Sector (2%), Donor (1%) and others (1%): - 88% stated that they have improved capacity for decision making to support vulnerable households;
- 50% stated that they are involved in coordination meetings followed by interaction and sharing events (36%) and joint monitoring visits (34%);
- 44% stated that they have EHRP MIS to access recovery and reconstruction information; followed by 5W (31%) and NRA PMIS (23%)
- 42% stated that they have used Palika Profile to access recovery and reconstruction information;
- 70% stated that technical guidelines, policies and procedures have helped in easy access to reconstruction information;
- 60% agreed that improved coordination and collaboration contributed to reduced gaps and duplication of reconstruction activities followed by strongly agree (9%), neutral (26%), and disagree (4%);
- 62 % are aware about reconstruction libraries supported by HRRP.
*The detailed PSS report will be shared in the next bulletin for your kind information. | | National Reconstruction Authority (NRA), International Conference Secretariat, has requested all the Authors who are contributing to writing scientific research papers, as part of documenting Nepal's recovery and reconstruction efforts, to submit revised research papers by 15 September, 2020. To access scientific research papers, click here. | | | |
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