| Mobile Masons actively engaged in the housing reconstruction of one of the vulnerable beneficiaries at ward-10, Belkotgadhi Rural Municipality, Nuwakot District using Hollow Concrete Block. She has received a second tranche of the housing grant from the Government of Nepal.
Photo Credit: Govinda Bhatta, Social Mobilizer Belkotgadhi, Nuwakot | | | Aayush Darlami Magar Mobile Mason
Khanikhola Rural Municipality, Kavrepalanchok | | | fEATURED TEchnical staff story: Aayush darlami magar, mobile mason at khanikhola rural municipality, kavrepalanchok Mr. Aayush Darlami Magar, a young and energetic Ayush is a mobile mason, who was deployed from DLPIU since February 2020. He works together with seven other mobile masons and two social mobilizers. As yet, under his leadership, house reconstruction of three vulnerable beneficiaries has completed. He thinks vulnerable house reconstruction can get its pace if the municipality and the DLPIU publish vulnerable beneficiaries list as early as possible. Read more... | | | | Ward No. 4, Suryabinayak Municipality, Lalitpur: Single storey with four roomed BMC house. The homeowner received all the tranches from a government housing grant. | | | | Ward 3, Jiri Municipality, Dolakha: Single storey house made up of stone in cement mortar on RCC bands with an attic. The homeowner has received all the tranches from the government housing grant. | | | | Ward 1, Tripurasundari Rural Municipality, Dhading: BMC single story house with two rooms is under construction. The house owner has received the second tranche from a government housing grant. | | | | Ward 1, Chandragiri Municipality, Kathmandu: One storey load bearing brick in cement mortar structure with CGI roof. Himalaya Dana Foundation supported house reconstruction. | | | | Ward 5, Khanikhola Rural Municipality, Kavrepalanchok: Stone in cement house. The house owner has received all the three tranches from the government housing grant. | | | | Ward 3, Makwanpurgadhi Rural Municipality, Makwanpur: Block Masonry single storey house with two rooms. The homeowner has received all three tranches from the Government Housing Grant. | | | | Ward 2, Rainas Municipality, Lamjung: Single storey brick masonry in cement mortar house. It is a two-room compliant house with horizontal and vertical RCC bands at all levels. House reconstruction is completed, and the house owner has also received all three tranches from the NRA. | | | | Ward-6, Mapee Dodhkoshi Rural Municipality, Solukhumbu: Stone in mud mortar with wooden band. The house owner received all three tranches and is in the process to receive a completion certificate. | | | | Ward 10, Belkotgadhi Rural Municipality, Nuwakot: Hollow Concrete Block Structure is under construction. The house owner has received a second tranche from Government Housing Grant. | | | | Ward 5, Panchpokhari Thangpal Rural Municipality, Sindhupalchowk: Load Bearing structure Stone and Mud Mortar Masonry with RCC bands. The Homeowner has received a second tranche from Government Housing Grant. | | | | Aayush Darlami Magar, Mobile Mason at Khanikhola Rural Municipality, Kavrepalanchok: A young and energetic Ayush is a mobile mason, who was deployed from DLPIU since February 2020. He has been continuously supporting and coordinating with beneficiaries of different wards inside the rural municipality for reconstruction and retrofitting. He never hesitates to seek technical guidance from municipal engineers. Municipal and ward officials genuinely appreciate his learning attitude and are impressed with his mason skills. He is also grateful towards Municipal Focal Engineer, Er. Keshab Raj Adhikari for giving technical guidance.
He works together with seven other mobile masons and two social mobilizers. Under his leadership, house reconstruction of three vulnerable beneficiaries has been completed. He pays tribute to his team for tirelessly working and municipal authorities for offering constant technical advice because of which they are able to succeed in rebuilding houses of vulnerable beneficiaries.
He thinks vulnerable house reconstruction can get its pace if the municipality and the DLPIU publish vulnerable beneficiaries list as early as possible. He is passionate about his work and shows dedication to house reconstruction of disadvantaged groups in his village. According to him, vulnerable beneficiaries have limited financial resources because of which they are unable to reconstruct houses on time. | | | Mr. Krishna Kumar Khatri, Resident of Jiri Municipality, Dolakha- Information Clinic (Story and Photo Credit-UNOPS): | | | Krishna K. Khatri is on top of the world these days. He is the first retrofitting beneficiary from Thalari Wada -8, Jiri Dolakha. He runs a shop in Jiri Bazaar with his wife and is a driver by profession. His house has been selected as a model house for retrofitting by Build Change. Engineering design of his house is made ready by engineers and all set for retrofitting. They are waiting for the right weather to bring in materials for the house since the roads are in bad condition after the rainfall. He shared his happiness with the BBC Media Action team and Build Change team and was happy to be setting a good example for his village. At first, he had no knowledge on retrofitting, but programmes by Millijuli Nepali and Baliyo Ghar gave him more knowledge on retrofitting. His name was on the list of beneficiaries for one lakh only. He then went to the ward office and applied to check whether his house is suitable for retrofitting. When he got information from a concerned person that his house was being selected for the retrofitting, he was happy and excited for making his damaged house in new and strong form. He said, "I am emotionally attached to my 18 years old house as I personally built this house. My family life started here, and my family now lives in the same house, so all memories are there in this house. I am glad that my old house remains the same but is new and stronger." He has invited BBC Media Action Team to re-visit his house after retrofitting work is completed. | | "Happy!! Going to leave temporary shelter"
Chanamati Sarki, 40, Tarakeshwar Rural Municipality ward number two, is a person with physical disability by birth. She needs regular support from others even for day-to-day work. | | The devastating earthquake had destroyed her house, which was constructed with the help of family members. After the destruction, she resided one complete year in tarpaulin accommodation, which was not comfortable for living. She had bad and painstaking experiences during the rainy season. She got some foods; the tarpaulin and some winterization kids had received during the response period through partner organization.
After this year, she got some CGI sheets for building temporary shelter. Her family members and neighbors had supported constructing temporary shelter. This was better to live in than the previous one, but it was more severe during winter and hot days. She was mostly affected by mosquitoes in the rainy season and was always in fear of other reptiles like snakes. She hoped to get support from families and neighbors but most of the neighbors were busy with their construction. Therefore, she did not get any support at that time. She also signed a partnership agreement for house reconstruction and received NPR 50,000 but could not start her construction. After some ease in the construction period, one of her family members supported construction until the DPC level, and she got access to the second tranche and she repaid all loans borrowed during DPC construction. DPC was completed before 2 years, but she did not receive any support.
Deepak Shakya, a local social mobilizer, raised her issue in the village. He informed villagers about the extra top up support of NPR 50,000 for vulnerable beneficiaries. Then, one of the family members came in support for reconstruction until the tranche release. Three mobile masons and two volunteers were also involved in construction up to roof level. Now she seems happy looking at the newly constructed house, which has more facility and comfort than temporary shelter. She feels more secure than the previous one. She shows her thankfulness to volunteers and mobile masons of reconstruction. | | "Shelter-Aalo Paalo" (Story Credit - NRCS)
"When I think about the earthquake now..." Parbati Ghale's voice trails off before she continues. "At the time, I thought my life was over. I was so worried – what would I do with my children, where would we live, how would I raise them without a husband who could earn? But now I'm at peace."
The April 2015 Nepal earthquake was particularly devastating for Parbati and her three sons. It took not only her home – as it did for 443 of the roughly 500 families living in the area of Thulogaun, Rasuwa – but also her husband's life. He was one of 54 people who died in this small hillside community on that spring afternoon.
Living in a temporary shelter built in the remains of her old home, Parbati wasn't sure how to start rebuilding. The NPR. 300,000/- shelter reconstruction grant from the Red Cross would help, but it wouldn't cover everything. Then, in February 2017, the Red Cross invited Parbati and her neighbours to a meeting".
They called us together and said: you should form a group," says Parbati. The idea wasn't a new one. For generations, families living on these steep, rocky slopes have taken turns helping each other with everything from harvesting crops to preparing for weddings to building houses. But in the aftermath of the earthquake, when every home in the area had been destroyed, everyone was at a loss where to even begin. The Red Cross team talked the homeowners through the rebuilding process, and helped them work out how much they could save if they took a 'parma' or "alo-palo" – literally turn by turn – approach, contributing unskilled labour to each other's build sites rather than hiring workers. Volunteers helped map out a rotating schedule. The Red Cross also helped motivate homeowners to join a group by providing a small stipend for snacks for each build team until the foundations were complete. This is part of the Utthan earthquake recovery program's community mobilization' approach, which helps communities articulate their needs and then find the resources – both from within their own community or from other sources – to address them.
The Alo Palo groups helped residents in Thulogaun unlock an underappreciated and overlooked resource: the power of women working together. Like in many other communities in Nepal, building is traditionally considered men's work. However, men are in short supply; some households, like Parbati's, are headed by widows or single mothers, and in many others the young men have gone abroad to earn money to send back to their families. Together, women found the confidence to work on build sites – breaking rocks for gravel, mixing and carrying cement, and digging foundations. "The Red Cross really advocated for involving women in the reconstruction," says Sushma Ghale, a member of the same Alo Palo group as Parbati.
Sushma and Parbati's neighbor and fellow group member Padam Bahadur Ghale estimated that he would have spent an additional NPR. 100,000/- on labour costs if his family hadn't decided to exchange labour. He's also proud that everyone in his group has a rebuilt home; "In our area, if a neighbor is in need, we don't just look after ourselves." Suntali Nepali, a member of another one of the 17 Alo Palo groups that formed all over Thulogaun, agrees. "It's because of these groups that the pace of rebuilding really picked up here," she says, "and it's made the bonds between neighbours even stronger."
"Without the labour exchange, I would only have had enough to rebuild if I took loans. But this way I didn't have to take loans, the reconstruction payments were enough," says Parbati. When the family was ready to move into their new, cement-and-brick two-room home, Parbati's school-aged sons made their own contribution: painting every single brick of the new house a different color. | | | Number of households switching to grant type (December 2020): This data has been collected from the DLPIU offices by the HRRP District Coordination Teams. It will be updated as more information is received. | | | Vulnerable Households Reconstruction (December 2020): Of the total 18,505 NRA identified vulnerable households, 89% (16,481) have received the first tranche, 65% (12,102) have received the second tranche and 58% (10,653) have received the third tranche. In total 2,698 HHs have been supported by various partner organizations. | | | Grievance Update: As of December 2020 , 25,431 grievances have been addressed by NRA, out of which 17,116 HHs have been enlisted as reconstruction beneficiaries and 8,315 as retrofitting beneficiaries. | | | Reconstruction Caseload Remaining (as of December 2020):
Retrofitting Caseload Remaining (as of December 2020):
Vulnerable Households Reconstruction Caseload Remaining (as of December 2020): Coverage of Socio Technical Assistance (as of December 2020): This is based on 5W data collection, December 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.
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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. | | | | |
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