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Nepal Risk Reduction Consortium (NRRC) was launched by the Government of Nepal (GoN) and a group of international organizations working to promote the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) in 2009. It exists to bridge the spectrum of development and humanitarian partners in order to support the Government of Nepal in taking action to implement long-term Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). The founding members of the NRRC were the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) and the World Bank. Since 2009, new NRRC members have included AusAid, the Department for International Development (DFID), the Humanitarian Aid Department of the European Commission (ECHO), the embassy of Japan, the US Embassy and the World Health Organization (WHO). The NRRC has developed a Disaster Risk Reduction Action Plan that builds on the GoN (National Strategy for Disaster Risk Management ) (NSDRM). Based on consultations with key stakeholders to identify disaster risk reduction priorities that are urgent and viable, five flagship areas were identified and proposed. Consortium members act as coordinators of these flagship areas together with the relevant Government Ministry. Location: P.O. Box 107 Kathmandu, Nepal〔Google Map, http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&gs_upl=40815l42662l2l42872l8l8l2l0l0l1l634l1907l0.1.1.1.1.1l5l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&biw=1280&bih=879&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=UN+house+kathmandu+map&fb=1&gl=ca&hq=UN+house&hnear=0x39eb198a307baabf:0xb5137c1bf18db1ea,Kathmandu,+Nepal&ei=yexJTufcGIrlrAeblo2pBw&sa=X&oi=local_result&ct=image&ved=0CAQQtgM&cid=0,0,4497539922919347844〕 == Background == Nepal is one of the 20 most disaster prone countries in the world with a high level of exposure to multiple hazards, most prominently earthquakes, floods, landslides, windstorms, hail storm, fire, glacial lake outburst floods (GLOF) and avalanches. Natural disasters have claimed the lives of more than 27,000 people between 1971 and 2007, indicating an average loss of more than 2 lives per day due to natural disasters. More people are killed by natural disasters in Nepal than any other country in South Asia. In addition to high mortality, more than 50,000 people were reported as injured, 3,000 people missing and about 5 million people affected by natural disasters from 1971-2007.〔Disaster Risk Reduction in Nepal: Flagship Programmes, The Nepal Risk Reduction Consortium. April 2011. http://www.un.org.np/sites/default/files/report/2011-04-19-nrrc-doccument-version-april-2011.pdf〕 While all of 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 (up to MMI Scale X) occurs approximately every 75 years, with the last one in 1934.〔Nepal Country Report: Global Assessment of Risk. ISDR Global Assessment Report on Poverty and Disaster 2009. http://www.undp.org.np/uploads/publication/2010102909383499.pdf〕 Although this only a statistical estimate, it demonstrates that major earthquakes are an unavoidable part of Nepal’s future. If Kathmandu Valley experiences another earthquake of MMI Scale X, conservative estimates indicate a minimum of 40,000 deaths with 95,000 injuries, 600,000-900,000 homeless and serious damage to critical infrastructure that will reduce operational capacity by more than 50 per cent.〔Nepal Country Report: Global Assessment of Risk. ISDR Global Assessment Report on Poverty and Disaster 2009. http://www.undp.org.np/uploads/publication/2010102909383499.pdf〕 As the population continues to grow in Kathmandu alongside a lack of proper land use planning and construction practices and minimal emergency response mechanisms, the effects of a major earthquake will only become more devastating. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nepal Risk Reduction Consortium」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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