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Summary

Authored by a Ministry of Home Affairs researcher under the ADRC Visiting Researcher Program, this comprehensive country profile outlines Nepal’s disaster risk landscape, including its varied hazards, institutional frameworks, and legal instruments. It covers constitutional and statutory mandates (e.g., DRRM Act 2017), the National DRR Strategic Plan (2018–2030), policy alignment with international frameworks like Sendai, and decentralized governance post-federalization. It also highlights ongoing challenges, such as mainstreaming DRR, institutional capacity building, and local implementation, and the way forward for more resilient national planning.