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Summary

Published in 2023 by the Center for Excellence in Disaster Management & Humanitarian Assistance (CFE-DMHA), this handbook offers a foundational overview of Nepal’s disaster management architecture. It highlights the key national entities involved in humanitarian assistance and disaster response, including the armed forces, and outlines major disasters over the past decade. The guide emphasizes Nepal’s seismic and monsoon-related vulnerabilities and underlines the country’s decentralized, bottom-up approach to disaster risk governance, emphasizing local-level resilience through its post-2015 federal structure.