Renewable energy plays a crucial role in diminishing reliance on fossil fuels, lowering energy expenses, fostering local employment, and enhancing climate resilience, but only if well-designed policies are in place to address multiple barriers.
By Dr. Dhruba Gautam Mar 04, 2024
Operationalizing Nepal’s NAP requires the institutionalization of a monitoring, review, and reporting (MR&R) system by building the capacities of human resources, improving data management, ensuring the regular maintenance and operation of the MR&R online platform, and accessing the climate finance needed to foster a climate-resilient society.
By Dr. Dhruba Gautam Jan 09, 2024
Building resilience to climate change in the Pacific region necessitates adopting comprehensive strategy that encompasses both policy and programmatic measures. The integration of public-private partnerships, regional cooperation, solidarity, and collaborative efforts in research and knowledge management serves as additional crucial components in advancing this initiative.
By Dr. Dhruba Gautam Jan 04, 2024
Despite its exposure to multiple natural hazards, Nepal has a very strong foundation for building its resilience to disasters, especially if it manages to reform the few characteristics of its disaster risk reduction and management system that still need improving.
By Dr. Dhruba Gautam Aug 22, 2022
While Nepal is currently beset by multiple natural hazards, it is making good progress in preparing itself to prevent them from turning into natural disasters through measures as varied as institutionalizing local emergency operation centers, training officials and community members, warehousing supplies, and facilitating shelters.
By Dr. Dhruba Gautam Aug 09, 2022
The formulation of social security-led plans and programs, development of asocio-economic recovery package, and recovery strategy will be instrumental to securing the social and economic rights of Nepal’s most-at-risk populations and to scaling up social protection to those threatened by COVID-19.
By Dr. Dhruba Gautam Jun 11, 2020
To reduce the impacts of fire in Nepal, Nepal needs to build the capacity of fire stations and fire fighters in fire preparedness and response mechanisms, establish operation and maintenance fund, enforce policy provisions, and mainstream good practices and learning in local government acts, regulations and strategies.
By Dr. Dhruba Gautam May 14, 2020