completed· Health

Strengthening the Health Sector Response Capacity in Kathmandu valley.

The proposed action is a continuation of DIPECHO VI and VII and it focuses more on consolidating the achievements of previous interventions ensuring a greater ownership by the Government authority. The main objective of the intervention is to enhance the response capacity of health authorities, health institutions and community to provide medical service during and immediately after the disaster. The specific objective of action is to strengthen health response system to reduce the preventable mortality, morbidity and disease associated with the mass casualty incidents in Kathmandu Valley. Selection of project intervention area and beneficiaries was guided by the disaster vulnerability, existing response capacity and strategic importance in terms of setting up examples for future replication.