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development strategies including regulatory and nonregulatory planning tools, byelaws, regulations, and procedures. The program is an initiative of Earthquakes and
Megacities Initiative (EMI), German Committee for Disaster Reduction (DKKV),
Kathmandu Metropolitan City, Kathmandu Valley Town Planning Committee, and
National Society for Earthquake Technology.
10.4.2 RSLUP of Kathmandu Valley UNDP 2015–2016,
Kathmandu Valley
The hazard, vulnerability, and risk information are fully integrated into the latest
RSLUP of Kathmandu Valley 2015. UNDP’s Comprehensive Disaster Risk Management Program supported this initiative. It intended to serve as driving parameters in
building the vision, strategies, programs, project, and activities contained therein. It
should be the benchmark document that hopes to fill an important gap in directing
and controlling sensible development in intended cities. The RSLUP of KV is only
approved by Kathmandu Valley Development Authority and sent to ministry council
for endorsement. Still, it has not endorsed formally. Other RSLUPs are only in
the report format and no further steps have initiated to implement by the implementing agency. RSLUP document is important and should be referred by planners,
policymakers, and the government authorities for urban development.
10.4.3 Assessment of Earthquake Disaster Risk
for the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal, 2018
The Project for Assessment of Earthquake Disaster Risk for the Kathmandu Valley
in Nepal was supported by Japan International Cooperation Agency including
consulting companies from Japan in April 2018. Comparing the high risk of a future
earthquake in Kathmandu Valley, countermeasures such as the retrofitting of buildings for seismic resistance, land use control, and observance of the National Building
Code have not been promoted enough. It becomes a necessary and urgent issue to
update the risk assessment for future development plans and policies concerned with
disaster risk management. In this circumstance, the project was created with the main
components of seismic hazard assessment, seismic risk assessment, and formulation
of local disaster and climate resilience plans. The seismic hazard and risk assessment were carried out for the whole Kathmandu Valley and pilot activities targeted
on three pilot municipalities: Lalitpur metropolitan city, Bhaktapur municipality, and
Budhanilkantha municipality.
Seismic risk assessment was carried out for the purpose of providing basic information for the formulation of disaster risk reduction and management plans of pilot
municipalities, as the update of the risk assessment results of 2002 JICA project
C. L. Hada et al.
development strategies including regulatory and nonregulatory planning tools, byelaws, regulations, and procedures. The program is an initiative of Earthquakes and
Megacities Initiative (EMI), German Committee for Disaster Reduction (DKKV),
Kathmandu Metropolitan City, Kathmandu Valley Town Planning Committee, and
National Society for Earthquake Technology.
10.4.2 RSLUP of Kathmandu Valley UNDP 2015–2016,
Kathmandu Valley
The hazard, vulnerability, and risk information are fully integrated into the latest
RSLUP of Kathmandu Valley 2015. UNDP’s Comprehensive Disaster Risk Management Program supported this initiative. It intended to serve as driving parameters in
building the vision, strategies, programs, project, and activities contained therein. It
should be the benchmark document that hopes to fill an important gap in directing
and controlling sensible development in intended cities. The RSLUP of KV is only
approved by Kathmandu Valley Development Authority and sent to ministry council
for endorsement. Still, it has not endorsed formally. Other RSLUPs are only in
the report format and no further steps have initiated to implement by the implementing agency. RSLUP document is important and should be referred by planners,
policymakers, and the government authorities for urban development.
10.4.3 Assessment of Earthquake Disaster Risk
for the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal, 2018
The Project for Assessment of Earthquake Disaster Risk for the Kathmandu Valley
in Nepal was supported by Japan International Cooperation Agency including
consulting companies from Japan in April 2018. Comparing the high risk of a future
earthquake in Kathmandu Valley, countermeasures such as the retrofitting of buildings for seismic resistance, land use control, and observance of the National Building
Code have not been promoted enough. It becomes a necessary and urgent issue to
update the risk assessment for future development plans and policies concerned with
disaster risk management. In this circumstance, the project was created with the main
components of seismic hazard assessment, seismic risk assessment, and formulation
of local disaster and climate resilience plans. The seismic hazard and risk assessment were carried out for the whole Kathmandu Valley and pilot activities targeted
on three pilot municipalities: Lalitpur metropolitan city, Bhaktapur municipality, and
Budhanilkantha municipality.
Seismic risk assessment was carried out for the purpose of providing basic information for the formulation of disaster risk reduction and management plans of pilot
municipalities, as the update of the risk assessment results of 2002 JICA project