Khotang / Solukhumbu

Districts field visit

update

Date:17/09/2018

Housing Recovery and Reconstruction Platform

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District wise Reconstruction status
Reconstruction Status of Khotang and Solukhumbu

Retrofitting 253

Grievances 7550

Third Tranche 9
Khotang

Second Tranche 3146

First Tranche 8309

PA Agreement 8311
Districts

Total Beneficiaries 8443

Retrofitting 456

Grievances 5000
Solukhumbu

Third Tranche 205

Second Tranche 3253

First Tranche 11228

PA Agreement 11228

Total Beneficiaries 12435

0 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 12000 14000

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Total masons trained (Short Training)

Total Number of Trained Masons in Khotang and Solukhumbu

350

350 301

300 250

250 201
180
200
150 75 82 81
59
100
24
50
0
NRA/DLPIU Cottage and Poverty Sabal Nepal MoFALD - Digicon Consult Rimc/Pargon NRCS Young Star Club Cottage and
Small Industries Alleviation CLPIU Small Industries
(Gharelu) (Gharelu)
Khotang Solukhumbu
Trained Masons

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Progress and Achievement
Progress and Achievement

10 10

10
8
9
Survey and Action Plan Received

7
5
6

Khotang Solukhumbu
Districts

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Progress and Achievement
District wise Municipal Survey
• Poor road network
• Difficulties in transportation of construction materials
• Geographical difficulties
• Price hikes in construction materials
• Lack of well trained masons
• Most trained masons look out for foreign employment after training
• No plans of DRM/CBDRM
• Poor knowledge on DRM aspects
• Majority of houses were reconstructed immediately after earthquake havenot consulted
technical assistance and without following NBC
• 1 room houses are not approved
• 2 storey, SMM, 1st floor with 9 inch wall houses are not approved

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Common Challenges and Issues
Khotang & Solukhumbu
• Large number of non compliance cases which are very difficult to correct.
• Real time beneficiaries are far beyond the reach of government grants because of non
compliance houses
• Lack of sensitization and clarity over reconstruction model of NRA among local
representatives.
• Lack of well trained masons along with inadequate knowledge on reconstruction process
among engineers.
• Lack of awareness among communities about constructing the earthquake resilient
houses.
• M/RM are not accountable in reconstruction efforts; DLPIU deployed engineers too lack
coordination skills to make M/RM accountable.
• The reconstruction engineers are not recognized for their efforts- lack of proper space to
work, treated as NRA’s staff (project staff), poor internet connectivity and tab usage has
errors.
• Insignificant role of media in reconstruction message flow.
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Challenges and Issues unique to visited district
• The NRA guidelines on design catalogue doesn’t match with housing typology that traditional community
intends to build in Solukhumbu as per their tradition.

• Real-time beneficiaries have reconstructed houses soon after earthquake without following Minimum
Requirements & without any technical assistance (Solukhumbu/Khotang) .
• Lack of well trained technical and masons resulting in the construction of vulnerable houses.

• Troublesome road networks has lowered reaching out to beneficiaries and weak monitoring
(Solukhumbu/Khotang)

• The earthquake affected beneficiaries who are impacted by plot allocation due to Mid-hill Highway (Madhya
Pahadi Lokmarga) territories have lost their portion of land (housing property)- Khotang

• Most of the engineers are not well acquainted with the CS entry system and how the GPS entry is done.

• Internet connectivity is an issue for the engineers who work from remote places to update the database.

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Lessons Learned/Best Practices
• Handful of self-motivated leadership (from bureaucrats to reconstruction engineers)
have contributed in reconstruction efforts.

• Well trained local masons are asset to earthquake resilient houses.

• Mason need practical retrofitting training for field applications.

• Upon provided opportunity and space, experienced & trained local masons from
neighboring RM can contribute in producing other trained local masons.

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 A way forward/Action Plan---->
• Need of retrofitting training for local masons to address non compliance houses.
• Need of equipping local masons with earthquake resilient knowledge, know hows and on-the job
training.

• Need of orienting DLPIU deployed engineers about important technical guidelines and about basic
element of earthquake resistant buildings.

• Need of training for wood treatment of timber houses.

• Both beneficiary and non beneficiary need to be sensitized on constructing earthquake resistant
buildings.

• M/RM need orientations on formulating DRM/CBDRM plans for resilient communities

• Need to strengthen the inter- municipality coordination in same districts to share and exchange
learnings and experiences on trained masons, on best practices, on addressing recons. Issues etc.

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Ongoing Reconstruction

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Ongoing Reconstruction

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 THANK - YOU

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