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Summary

The Nepal Disaster Report 2024 highlights the Nepal’s evolving disaster risk landscape from July 2018 to July 2024, revealing a sharp increase in disaster incidents over 32,000 recorded events with fire, landslides, lightning, floods, and earthquakes causing nearly 3,000 deaths, over 11,000 injuries, and NPR 23.6 billion in economic losses. Fires accounted for the largest economic loss, while landslides led to the most fatalities. The report highlights Nepal’s strategic shift from a reactive to a proactive DRRM approach under the federal system, marked by the enactment of the DRRM Act, establishment of NDRRMA, and localization of the Sendai Framework. It documents the progress in DRRM governance, legal frameworks, institutional strengthening, risk communication (including the use of the Bipad portal), preparedness, and reconstruction efforts, especially post-COVID-19 and major disasters like the Jajarkot earthquake and Melamchi floods. Despite improvements, the report calls for more coordinated, and inclusive approaches to address climate-induced and cascading risks, recommending better intergovernmental coordination, local-level capacity building, disaster risk financing, and integration of indigenous knowledge into DRRM policy and planning.