Earthquake resilience in Nepal: Impact enhancement through inter-community learning and a TV documentary

此应用程序是为了支持工作，以提高我们的前一个项目的影响，'在尼泊尔的复原力决策：让社区的声音'（赠款参考：ES/R 000514/1）。这项提案涉及到所有的调查员从原来的项目（英国和尼泊尔），并增加了新的合作者和社区在尼泊尔，我们希望扩大我们的调查结果的影响，通过社区间的村庄之间的对话，并没有受到2015年地震，政策研讨会和专业制作的电视纪录片免费播放，最初的项目集中在两个地区（Gorkha和Sindhupalchok）的社区，这些社区受到2015年地震的严重影响。这些社区的一系列调查结果涵盖了从备灾活动到救济和重建的整个灾害周期。特别是，政府在重建过程中为增强抗灾能力所做的努力存在一系列问题，社区层面的行动对灾后恢复起到了促进或阻碍作用。该项目最引人注目的发现之一是，抗灾能力建设工作几乎完全集中在2015年受灾严重的地区。该国其他地区-包括遥远西部的穆古等县-在提高其科普未来自然灾害的能力方面得到的支助非常有限。这是一个特别的问题，因为穆古的许多社区实际上比2015年受影响的社区更脆弱（而且通常更贫穷）。也有传闻说（尤其是来自我们在穆古有长期业务的非政府组织合作伙伴PHASE Nepal），这些偏远社区目前对灾害风险的认识非常低。在这个后续项目中，我们建议开始通过促进参与原始项目的Gorkha和Sindhupalchok村民之间的社区间学习来解决这个问题，以及Mugu地区最近没有经历过大地震的社区。利用与原项目中使用的方法类似的参与性方法，我们将寻求通过一系列方法扩大和加深其影响，包括参与性视频制作，社区间对话，政策/利益相关者研讨会，以及制作一部专业制作的30分钟纪录片，在尼泊尔电视台放映。

This application is to support work to enhance the impact of our previous project, 'Resilience Policymaking in Nepal: Giving Voice to Communities' (Grant Ref: ES/R000514/1). This proposal involves all of the investigators from the original project (both UK and Nepal-based), and adds new collaborators and communities in Nepal with whom we hope to broaden the impact of our findings through inter-community dialogues between villages that were and were not affected by the earthquakes of 2015, policy workshops, and a professionally produced television documentary to be broadcast free-to-air, nationwide.The original project focussed on communities in two Districts (Gorkha and Sindhupalchok) that had been severely affected by the earthquakes of 2015. A range of findings from these communities covered the entire disaster cycle, from preparedness activities through to relief and reconstruction. In particular, a range of issues around the government's attempts to build resilience through the reconstruction process were identified, as well as community-level actions that had either contributed to, or been an obstacle to, post-disaster recovery.One of the most striking findings of the project was that resilience-building efforts were almost entirely focussed on those areas that had been severely affected in 2015. Other parts of the country - including districts such as Mugu in the Far West - have received very limited support for improving their ability to cope with future natural disasters. This is particularly problematic because many communities in Mugu are in fact more vulnerable (and generally poorer) than those who were affected in 2015. There is also anecdotal evidence (not least from PHASE Nepal, our NGO partner, which has a permanent presence in Mugu) that awareness about disaster risks in these remote communities is currently extremely low.In this follow-on project, we propose to begin to address this issue by promoting inter-community learning between villagers from Gorkha and Sindhupalchok who participated in the original project, and communities in Mugu District which do not have recent experience of major earthquakes. Utilising similar participatory methodologies to those employed in the original project, we will seek to broaden and deepen its impact through a series of methods including participatory videomaking, inter-community dialogues, policy/stakeholder workshops, and the creation of a professionally-produced 30 minute documentary to be screened on Nepal TV.