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

这项申请是为了支持加强我们先前项目“尼泊尔的复原力政策制定：为社区发声”(赠款编号：ES/R000514/1)的影响的工作。这项提议涉及最初项目的所有调查人员(包括英国和尼泊尔)，并在尼泊尔增加了新的合作者和社区，我们希望通过2015年地震影响和未受影响的村庄之间的社区间对话、政策研讨会和将在全国免费播放的专业制作的电视纪录片来扩大我们的发现的影响。最初的项目重点关注两个地区(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整个灾害周期，从备灾活动到救济和重建。特别是，确定了围绕政府试图通过重建进程建立复原力的一系列问题，以及社区一级的行动，这些行动要么促进了灾后恢复，要么阻碍了灾后恢复。该项目最引人注目的发现之一是，复原力建设工作几乎完全集中在那些在2015年受到严重影响的地区。该国其他地区--包括遥远西部的Mugu等地区--在提高应对未来自然灾害的能力方面得到的支持非常有限。这尤其有问题，因为Mugu的许多社区实际上比那些在2015年受到影响的社区更脆弱(通常也更贫穷)。也有坊间证据(尤其是来自我们的非政府组织伙伴尼泊尔阶段，它在Mugu有永久存在)表明，目前这些偏远社区对灾害风险的认识非常低。在这个后续项目中，我们建议通过促进参与最初项目的Gorkha和Sindhupalchok村民与Mugu区最近没有大地震经验的社区之间的社区间学习来解决这个问题。我们将利用与原始项目所采用的类似的参与式方法，通过一系列方法扩大和加深其影响，包括参与式摄像、社区间对话、政策/利益攸关方讲习班，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.