People queue for relief materials

From Onlinekhabar English

People queue for relief materials. Nepal is highly exposed to natural and non-natural disasters, including floods, landslides, earthquakes, inundation, fires, epidemics and other hazards. Their impact extends far beyond the immediate humanitarian emergency. Disasters can destroy homes and productive assets, interrupt livelihoods, reduce household income, disrupt children’s education, create health risks and increase the financial burden on already vulnerable families. For this reason, disaster response cannot end with immediate relief. It must also consider how affected households’ circumstances change over time and how social protection can support them through response, recovery and reconstruction. The Disaster-Sensitive Social Protection and Relief Distribution Standard, 2081 provides an important policy context for this discussion. It creates an opportunity to view disaster relief and social protection not as separate interventions, but as complementary mechanisms for supporting people whose circumstances change because of a shock.