Nepal Crisis Response Plan 2020 - 2021 | Global Crisis Response Platform

Year

Last updated: February 26 2021

$6,000,000

Funding required

4,500

People Targeted

IOM Vision

IOM, in coordination with key stakeholders, seeks to support the strengthening of national, provincial and local governance structures which enable vulnerable communities, including migrants and displaced populations, to be better prepared, protected and have sustainable recovery and increased resilience to crises, climate change, and the impact of COVID-19 pandemic.

The Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed in 2006 produced three main results: it restored peace, a new constitution was promulgated, and the country transformed the state system and governance structure from a unitary to a federal system. This resulted in significant decentralization of decision making, resources management and service delivery systems to allow for greater transparency, accountability and pro-poor and inclusive governance.

The Government of Nepal introduced the Interim Relief Program (IRP) in 2008, providing cash and non-cash benefits to the individuals and families that suffered gross human rights violation during the conflict period. Yet, IRP excluded the victims of torture and victims of sexual violence. Two commissions were established, the Commission on Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, but the government is yet to make progress on redressing the violations committed during the conflict time and reparations remain unforeseeable.

Nepal is among the most disaster-prone countries and the entire population is at risk of natural hazards and climate change impacts. Past disasters have caused large scale migration flows, including displacement, relocation of affected families and have exposed affected population to significant vulnerabilities. Future disasters have the potential to push the country into poverty and undermine growth. Hence, preparedness and building resilience remain key priorities for
Nepal.

The federalization provides an opportunity for the development and strengthening of inclusive and effective strategies and plans to transit from a least developed country to a middle-income resilient country, aligning with the SDGs, which leaves no one behind, including conflict and disaster-affected, as well as displaced populations.

IOM has been working in close coordination with the Government of Nepal since 2007. IOM’s focus was initially on the resettlement of Bhutanese Refugees, and as of December 2019, IOM has supported the resettlement of more than 113,500 refugees to 8 countries. Since then, IOM has diversified the areas of cooperation with the government into additional fields, which include forced migration, disaster risk reduction and emergency preparedness, facilitating migration, migration and development and regulating migration.

IOM is a member of United National Country Team and works within the UN Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF), whose strategic areas are derived from the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Nepal’s 14th development plan and international commitments to which Nepal is a party.

IOM is the co-lead of the Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM) cluster, with the Department of Urban Development and Building Construction as the lead. As the cluster colead, IOM has been working in close coordination with other cluster leads and co-leads and the national security forces in responding to emergencies and in ensuring the needs of affected and displaced population are addressed.

Upon signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, IOM worked in close collaboration with the Ministry of Peace and Agreement, the Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare, and the Ministry of Land Reform and Management to provide technical support to the government in addressing land and property-related issues, mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS), and reparations for the victims of conflict. IOM also contributed largely to the drafting of the second phase of the National Action Plan 1325 and 1820 and in addressing cases of conflict-related sexual violations. IOM has also partnered with the Conflict Victims Common Platform and Conflict Victims’ National Network in identifying gaps in areas of victims’ assistance programs and provided a set of concrete recommendations to the government for improving access to services and justice.

IOM is an active member of the Migration Group of Nepal, an inter-agency collaboration effort to contribute to safe, orderly, regular and responsible migration that is beneficial for all. IOM has supported the government as a secretariat for the Colombo Process, a regional consultative forum of 12 countries focused on improving labour migration governance.

IOM has also been working closely with the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) in ensuring migration health-related issues are well incorporated in national policies and plans.

IOM has been implementing programs in Nepal since 2007 and has expanded its areas of collaboration with the Government of Nepal to address all aspects of human mobility. IOM has implemented crisis and post-crisis programming responding to the needs of displaced, refugees, migrants and other populations left behind. Over a period of 12 years in Nepal, IOM has implemented different programs in relation to migration and development; migration, environment and climate change; counter-trafficking; guidance on MHPSS for conflict-affected and disaster-affected persons; labour migration; migration health interventions; mainstreaming migration governance; and leading the development of a migration profile together with 15 different Ministries, departments and other stakeholders.

IOM has responded to multiple large scale disasters in Nepal - the 2008 Koshi floods, 2015 earthquakes and 2017 floods. In 2015, as one of the world's key humanitarian responders, IOM was able to quickly react in the aftermath of the earthquakes by deploying a rapid response team of experts and promptly launched the Relief, Recovery and Reconstruction (RRR) program to provide efficient and timely response to the pressing needs of the 14 worst affected districts. The RRR program included a wide range of activities in the interrelated and mutually supporting fields of Shelter, Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM), Health, MHPSS, Protection and Early Recovery. IOM supported and assisted the most vulnerable populations living in temporary settlements, including pregnant women and people living with disabilities or chronic illness to access health and MHPSS services. In addition, trainings were provided to volunteers and camp managers on MHPSS. During the 2017 floods, IOM provided non-food items (NFIs) and shelter to the flood-affected and displaced populations in the five worst-affected districts.

IOM has its main office in Kathmandu, Province 3 and a sub-office in Damak, Province 1. IOM is also a UN provincial focal point agency for Province 1. IOM has a notable presence throughout the country and has been implementing projects in all 753 local levels throughout the seven provinces. IOM also has staff in all seven Province Headquarters.

Objective
Driving solutions to displacement

$2,500,000

Funding required

2,500

People Targeted

Description of People and Entities Targeted

Direct beneficiaries include 500 households of survivors of gross human rights violations (2500 individuals for an average of 5 persons per household) including the survivors of conflict-related sexual violence. Indirect beneficiaries include populations and communities most affected during the conflict period.

Assistance to survivors of human rights violations

IOM's planned assistance in this area will be guided by the identification and needs assessment of conflict victims for accessing services that are based on the four pillars of Government of Nepal National Action Plan (NAP); namely, participation, protection, relief and recovery, and capacity building. The nature of assistance will also be guided by the collective decisions of conflict victims through inclusive dialogues. Beneficiaries will be selected based on the Government's NAP for the second phase implementation of UNSCR 1325 and 1820.

Funding required

$1,000,000

Plan types

Mental health and psychosocial support in transition and recovery

IOM will provide mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) for conflict-affected as well as disaster-affected persons at the individual, family and community levels to support them in coping with the situation and contribute towards strengthening social cohesion. Training activities and support will be provided to the affected population and local governments to facilitate the integration of MHPSS into livelihood and development programs at the local levels.

Funding required

$1,500,000

Plan types

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Objective
Strengthen preparedness and reduce disaster risk

$3,500,000

Funding required

2,000

People Targeted

Description of People and Entities Targeted

Direct beneficiaries include 2,000 individuals, mainly the Disaster Risk Management actors from local governments, seven provincial governments and security forces, local humanitarian and development actors in the areas of origin and destination of migrants. Indirect beneficiaries include the communities, including the population left behind and families of migrants.

Funding confirmed 58%

42% Funding gap

Emergency preparedness

IOM will provide support to improve the ability of key stakeholders - mainly local and provincial governments - to anticipate and effectively respond to the impact of likely hazards. The support will include a range of activities for strengthening inter-agency preparedness, developing the preparedness capacities of government and non-governmental partners to improve humanitarian response and strengthening the capacities of stakeholders to assist migrants in countries in crisis (MICIC). Gender equality will be given due consideration while implementing the activities.

Funding required

$1,000,000

Plan types

Displacement tracking for preparedness and risk reduction

IOM plans to revise the population tracking tool together with humanitarian actors, the local governments and cluster leads and co-leads, in line with the federal context and train CCCM partners, humanitarian actors and development partners to track and monitor forced displacement. Support will also be provided to integrate DTM into the mapping of potential evacuation and displacement sites and strengthening the data collection mechanisms. Protection issues will be duly considered while revising the DTM tool.

Funding required

$500,000

Plan types

Disaster prevention

IOM plans to strengthen disaster risk reduction and promote a whole of government approach to help Nepal move towards the path of strengthening overall resilience. The overall aim is to minimize the challenges the country faces regarding natural hazard related disasters, displacement, and building resilience through sustainable recovery and re/construction. IOM plans to build multi-purpose evacuation centers to provide safe places for evacuation and recovery following a disaster; identify and map open spaces using a geographic information system (GIS) to safeguard open spaces as evacuation centers and shelter by communities in coordination with local governments and federal government; orient and train newly elected local government officials and community members to mainstream reconstruction within local development plans; and train local government agencies and community members on Camp Management and Camp Coordination (CCCM) to enable them to manage temporary settlement in these identified open spaces.

Funding required

$2,000,000

Funding confirmed

$2,053,434

Last updated: 17 Jun 2021

Plan types

100%

Funding confirmed

Funding gap

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Operational presence in

Nepal

International staff and affiliated work force

135

National staff and affiliated work force

IOM field office

^{The map used here is for illustration purposes only. Names and boundaries do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by IOM.}

^{Figures are as of 31 December 2023. For more details of IOM's operational capacity in country, please see the IOM Capacity section.}

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