[{"bbox": [95, 152, 1136, 314], "category": "Text", "text": "Duty-bearers: At the federal level, the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Agency (NDRRMA), under the Ministry of Home Affairs, is in charge of coordinating disaster risk reduction. The Ministry of Federal Affairs and Administration coordinated the work of NDRRMA at the local level. Local governments are in charge of incorporating DRR considerations in their planning, and have a system (BIPAD portal allowing them to visualise their important assets and the follow up of hazards. NGOs are very active in the DRR space, and communities remain generally vulnerable."}, {"bbox": [85, 382, 605, 414], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 3 DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTION"}, {"bbox": [85, 446, 509, 478], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.1 Objectives and Expected Outputs"}, {"bbox": [95, 493, 1043, 547], "category": "Text", "text": "The Overall Objective (Impact) of this action is that Sudurpashchim and Karnali provinces improve the sustainability and conservation of their natural resources to notably increase their climate resilience."}, {"bbox": [95, 559, 633, 586], "category": "Text", "text": "The Specific Objectives (Outcomes) of this action are that"}, {"bbox": [172, 586, 1134, 637], "category": "List-item", "text": "1. Provinces and municipalities adopt more effective practices in sustainable and climate resilient natural resource management and environment conservation."}, {"bbox": [172, 638, 980, 666], "category": "List-item", "text": "2. Municipalities have adopted gender responsive climate change adaptation measures."}, {"bbox": [95, 690, 1126, 718], "category": "Text", "text": "The Outputs to be delivered by this action contributing to the corresponding Specific Objectives (Outcomes) are"}, {"bbox": [172, 718, 1134, 799], "category": "List-item", "text": "1.1 contributing to Outcome 1 (or Specific Objective 1): Increased capacity of provincial and local governments for, water, forests and land management planning following climate resilience and sustainability principles."}, {"bbox": [172, 798, 1134, 877], "category": "List-item", "text": "1.2 contributing to Outcome 1 (or Specific Objective 1): Rural municipalities, communities and third parties have increased capacity and access to tools for sustainable, resilient, inclusive management and conservation of forests, biodiversity and watersheds."}, {"bbox": [172, 877, 1134, 956], "category": "List-item", "text": "1.3 contributing to Outcome 1 (or Specific Objective 1): Rural municipalities, communities and third parties have increased capacity and access to tools for sustainable, resilient, inclusive conservation of water resources, and WASH."}, {"bbox": [172, 982, 1134, 1036], "category": "List-item", "text": "2.1 contributing to Outcome 2 (or Specific Objective 2): Gender transformative DRR urban planning measures are developed and planned in urban municipalities."}, {"bbox": [172, 1036, 1134, 1089], "category": "List-item", "text": "2.2 contributing to Outcome 2 (or Specific Objective 2): Increased human and financial capacity of municipalities to implement their LAPAS."}, {"bbox": [85, 1129, 369, 1157], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.2 Indicative Activities"}, {"bbox": [95, 1176, 1134, 1254], "category": "Text", "text": "For outcome 1, Output 1.1 is about developing the institutional capacity of local governments to have the frameworks and people to ensure sustainable and climate resilient natural resource management and environment conservation."}, {"bbox": [95, 1268, 1134, 1482], "category": "Text", "text": "Activities relating to Output 1.1 comprise support to improve or newly formulate, provincial and municipal acts, policies, roadmaps/strategies, plans; strengthen relevant policy, monitoring, coordination, consultation, public information and oversight mechanisms in an inclusive and participatory manner, address human resources needs (piloting new positions, training, coaching), and draft the multi-actor MoUs, step-by-step manuals and implementation and funding arrangements between the implementation partners (such as users groups) that ensure effective plan implementation. A strong focus on Gender Equality and Social Inclusion will be ensured in all the documents and mechanisms. Disaster risk reduction will be mainstreamed in each sector using existing tools (p.e. BIPAD portal¹²) and simple assessment and step-by-step guidelines."}, {"bbox": [95, 1493, 1134, 1547], "category": "Text", "text": "Outputs 1.2 and 1.3 are about actually supporting the implementation of the above plans by the relevant local stakeholders (Water user groups, community forest user groups, cooperatives, local communities,), for both"}, {"bbox": [85, 1634, 329, 1661], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹² https://bipadportal.gov.np/"}, {"bbox": [1037, 1680, 1143, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 9 of 21"}]