Dr.Komal R Aryal
Research Fellow: University of Salford, United Kingdom Visiting Lecturer: MSc Disaster Management and Sustainable Development Programme, Disaster and Development Network (DDN) Northumbria University, UK Visiting Lecturer: Visiting Lecturer (International Disaster Risk Reduction Cooperation Programme), National Civil Defense and Disaster Management Training Institute, Ministry of Interior and Safety (MOIS), The Republic of Korea.Trustee: International Emergency Team-UK Community volunteer: Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service, UK. Komal works for Rabdan Academy. He brings over 18 years’ participatory action-based research experience on local disaster risk management, humanitarian response coordination and community-based development programmes. Komal specialises in integrated disaster vulnerability, risk, threats and capabilities analysis. His current research is focused on the use of Earth Observation (EO) imagery, artificial and social intelligences based information to improve local disaster risk and resilience governance in Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Malaysia. In the past, Komal worked for various organisations (universities, NGOs, United Nations, Governments and National Red Cross Societies) based in Nepal, UK, the Republic of Korea, USA, Italy, Taiwan and The Gambia. Komal was in the ground during the two-major global humanitarian crisis (the 2014 Ebola Outbreaks and Sahel Extreme Climatic stress in the West Africa
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Much was made of the social understanding of risk and resilience and the community perception of environmental change. Presentations from scientists and practitioners helped highlight emerging problems of increasing climate variability and climate severity as a direct result of anthropogenic climate change. Bangladesh, Taiwan and Malaysia focused on the problems of flooding from tropical storm, sea surge, and rivers. From the developed world context, the increasing number and severity of floods in the United Kingdom was explored and further confirmed the need for NorthSouth collaboration in embracing adaptation strategies to mitigate the adverse and cross-border issue of climate change.
A range of models of good practice was presented, including a wide range of technological techniques for flood control systems, community based disaster preparedness and community based disaster risk reduction. Experience of professional practice upon emergency service encounters, largely in the developed world was presented. The importance of risk perception and governmental risk management in an uncertain climate was also explored. Approaches which facilitate the synthesis of formal governance structures with equitable community participation as models of good practice for emergency management systems and linking the academic to practice, was widely endorsed by those present.
Emergent themes of the conference surrounded the crucial and underpinning issue of squaring the circle between bottom-up and top-down approaches in disaster risk reduction. The central tenet of these approaches was the recognition of the need to urgently mobilise existing policy and quicken the rate of policy formation to readily address and enhance capacity, resilience, and vulnerability reduction.
We would like to thank all participants for their active involvement in the seminar. We would like to thank our hosts, the Malaysian Government and Universiti Putra, Malaysia, and representatives of the National Government of Nepal. Last, but by no means least, our sponsors, the DelPHE programme run by the British Council and funded by DfID, UK, and the ProVention Consortium.
We would like to thank the secretariat of the conference, Phil O’Keefe and Sam Jones who helped assemble these proceedings with great speed and accuracy.
The preliminary results of the Joint Assessment show that there has been a significant recovery in terms of food security overall amongst the affected population. Nepali households in the assessed areas have generally demonstrated resilience and recovery since the earthquakes in Nepal. This may be in part due to well-targeted response efforts however, in the areas that are difficult to access, like high hill and rural areas, the availability of basic staples such as cereals and pulses were available across the board, but dissipate for more diversified and more expensive products such as vegetables, seeds, agricultural tools, and livestock drugs.
The report cautions that continuous monitoring of vulnerable populations is required given the lower than expected rainfall during the monsoon season, the early onset of winter, and the uncertainty of the on-going border crisis and limited import.