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02 May 2013

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Behaviour change needed to combat malnutrition in Nepal

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KATHMANDU, 1 May 2013 (IRIN) - More work is needed to improve nutritional behaviour in Nepal, where nearly half of children under five are chronically malnourished, experts say.

“Food is more than nutrients and knowledge - it is culture, practice, and what you have been told about your life since you were born,” Ramesh Adhikari, a paediatrics professor at Kathmandu Medical College, told IRIN.

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26 Apr 2013

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Imagining a major quake in Kathmandu

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By Kyle Knight

KATHMANDU, 26 April 2013 (IRIN) - It is the nightmare scenario aid workers and government officials have long feared: a massive earthquake striking Nepal’s densely populated Kathmandu Valley, with tens of thousands feared dead.

In terms of per capita casualty risk, the valley - as the area is known locally - is the most dangerous place in the world.

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11 Apr 2013

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Nepal to boost search-and-rescue capabilities

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KATHMANDU, 11 April 2013 (IRIN) - Experts have long predicted widespread devastation and death should a large earthquake hit Nepal, a country with vulnerable infrastructure [ http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97568/Kathmandu-road-scheme-demolitions-h... ] and ill-equipped urban search-and-rescue teams. In an effort to prepare for such an event, officials have created a strategy to boost emergency responders' skills.

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05 Apr 2013

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Nepal turns to renewable energy

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KATHMANDU, 5 April 2013 (IRIN) - Nepal's recently adopted policy of subsidizing renewable energy is the latest of many attempts to electrify long-Nepal's recently adopted policy of subsidizing renewable energy is the latest of many attempts to electrify long-deprived areas, but much more is needed, say experts.

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02 Apr 2013

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Earthquake-proofing Nepal's at-risk airport

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KATHMANDU, 2 April 2013 (IRIN) - If an earthquake the magnitude of Haiti’s 2010 quake were to strike Nepal’s capital area, the country’s only international airport would be crippled, with no backup plan for receiving essential relief. But now, in response to long-standing predictions of such a catastrophe, the government has endorsed an earthquake preparedness plan for Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA); the plan is set to become public in one month.

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21 Mar 2013

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Analysis: Rethinking food insecurity in Nepal's Karnali region

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KATHMANDU, 21 March 2013 (IRIN) - Development assistance on its own will not resolve chronic levels of food insecurity in Nepal's western Karnali Zone, described by many as a "silent emergency". Rather, a more measured and integrated approach is required in some areas, including relief, say experts and government officials.

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18 Mar 2013

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Analysis: Nepal’s maternal mortality decline paradox

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KATHMANDU, 18 March 2013 (IRIN) - While health experts applaud Nepal’s declining maternal mortality ratio (MMR) in recent years, they say this gain is unsustainable if the country does not address its lack of qualified health staff, especially midwives, to keep women in childbirth alive.

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01 Mar 2013

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Kathmandu road scheme, demolitions heighten seismic risk

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KATHMANDU, 1 March 2013 (IRIN) - A large-scale road-widening project across Nepal’s capital city of Kathmandu, one of the most seismically active cities in the world, has placed hundreds more buildings at risk of collapse in the event of an earthquake, experts warn.

“Many buildings have been partially demolished to make room for the roads. Now they are twice as likely to collapse during an earthquake,” Dilip Kumar Jha, vice-president of the Nepal Engineers’ Association, told IRIN. “As engineers, we’re very concerned about this.”

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26 Feb 2013

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Politicians, donors question donor neutrality in Nepal

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Donor agencies are increasingly criticized as politicians and analysts accuse them of meddling and taking sides to push an agenda of "social cohesion."

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23 Jan 2013

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The trouble with Nepal’s agriculture

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KATHMANDU, 23 January 2013 (IRIN) - Agriculture in Nepal suffers from years of under-investment, limited research, and scant inputs, technology and services for farmers. Unless things change, Nepal may fall into deeper food insecurity and poverty, say analysts.

“Declining resource allocation to agriculture research and development will have direct implications on attaining the objective of poverty reduction, despite investment made on infrastructure,” noted a December 2012 paper by the US-headquartered International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).

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03 Jan 2013

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Analysis: Tracking dollars to fight diarrhoea in Nepal

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The percentage of children affected by diarrhoea in Nepal has not budged in almost a decade, remaining at a stubbornly high 14 percent.

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14 Dec 2012

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Analysis: Five reasons malnutrition still kills in Nepal

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The number of children in Nepal with acute malnutrition hovers near emergency levels, something that has not changed even after 15 years of efforts and millions of dollars invested, say local and international nutrition experts

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26 Oct 2012

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Radio stations ill-prepared for earthquakes

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KATHMANDU, 26 October 2012 (IRIN) - Radio stations in Nepal, critical sources of emergency information, are ill-prepared to withstand or operate in the event of an earthquakes, experts warn.

"If there is an earthquake now, radio broadcasters would be vulnerable given that they are stationed in earthquake-vulnerable buildings,” Man Thapa, programme manager of the UN Development Programme’s comprehensive disaster risk management programme, told IRIN.

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18 Oct 2012

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Government hobbles human rights commission

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KATHMANDU, 18 October 2012 (IRIN) - Mismanagement of Nepal’s National Human Rights Commission’s (NHRC) and its lack of independence, as well as frequent changes of government and an ongoing constitutional stalemate, have weakened the group’s ability to pursue war-era crimes, say officials and activists.

Almost 18,000 civilians died during a civil conflict between Maoist separatists and the government from 1996-2006, but so far no one has been prosecuted for war crimes.

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05 Oct 2012

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Key role for female health volunteers

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DALEIKH/KATHMANDU, 5 October 2012 (IRIN) - Women working as female healthcare volunteers often provide a vital service for the poorest in mountainous Nepal, and have contributed to a steady improvement in maternal and neonatal survival rates.

"Without their volunteer spirit, the country's poorest would probably face an even worse health situation," community health activist Deepa Bohara told IRIN in Rakam Karnali village, Dailekh District, 600km northwest of Kathmandu.

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13 Sep 2012

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Adaptation to climate change goes local

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KATHMANDU, 13 September 2012 (IRIN) - In the next few months Nepal will start implementing local adaptation plans for climate vulnerable communities in its impoverished far-and mid-western region under the National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA).

NAPAs, submitted to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, provide a process for Least Developed Countries to identify priority activities that respond to their urgent and immediate needs to adapt to climate change, and are seen by many as a defining step towards delivering climate finance to those most vulnerable.

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10 Sep 2012

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Ambulance service "inadequate"

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BANGKOK, 10 September 2012 (IRIN) - Nepal's fledgling ambulance service is in need of urgent support, say health experts, particularly in the area of trained paramedics.

There are only 21 trained paramedics in a country of nearly 30 million people, according to Nepal Ambulance Service (NAS).

The Nepal Red Cross Society (NRCS), the country's largest NGO, has 168 ambulances but none have trained paramedics, and only 35 percent of ambulance drivers have had first aid training.

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05 Sep 2012

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Bureaucracy holds up climate adaptation finance

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KATHMANDU, 5 September 2012 (IRIN) - A tortuous planning process in Nepal is preventing climate adaptation funding - earmarked under the country’s National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) - from reaching local communities, experts say.

“We are so engrossed in national processes,” Raju Pandit Chhetri, co-author of a 2011 Oxfam report on climate adaptation finance, told IRIN. “Let us start going to the communities.”

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10 Aug 2012

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Land could sow "seeds of serious discontent"

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KATHMANDU/NEPALGUNJ, 10 August 2012 (IRIN) - Little progress has been made in Nepal in returning land confiscated by former Maoist rebels during a decade-long civil conflict to the original owners. Researchers say this is in violation of a 2006 peace deal.

"Although land reform and land return are not top priorities currently, given the ongoing political crisis, if left unaddressed for too long such issues may sow the seeds of serious discontent in the future," Sarah Levit-Shore, country representative of the Carter Centre, a US-based NGO, told IRIN.

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06 Aug 2012

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Nepalis speak out on federalism

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CHITWAN, 6 August 2012 (IRIN) - The debate on federalism in Nepal and how to share political power and natural resources, has centred on the issue of recognizing ethnic groups. A constitution still remains to be written six years after a decade of civil war ended, but the Constituent Assembly, elected to draft a new constitution and function as a parliament, has been dissolved.

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Nepal to boost search-and-rescue capabilities

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Nepal turns to renewable energy

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Earthquake-proofing Nepal's at-risk airport

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Analysis: Rethinking food insecurity in Nepal's Karnali region

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Analysis: Nepal’s maternal mortality decline paradox

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Kathmandu road scheme, demolitions heighten seismic risk

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Politicians, donors question donor neutrality in Nepal

Nepal
The trouble with Nepal’s agriculture

Nepal
Analysis: Tracking dollars to fight diarrhoea in Nepal

Nepal
Analysis: Five reasons malnutrition still kills in Nepal

Nepal
Radio stations ill-prepared for earthquakes

Nepal
Government hobbles human rights commission

Nepal
Key role for female health volunteers

Nepal
Adaptation to climate change goes local

Nepal
Ambulance service "inadequate"

Nepal
Bureaucracy holds up climate adaptation finance

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Land could sow "seeds of serious discontent"

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Nepalis speak out on federalism

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