National Disaster Response Framework

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The NDRF is clear, concise and comprehensive guide for an effective and coordinated national response in case of a large and medium scale of disasters in the country. The scope of this framework is limited to the preparedness and response at national, regional, district and local levels. For the reason, the framework has two different matrixes; one of the matrixes deals about response timeline (12 hrs, 24 hrs, 48 hrs, 72 hrs, a week and a month long response) and another matrix highlights the roles and responsibilities of the concerned Ministries, Departments, Divisions, UN Agencies, UN Clusters, Red Cross Movement, I/NGOs; and CBOs. The concerned agencies are responsible to prepare the future course of actions on emergency response preparedness (49 Activities mentioned). For the moment, the document is in Nepali version