Bhakta Karki

The issue of climate change has become one of the serious threats to the living entities and the effects have shown throughout the globe.  In our context, Nepal counts as one of the vulnerable country due to its poor and fragile landscape structure. The changing weather patterns, including an increase in extreme temperature, more intense rainfall and increased unpredictability have dramatically been reducing human life expectancy, agriculture products and natural resources. More than 2 million people living in 41 out of 75 districts have been suffering from severe food crisis, malnutrition and other health related complications.  As a result, Rural Reconstruction Nepal (RRN), implemented various programs such as Food Security and Livelihoods Promotion for the Poor (FSLP), Disaster Preparedness and Sustainable Development  (DPSDP), Relief and Rehabilitation Support Program to the Flood Victims, Public Health and Basic Livelihood Support (PHABLeS) Project, Health and Sanitation Promotion Project, Food Aid and Social Rehabilitation in Nepal (FAASRIN) Programme, Peace Building from Below, Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Programme, Sustainable Rural Livelihood Programme (SRLP), and Rural Community Infrastructure and Livelihood Support Program (RCILSP) in more than 33 districts of the nations. The districts are so called vulnerable in terms natural disaster such as floods, landslides, disease and drought. Therefore, RRN planned to support the disaster affected people providing various means of livelihood alternatives. Moreover, the organization has been emphasizing on software packages such as raise awareness program on disaster preparedness, disaster risk management, natural resource management, and agriculture intensification program to strengthen the community people to cope with such crisis. RRN’s programme interventions are focused on the reduction of future vulnerability through eradicating poverty, empowering community people and social transformation. In such a way RRN has managed to reach 700,000 poor families providing such benefits. It has been working together with poor women, peasants, vulnerable communities and traditional occupational castes to provide a basic livelihood alternative to mitigate with the unpredictable future crisis.