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Climate Change Adversely Affecting Nepal
By KTM Metro reporter
October 8, 2013: The Government of Nepal has officially started implementation of the Building Resilience to Climate Related Hazards (BRCH) Project for $31 million. Dr. Som Lal Subedi, Secretary Ministry of Science, Technology, and Environment (MoSTE) officially initiated the BRCH project at a function in Kathmandu. Representatives from various Government of Nepal Offices, development partners and civil society attended the program, a press release of ‘The World Bank’ says.
The BRCH project signed on April 30, 2013 between the Government of Nepal and the World Bank is for the transition of the Nepal’s hydro-meteorological services into a modern service-oriented system to enhance the government capacity to mitigate the climate related hazards improving the accuracy and timeliness of weather and flood forecasts and warnings for climate-vulnerable communities.
The project supports the agricultural management information services to help the farmers in mitigating the climate-related production risks. The BRCH project also benefits a number of different sectors such as hydropower, aviation, disaster risk management and water resources management providing them the hydro-meteorological data and services,.
The World Bank says that the BRCH project is part of the global Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR). Recognizing the high levels of exposure to climate change risks, in 2009, the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) selected Nepal as one of nine pilot countries for the PPCR.
The Government of Nepal in partnership with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the World Bank developed the Nepal’s Strategic Program for Climate Resilience (SPCR). The BRCH project is one of the five projects identified as per the Nepal’s SPCR and will be implemented over a five year period through collaborative efforts between the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (DHM) under the MoSTE and the Ministry of Agricultural Development, according to the press release of ‘The World Bank.’
