The Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) and the WHO Country Office for Nepal hosted a first meeting of Technical Advisory Group and the International Steering Committee in Kathmandu on November 12-14, 2014. Nepal, Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Tanzania. DfID is funding the project from 2013 to 2017. Mr. Arjun Kumar Karki, Secretary of MoUD made opening remarks as chief guest at the opening session of meetings, where Dr. Lin Aung, WHO Representative to Nepal, and Mr. Ram Chandra Devkota, Joint Secretary of MoUD and Chair of Project Coordination Committee on Climate Change and WASH also spoke. On the afternoon of November 12, Mr. Guy Howard, WASH Team Leader at DfID, HQ made a presentation on Climate Resilient WASH, which was attended by a wide circle of stakeholders working on Climate Change and WASH in Nepal.
The project outputs focus on (1) an updating of WASH policies from the perspective of climate change and integration of climate change issues into existing policies, (2) development of climate resilient Water Safety Plans (WSP) and (3) identification and piloting of climate resilient WASH interventions at community/household level. More information is available from Er. Raja Ram Pote Shrestha: poteshresthar{at}who.int