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Early warning systems need to be expanded to third order (seasonally flowing) rivers, with technological improvements to generate better forecasts from rainfall monitoring
DHM needs to improve its institutional capacity and expand its actions to monitoring rainfall monitoring and flood forecasting actions across the country in order to provide alerts to authorities for flood preparedness and response actions. They DHM needs to further expand their outreach to private sectors, local governments and NGOs to provide warning services to authorities and communities. Also due consideration of local rainfall, which can dramatically change in influence the local flood situation, should be more carefully considered in flood preparedness and response
| Author: | Bhandari, D;Uprety, M;Ghimire, G;Kumal, B;Pokharel, L;Khadka, P |
| Published Date: | July, 2018 |
| DRM Cycle: | Coping, Crisis Preparedness |
| Flood Type: | River |
| 4Rs: | Rapidity |
| Publisher: | Practical Action |
| Language: | English |
| Theme: | Assets and Livelihoods |
| Capital: | Physical |
| Country: | Nepal |
