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Kathmandu, Oct 12: Speakers at a programme have underlined the need for inclusive climate action that promotes adaptation at local level and manages safe migration. The policy centred on gender equality is helpful in securing safe livelihood affected community, they argued.
The speakers were giving views at a programme organized by Rural Oriented Youth Movement of Nepal (ROYM) on a national workshop on 'climate change and its effects on downstream community'.
Climate change expert Dr Roji Joshi viewed the human rights of disaster-hit people like social security and livelihood must be paid heed while advancing climate adaptation. Gender inclusion is imperative to make climate resilience more effective, according to her.
The landless ones, those with low income and working in informal sector are in urgent need of additional support and care, to which recovery drive should take account of, Dr Joshi reminded.
She further said agricultural practices should be changed in a way it suit climate change impacts. Effective early warning is helpful in reducing damages and human loss.
On the occasion, chairman of Disaster Management Network Nepal, Dr Basanta Raj Regmi, viewed the Bhotekoshi flood should not be understood as mere natural disaster. The disaster has long term impact on families' income, loss of local skills and knowledge and erosion in social relations.
Dr Regmi argued Nepal had lagged behind in conducting research on multiple aspects in the wake of Bhotekoshi glacial disaster.