DHN Activation - CCCM cluster in Nepal

[Devin Balkind]

The CCCM cluster in Nepal is led by IOM and is currently engaged in contingency planning, to identify suitable sites for the displaced in the event of a heavy monsoon. For draft concept note, refer https://www.dropbox.com/s/xyhoiho82c6mix9/SITE%20SELECTION%20Concept%20note%2027May.docx?dl=0 .

The first step of this process is to identify probable sites using GIS with certain criteria, as listed below.

- The site has less than 5 degrees of slope (landslide and flooding hazards)

- Road access in close proximity (access to provision of services)

- The site is close to one or more existing settlements, distance minimum 500 m. 

- Minimum lot size 6000m2

- At least 50m away from streams ( flooding hazards)

For seven of the 14 priority districts, the Canadian DART team supported to find sites which meet these criteria and for the three districts in Kathmandu valley, there are pre identified open spaces, which proved sufficient. The request now is to identify sites in the remaining four priority districts - Dadhing, Makwanpur, Nuwakot and Rasuwa. 

Please let Helen Campbell <helen_r...@hotmail.com> know if you think you can help.

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Devin Balkind
Founder & Director, Sarapis
Coordinator, NYC:Prepared
134 Spring St, Suite 302
New York, NY, 10012
m.917.748.1048
de...@sarapis.org

[Biplov Bhandari]

Hello Devin,

Thank you for your support in Nepal. I can help providing shapefiles for roads and river netowork in Nepal. Seems little old, but I am pretty sure those can be helpful. I cannot say the situations after earthquake. Getting shapefile from OSM would be good as there has been heavy mapping before and after earthquake. Also if you have time, there are satellite imagery provided for Nepal; digitizing that would be best for temporal update.

Best Regards,

Biplov 

[Pat Tressel]

Devin --

The CCCM cluster in Nepal is led by IOM and is currently engaged in contingency planning, to identify suitable sites for the displaced in the event of a heavy monsoon. For draft concept note, refer https://www.dropbox.com/s/xyhoiho82c6mix9/SITE%20SELECTION%20Concept%20note%2027May.docx?dl=0 .

The first step of this process is to identify probable sites using GIS with certain criteria, as listed below.

- The site has less than 5 degrees of slope (landslide and flooding hazards)

- Road access in close proximity (access to provision of services)

- The site is close to one or more existing settlements, distance minimum 500 m. 

- Minimum lot size 6000m2

- At least 50m away from streams ( flooding hazards)

For seven of the 14 priority districts, the Canadian DART team supported to find sites which meet these criteria and for the three districts in Kathmandu valley, there are pre identified open spaces, which proved sufficient. The request now is to identify sites in the remaining four priority districts - Dadhing, Makwanpur, Nuwakot and Rasuwa. 

Please let Helen Campbell <helen_r...@hotmail.com> know if you think you can help.

Do you know if anyone is in contact with HOT (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team)?  I haven't seen a request for this go out on their mailing list.  They recently did a task to identify potential helicopter landing sites, which also involved checking the grade (using OpenCycleMap, which has elevation data).

-- Pat