Rasuwa Flood Emergency Response & Early Recovery

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Situation figures remain preliminary and may change as search, rescue, identification and damage assessment continue. The report therefore states the date and source for external humanitarian figures and distinguishes verified public estimates from NNSS programme targets. Where sex-, age- or household-head-disaggregated affected-population figures are not publicly available, the report identifies the gap rather than inventing a number. NNSS will collect the missing disaggregation through its rapid household verification process before beneficiary selection and will report aggregate, privacy-safe results through the live monitoring and campaign update system.

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Campaign title

Rasuwa Flood Emergency Response & Early Recovery

Public campaign description

Naya Nepal Samajik Sanstha (NNSS) is mobilizing an emergency response and early-recovery programme for communities affected by the catastrophic 26 August 2026 flash floods along the Bhote Koshi-Trishuli river corridor in Nepal. The programme is designed to help verified flood-affected households move from immediate survival toward safer recovery through shelter support, essential household items, three months of food assistance, safe water and hygiene support, mobile medical care, education recovery for flood-affected students, last-mile logistics, accountable field operations and targeted livelihood/early-recovery support.

The campaign planning ceiling is NPR 150,000,000, equivalent to approximately USD 986,842.11 at the planning exchange rate of NPR 152 per USD. NPR 120,000,000 is allocated to direct programme activities, NPR 12,000,000 to project administration and coordination, and NPR 18,000,000 to contingency. The contingency is a controlled reserve for documented price, access, health or protection shocks and is not treated as automatically spent. Any fiscal-host or platform fee is handled separately through the live fee-scenario sheet until the final OCE arrangement is confirmed.

NNSS will prioritize verified needs and vulnerability rather than first-come-first-served distribution. Assistance lists will be de-duplicated, procurement decisions documented, medical personnel credentialed, grievance channels made available free of charge, and monitoring results summarized through public updates. Individual beneficiary, grievance and patient data will remain protected; only aggregate or consent-cleared information will be published.

Table 1. Public transparency commitments

Figure 1. Public accountability chain from need verification to reporting

LIST OF TABLES

Table 1. Public transparency commitments

Table 2. Document control and reporting terminology

Table 3. Document control and reporting status

Table 4. Current emergency situation snapshot

Table 5. District impact and casualty-recovery reporting

LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 1. Public accountability chain from need verification to reporting

Figure 2. Emergency-to-recovery programme pathway

Figure 3. Geographic impact classification and targeting logic

Figure 4. Institutional coordination tree

Figure 5. Beneficiary verification and delivery workflow

Table 2. Document control and reporting terminology

Document control and reporting status

Table 3. Document control and reporting status

On 26 August 2026, a sudden and destructive flood surged through the Bhote Koshi and Trishuli river corridors, producing severe loss of life, displacement and damage to settlements, roads, bridges, health facilities, schools, water systems, markets and hydropower infrastructure. The Government of Nepal's Ministry of Home Affairs identified Rasuwa as the origin point of the emergency and reported severe riverbank impacts in Rasuwa, Nuwakot, Dhading and Gorkha in the immediate aftermath. WHO and Nepal's Health Emergency Operation Centre subsequently described six affected districts: Rasuwa, Nuwakot, Dhading and Chitwan in Bagmati Province, and Gorkha and Tanahun in Gandaki Province, with 15 municipalities declared crisis-affected for three months.

The humanitarian picture has changed rapidly as access has improved and search operations have moved downstream. UNICEF's 31 August situation report estimated 65,000 affected people, including 22,100 children, and approximately 13,000 households requiring immediate WASH support. By 3 September, UNICEF reported that at least 22,000 children urgently needed safe water, sanitation and hygiene assistance. UNFPA's affected-area population analysis highlighted 86,820 women of reproductive age and 4,430 pregnant women living in the affected areas. Public situation reporting did not yet provide a verified count of affected female-headed households, older-person-headed households or affected older persons; NNSS therefore treats these as priority data fields for rapid household verification rather than estimating them without evidence.

The human toll has also continued to rise. A 3 September NDRRMA bulletin reported by Onlinekhabar recorded 1,252 bodies recovered, 4,216 people still missing, 11,993 people rescued and 5,135 injured. The same bulletin reported body recoveries across Rasuwa, Nuwakot, Dhading, Gorkha, Tanahun, East Nawalparasi, West Nawalparasi and Chitwan. These district figures are recovery-location reporting and should not be interpreted as a residence-based demographic breakdown of victims. This report uses such figures only to communicate the evolving scale of the emergency, while NNSS programme eligibility remains based on verified household and student needs in selected operational locations.

Against this context, NNSS proposes a six-month emergency response and early-recovery programme with a planning ceiling of NPR 150 million. The financial model allocates NPR 120 million to direct programme activities, NPR 12 million to administration and coordination, and NPR 18 million to a controlled contingency reserve. The direct programme comprises NPR 35 million for shelter support, NPR 14 million for household recovery assistance, NPR 22 million for three-month food support, NPR 8 million for WASH, NPR 12 million for medical response, NPR 8 million for education recovery, NPR 7 million for logistics, NPR 4 million for field operations/MEAL/GRM, and NPR 10 million for livelihood and early recovery. At NPR 152 per USD, the overall campaign ceiling is approximately USD 986,842.11.

The campaign is deliberately narrower than the overall disaster caseload. It aims to provide meaningful, accountable support to a defined group of verified beneficiaries rather than make an unrealistic claim to cover every affected community. The core programme targets are approximately 300 households for shelter repair/recovery support, 500 households for household essentials and three months of food assistance, 500 flood-affected students for education recovery assistance, and a mobile medical response built around a planned core team of five doctors and five nurses with referral pathways to functioning health services. WASH, logistics, protection, accountability and early-recovery support complement these core targets.

1.1 Event overview and humanitarian significance

The emergency began on the morning of 26 August 2026 when an extreme surge of water, mud and debris moved through the Bhote Koshi system in Rasuwa and then downstream into the Trishuli corridor. Government and international health reporting describe the event as a severe flash flood, with preliminary analysis linking the surge to an upstream ice-and-rock avalanche and temporary damming of the Lhende River north of the Nepal-China border. The precise physical trigger remains subject to technical assessment; for the purpose of this humanitarian action plan, the operational fact is that the flood produced a rapid-onset, high-energy impact across river settlements and critical infrastructure, leaving little time for evacuation in the most exposed locations.

The flood's effects were not confined to a single settlement or district. Destruction in the upper corridor affected access routes, customs and border infrastructure, hydropower sites, local markets, homes and health facilities. Downstream movement of floodwaters, debris and bodies broadened the emergency footprint. Damaged roads and bridges disrupted the movement of relief supplies and emergency referrals, while damaged water and sanitation systems created secondary public-health risks. Families were displaced into host households, religious/community spaces and government-run holding centres, increasing pressure on water, sanitation, privacy and protection arrangements.

1.2 Current emergency situation snapshot

Table 4. Current emergency situation snapshot

1.3 District impact and downstream recovery reporting

WHO and HEOC identify six districts as affected by the flood emergency: Rasuwa, Nuwakot, Dhading, Chitwan, Gorkha and Tanahun. The Ministry of Home Affairs' initial public appeal highlighted severe riverbank impacts in Rasuwa, Nuwakot, Dhading and Gorkha. As search and body-recovery operations continued downstream, the 3 September NDRRMA bulletin also recorded recoveries in East and West Nawalparasi. To prevent confusion, the table below distinguishes the six districts identified in the health/humanitarian affected-area reporting from the additional downstream districts appearing in the casualty-recovery distribution.

Table 5. District impact and casualty-recovery reporting

Figure 3. Geographic impact classification and targeting logic

1.4 Crisis-affected local units and operational targeting

Government resource allocations reported on 30 August identify 15 local units in five districts receiving dedicated disaster-management funding for search, rescue and immediate relief. This list provides a practical starting point for coordination and should be cross-checked against current local-government access information before NNSS deploys. It does not automatically determine NNSS beneficiary selection; actual target wards and communities must be based on verified need, access, duplication checks and coordination with local authorities and other responders.

Table 6. Government-supported crisis-affected local units

Within Rasuwa and Nuwakot, public reporting has identified severe destruction in multiple settlements and wards along the river corridor. Because the emergency is still evolving, NNSS will not hard-code a final ward-by-ward beneficiary distribution in the narrative report. The operational target list will be maintained in the live implementation and beneficiary-verification systems so that assistance can shift if access, duplication or verified needs change.

2.1 Population profile and data limitations

The reference RAP model used a census and socio-economic survey to establish who was affected, what assets or livelihoods were lost, which households were vulnerable, and how recovery should be monitored. The same discipline is necessary in this emergency, but the data environment is different: population movement is ongoing, some communities remain difficult to access, household losses are still being assessed, and public situation reports do not yet provide a complete sex-, age-, disability- and household-head-disaggregated flood caseload. A credible donor proposal should therefore separate confirmed public estimates from planning assumptions and from fields that NNSS still needs to verify.

UNICEF's 31 August estimate of 65,000 affected people, including 22,100 children, provides the most clearly published inter-agency humanitarian denominator used in this report. UNFPA's flash update uses a wider affected-area population base of 310,076 people and identifies approximately 86,820 women of reproductive age and 4,430 pregnant women living in those affected areas. These UNFPA figures are exposure/service-planning estimates for the wider affected geography, not a claim that every person in those demographic groups lost a home or requires NNSS assistance. The distinction is important when communicating with donors.

2.2 Sex, age and vulnerability disaggregation status

Table 7. Population and vulnerability data status

2.3 Vulnerability and inclusion priorities

NNSS will apply vulnerability prioritization across all components rather than operate a single vulnerability category. A household may be prioritized because the dwelling is unsafe, because the family has no safe drinking water, because income and food stocks were lost, because a member requires chronic medical care, or because the household includes people who face additional barriers to accessing relief. The programme will recognize intersecting vulnerability; for example, an older-person-headed household with a damaged home and a member with mobility limitations may require shelter assistance, home-based delivery, referral support and additional follow-up.

Table 8. Priority vulnerability and inclusion criteria

3.1 Shelter, household assets and displacement

The flood has damaged and destroyed housing, swept away household possessions and left many families unable to return safely. Shelter recovery is not simply a construction problem. A household whose dwelling is unsafe may simultaneously lack bedding, cooking utensils, lighting, storage, food stocks, clothing and documentation. Families staying with hosts or in collective settings may also face overcrowding, privacy concerns and limited control over cooking or sanitation. The programme therefore separates shelter assistance from household-recovery assistance so that the response can address structural and non-structural losses without forcing every family into a one-size-fits-all package.

3.2 Food security, nutrition and market disruption

Food assistance is designed around a three-month stabilization period for 500 verified families. The flood disrupted household stocks, income, local trade and physical access, while displacement can increase food expenditure at the same time that livelihoods collapse. The programme will use a context-appropriate mix of in-kind food, locally procured items or approved cash/voucher modalities depending on market functionality, road access, supplier availability and OCE/NNSS financial-control requirements. Nutritionally vulnerable households should not be treated as identical to the average food-assistance household; infants, young children, pregnant and lactating women, older persons and people with diet-related medical conditions require referral and tailored support where feasible.

3.3 WASH and public-health risks

Flooding has damaged water systems and sanitation facilities, and displacement has increased pressure on shared water points and temporary accommodation. UNICEF reported that at least 22,000 children urgently needed safe water, sanitation and hygiene support by 3 September. The immediate risks include unsafe drinking water, diarrhoeal disease, respiratory infection in crowded settings, inadequate menstrual hygiene, poor solid-waste management and reduced ability to maintain hand hygiene. WASH is therefore integrated with household kits, medical response, community messaging and field monitoring rather than treated as a standalone distribution activity.

3.4 Health, protection and psychosocial impacts

Damaged health facilities, disrupted roads and the loss of local service infrastructure can delay trauma care, chronic-disease management, maternal and newborn services, referrals and disease surveillance. WHO has highlighted injuries, diarrhoeal and respiratory illness, unsafe water and food, vector-borne disease and mental-health needs as priority post-flood risks. UNICEF has also reported child separation and protection concerns, while UNFPA has emphasized risks to women and girls, including barriers to sexual and reproductive health care and increased gender-based violence risk in displacement settings. NNSS medical and field teams will therefore operate with referral protocols, confidentiality and safeguarding controls, not simply medicine distribution.

3.5 Education and livelihood disruption

The disaster has disrupted schooling through damaged facilities, loss of uniforms and learning materials, displacement, psychological distress and use of some schools as temporary shelters. UNICEF reported at least 19 schools damaged along the corridor and more than 10,000 school-age children requiring urgent psychosocial support and safe learning opportunities. Livelihood losses are equally important: households may have lost tools, shops, livestock, tourism income, wage employment, transport access or local markets. Early recovery therefore includes a targeted livelihood top-up, skills support and referrals intended to help selected households begin restoring income after immediate relief needs stabilize.

Table 9. Emergency needs and programme response logic

4.1 Operating principle

The campaign is an emergency humanitarian and early-recovery programme, not a statutory compensation scheme. Assistance is therefore needs-based and programme-defined. The World Bank-linked RAP used by NNSS as a structural reference is useful because it demonstrates disciplined baseline assessment, vulnerability identification, assistance eligibility, institutional responsibility, grievance handling, monitoring and budget control. It is not used as a legal basis for Nepal, and no Philippine compensation entitlement or legal procedure is imported into this programme.

4.2 Do-no-harm and equitable access

NNSS will provide assistance without discrimination on the basis of sex, caste/ethnicity, disability, citizenship documentation, religion, political affiliation or other status. Lack of a document that is not legally required for humanitarian assistance should not be used to exclude a person in urgent need. At the same time, minimum verification is necessary to prevent duplicate assistance and protect funds. Where identity documents have been lost, the programme should use alternative verification through household records, local authorities, schools, health facilities or community verification as appropriate.

4.3 Safeguarding and PSEA

All personnel, volunteers, contractors and partners interacting with affected communities should be bound by a code of conduct that prohibits sexual exploitation and abuse, harassment, discriminatory conduct, coercion and exchange of assistance for money, favours or sexual activity. Safeguarding complaints must be handled separately from ordinary service complaints when confidentiality and survivor-centred referral are required. The programme should minimize collection of sensitive data and never make public the identity of a complainant, patient, separated child or beneficiary whose disclosure could cause harm.

4.4 Data protection and publication consent

Public fundraising requires compelling evidence, but humanitarian dignity must take precedence over publicity. Photographs should be linked to a factual caption, location/date information where safe, the person responsible for collection, verification status and consent status. Images of children, injured people, grieving families, people receiving medical care or survivors of protection incidents require particular care. Donor transparency can be achieved through aggregate data, procurement evidence, financial summaries and consent-cleared photographs without exposing case-level personal data.

Table 10. Compliance and safeguarding control framework

5.1 Targeting philosophy

NNSS will use a component-based eligibility model. A household may qualify for one component, several components, or referral only. This prevents the common emergency-response problem of treating every registered household as eligible for an identical package regardless of actual loss. It also allows the programme to protect scarce resources and prioritize the highest unmet needs while coordinating with government and other organizations.

5.2 Verification process

Register the household or student with a unique programme ID and minimum location/contact data.

Record household size and key vulnerability fields, including children, older persons, disability/access needs, pregnancy/lactation and sex of household head.

Verify shelter damage, food need, WASH disruption, education loss, medical/referral need and livelihood impact as relevant.

Cross-check available local-government, school, health-facility and humanitarian partner information to reduce duplication.

Approve eligible components and document any exceptional case decision.

6.1 Governance model

The response requires clear separation between programme authority, technical quality, beneficiary verification, procurement/payment, monitoring and complaints handling. Concentrating all functions in a single person creates fraud, quality and safeguarding risks. NNSS will therefore use a responsibility matrix in which programme leadership approves major decisions, technical leads define sector standards, finance/procurement controls purchasing and payment, MEAL verifies results, and the GRM/safeguarding function can receive concerns independently from frontline distribution staff.

Table 12. Institutional roles and responsibilities

Figure 4. Institutional coordination tree

7.1 Phased delivery

The programme is organized in phases so that life-saving support is not delayed by recovery activities, while recovery planning begins early enough to reduce prolonged dependency. Timing is indicative and may shift with access, funding availability, weather, market conditions and local-government coordination. The live implementation plan is the operational source for monthly scheduling.

Table 13. Response phases and delivery controls

Figure 5. Beneficiary verification and delivery workflow

7.2 Access and last-mile delivery

Mountain and river-corridor emergencies require flexible logistics. Road access may be cut by landslides, bridge damage or debris; weather may suspend helicopter movement; and some communities may require porter, tractor, ropeway, local boat or other locally appropriate alternatives. The programme therefore includes a logistics allocation and a contingency reserve but requires documented justification when a higher-cost transport option is used. Delivery planning should prioritize safety of communities and staff, avoid crowding at distribution points and use staggered schedules or household delivery where necessary for older people, people with disabilities or medically vulnerable households.

7.3 Distribution integrity and reconciliation

Every distribution or transfer should connect three records: the approved beneficiary list, the inventory/payment record, and the acknowledgement or verification record. This 'three-point match' is essential for donor confidence. Any variance - damaged items, failed transfer, duplicate name, changed household location, inaccessible settlement or rejected delivery - should be documented and resolved rather than silently overwritten. The same principle applies to shelter materials, medical supplies, school kits and livelihood support.

The six core sector components are designed as one integrated package. A household may move through several components, but each component has its own technical and financial ceiling. This avoids hidden cross-subsidization and makes it possible for OCE/donors to see which activities are funded, delivered or still facing a gap. The amounts below are controlled by the live workbook and are repeated only as narrative ceilings; the detailed line-item tables remain online.

8.1 Shelter recovery - NPR 35,000,000 (USD 230,263.16)

Shelter is the largest direct programme component because the physical safety of a household affects every other recovery outcome. NNSS plans shelter repair/recovery support for approximately 300 severely affected families. Assistance may include construction materials, technical safety assessment, basic repair tools, site clearing/debris support, targeted top-ups for the most severely damaged cases and additional delivery costs for remote sites. The exact package will depend on damage classification, site safety, local construction practices, market availability and any government reconstruction standards in force.

NNSS will not equate a cash amount with a technical solution. Before significant shelter support is released, the programme should verify whether the house is safe to repair, whether relocation or temporary accommodation is required, whether the household has already received equivalent material, and whether the proposed support is adequate to achieve a defined minimum outcome. Completion evidence should focus on safety and habitability rather than cosmetic appearance.

Table 14. Shelter and household recovery quality standards

8.2 Household recovery assistance - NPR 14,000,000 (USD 92,105.26)

Household recovery assistance is planned for approximately 500 families who have lost basic items or are displaced. The package can cover bedding, kitchen items, seasonal clothing/winterization, lighting, storage and other essential household items, along with packaging and distribution requirements. Standard kits improve procurement efficiency, but the programme should retain limited flexibility for household composition and disability/accessibility needs. A family with an infant, an older person or a member with limited mobility may need a different mix than a smaller household of working-age adults.

Distribution teams should communicate clearly that receiving household essentials does not automatically make a family ineligible for food, WASH or shelter support; eligibility is component-specific. Equally, a household that already received a complete equivalent kit from another responder should not receive a duplicate package merely because it is registered with NNSS.

8.3 Three-month food assistance - NPR 22,000,000 (USD 144,736.84)

The food component is designed for 500 verified households for three months, equivalent to 1,500 family-months of assistance. The live food worksheet models a staple basket and flexible local-market components. Final delivery may use in-kind procurement, vouchers, cash or a blended modality, but the chosen method must be justified by market functionality, price monitoring, supplier access, beneficiary preference, transport constraints and OCE/NNSS financial controls.

The objective is not only to deliver calories but to prevent crisis coping while households restore access to income and services. The programme therefore includes staple food, pulses/protein, oil, flour or alternative cereal, salt, sugar, fresh-food support, cooking fuel and targeted nutrition top-ups within the approved budget envelope. Procurement should consider culturally appropriate foods, safe storage, shelf life and household cooking conditions. If market prices change materially, the budget should be updated transparently rather than reducing quantities without explanation.

Table 15. Food assistance and nutrition safeguards

8.4 WASH response - NPR 8,000,000 (USD 52,631.58)

The WASH component responds to damaged water systems, unsafe household storage, sanitation disruption and hygiene needs in displacement or damaged settlements. Assistance can include safe drinking-water storage/treatment kits, family hygiene kits, dignity/menstrual hygiene support, temporary or repaired community water points, and sanitation cleanup/disinfection. The programme will coordinate with health teams because WASH failures can quickly translate into diarrhoeal and other disease outbreaks.

Household water treatment products require clear user instruction and should be matched to the product and local water conditions. Hygiene promotion should not be reduced to message distribution; teams should observe whether people can actually access water, soap, toilets and safe waste disposal. Women and girls should be consulted on menstrual hygiene and privacy needs, while accessible water and sanitation arrangements should be considered for older persons and people with disabilities.

Table 16. WASH and public-health minimum standards

8.5 Medical response - NPR 12,000,000 (USD 78,947.37)

The medical component is designed around a planned core team of five doctors and five nurses, supported by medicines, clinical consumables, basic diagnostic equipment, mobile medical camp setup, field allowances, emergency referral/ambulance support, PPE and outbreak/public-health contingency. The programme is not intended to create a parallel hospital. Its purpose is to provide mobile first-contact care, continuity support, public-health screening and referral in coordination with government health services and established health-cluster mechanisms.

Before deployment, each clinician should have identity, qualification, professional registration, role, specialty/focus, availability and publication-consent status verified. Public donor materials may show a professional profile only after the individual has consented. Patient data must remain confidential and should not be placed in public campaign worksheets. Medical procurement specifications should be approved by the Medical Lead, and medicines should be used only within legal and clinical scope.

Maternal and newborn care, chronic disease, injury follow-up, mental health and psychosocial needs require referral pathways. A mobile team should know which facilities are functioning, which roads are accessible, where ambulance or alternative transport can be obtained, and how to escalate a patient whose condition is beyond the team's capacity. The medical budget includes referral transport because a consultation without a feasible referral option may not be enough for seriously ill or injured people.

Table 17. Medical response quality and referral standards

Figure 6. Medical response and referral pathway

8.6 Education recovery - NPR 8,000,000 (USD 52,631.58)

Education support is planned for 500 flood-affected students. The live budget includes school uniforms, bags and stationery, shoes/socks/rain protection, textbooks/learning materials, temporary learning or catch-up support, and selected school-access/enrolment/document assistance. Eligibility should be verified through schools and guardians to reduce duplication and ensure that package specifications match actual school requirements.

Education recovery is also a protection intervention. Restoring routine, safe learning spaces and peer contact can reduce distress and exposure to harmful coping. The programme should coordinate distribution timing with school reopening and identify students with disability, displacement, lost documents or transport barriers who may need additional support rather than only a standard kit.

Table 18. Education recovery package and verification controls

Relief alone cannot restore a household whose income source, tools, shop, livestock, transport link or local market has been destroyed. The early-recovery component therefore provides NPR 10,000,000 (USD 65,789.47) for targeted livelihood/recovery assistance. The current model includes household recovery top-ups, skills training with starter support, psychosocial and child-protection support, disability/older-person accessibility support, legitimate document-replacement/referral costs and community cleanup/shared recovery works.

Early recovery will be case-based rather than automatically distributed to every relief recipient. Selection should consider the severity of livelihood loss, household vulnerability, feasibility of the proposed recovery activity, duplication with government or other programmes, and the household's own recovery priorities. For training, NNSS should avoid training for training's sake; the course should be linked to realistic local demand, participant capacity, starter tools or linkages, and follow-up.

Community cleanup and shared recovery works can support access and public spaces while creating short-term income, but they must be designed safely. Tasks that involve unstable debris, contaminated material, electricity hazards or heavy machinery require technical supervision and appropriate protective equipment. Children should never be involved in hazardous work, and people with disabilities or older persons should not be excluded from benefits simply because they cannot participate in physical labour.

Table 19. Livelihood and early recovery measures

10.1 Purpose and access

A grievance mechanism is not only a complaints box; it is an operational control that helps identify exclusion, duplicate assistance, staff misconduct, procurement problems, unsafe distributions, misinformation and emerging needs. The mechanism should be free of charge, understandable, available through multiple channels and accessible to people who cannot read or use digital tools. Anonymous feedback should be accepted where feasible.

Ordinary programme complaints and safeguarding/PSEA cases must be triaged differently. A complaint about a missing food item can be investigated through normal programme records. A sexual-exploitation allegation, child-protection concern or sensitive medical/privacy complaint requires restricted handling, minimum information sharing and specialized referral. Public reporting should show aggregate trends and resolution performance, not case details.

Table 20. GRM service standards

Figure 7. Grievance redress and safeguarding pathway

10.2 Accountability to affected populations

Accountability also requires proactive information. Communities should know what NNSS is providing, who may qualify, whether assistance is free, what documents are actually required, how selections are made, when distributions occur, and how to raise a concern. When plans change because a road is blocked, a supplier fails or a distribution date moves, affected people should be informed quickly to reduce rumours and unnecessary travel.

Feedback data should be reviewed as management information. Repeated complaints about inaccessible distribution points may indicate an inclusion problem. Reports of incorrect beneficiary lists may reveal weak verification. Questions about unit value may show that public communication is unclear. NNSS should therefore include feedback trends in monthly management and OCE updates, while protecting confidentiality.

11.1 Monitoring purpose

Monitoring will answer five questions: Did assistance reach the intended people? Was it delivered in the planned quantity and quality? Was it timely and accessible? Did it reduce the priority problem it was designed to address? Were funds and evidence handled in a way that can withstand donor or audit review? These questions combine output monitoring with quality, outcome, accountability and financial monitoring.

The reference RAP emphasizes internal and external monitoring. NNSS adopts the same control logic in an emergency format. Internal monitoring should be continuous and linked to operational decisions. Independent audit or review provides a separate assurance layer. External review is particularly useful for verifying whether selection and assistance were implemented as designed and whether grievances and financial controls were handled appropriately.

Table 21. MEAL indicator framework

11.2 Baseline, PDM and completion verification

A minimal baseline is created during household verification. PDM should then test whether the assistance was received, useful, complete, safe and accessible. For shelter, completion monitoring should verify safety and intended use. For food and household items, PDM should look at adequacy, use, quality and protection concerns. For education, follow-up can check whether the student returned to learning and whether the package matched the school's requirements. For early recovery, follow-up should focus on whether the support contributed to resuming income or addressing the documented recovery gap.

11.3 Learning and adaptive management

The programme should not wait until closeout to learn. Monthly reviews should compare planned versus actual reach, unit rates, access conditions, complaint trends, supplier performance and cash flow. If food prices rise, the team should consider approved substitution or transfer-value adjustment. If shelter work is delayed by road access, the programme may need to rephase cash flow. If repeated complaints show an inaccessible distribution point, the delivery model should change. Learning is therefore connected directly to management decisions and donor transparency.

Figure 8. Monitoring and public-reporting cycle

12.1 Consultation approach

Consultation should begin before final beneficiary selection and continue through delivery and monitoring. In an emergency, long formal meetings are not always possible or appropriate; short structured consultations, help-desk interactions, school/health-facility coordination, targeted discussions with women, older people and people with disabilities, and post-distribution conversations can provide actionable information. The programme should document who was consulted, the main issue raised, the decision or commitment, responsibility and follow-up status.

Participation must not become a condition for aid. People who are ill, grieving, working, caring for children, displaced elsewhere or unable to attend a meeting should still be able to access information and assistance. The programme should use multiple communication channels and ensure that decisions are not dominated only by the most visible or powerful community representatives.

Table 22. Consultation and information plan

12.2 Field evidence and communications

The public campaign should show credible evidence of both need and delivery, but evidence must be ethically collected. Each public photograph should have a factual caption, date, location at an appropriate level, photographer/collector, verification status and consent/publication status. Images should not exaggerate, stage or sensationalize suffering. Where a photograph could identify a child, patient, grieving family or protection-risk survivor, the communications team should apply a higher consent and do-no-harm threshold.

The live Field Evidence sheet is intended to become the controlled index for publication-cleared material. The Word report does not embed unverified or placeholder photographs. This means the document can be shared safely even while field evidence continues to be updated online.

The programme is designed for six months, with the heaviest emergency-relief expenditure in the first three months and progressively greater emphasis on shelter completion, education continuity, early recovery, monitoring and closeout in later months. The schedule remains adaptive because road access, weather, search-and-rescue operations and government recovery decisions can affect sequencing. Rather than reproduce the live month-by-month worksheet in this report, the narrative defines the management logic that should govern rephasing.

Month 1 concentrates on rapid verification, immediate food/WASH/household support, medical mobilization, logistics setup and commencement of shelter assistance. Month 2 continues emergency delivery while scaling technical shelter work, school verification and early-recovery case identification. Month 3 is expected to complete the third planned food round or approved equivalent, continue shelter and education delivery and review unresolved protection, WASH and medical needs. Months 4-5 shift the centre of gravity toward shelter completion, education follow-up, selected livelihood recovery, monitoring and audit preparation. Month 6 focuses on closeout, final verification, referrals, financial reconciliation, independent review and public reporting.

Figure 9. Six-month operational phasing

The live Implementation Plan is the authoritative operational schedule and should be updated whenever a milestone is rephased. The Cash Flow sheet provides the corresponding financial phasing. Programme managers should review schedule, procurement and cash flow together so that commitments do not exceed realistic delivery capacity or available funding. Any material rephasing that changes donor expectations should be explained in the next OCE public update.

14.1 Financial architecture

The campaign planning ceiling is NPR 150,000,000. At the planning exchange rate of NPR 152 per USD, this is approximately USD 986,842.11. The model follows a deliberately transparent structure: NPR 120,000,000 in direct programme costs, a 10% administration and coordination allocation of NPR 12,000,000, and a 15% contingency allocation of NPR 18,000,000. The administration and contingency percentages are calculated on the direct programme subtotal. This structure is aligned with the control logic used in the reference RAP, while the actual programme components and unit costs are specific NNSS planning assumptions for the Rasuwa response.

The direct programme subtotal is allocated across nine components: NPR 35 million shelter; NPR 14 million household support; NPR 22 million food; NPR 8 million WASH; NPR 12 million medical; NPR 8 million education; NPR 7 million logistics; NPR 4 million field operations/MEAL/GRM; and NPR 10 million livelihood/early recovery. These amounts total exactly NPR 120 million. Adding NPR 12 million administration and NPR 18 million contingency produces the NPR 150 million overall ceiling. The Word report should not contain a second line-item schedule because that would create duplicate sources of truth; detailed unit rates and quantities are available in the live Detailed Budget sheet.

Direct programme: NPR 120,000,000 (USD 789,473.68) - 80% of the overall campaign ceiling.

Project administration and coordination: NPR 12,000,000 (USD 78,947.37) - 8% of the overall campaign ceiling and 10% of direct programme cost.

Controlled contingency reserve: NPR 18,000,000 (USD 118,421.05) - 12% of the overall campaign ceiling and 15% of direct programme cost.

14.2 Procurement and value for money

Procurement must balance speed with competition, quality and documentation. Emergency conditions may make a standard three-quotation process impractical in every case, but any exception should be justified in writing. Procurement files should show the requirement/specification, supplier outreach or market check, quotation/evaluation, approval, purchase order or contract, delivery/GRN, invoice and payment evidence. For medical procurement, supplier licensing and clinical specification require additional attention. For food, quality, expiry, storage and delivery capacity are key. For shelter, technical specifications and acceptable substitutions should be clear before ordering.

Figure 10. Procurement-to-payment control chain

14.3 Cash flow and commitment control

The Cash Flow sheet phases the NPR 150 million envelope across six months. Early months are expected to carry higher expenditure because food, WASH, household items, medical mobilization and initial shelter procurement are front-loaded. Later months carry shelter completion, early recovery, monitoring, audit and closeout. Cash-flow planning is not the same as spending authorization; commitments should be made only against confirmed funding and approved procurement. Funding gaps should be visible so that programme managers can prioritize life-saving components rather than commit to activities without resources.

14.4 Administration and coordination

The NPR 12 million administration and coordination envelope covers functions needed to deliver and account for the programme: project leadership and inter-agency coordination; finance/accounting/procurement controls; internal monitoring/field supervision; independent audit/external review; compliance/safeguarding/legal support; communications/translation/public reporting; secure data systems; and essential programme support/office operations. These costs are not hidden overhead; they are the control infrastructure that allows a large emergency campaign to operate safely and transparently.

14.5 Contingency reserve

The NPR 18 million contingency is a reserve, not an automatic spending line. The live model divides the reserve across likely emergency triggers such as price escalation/supplier shortage, access/transport disruption, health/outbreak surge and unforeseen protection or critical needs. Release should require documented evidence of the trigger, management approval and a budget note showing how the contingency use affects the remaining reserve. This protects the programme from both under-budgeting and uncontrolled discretionary spending.

14.6 OCE fiscal-host / platform fee treatment

The core NPR 150 million model does not assume an unconfirmed OCE fiscal-host or platform fee. A separate live scenario sheet illustrates the effect of different fee rates if the fee is added on top of the programme target or deducted from the NPR 150 million ceiling. The public campaign should use only the final fee arrangement confirmed with OCE. Until that point, the fee scenario is a planning tool rather than a commitment or public cost claim.

The response operates in a high-risk environment where access, weather, price, health and information conditions can change quickly. Risk management therefore combines prevention, contingency planning and escalation. Risks are reviewed not only for their probability but also for their potential effect on life safety, programme integrity, protection and donor trust.

Scenario planning should consider at least three operating conditions. In a normal-access scenario, the programme follows the planned six-month sequence. In a constrained-access scenario, high-volume shelter and household deliveries may be delayed while medical, protection, information and cash/voucher options are prioritized where feasible. In a renewed-hazard scenario, staff and beneficiary safety takes precedence; field activities may be suspended and resources redirected to evacuation, emergency communication or medically urgent needs under approved contingency procedures.

16.1 Public reporting package

OCE contributors should be able to understand what the campaign is trying to achieve, how much it seeks to raise, how funds are allocated, what has been delivered and what remains outstanding. The public reporting package should therefore combine concise narrative updates with live financial/monitoring schedules and consent-cleared field evidence. The campaign should not overwhelm donors with operational spreadsheets, but it should make those records accessible for anyone who wants to review the detail.

A practical reporting rhythm is: launch/update 0 explaining the plan and baseline; monthly or milestone updates summarizing reach, key expenditure and operational challenges; a 90-day stabilization update after the three food rounds and major emergency deliveries; and a final/closeout report covering outputs, expenditure, remaining gaps, audit/review and lessons. If the campaign continues beyond six months, an updated recovery plan should replace repeated extension of the emergency narrative.

Table 24. OCE reporting calendar

Figure 11. OCE fundraising-to-implementation transparency loop

16.2 Financial assurance

Donor assurance depends on consistency across narrative, budget, procurement, bank/payment records, inventory and reported outputs. The live workbook is designed so that the component budgets total the direct programme subtotal and the administration/contingency structure reconciles to the NPR 150 million ceiling. Actual expenditure should be recorded against the same component categories so that budget-versus-actual reporting remains intelligible. Any material budget revision should be approved, documented and explained in the next public update.

16.3 Evidence assurance and privacy

Public transparency does not mean publishing every record. Beneficiary names, grievance narratives, patient data, staff personal contact information and unredacted credential documents are not appropriate for unrestricted public access. Donor due diligence can be supported through controlled sharing where necessary. The public report should instead rely on aggregate results, anonymized samples, consent-cleared photographs, procurement summaries and audit/review outputs. The public-versus-restricted disclosure rules are maintained in the live Disclosure & Privacy worksheet linked in the reporting callout above.

Emergency assistance should be designed with an exit from the first month. Food assistance is time-bound to three months unless a new verified humanitarian rationale and funding decision justify continuation. Shelter support should lead to a defined safety/habitability outcome or referral, not indefinite material distributions. WASH interventions should link household treatment and hygiene support to restoration of community systems. Medical activities should strengthen referral and continuity with existing health services rather than substitute for them permanently.

Early-recovery support is the bridge between emergency relief and longer-term recovery. Selected households should leave the programme with restored essential assets, improved access to income, an appropriate referral or a clear pathway into government/partner recovery schemes. NNSS should identify unresolved cases during month five so that referrals and handover can be completed before financial closeout.

Programme systems can also create longer-term value. A de-duplicated beneficiary database, documented GRM, supplier performance records, field evidence standards and monitoring routines can strengthen NNSS readiness for future emergencies. Lessons from access constraints, inclusion barriers and community feedback should be documented and incorporated into preparedness procedures rather than archived only for donor compliance.

Table 25. Sustainability and exit milestones

The Rasuwa flood emergency is larger than any single civil-society campaign. Government agencies, security forces, health services, UN agencies, local authorities, community groups and multiple humanitarian organizations are responding across a wide and difficult river corridor. NNSS's role is therefore not to claim comprehensive coverage, but to deliver a defined, transparent and technically controlled package to verified households and students while coordinating with the wider response.

The proposed NPR 150 million campaign combines immediate relief with practical early recovery. The design protects 80% of the envelope for direct programme activities and makes administration and contingency explicit rather than hidden. It places high-value components - shelter, food, medical care and household support - alongside WASH, education, logistics, accountability and livelihood recovery so that assistance addresses the interconnected realities of displacement and loss.

Donor support will be translated into documented assistance through a chain of verification, approval, procurement, delivery, monitoring and public reporting. Live NNSS worksheets allow detailed financial and programme schedules to remain current without duplicating them inside this narrative report. This reduces version-control risk and gives donors a direct route to the evidence behind the campaign.

NNSS invites OCE, institutional donors, partner organizations and individual contributors to support the campaign in a manner that is timely, flexible and accountable. Early funding allows the programme to secure essential supplies, mobilize technical and medical capacity, reach remote communities before needs deepen, and move vulnerable households from survival toward safer recovery.

The following live worksheets are hosted on the NNSS website. They are the current structured supporting records for the campaign. The Word report intentionally does not duplicate the detailed worksheet tables. Each sheet can be opened directly using the link below.

Table 26. Live supporting worksheet directory

The rapid household verification framework is the mechanism for converting broad humanitarian estimates into a defensible NNSS beneficiary list. It should be short enough to use under emergency conditions but complete enough to support de-duplication, vulnerability analysis, component eligibility and later monitoring. Personal data should be limited to what is operationally necessary and stored securely.

Table 27. Rapid household minimum data fields

Female-headed households, older-person-headed households and older persons are explicitly included because current public flood situation reports do not provide a verified count for these groups. NNSS can therefore generate a programme-specific, evidence-based disaggregation after registration. Aggregate results can be published in the Monitoring sheet without disclosing household identities.

Table 28. Monitoring indicator definitions

D.1 Safeguarding minimum operating rules

Assistance is free; staff, volunteers and contractors may not request money, favours or sexual activity in exchange for aid.

Children should not be interviewed or photographed unnecessarily, and child-sensitive consent/assent procedures should be followed.

Sensitive complaints are disclosed only to personnel who need the information to manage risk or referral.

Survivor safety, dignity and informed choice take priority over programme reputation or publicity.

Medical and psychosocial information is confidential and excluded from public evidence logs.

D.2 GRM escalation matrix

Table 29. Safeguarding and grievance escalation matrix

E.1 Source hierarchy

Situation data are prioritized in the following order: Government of Nepal official emergency/health/disaster sources; United Nations agency situation reports and official humanitarian updates; established international or Nepal media reporting that explicitly attributes figures to government authorities; and NNSS field verification for programme-specific targeting. When figures conflict because of different dates or definitions, the report retains the date/source rather than blending them.

Table 30. Source hierarchy and data-status rules

E.2 External source links

Government of Nepal Ministry of Home Affairs - Official Disaster Relief Appeal

WHO Nepal - 2026 Rasuwa flash floods

Nepal Health Emergency Operation Centre - Rasuwa Flash Floods 2026

UNICEF Nepal Humanitarian Situation Report No.1 (31 Aug 2026)

UNFPA Nepal - Nepal flash floods / flash update

E.3 Reference-framework adaptation statement

The uploaded 2023 Metro Manila Flood Management Project Resettlement Action Plan (Batch 3 Pumping Stations) is used as a structural and control reference because it provides a detailed example of socio-economic baseline work, vulnerability treatment, impact/assistance matrices, institutional responsibility, livelihood restoration, grievance redress, internal/external monitoring, consultation, implementation scheduling, and budget presentation with explicit project administration and contingency. This Rasuwa report does not treat Philippine laws, agencies, compensation rates, household statistics or resettlement entitlements as applicable to Nepal. The adaptation is methodological, not legal or factual.

F.1 Why disaggregation matters in this response

Flood impacts are not experienced uniformly. A household may appear equally affected in a damage list while facing very different recovery barriers depending on age, gender, disability, care responsibilities, health conditions, displacement status and access to information. The purpose of disaggregation is therefore not simply to populate donor tables; it is to change operational decisions. If verification identifies a high number of older-person-headed households in a target settlement, distribution timing, porter support, home delivery and medical referral capacity may need to change. If women and girls report privacy or menstrual-hygiene concerns in a holding centre, WASH and protection arrangements must respond accordingly.

The public humanitarian sources available for this edition do not provide a verified count of affected female-headed households or affected older persons. NNSS will therefore generate programme-level disaggregation from verified records. The aggregate monitoring dataset should, at minimum, be able to show the number of supported households by sex of household head, households containing older persons, households with disability/accessibility needs, households with pregnant or lactating members, and households with children. These categories can overlap and should not be summed as if they were mutually exclusive.

F.2 Inclusion actions by programme component

Table 31. Gender, age and disability inclusion actions

F.3 Safe demographic reporting

Aggregate demographic reporting should be purposeful and privacy-safe. NNSS should avoid publishing very small cell counts at settlement level when they could identify an individual, particularly for pregnancy, disability or protection-related categories. Public reporting can show programme-level totals and percentages, while detailed household-level information remains restricted. Sex-of-household-head should not be used as a proxy for vulnerability on its own; the programme should combine it with damage, income, care burden, disability, age and other verified factors.

G.1 Planned team and deployment readiness

The current financial model provides for a core medical team of five doctors and five nurses. The exact professional mix should be finalized against field needs and available personnel. A useful deployment may include clinicians comfortable with emergency/primary care, maternal and child health, chronic disease continuity, public-health screening and referral. The roster should identify who is deployed on each date, which location the team covers, the responsible Medical Lead, transport arrangements, referral facilities and the stock issued to the team.

Credential verification is a pre-deployment requirement, not merely a public-relations exercise. NNSS should verify professional registration/license status, identity, qualification and role before the clinician is allowed to provide care under the programme. Public profile publication is a separate decision requiring consent. The live Medical Team Profiles sheet is designed to separate these two issues: operational readiness and public disclosure.

G.2 Mobile medical camp minimum operating package

Table 32. Mobile medical camp minimum operating package

G.3 Medicine and equipment control

Medical inventory requires tighter control than general relief items because expiry, storage, clinical authorization and traceability affect patient safety. Stock should be received against an approved specification, recorded into inventory, issued to a named team or camp, reconciled after use and disposed of according to applicable rules where necessary. Controlled or high-risk medicines should not be included unless legal, storage and prescribing requirements can be met. Donations of medicines should be screened against actual need and expiry rather than accepted automatically.

G.4 Health coordination and referral continuity

WHO and HEOC reporting show that government-led health coordination is active. NNSS should align medical deployments with local health authorities and functioning health facilities so that the team fills gaps rather than duplicates services. Referral records should be operationally useful but privacy-protected. At closeout, unresolved patients or chronic-care needs should be handed over to appropriate services with consent rather than disappearing when the mobile team leaves.

H.1 What a donor should be able to verify

A strong humanitarian campaign should allow an independent reviewer to trace a reasonable sample from public promise to field result. For example, a reviewer should be able to start with the shelter budget, see the approved procurement or delivery method, identify a sample of verified household allocations, confirm receipt/completion evidence, compare actual expenditure with the approved component ceiling and review whether complaints or exceptions were recorded. The same logic should apply to food, household items, education, medical supplies and early-recovery support.

The evidence package should be organized by component and month rather than stored only in individual staff phones or email accounts. File naming should include date, component, location/ID and evidence type where appropriate. Sensitive files should sit in a restricted location with role-based access, while public evidence is indexed in the Field Evidence sheet. This separation helps NNSS respond quickly to donor questions without risking accidental public disclosure of personal data.

H.2 Minimum due-diligence file structure

Table 33. Donor due-diligence evidence package

H.3 Exception management

Emergency operations inevitably produce exceptions: a supplier may be the only accessible option; a beneficiary may relocate; a planned road may close; a household may lose its identification documents; a medical referral facility may become inaccessible. Good control does not mean pretending exceptions do not happen. It means documenting why the normal rule could not be followed, who approved the alternative, how risk was mitigated and how the exception was reconciled. A clear exception log protects both affected people and programme staff.

H.4 Publication readiness check

Latest situation figures are dated and attributed; no unsupported demographic estimates are presented as facts.

Narrative budget figures reconcile exactly to the live Budget Summary.

OCE/platform fee language reflects the confirmed arrangement or is clearly identified as illustrative.

Medical personnel shown publicly have verified credentials and publication consent.

Photographs have factual captions, verification and appropriate consent status.

At approximately 90 days, NNSS should conduct a formal management review because the programme will have completed or substantially completed the three planned food rounds and many early emergency distributions. The review is an opportunity to decide whether the original assumptions remain valid before the programme moves further into shelter completion and early recovery. It should not wait until the final audit.

Table 34. 90-day management review checklist

The management review should produce a short decision note: confirmed/updated targets, approved budget reallocations if any, remaining risks, priority activities for months four to six, and reporting commitments. Where a change affects public expectations or financial allocations, the OCE campaign should be updated promptly.

J.1 Why district and demographic precision matters

The flood emergency spans a river corridor rather than a single administrative unit. For programme management, it is therefore important to separate three different types of geographic information: districts formally described as affected in government/health reporting; local units receiving disaster-management resources; and downstream locations where bodies or debris have been recovered. These categories overlap, but they are not interchangeable. NNSS should use verified household need and access to select operational locations instead of assuming that casualty-recovery counts represent the residential distribution of affected households.

The same distinction applies to demographic information. Humanitarian agencies have published useful sectoral and exposure estimates for children, women of reproductive age, pregnant women and other groups, but the available public sources do not provide a verified count of flood-affected female-headed households, older-person-headed households, older persons or persons with disabilities. This report therefore presents what is known, identifies what is not known, and defines the programme data that NNSS must collect before final beneficiary selection.

J.2 Published demographic and exposure indicators

Table 35. Published demographic and exposure indicators

J.3 District-level operational priorities and verification needs

Table 36. District-level operational priorities and verification needs

J.4 Programme demographic outputs to publish after verification

Once household verification begins, NNSS should replace the current data gaps with privacy-safe programme statistics. The purpose is not to create a census of the disaster, but to demonstrate that the campaign reached people equitably and adapted delivery to barriers. Aggregate reporting should preserve overlap between categories; for example, a household can be female-headed, include an older person and include a person with disability at the same time.

Table 37. NNSS demographic verification outputs

K.1 Purpose of the update template

The campaign page should become more credible as implementation progresses, not less. Each public update should connect three layers of evidence: what changed in the humanitarian situation, what NNSS delivered, and what the financial records show. The live worksheets make this possible without pasting large operational tables into the public narrative. The update itself should remain readable for a donor who has only a few minutes, while clear links allow a reviewer to inspect the underlying schedules.

A monthly or milestone update should never report expenditure without programme output, or output without the corresponding funding context. If only part of the campaign target has been funded, NNSS should say so and explain which components are being prioritized. If planned quantities, unit rates or implementation dates change, the update should identify the reason and direct the reader to the current live sheet rather than leaving an outdated number in the public narrative.

K.2 Minimum content for each OCE public update

Table 38. OCE monthly public update minimum content

K.3 Financial disclosure and reconciliation before publishing

Before an update is published, the finance and programme teams should reconcile the numbers together. The public funding amount should agree with the Funding & Contributions sheet. Actual expenditure should agree with the Budget vs Actual record and supporting finance records. Programme outputs should agree with the Monitoring sheet and evidence register. Any material difference between committed, paid and delivered value should be explained rather than collapsed into one number.

Table 39. Public financial disclosure and reconciliation checklist

K.4 Suggested short public narrative structure

Opening: state the reporting period and one or two significant changes in the situation. Progress: summarize the verified people/households/students reached and the main components delivered. Finance: state funding received, eligible expenditure to date and the remaining funding gap using the same cut-off date. Accountability: summarize important quality findings, aggregate feedback and any material operational change. Evidence: include only cleared photographs or field records. Next steps: identify the next delivery priorities, key risks and the specific funding gap that would unlock them.

This structure keeps the OCE page human-readable while preserving a direct path to technical detail. A donor who wants the headline can read the update in a few minutes; a technical or finance reviewer can open the linked sheets and trace the underlying programme and financial schedules.

This version is prepared for OCE and international donor review as a clean narrative action plan linked to live NNSS financial and programme worksheets. Detailed spreadsheet tables are not duplicated in the Word document. The financial figures stated in the narrative are synchronized to the current NPR 150,000,000 planning model at NPR 152 per USD. Situation statistics are dated and attributed, and data gaps in sex-of-household-head and older-person affected counts are explicitly acknowledged rather than estimated without evidence.

NNSS will maintain a transparent implementation record through the live worksheet system, public OCE updates, financial reconciliation, monitoring, consultation, grievance handling and consent-cleared field evidence. Any material change in programme scope, campaign ceiling, exchange-rate assumption or OCE fee treatment should be reflected in both the live model and the narrative reporting before the revised version is circulated.

NAYA NEPAL SAMAJIK SANSTHA (NNSS)

Rasuwa Flood Emergency Response & Early Recovery

https://nnss.org.np/ or https://nayanepalsanstha.org/