Gorkha, Nepal Earthquake Long-Term Responses - Paper 1 Flashcards
How many areas required rebuilding?
23, things such as schools, housing, roads, monuments and agriculture.
In total how much aid had been committed to recovery efforts?
Who reported this?
US$274 million
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
What reopened in June 2015 to encourage what?
The Durbar Square Heritage sites.
Encouraged tourists back for the tourism season.
What reopened in August 2015?
Mount Everest (for tourists), after some stretches of trails were re-routed.
Climbers would return and attempt Everest again by February 2016.
A recovery phase started 6 months later by who which did what?
Started by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), to expand crop production and growing seasons individuals were trained how to maintain and repair irrigation channels damaged by landslides in the earthquake.
