The Kathmandu Emergency Management Project aimed to enhance the institutional capacities of the city government of Kathmandu in emergency and disaster management and integrate it with the National Strategy for Disaster Risk Management. The first phase of the Project has focused on the assessment of the Emergency Management System of KMC and the city’s institutional training needs.

The Emergency Management component of the Cross-Cutting Capacity Development (3CD) Program aims to:

• Enhance the institutional capacities of KMC in emergency and disaster management;
• Build a disaster management systems at KMC;
• Build staff competency through specialized training