Government Sources
- Focal Persons, from different government organizations involved in the post-quake work, with their contact phones and email addresses
- Co-ordination Centre, disaster management tasks and names of assigned officials:
- Rescue & Relief Co-ordination Cell, with names of officials designated for coordination with media and collecting/updating data during the earthquake of 2015
- Weekly Schedule of Designated Officials involved in rescue and relief
- Key Contacts, a PDF file with contact details of some key officials and institutions, towards the last pages, involved in disaster management
- Earthquake Relief Portal, a digital initiative that seeks to present all information available through different official Nepal government websites
- Information Officer, Home Ministry, with landline
- Chief District Officials, with their contact numbers in Nepali, download the PDF file
- Prime Minister’s Relief Fund, with main contacts and their cell phones
- Directorate of Public Relations, Nepal Army, with organization structure, spokesperson and contact details
- Press Releases, on important decisions. This too
- Health Info, ministry release, with appeals, updates, and some landlines, in PDF
- Update by Nepal Police, a PDF file with key info updates, mainly useful for the format of details, and as website link
Private Sector
- FNCCI, a website link to press release of the federation of industrialists and businessmen:
- Local Chambers, with local chapters of the federation, contacts and phones
NGOs/INGOs, etc.
- Nepal Risk Reduction Consortium: unites humanitarian and development partners with financial institutions in partnership with the GoN.
- Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System (GDAC): Situational overview, opertional priorities, country security situation, baseline data, etc.
- Gorkha Earthquake, Nepal Society for Earthquake Technology site in response to the 2015 quake, with information, datasheet, situation reports, government releases etc.
- Humanitarian Response, with facts, maps and links
- Situation Reports, and assessments, findings and maps, humanitarian snapshots
- UN News, with latest updates and links
- IRIN News, update on Nepal earthquake
- ReliefWeb, Nepal Situation Reports
Disaster and related sciences
Engineering
Health
Security and Safety
Reconstruction & Recovery
- Kathmandu Valley Development Authority, contact phone numbers for questions related to retrofitting
- 014771477, Kathmandu
- 015522089, Lalitpur
- 016610123, Bhaktapur
- Post Disaster Needs Assessment, Executive Summary, prepared by by National Planning Commission in view of donors’ conference
Key documents and frameworks