"We are now making significant progress on shelter, which is the most urgent priority for many of the survivors," said Dev Dhakhwa, Nepal Red Cross Society Secretary General.
"More than 5,000 families have already received the first tranche off Red Cross cash grants and many have started building their new houses," Dhakhwa told reporters while launching this year's World Disaster Report here.
But owner-driven rebuilding of permanent housing, with Red Cross financial and technical support is only one component of an integrated recovery programme being implemented in the 14-worst affected districts.
"The various pieces of the jigsaw are now coming together and other concrete examples of what we are doing include rebuilding and upgrading health posts and hospitals and dozens of schools. Providing clean drinking water and proper toilets to quake-affected communities," said Max Santner, Head of the International Federation of Red Cross Societies' Nepal Country Office.
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Ensuring that local Red Cross chapters are better prepared to face future disasters in a further important priority, with the NRCS network of community volunteers playing a vital role.
"Helping communities to regain resilience is at the core of our work, so this gives extra relevance for us to the focus of this year's World Disasters Report," said NRCS Chairman Sanjiv Thapa.
The 2016 edition of WDR, an annual publication of the IFRC, underlines the vital importance of investing urgently in resilience to protect the lives, livelihoods, and dignity of the world's vulnerable people.
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