SNNP & Buffer Zone
Resilience Development Program Proposal
Buffer Zone Management Committee – BZMC SNNP
Kakani Centre for Development of Community – KCDC
Water Environment and Risk Education – WEaRE
weare.ktm.nepal@gmail.com +977 981 2500082
PRESS STATEMENT
During the past Two months, a new program has been negotiated to review and develop the resilience of the Shivapuri Nagarjun National Park and its Buffer Zone, integrating anthropogenic impacts, physical environment risks and its ecosystems vulnerabilities to climate change and territorial conflict. The SNNP Buffer Zone Committee and KCDC have signed an MOU partnership with WEaRE to coordinate strategy for risk awareness, preparedness with technical development, training, mitigation, adaptation and collaborative response to numerous hazardous risks and consequential potential disruptive and destructive events.
Chief Warden, Park Rangers and both Battalion Colonels, all with critical expertise, responsibility and field experience, along with the 11 Community Chief Officers, KCDC [Convenor], and respectfully the SWC Vice Chairman, attended an introductory presentation, on Tuesday July 1st 2025 at the Shivapuri Nagarjun National Park HQ, by the WEaRE Team on Tuesday, where questions and clarifications and suggestions were fielded, culminating in a consensus of full support for the 5year resilience development program. Immediate consultations are now underway to listen to and expand stakeholders and specialist contributor’s expert and local knowledge inputs and needs within the program.
The SNNP is the core source of the KTM Valley’s water resources, a significant contributor to air pollution balance and the only protected amenity and wildlife forest within the KTM Valley watershed. WEaRE is already in focused partnerships with a variety of senior specialist agencies and organisations to target multiple material, strategy, policy and training needs and deliverables within DRHS ‘Disaster Reduction Health and Safety’. ‘Community Outreach’ will be initiated not only through the established Community Area Committees, but also via the Health Centres and the 90 Schools within the Buffer zone.
Comprehensive School Safety along the lines of UN GADRRRES policy, will embrace the UNDRR GETI / WEaRE T4 program, training trainers to Train Teachers and Community Instructors, integrating with WEaRE’s pioneering ‘DRHS officer’ initiative, to generate ownership, program continuity and resilience sustainability within the SNNP Buffer Zone Communities, to navigate the challenges ahead within the fast changing fragile and vulnerable physical environment and its ecosystems. We welcome and seek collaborations from specialist, experienced and contributory bodies.
