Last week Sajag-Nepal team members had the pleasure of joining representatives from NGOs, INGOs, civil society organisations, and UN agencies from across the Asia-Pacific region at the Regional Humanitarian Partnership Week in Bangkok. This was a great opportunity to introduce the project to a broad audience, and to hear about the priorities, challenges, and achievements […]
Amy Johnson, Northumbria University “How are you doing down there, Gopi?” A pair of white chinos and well-worn boots are all we can see of our colleague, Gopi Basyal, a geographer on the Sajag-Nepal team based at the Nepal Society for Earthquake Technology (NSET). At the moment, Gopi is hip deep in a precisely 1.2-meter […]
In March and April 2022, members of the Sajag-Nepal team began working with local government and residents in the four case-study municipalities to identify potential sites for monitoring slope stability. Talking to district- and municipality-level officials as well as groups of residents, the team focused on places where more information was desired on the stability […]
Welcome to the project blog for the Sajag-Nepal project. Here you’ll find updates from members of the team as the project develops. We are a mix of academics, researchers, and members of humanitarian and practitioner organisations dedicated to improving our understanding of, and ability to anticipate, risks from the mountain hazard chain in Nepal. We […]