Nepal does not need another disaster portal

Nepal’s experience with the 2015 earthquake reconstruction, the Earthquake Housing Reconstruction Program (EHRP) Management Information System (MIS), and the disaster information systems developed by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA) has given the country something far more valuable than technology: institutional learning. These experiences have helped Nepal build the knowledge, systems and institutional capacity needed to inform how it prepares for and responds to future disasters.

The question now is not whether Nepal can build another MIS. We already know it can. The more important question is what the next generation of disaster information systems should look like.