Word Bank co-financed a project aimed at adopting a systematic approach to assist the Governments of Nepal to determine their climate risks based upon precipitation, geology, land-use, population density and poverty levels. The project will assess the climate risk of the priority highway and identify the highest impact/hot spot areas.

Once the priority hotspots are identified, detailed site specific risk assessments will be made and detailed planning process will be conducted with all the relevant specialized agencies. The determination of the hot spots will be done looking at historical evidence on the landscape over ti