 Nepal is highly prone to a range of natural disasters. Flood is one of the major disasters that occurs each year and impacts lives and livelihoods. The flooding leads to river shifting phenomenon which cuts the land, deposits sand and silt making it no more useful for agriculture production. Disaster risk reduction projects in Nepal have proven effective in saving lives but they have been less effective in mitigating economic losses. Local capacities and systems have been protected in short term but often communities have not sufficiently maintained efforts after the project closes out resulting a trained task force migrated from their village in search of alternate livelihood options as there was lack of economic incentive to stay. Morsi Corp Nepal through its Managing Risk through Economic Development MRED program started an integrated approach of DRR and Economic Development called NEXUS approach that contributes to mitigate the risks and supports to generate the income and builds the ability of households and communities to strengthen positive coping strategy and resilience to current and future shock and stress. Sugakain one of the primary key intervention which creates access to economic opportunities that directly contributes to disaster risk reduction planting Sugakain plantation in the riverbank areas. NEXUS is considered ideal for climate risk sensitive agricultural practice as it slowed down the river speed which mean less river cutting problem providing mitigation benefit it can withstand flood inundation for a week deposition of clay particle would regenerate productivity of swell supporting recovery of land to do other agriculture practices. Morsi Corp partnered with the public private and civil society to strengthen the Sugakain market system NEXUS approach complements traditional DRR programming by simultaneously reducing the human and economic toll of natural disasters and providing income opportunities to the most vulnerable communities. As a result of NEXUS approach more than 518 hectares of riverbank area was protected and reclaimed through Sugakain plantation while also helping farmers of 30 working communities in contemporary and Kailali districts to earn more than 500,000 US dollar in four years. The portion of earnings from NEXUS crops depose as a community level emergency fund. The fund is used to repair and maintain the risk mitigating structure as well as to respond to the small scale disaster. The program has also provided training to build capacity for early preparedness and response and 99% of the task force members within those communities have been retained and are engaged in NEXUS crops which ensure efficient response in the event when floods occur and ensuring continuity of the DRR activities in the long term.