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“...Disaster Governance and Challenges in a Rural Nepali Community: Notes from Future Village NGO Acknowledgements We wish to acknowledge the financial support provided by Osaka University for this research project. Furthermore^ we gratefully appreciate government officials; NGOs workers; scholars to share their disaster relief and recovery experiences with us. Finally we are very grateful to the many villagers in our research area who shared their views on; and experiences of; hope and hopelessness in post-earthquake time. This perspectives is available in HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies: http:/ / digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya/vol37/iss2/11...”
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“...Disaster Governance and Challenges in a Rural Nepali Community: Notes from Future Village NGO Lai Ming Lam Varun Khanna Rob Kuipers More than two years after the 2015 earthquakes devastated Nepal, Katunge village in Dhading district, Nepal, remained as destroyed as it was right after the earthquake. While the villagers were rather hopeful about rebuilding their houses and lives during the immediate relief effort in which we engaged, one month after the earthquake, now only a few are confident that they will ever rebuild their homes. In this article, we describe the reconstruction progress, followed by a critique of why the reconstruction progress has been so slow. We conclude with reflections on reconstruction challenges interwoven into the context of our NGO experience. During our trips to the region, we have observed and experienced the difficulties people and organizations are facing in the reconstruction process. We interviewed government officials and NGOs that have been involved in...”
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“...since our last visit, just a few months ago. While the villagers were rather hopeful about rebuilding their houses and lives when we met them one month after the earthquake, now only a few are confident that they will ever rebuild their homes. This is a description of our latest trip to Katunge village and several other places in Nepal in September 2016. Having been involved for years with a grassroots Non- Governmental Organization (NGO) called Future Village, we decided to provide emergency relief and establish a reconstruction project in our project area, Katunge village, in Dhading district.1 While prior to the earthquake our NGO mainly focused on providing free education and health care to the most disadvantaged families in the village, our efforts after the earthquake focused on supporting and assisting all affected families. Since the earthquake we have made several visits to Nepal to con- tribute to the project and to study the post-earthquake situation. During our trips, we have...”
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“...fuel crisis; tourism took a massive hit because of this double crisis. High transportation costs also limited recon- struction progress as much reconstruction work had to be suspended. Facing the increasing social turmoil and politi- cal uncertainty, many NGOs decided to finish their disaster relief work in Nepal earlier by December 2015 and gave up the long-term recovery and reconstruction projects. Little Gets Done Without a Reconstruction Policy Effective reconstruction policy must go hand in hand with good governance, which has been clearly discussed in the literature on disaster governance. Empirical examples indicate that effective coordination between the State and NGOs helps to overcome the relief and recovery challenges to those resource-poor countries (e.g. the earthquake in Turkey on August 17,1999). Civil society’s involvement strengthens the community’s resilience to future disasters (e.g. the earthquakes in Sichuan on May 12, 2008 and on April 20, 2013). Disasters can also transform...”
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“...houses being rebuilt the year after the earthquake. Apart from the delayed reconstruction policy, this recon- struction strategy fails to respond to local complexities. Equality is the most important reconstruction principle for the Nepali government’s post-earthquake response. An unjust reconstruction policy could further escalate the tense ethnic divisions and anxieties following the earth- quake, therefore the Nepali government has enforced a limit on housing grants, and to avoid duplication of relief and reconstruction efforts it has retained all decision-mak- ing power for reconstruction projects. Influenced by the approaches used by the State Government of Gujarat to rebuild following the 2001 earthquake in India, and the advice from the World Bank, the government of Nepal decided an owner-driven approach would be the most effective and culturally sensitive way to rebuild private houses (National Planning Commission 2015). However, what government officials promote as equality, in reality...”
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“...shortage, and immediate assistance from the large humanitarian organizations was not forthcoming. The events of the initial days following the earthquake were discouraging for everyone in the village. Despite these drawbacks, the community responded rather quickly. In the first two months, by working together the villagers managed to build a community center, a tempo- rary school and over 100 temporary shelters. The initial response of our organization after the earthquake was to provide emergency relief, which included emergency cash, funding for the new community building, rice and grain distribution, emergency supplies and materials, such as fertilizers, to ensure a normal planting season. These com- bined efforts ensured that community members were safe in such a way that they could have positive attitudes about rebuilding their lives. Moving Ahead in Uncertain Times What became clear in the first few weeks after the earth- quake was that it would be unlikely for large INGOs to offer support...”
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“...Professor of Anthropology at Osaka University. She earned her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Adelaide, Australia. She has been carrying out research on the welfare impact of conservation-led displacement on local communities, particularly in Nepal, since 2002. Over the past 11 years she had dedicated her life to improving the livelihoods of rural populations, and she is the founder of Future Village Nepal. When the 2015 earthquake hit rural Nepal, her NGO not only provided emergency relief, but also implemented long-term disaster recovery and reconstruction projects. Varun Khanna is a scholar with interests in Education, Globalization and Development at the School of Human Sciences at Osaka University, and a European Commission fellow with a concurrent position at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, University of Amsterdam, and University of Oslo. He is also part of the project panel for The Chance Initiative and Future Village, NGOs in Nepal. He...”
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“...toll.html> (Accessed on May 12, 2017). Rigby, Jennifer. 2016. Nepal Earthquake Anniversary: One Year on, Not One Home Rebuilt by Government. Telegraph, April 25, 2016 (Accessed on November 15, 2016). Save the Children. 2016. One Year on from the Nepal Earthquakes: Three Million People Still Live Without Permanent Shelter as New Report Reveals Some Marginalized Groups Missed Out on Relief. < https://www.savethechildren.net/article/ one-year-nepal-earthquakes-three-million-people-still- without-permanent-shelter-new-report> (Accessed on August 10, 2016). Thapa, Surenda. 2016. Impacts of an Earthquake in Tourism in Kathmandu, Nepal. Bachelor dissertation, Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Degree Programme in Tourism, (Accessed on April 5, 2017). The Asia Foundation. 2016a. Independent Impacts...”