Governance in Critical Stand Point to Implement Post-Disaster Initiatives in Nepal

The key question of this study is how governance leverages the post-disaster recovery process and scrutinizes the prospects of aid effectiveness in communities that were economically, physically, and psychologically devastated by the 2015 Nepal catastrophic earthquake. Considering the situation, 10 focus group discussions, and 50 in-depth interviews was administered to earthquake victim households in Rasuwa district. The finding suggests that a total of 619 people were killed and 694 injured, more than 446 service facilities, including hospital, schools, health posts, drinking water supply schemes, and administrative structures of the services were destroyed. The severe effect of the earthquake affected 82 percent of the population, with more than 10 million USD economic loss on the one hand. On the other, to the humanitarian actors engaged in the recovery and reconstruction process through aid mobilization. Governance was in the critical position to implement the post-disaster initiatives such as aid mobilization, capacity development of actors and integrity of governance due to the lack of clarity of reconstruction, unclear role of local governments and lack of interagency coordination