Shelter Reconstruction and Rehabilitation in the rural areas of Nepal in response of Nepal Earthquake 2015

Abstract

Nepal lies in earthquake prone area. Nepal experienced big magnitude of 7.8 Richter scale earthquake in 25^th April 2015 recently which occurred after 81 years of the deadly earthquake. The wild earthquake was responsible for significant economic loss which was estimated seven million USD[1] and large number of infrastructures damage with 755,549 individual houses. Government of Nepal, various donors including international communities worked together for rehabilitation and reconstruction of damaged infrastructures and individual houses. This study aims to know the completion rate of reconstruction of individual houses which was done through the cash transfer modality.

Government of Nepal formed Nepal reconstruction Authority to lead reconstruction and decided to provide conditional cash grant (CCG) shelter re-construction to the eligible beneficiaries.

[1] PDNA 2015, Government of Nepal