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Mapping DRR institutions and actors across scales from centre to local: Kathmandu, Nepal

By: Dilli Prasad Poudel and Sophie Blackburn
This is the first report coming out of Work Package 1: Theme 2 (Governance and Institutions) for the Tomorrow’s Cities GCRF Hub in Kathmandu city. It constitutes a qualitative institutional mapping of formal and informal organisations and key stakeholders involved in DRR governance in Kathmandu, across all scales from national to local. It draws on fieldwork constituting of a first round of expert interviews and literature review conducted by Dilli Poudel from July-December 2019. It also builds on the Khokana field report released by SIAS in July 2019. The data contained in this report (including the Appendices) should be considered a work in progress which will be built upon in subsequent rounds of fieldwork and used to refine research questions going forward.

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