RAPID: The Response-Recovery Transition Phase and its Implications for Long-term Recovery: Case Study, Katmandu.

在尼泊尔地震等重大灾难发生后，国家机构、当地非政府行为者和国际援助机构汇聚到受影响地区，为紧急反应和救灾工作提供援助。理想的情况是，随着时间的推移，这些救济活动应该无缝地转变为长期的恢复计划和行动。然而，在这一过渡时期，明显缺乏协调，资源分配效率低下。因此，在规划和实施关键恢复项目方面出现了过度拖延，而这些项目是受影响社区恢复正常所必需的。这项快速反应研究(RAPID)研究的结果预计将有助于理解地方政府机构、非政府行为者和国际援助机构在从紧急反应过渡到社区恢复行动时面临的这些障碍和挑战。这项研究的结果将有助于制定优先事项，以促进有效和高效地从应急向恢复过渡。因此，这项研究具有变革的潜力，可以精简未来的灾后恢复工作，提高国内外各机构(当地和国际)为社区恢复提供的资源的效力。这项数据收集工作旨在探索影响长期复苏的若干关键问题。本研究试图解决的具体研究问题包括：1)外部援助机构如何影响响应-恢复过渡期间地方恢复政策和组织框架的出现；2)外部援助机构如何确保响应-恢复过渡期间有意义的国家对恢复规划框架的所有权；3)灾前规划和组织框架在多大程度上影响响应-恢复过渡期间的政策制定；4)地方政府在确保响应援助在当地政策支持下过渡为以发展为重点的援助，同时保持资金和国际关注方面面临哪些挑战；以及，5)在这一过渡阶段，我们如何确保在制定恢复议程时听到当地的声音？在灾难应对的这一关键阶段收集数据将使我们能够绘制响应-恢复过渡期间正在进行的恢复政策制定过程，并帮助确定影响后续社区恢复行动的具体障碍和挑战。

Following a major disaster such as the Nepal earthquake, national agencies, local non-governmental actors, and international aid agencies converge onto the impacted region to provide assistance for emergency response and relief efforts. Ideally, these relief activities should over time seamlessly transform into long term recovery plans and actions. However, there is an evident lack of coordination, and inefficient resource allocation during this transitional period. Consequently, there are inordinate delays in planning and implementation of critical recovery projects that are necessary for return to normalcy for the impacted community. The findings of this Rapid Response Research (RAPID) study are expected to contribute towards understanding these obstacles and challenges faced by local government agencies, non-governmental actors, and international aid agencies in transitioning from emergency response to community recovery actions. The outcomes of this research will help in development of priorities for facilitating effective and efficient transition from emergency response to recovery. Thus, this study has the transformative potential to streamline future disaster recovery efforts and improve the efficacy of resources committed by the various agencies (local and international) towards community recovery both at home and abroad. This data collection effort seeks to explore a number of critical issues that influence long-term recovery. The specific research questions that this study seeks to address include: 1) How do the external aid agencies influence emergence of local recovery policy and organizational framework during response-recovery transition; 2) How can the external aid agencies ensure meaningful national ownership of recovery planning frameworks during the period of response-recovery transition; 3) To what extent does pre-disaster planning and organizational frameworks influence policy formulation during response-recovery transition; 4) What are the challenges that local governments face to ensure that response aid is transitioned into development-focused assistance with local policy support while funding and international attention is sustained; and, 5) How can we ensure that local voices are heard in formulation of a recovery agenda during this transitional phase? Data gathering at this critical stage of disaster response will enable us to map the ongoing process of recovery policy formulation during the response-recovery transition, and help identify specific obstacles, and challenges that influence subsequent community recovery actions.