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害发生后，国家机构、当地非政府行为体和国际援助机构汇集到受灾地区，为应急和救灾工作提供援助。理想情况下，这些救援活动应随着时间的推移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，显然缺乏协调，资源分配效率低下。因此，受影响社区恢复正常所需的关键恢复项目的规划和执行工作出现了过度拖延。这项快速反应研究的结果预计将有助于了解地方政府机构、非政府行为体和国际援助机构在从应急反应过渡到社区恢复行动时面临的这些障碍和挑战。这项研究的成果将有助于制定优先事项，促进从应急到恢复的有效和高效过渡。因此，这项研究具有变革的潜力，可以简化今后的灾后恢复工作，提高各机构（地方和国际）为国内外社区恢复投入的资源的效率。这项数据收集工作旨在探讨影响长期复苏的一些关键问题。本研究试图解决的具体研究问题包括：1）外部援助机构如何在应对-恢复过渡期间影响当地恢复政策和组织框架的形成; 2）外部援助机构如何确保在应对-恢复过渡期间恢复规划框架的有意义的国家自主权; 3）灾前规划和组织框架在何种程度上影响救灾-恢复过渡期间的政策制定; 4）地方政府在确保救灾援助转变为发展方面面临哪些挑战-在持续提供资金和国际关注的同时，在地方政策支持下提供重点援助;以及5）我们如何确保在这一过渡阶段制定恢复议程时听取地方的意见？在救灾的这一关键阶段收集数据，将使我们能够在救灾-恢复过渡期间绘制正在进行的恢复政策制定过程，并帮助确定影响随后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.