Is the Disaster Management Mechanism Functioning Properly in Nepal? Understanding the issues from Gorkha Earthquake

Abstract

In Nepal, research on disaster management after the recent 2015 Earthquake is very important to conduct to find out the ongoing activities of the government and how the earthquake displaced people have taken it. For this purpose, understanding the mechanism plays an important role in managing the disaster. Nepal is vulnerable to natural disasters and every year there are significant losses of lives, property, and livelihoods (National Institute of Disaster Management, 2013). Due to this it is necessary to find out the gap in functioning of mechanism for disaster management.

The mechanism has been analyzed in three forms based on Preparedness, Response and Recovery and Reconstruction mechanism. There seems to be the significant relationship between the preparedness, response, recovery and reconstruction mechanism and disaster management. Since the p-value is accepted at 5 percent level of significance, the hypothesis “The Disaster Management Mechanism is not functioning properly” is accepted, which shows that the Preparedness, Response, Recovery and Reconstruction mechanism is not functioning properly during the time of Gorkha Earthquake 2015.