Independent Impacts and Recovery Monitoring Phase 3: September 2016

Abstract

This report assesses conditions on the ground in earthquake-affected areas of Nepal in September 2016. Combining quantitative and qualitative information, it assesses the extent to which recovery is taking place almost 18 months after the earthquakes. The Independent Impacts and Recovery Monitoring for Accountability in Post-Earthquake Nepal (IRM) project tracks evolving conditions and needs in areas of Nepal that were affected by the massive earthquakes of April and May 2015. Using both quantitative surveying and in-depth qualitative fieldwork, IRM involves revisiting areas and people at roughly six month intervals to assess current conditions and how they are changing. Because data collection and research is conducted in the same areas in each round, with many of the same people interviewed, IRM allows for an assessment of how conditions and needs are changing over time and of the roles that aid is playing—positive and negative—in shaping recovery patterns.