English - Support to Participatory Constitution Building in Nepal ...

The forgotten forcestheir initiatives by formalising individual and informal activities thatdiasporas do to support their home country and community.They can act as third parties (as those who were not directly participatingin the conflict from either side) in addressing the effect of past conflict likein the issues of reparation, reconciliation, restitution and reintegration andother forms of post-conflict development and reconstruction. Besides,they can also act as third parties to check human rights issues and issueslinked to inclusion and marginality.11. Engaging diasporaPolicies aimed at linking up home community with immigrant communitycan be developed. Government should facilitate to build network amongscattered migrants and the people of home community. They canestablish and make available data (immigrants’ hometown, qualifications,whereabouts in host country, trend of remittance sending etc) about thewhereabouts of migrants in host country as well as of home country. Thisdata can be then corresponded with another database having informationon opportunities for investment and needs of a particular homecommunity. The two data should be made accessible to the immigrants sothat their associations have information for investment. The state shouldprovide them motivation to act. It helps enhance the sense that theycan have an impact. Encouraging interaction between diaspora and localcommunity is also a must. The federal division that Nepal is going to havemeans that migrants will belong to one or the other provincial unit. Thiscan bring more opportunities for migrants to be recognised within theirown smaller community. It may give them more worthiness and hencemore incentive for contribution to their own provincial unit.Culturally we have found that migrants invest some of their earning inlocally important symbolic capitals like temples, schools, ‘Dharmashalas’ 9and alike. Interviews with migrant associations reveal that this is mostlyfor their own satisfaction. It is also with a sense of pride that they get bybeing able to do something in the home place. The same phenomenoncan be sensed in the philanthropic activities performed by the NRNs inNepal. State building modalities should take such sentiments into accountand channel them to invest in much needed infrastructure developmentefforts, in delivery of service and their management.9The huts constructed on the way, especially onto any pilgrimage, for the night-stay. Such huts servepilgrims free of cost and are constructed by some pious people out of religious motive (eds.)184