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

The Remake of a StateThese mismatches on rhetoric and realities are ideological, conceptual oroperational. They are either tactical or strategic in nature. However, theyare strongly socialised in Nepali society and therefore ethics, accountability,responsibility and transparency are limited to a mere rhetoric.Another potential risk for post-conflict development in Nepal is dealingwith higher expectation of people in one side and failure of politicians todeliver the promises they made to general public on the other. Post-conflictdevelopment strategy and operational procedures have to avoid makingany unrealistic promises. Development is a time-consuming process andrequires huge resource and time. Unrealistic promises to people createproblems, if failed to fulfill. However, development sector in Nepal has greatpotentials for achieving stability and peace and addressing expectationsof people if available resources are used transparently, following goodgovernance principles and rule of law. Political interference, bureaucraticmanipulation, corruption and mal-governance are the deadly bottlenecksfor Nepal's development sector.4. ConclusionAs Nepal is in the post-conflict turbulence, state building is of primeconcern. It has to enhance state capacity to perform its tasks such asensuring inclusion of excluded in the political decision-making, achievingpeace, justice, livelihood security and economic prosperity of the people,providing security to its citizens and restoring and maintaining lawand order, respecting human rights and implementing rule of law andenhancing international relations.In case of Nepal, state building and state restructuring are closelyinterlinked. It would be extremely difficult to achieve the objectives ofstate building without state restructuring. Therefore implementation ofall the components of state building and state restructuring discussedin the earlier sections should be the preconditions for the actions frompolitical parties, government, state bureaucracy, security, judiciary, civilsociety, researchers, academia and all citizens.The current political situation of Nepal is a great opportunity fortransforming the centralised, exclusionary and ineffective state into amodern, prosperous and inclusive nation. But stabilisation of Nepali stateis possible only with the rational combination of political-bureaucraticsecurityreform and economic growth.43