Nepal, March 28 -- The minister Pratibha Rawal is now responsible for managing the country's civil service and coordinating among Nepal's three tiers of government-federal, provincial, and local. Yet nearly a decade after the country adopted a federal system, public administration remains far from citizen-centred. Administrative reform has stalled, coordination between different levels of government is weak, and service delivery continues to lag. Against this backdrop, the government born from the recent Gen Z movement faces the formidable challenge of translating political change into meaningful administrative reform.

Elected from Kanchanpur district in Sudurpashchim province in farwestern Nepal under proportional representation, Rawal ...