Nepal, May 31 -- Nepal's developmental experiences have been characterised by structural contradictions throughout history, even under radically differing political systems and development paradigms. Two common tendencies are associated with these contradictions. The first is decontextualisation, which refers to the importing of universal frameworks without considering Nepal's specific social, ecological and historical contexts. The second is depoliticisation, in which political questions of inequality and power are turned into technical problems to be solved through project-based solutions.

Development interventions have repeatedly decontextualised Nepal's social realities and depoliticised its structural inequalities. An analysis of tr...