The coloniality of development ideas in Nepal

Nepal has benefited from decades of development investments, but the frameworks organising those investments have been designed and evaluated externally.

Before a single rupee of development funding reaches a Nepali community, a decision has already been made elsewhere—not about budgets, but about vocabulary. That vocabulary comes packaged as frameworks and concepts—tools that determine the problem, prescribe the solution and measure the progress between them. They are generated in specific power centres and arrive in communities carrying a particular hierarchy of knowledge .