Kathmandu heritage reconstruction: Local people outscore commercial contractors

The 2015 earthquake in Nepal destroyed 891 monuments and places of the cultural heritage of different sizes. Six years on, around two-thirds of them still await reconstruction whereas many of the others have been completely rebuilt and some under the process.

When one looks back at the reconstruction of heritage sites, properties built by locals themselves via their consumer committees have proven to be more substantial and faster than those handled by commercial contractors.