ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to delve deeper into the human experience of disaster displacement, focuses on the situation of people from one district in the country. It analyses the disaster displacement dynamics in a specific part of Nepal during and post-2015 earthquakes and to understand the role of law and policy in protecting people during displacement and facilitating durable solutions. Subsistence agriculture and animal husbandry coupled with tourism resources and cross-border services form the main sources of livelihood of the Rasuwa people. The Rasuwa people are still heavily dependent on agriculture and livestock for their food security and livelihoods, despite the involvement of a significant proportion of households in non-agricultural income-generating activities, such as tourist services and labour outmigration to the Middle East and Southeast Asia. The Government of Nepal approved the National Policy on Internally Displaced Persons on 22 February 2007.
