What has been focused on establishing a federal structure in Nepal?

This EDP Wire was written by Dr. Prakash Bhattarai, Director of the Centre for Social Change in Nepal and a former PRIF guest researcher by invitation of the EDP Network. In his article, he argues that if managed well, the new federal structure of Nepal as provisioned in the Constitution of 2015 has an immense potential to promote local democracy and equip citizens with fundamental rights but also finds that Nepal is practicing federalism in the midst of fear, mistrust, and dubious mind-sets of political elites without a clear vision of its future. Prakash concludes that fully autonomous federalism cannot be achieved unless strong trust between political elites and citizens is created and that the future of federalism is determined by the effective and efficient delivery of services, civic space, citizens’ accessibility in governance processes, the governing style of the elected leaders and their accountability towards citizens, and a clear division of power and responsibilities between different tiers of government.

Explanation:

countries such as spain, france and portugal colonized the region. although most of latin america was colonized by spain, the countries of portugal and france also had major influences on the region. due to war and disease, native populations were decimated.