Tracking Disaster Response and Relief Efforts Following the 2015 Nepal Earthquake

It has been more than one year after the April 2015 Nepal Earthquake. Various kinds of support and aid flooded into the affected region, from within the entire country and from international community, with extensive media coverage and billion of dollars raised in support of relief/recover efforts. This paper presents analysis of various datasets related to this disaster, including a GDELT dataset, showing the rise and fall of people's attention to this event. In addition, financial transaction flows reveal a lot about sources of funds and donations, flow of funds among various organizations or sources, and how these funds and donations have been spent or utilized for relief and recovery efforts. Available data based on surveys from citizens in affected areas along with the reconstruction dataset help capture and explain the efforts that the international and local organizations and governments have put on the post-earthquake relief, and its effectiveness.