A Policy Dialogue on the Role of Local Government in Reconstruction was held on 1 February 2019 at Hotel Shangri-La, Kathmandu. The dialogue was attended by experts on local governance, the National Reconstruction Authority officials, constitutional and legal experts, donor representatives, civil society members, and stakeholders in subnational governance. The objective of the policy dialogue was to analyze the local government’s role in the reconstruction process through the political economy analysis of the post-earthquake reconstruction in Nepal.