This paper contributes to the study of collaborative governance (CG) - systems where autonomous actors work together around shared objectives using pooled resources to address a common goal. Among CG's claimed benefits are boosting actor capacities for transformative action and increasing their resilience to complex multi-scaled challenges such as hazards and sudden catastrophic events. We engage with collaborative governance through a case study of changing public policy and institutional structures that govern hazards in Nepal. Following the shocking event of the 2015 Gorkha earthquake, Nepal's approach to disaster risk reduction (DRR) has been reshaped by federalisation and institutional reforms that aim to embed a governing system based on greater collaboration. We argue this amounts to a state transition to a collaborative governance regime (CGR) for DRR. Using primary qualitative data derived from 17 semi-structured interviews at national, provincial, and local scales, we identify state-sponsored scalar narratives around 1) actor capacities and tendencies in DRR; 2) knowledge production on DRR and its dissemination; and 3) formal and informal institutional DRR roles and responsibilities. We show how these narratives are being used as anchor points for a new CG approach to national DRR strategy. However, our analysis shows these narratives risk excluding local participation in DRR by marginalising grassroots politics to emphasise top-down state-led goals. In turn, this leads us to question the viability of the emerging governance regime as a truly collaborative project embedding principles of sustainability and inclusivity. We conclude that if these state scalar narratives continue to shape national policy, they will impede the potential for transformative collaborative action for DRR in Nepal.

本文有助于协作治理 (CG) 的研究 - 在该系统中，自治参与者使用汇集资源围绕共同目标共同努力以实现共同目标。CG 声称的好处包括提高行动者采取变革行动的能力，并提高他们对复杂的多尺度挑战（如灾害和突发灾难性事件）的适应能力。我们通过对尼泊尔治理灾害的不断变化的公共政策和体制结构的案例研究来参与协作治理。继 2015 年廓尔喀地震令人震惊的事件之后，尼泊尔的减少灾害风险 (DRR) 方法已经通过旨在嵌入基于更大合作的治理体系的联邦化和机构改革进行了重塑。我们认为这相当于国家向 DRR 协作治理制度 (CGR) 的过渡。使用从国家、省和地方层面的 17 次半结构化访谈中获得的主要定性数据，我们确定了国家支持的标量叙述：1) DRR 中的参与者能力和趋势；2) DRR 知识生产及其传播；3) 正式和非正式的机构 DRR 角色和职责。我们展示了如何将这些叙述用作国家 DRR 战略的新 CG 方法的锚点。然而，我们的分析表明，这些叙述有可能通过边缘化基层政治来强调自上而下的国家主导目标，从而排除地方参与减灾。反过来，这让我们质疑新兴治理制度作为一个真正的协作项目嵌入可持续性和包容性原则的可行性。我们得出的结论是，如果这些国家标量叙述继续影响国家政策，它们将阻碍尼泊尔 DRR 变革性合作行动的潜力。