Pandemic Impacted into Shifting of Social Support Paradigm: A descriptive study in Nepal

Local social support practices chain has disconnected due to higher practices on social distancing due to pandemic. Fear of contaminate, dominated state order, and continue of social distancing impacted into social support in local practices. The study has explored how resourceless household has been struggling on achieving social support in their community, how the micro level benefit receiver houses impacted into the local level, and how it has impacted due to local state regularities for social distances in high hill communities of Nepal. The research paper has explored existing local support practices and major hindering factors during the pandemic impacted communities in the study area. A descriptive research methodology has been used. Primary information has been collected from a close-ended questionnaire through local informants. Pandemic, social support, local support and community-based initiatives on self-support related to publication information have been considered as secondary sources of the study. Descriptive and inferential analysis has been used for quantitative data analysis. Local support is impacted due to limited movement, high restriction on social gathering, policy domination on transportation, networking, and labor engagement. It can be possible to enhance local support sustainability through the support during pandemic through the collective funds, assets, community-based policies, and local promotional policy on building community resilience