Nepal, Nov. 26 -- On September 8, a wave of youth-led protests swept across Nepal, which many called the Gen Z movement. Sparked by frustration over corruption, cyclical political warfare and stagnation, a ban on social media, thousands of young Nepalis took to the streets and social media demanding accountability and reform. For a moment, it felt like a generational awakening, a powerful shift toward civic consciousness. But as momentum grew, so did fragmentation. What began as a unified outcry soon scattered into divided camps, revealing the deeper organisational and structural cracks within the movement itself, the very cracks that Collective Impact Theory warns against.

While studying the framework of Collective Impact, a model often...