Study Reports
Nepal’s Gen-Z Movement-Youth’s Views and Voices about Political Future
Nepal’s Gen-Z Movement: Youth’s Views and Voices about Political Future examines the September 2025 Gen-Z uprising as a critical moment in Nepal’s contemporary political trajectory, situating it within longer-term patterns of political instability, economic stagnation, and governance failure. The study argues that while triggered by the government’s social media restrictions, the movement reflected deeper structural frustrations, particularly around corruption, lack of economic opportunity, and declining trust in political leadership, shared widely across Nepali society.
Mayoral Priorities and Performance from a Gender Perspective in Nepal – English eBook
Mayoral Priorities and Performance from a Gender Perspective in Nepal explores whether gender impacts the priorities and performance of the Mayors and chairpersons in Nepal. Using a mixed-method research approach, the study compares the priorities...
Mayoral Priorities and Performance from a Gender Perspective in Nepal – Nepali eBook
Mayoral Priorities and Performance from a Gender Perspective in Nepal explores whether gender impacts the priorities and performance of the Mayors and chairpersons in Nepal. Using a mixed-method research approach, the study compares the priorities...
Optimizing Remittance Utilization – Pathways to Boost Productive Sector Investments in Nepal
The study aims to provide viable policy suggestions for the Government of Nepal and other stakeholders on utilizing productive use of remittances in four productive sectors: renewable energy, high-end agriculture, high-end tourism, and information...
Young People, Politics and Elections Reflection on their Perceptions and Expectations
Nepal’s young voters account for more than half of the country’s eligible voters. Contemporary young voters are more educated and have greater access to information related to elections and policymaking than those in the past. To consolidate...
Nominations and Electability – The Role of Gender Norms in Nepal’s Local Elections
Major political parties in Nepal nominate fewer women for competitive seats, despite claims of ‘gender blindness’ in their candidate selection process. This is the result of a flawed nomination process, as well as selection criteria that are...
Bi-Annual Document – Covid-19 and its Implication for the Nepali Economy (Part II)
Globally, the pandemic has been considered as one of the most severe health and economic crises of the twenty-first century and Nepal has not been an exception. In the case of Nepal, with three waves of the pandemic – one in 2020 and two in 2021 –...
Bi-Annual Document – Covid-19 and its Implication for the Nepali Economy (Part I)
Even after over a year of COVID-19 being announced as a pandemic, the pandemic’s onslaught continues to cast a dark shadow of uncertainty through concerted health, economic, and humanitarian crises playing out synchronously across the world. The...
Assessment of Provincial Governments’ Response to COVID-19
The Assessment of Provincial Government’s Response to COVID-19 was undertaken by Foundation and Development Management (FDM) and Nepal Institute for Policy Research (NIPoRe) primarily to understand and critically look into how the seven provinces...
Impact of COVID-19 on Nepali Civil Society Organizations
Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) are often at the forefront of crisis and are the early responders. The important role these organizations play during the crisis has been well documented (Johnsen & Stedronsky, 2017; Kämpe, 2018; Wendelbo et...
COVID-19 and its association with Smoking and Alcohol consumption – A Case of Nepal
The pandemic caused by COVID-19 has engulfed the whole world and has affected every facet of human life. Researchers have scrambled to figure out the association of the virus with various lifestyle choices to limit the spread mitigate its impact...