Policy Compendiums

Mayoral Priorities and Performance from a Gender Perspective in Nepal
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 and performance of female and male mayors.

Nepal Competitiveness Index 2025 – eBook
The third edition of the Nepal Competitiveness Index (NCI) study ranks Nepal’s seven provinces based on 64 indicators (across four environments). In addition, from this year onwards, NCI...

Policy Compendium – Covid-19 Pandemic and Nepal’s Road to Post-Pandemic Recovery
Nepal reported the first confirmed case of Covid-19 in the entire South Asia region in Jan 2020. In the following months, as the virus began spreading to countries around the world and in South...

Evolving Roles of ICT in Nepal’s Education Sector
Education is one of the most important aspects of human beings that drives human skills, art, and creativity. Without education, human values and ethics do not come along. But since last March...

Vaccine Cooperation of LMICs across South and South-East Asia
SARS-CoV-2, commonly known as Covid-19, and its subsequent mutated variants have disrupted the entire world since the first virus case was confirmed in the Chinese city of Wuhan, in late December...