Study Reports

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 –...

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...

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...

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...

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...