In 2008 the UN Country Team (UNCT) set up the United Nations Youth Advisory Panel (UNYAP). The UNYAP is a part of the UNCT’s commitment to young people’s empowerment and rights in accordance...
This publication presents the projects’ achievements and successes in expanding peoples’ access to financial services, in partnership with the Nepal Rastra Bank. In the span of two years, EAFS has reached more than...
Nepal’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) sets out a peace-building framework for Nepal’s development partners through its ambitious, transformational agenda on equity, inclusion, accountability, good governance and a restructuring of the state. While elaborated...
As in the past few years, in 2011 the UN Country Team (UNCT) in Nepal has needed to continuously adjust to both the challenges from a longer-than-expected post-conflict transition as well as to...
The United National Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) evaluation of gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) was commissioned by the UN RCHCO and carried out between mid- January 2011 and February 2011. The evaluation...
The United Nations Development Assistance Framework provides a collective, coherent and integrated United Nations System response to national priorities and needs within the framework of the Millennium Development Goals and the commitments, goals and targets...
This report on a pilot study undertaken in connection with the Community Radio Performance Assessment (CR-PAS), based on the indicators developed by the Community Radio Support Centre/Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ), is the first...
The PDS articulates how development partners could assist Nepal in the years ahead to realize the development agenda embedded in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) from 2006. It makes the case for ensuring...
Nepal’s international development partners are committed to supporting Nepal’s peace process. In this spirit, they have finalized a ‘Peace and Development Strategy’ (PDS) that was developed over the course of 2010 by a...
The present study entitled “Multilingual Education in Nepal: Hearsay and Reality?” was started in April 2011 and completed on 25th May 2011. The main aim of the study was to explore and analyze the realities...
Under the overall leadership of Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA) the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) as lead of the Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM) cluster, undertook a study to identify open spaces within...
The study was carried out by a team of experts on education financing, who made a critical analysis of the education sector's policies for gender responsiveness in relation to budget allocation at both national and...
An independent review of the United Nations Peace Fund for Nepal (UNPFN) was conducted from May to June 2011 by a Review Team of international and national consultants from the Organisation Development Centre, a Nepali...
This report is published jointly with the Ministry Physical Planning and Works in Nepal, it shows, for example, that urban land prices had increased 300 percent since 2003, putting housing increasigly out of reach for...
The UNESCO Office in Kathmandu has just released the “UNESCO Country Programming Document for Nepal 2011-2013”, the first comprehensive programme outlining the most important areas of UNESCO’s contribution to the country’s peace and development agenda....
In the Kathmandu Valley, around 70% of the households dispose their excreta directly into the sewer line while remaining 30% of the households still depend on onsite systems such as pit latrines and septic...
Major challenges lie ahead as Nepal works through its transition towards peace. Many of these are laid-out in the recently published Nepal Peace and Development Strategy (PDS) prepared by Nepal‘s international development partners, which takes...
UN-HABITAT’s country activities are focused on supporting governments in the formulation of policies and strategies to create and strengthen a self-reliant management capacity at both national and local levels. Technical and managerial expertise is provided...
