Netra Prashad Timsina holds Ph.D. from Reading University, UK. He has rich experiences in natural resource governance, particularly in forest governance. He has been the author and co-author of a number of publications on human rights and democratic, governance, civil society and development, knowledge system in natural resources, forest governance and land, climate change, and food security.
Timsina has been largely engaged in public policy advocacy representing CSOs in various high-level policy forums of governments, donors, civil society at national, regional and international levels. He has been substantially involved in a campaign of localizing MDGs with a link to local democracy in respect to providing essential services to local people as basic human rights. He also facilitated the discourses and practices of CSOs and Aid Effectiveness in Nepal as a pressure group to the donors and government to make them accountable to their promises. He has been engaged in social movements’ particularly civil society movements for human rights, democracy and inclusion by mobilising various sectoral people’s organisations- mass based organisations- forest rights, land rights, children rights, dalit and women rights among others. He is also part time faculty member of College of Development Studies and teaches Masters Course on Public Policy. Timsina was the president of NGO Federation of Nepal (2008 onwards) leading a network of more than 5300 NGOs primarily working in the field of human rights, democracy, pro-poor development and environmental justice.
