Project Name: NITI SAMBAD on Access to Drinking Water and Quality Education
Project Leader: Kamal Devkota
Partners and Collaborators: Southasia Institute of Advanced Studies (SIAS) and National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
Duration: 3 months (Starting from February 2019)
Brief Description of the Project:
With the adoption of federal democratic republican system, Nepal has gone through the massive structural change in its governing practices. After the new constitution was promulgated in 2015, election of local followed by provincial and federal government has been held and newly elected governments are now working for the policy formation and its implementation. In this context, National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) and Southasia Institute of Advanced Studies (SIAS) are working together to build capacity of political leaders and that of their representatives across the scale to understand, develop and implement policies.
Under this pilot project, SIAS conducts quick but analytically focused studies on access to drinking water and quality education and produce respective policy briefs. As a part of research, we specifically prepare and facilitate targeted training/workshop sessions to the participants of different political parties and (i) expose them to the way research and analysis process are conducted, improving their understanding of the use, importance and applicability of research in developing policies, (ii) increase their ownership and buy-in of the process and result, so that participants do not feel policy solutions are imposed on the them or developed without their involvement and (iii) gather input from them to produce practical and affordable policy recommendations.
