Popular Gentle is a Senior Research Fellow at SIAS. He holds a PhD in socio-economic and institutional perspective of climate change adaptation from the Charles Sturt University, Australia, a Master’s degree in Forestry Science from University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and a Master’s degree in Zoology (Ecology) from the Tribhuvan University, Nepal.
Popular has over 20 years of experience in designing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating development, humanitarian, and research projects with a primary focus on natural resource governance, climate change adaptation, integrated watershed management, livelihoods and poverty reduction, and gender equality and social inclusion. He is experienced in managing complex projects, working in multicultural team, and experienced in designing and executing a range of environmental and social development and research projects funded by institutional (such as: USAID, DFID/FCDO, DANIDA, GIZ, NORAD, AUSAID, SDC), foundations and individual donors. His previous assignments include Asst. Country Director for CARE International in Nepal (2015-18), Team Leader for Oxford Policy Management, UK/Policy and Institutional Facility – Resilience (2018-19), and Country Director for Ipas Nepal (2019-2022). Popular served as a consultant evaluator (2021) for mid-term evaluation of Australian Centre for International Agriculture Research (ACIAR) funded Enhancing Livelihoods from Improved Forest Management (FST/2017/037-EnLiFT 2) Project in Nepal.
Popular was a steering committee member of Association of International NGOs in Nepal (AIN) and gained extensive experience on operational environment, opportunities, and key challenges for international organizations in Nepal. Popular is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Charles Sturt University in Australia (from 2014 to date) and at the Prince of Songkla University, Thailand. He is currently involved as a researcher for Climate change adaptation governance (CCAG) program, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Network on Governance (GovNet). His research has been extensively published, on topics including climate change adaptation, livelihoods, natural resource governance, poverty, and gender.
PUBLICATIONS (selected)
Dahal, G.R.; Malla, Y.; Pokhrel, B.K.; Khanal, D.K.; Gentle, P., Paudel, D. (2022). Community forestry policy and legal framework. IN: Paudel, N.S., Ojha, H., Banjade, M.R., Karki, R. and Tamang, S. (Eds.) Revitalising community forestry in the changing socioeconomic context of Nepal. Kathmandu: EnLiFT2 programme and Forest Action Nepal.
Rijal, S.; Sinutok, S.; Techato, K.; Gentle, P.; Khanal, U.; Gyawali, S. (2022). Contribution of Community-Managed Sal-Based Forest in Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation: A Case from Nepal. Forests 2022, 13, 262. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13020262.
Rijal, S., Gentle, P., Khanal, U., Wilson C. & Rimal, B. (2021). A systematic review of Nepalese farmers’ climate change adaptation strategies, Climate Policy, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2021.1977600.
Pasakhala, B., Ghate, R., Phuntsho, K., Gentle, P., Gurung, J., Shrestha, A., Gurung, K. & Thapa, S. (2021). Against the Tide: The Future of Transhumant Herders in the Kailash Sacred Landscape of Nepal. Mountain Research and Development 41 (1) R8-R15. doi: 10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-20-00073.1.
Sherpa, L.H., Tinkari, B.S., Gentle, P., Sah, R.K., Shrestha, A., Sahani, S.K., Aryal K., Ghimire, J. & Karki, D. (2021). A prospective cohort study to assess the acceptability of Sayana Press among 18-49-year-old women in Nepal. Contraception 104 (6), 623-627. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.contraception.2021.07.009 .
Gentle, P., Maraseni, T.N., Paudel, D., Dahal, G.R., Kanel, T. & Pathak, B. (2020). Communities and disaster response: Effectiveness of community forest user groups (CFUGs) in responding to the 2015 earthquakes and COVID-19 in Nepal. Research in Globalization.2 (100025). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resglo.2020.100025
Pokharel, K., Karki, R., Ojha, H.R., Gentle, P., Acharya, D., Banjade, M. & Paudel, D. (2020) State-community relations and deliberative politics within federal forest governance in Nepal. International Forestry Review 22 (3), 370-381. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1505/146554820830405609
Monga, T., Bajracharya, M., Hina Aziz, H., Sherpa, L.H., Irum Shaikh, I., Ghulam Shabbir, G., Gentle, P. & Samandari, G. (2020) Increasing safe abortion access through universal health care: promising signs from Nepal and Pakistan. Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters 28 (2), 1763008, DOI: 10.1080/26410397.2020.1763008.
Gautam, D., Mainaly, J., Sapkota, R., Bimal Regmi, B., Dinanath Bhandari, D. & Gentle, P. (2019) Climate change and disaster risk and vulnerability context of Province 5, Nepal. Oxford Policy Management, UK.
Regmi, B., Watkiss, P., Gentle, P., Bhandari, D. (2019). From risk to resilience: An integrated approach to harmonise climate change and disaster risk planning. Oxford Policy Management, UK.
Gentle, P., Thwaites, R. Race, D., Alexander, K. & Maraseni, T. (2018) Household and community responses to impacts of climate change in the rural hills of Nepal, Climatic Change. 147 (1): 267-282. DOI 10.1007/s10584-017-2124-8
Maraseni, TN., Deo RC., Qu, Jiansheng, Gentle, P. & Neupane, P.R. (2018) An international comparison of rice consumption behaviours and greenhouse gas emissions from rice production. Journal of Cleaner Production 172 (2018): 2288-2300. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.11.182.
Gentle, P. & Thwaites, R. (2017) Community forestry and pro-poor climate change adaptation – A case study in Nepal. IN: Community Forestry in Nepal: Adapting to a Changing World, Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group. ISBN 9781138214620 – CAT# Y290871.
KC, B., Wang, T., Gentle, P. (2017) Internal migration and land use and land cover changes in the middle mountains of Nepal, Mountain Research and Development 37(4):446-455 DOI 10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-17-00027.1
Gentle, P. & Thwaites, R. (2016), Transhumant pastoralism in the context of socioeconomic and climate changes in the mountains of Nepal. Mountain Research and Development 36 (2): 173-182. http://dx.doi.org/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-15-00011.1
Chapagain, B. & Gentle, P. (2015) Withdrawing from agrarian livelihoods: Environmental emigration from Nepal. Journal of Mountain Science. 12(1): 1-13. DOI: 10.1007/s11629-014-3017-1
Gentle, P., Thwaites, R., Race, D. & Alexander, K. (2014). Differential impacts of climate change on communities in the middle hills of Nepal. Natural Hazards, 74(2) 815-836. DOI 10.1007/s11069-014-1218-0
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