Policy papers

Dear reader, Disruptions in 2020 have been many. Unexpected, uncontrolled, unwieldy. Oxfam in Nepal, in the eye of the storm, mobilised its global, national and district resources to create a force of response and to continue to work with communities with regular programming. Our lives continued...

According to behavioural science, it takes three months to adopt a new habit,. So, as we enter our eight month of working remotely, we could say that this is our habitual way of working, however tough this may be! The pandemic has taken different shapes in different countries and we are not able to...

Dhangadi Declaration is a joint commitment of local government, CSOs and private sectors and riverine communities from Nepal. The Dhangadhi Declaration has set priorities unanimously for all the concerned stakeholders such as the private sector, local representatives, the media, Oxfam Nepal, Oxfam...

The gap between richest and poorest is extreme and growing in Nepal. The poorest have seen their incomes stall in recent years, while the richest fifth of Nepalis have seen their income share increase. The income of the richest 10% is now more than three times that of the poorest 40%. Yet more than...

Mahakali is a river flowing along Nepal- India border. It separates the two countries geographically in most of the places. This basin area of the river spreads in 15,640 square kilometers, and of which, 5,037 kilometers of area lies in Nepal. Around 47 percent of that area is covered by forests...