local-governments

The outcasts

Nepalis at the grassroots for whom grassroots democracy has not delivered

Chandra Kishore

Feudalism to Federalism

Over the past 30 years since the first People’s Movement, we have seen that things start moving in Nepal when local governments...

Nepal’s local election gives power back to people

“The paradox is this: if economic rationality tells us that the next century will be the age of global integration of the...

Can Nepal elections change its male-stream politics?

When we had a baby, just a few weeks ahead of the first lockdown in 2020, my husband and I had to...

Hiding their head in the sand

Illegal sand mining on Chure rivers displaces farmers, decimates a fragile landscape

Polls in the time of pandemic

After hemming and hawing about holding local elections, top leaders of the five-party alliance that met on Tuesday finally made some headway.  The good news...

Shristi Karki

Nepal’s politicians take up farming

Democracy is expensive and funding political activities can be costly, which is why some local leaders in western Nepal have taken to fruit farming...

Nepal’s local governments lead from the front

Sabitra Devkota of Diprung Chuichumma rural municipality in Khotang had been isolating at home for four days after testing positive for Covid-19...

“Everything is political”

Bidi Yolkey Rai, 28, struggles to conduct an online session on the importance of local government committees that deal with Covid-19, the...

Devolution for development

One afternoon last month in Ramaroshan Rural Municipality of Achham district, 45-year-old mother of five, Sarada Bista, was lopping fodder for the...