Womens's Focus Group Discussion

The State of Social Inclusion in Nepal: A Study of Time Allocation (SOSIN-SOTA)

Although Nepal has made consistent efforts to cultivate an inclusive society over the past decades, its prevailing traditional caste system, patriarchal norms, and religious practices continue to foster exclusionary practices against women and those belonging to lower castes and ethnic groups. Indigenous Peoples, Madheshi, Dalits, and Muslims experience discrimination based on stigmatization of cultural identity...

Finding solutions together: a participatory approach to explore digital technology as an enabling strategy for empowering women micro-entrepreneurs from marginalized communities in Nepal

During the national level workshop in Nepal with women entrepreneurs held on 29th Sept 2018, lack of information and limited capability to use recent technologies for enterprise growth was reported as one of the major reasons for limited business competitiveness of women entrepreneurs (FNCCI, Nov 12, 2018). The theme of this year's International Women's Day,...

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Global Research Challenge in Development (GRCD) RFA

The  Global Research Challenge in Development (GRCD) RFA was released in January 2021, with full applications accepted in April 2021. After a competitive review process that included consensus panels, three applications were selected to move through a second phase of co-creation. The co-creation phase focused on technical style and budgetary items to meet USAID and...