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Practices of EIA in Nepal

26 April 2022
As a developing country, Nepal has been taking great measures in environmental protection and management including the requirements for EIA, which was first stressed in its seventh Five-Year Plan (1985 - 1990). Several policy initiatives had been issued over the years, among the latest are the…

Transportation Infrastructure in Nepal: Current and Future Planning

25 April 2022
Nepal is experiencing growth and along with this is the increasing pressure to build more linear infrastructure. Ninety percent of goods and passengers use transport services by roads. Nepal’s total road length is estimated at 74,756 kilometers. Meanwhile, the government is envisioning to build 33,…

National and International Legislation & Agreements on Nature Conservation with Implications for Linear Infrastructure Projects

25 April 2022
Committed to sustainable development and the protection of the environment and biodiversity, Nepal is a party to more than 165 international agreements and signatory to more than 27. Its 15th 5-Year Periodic Plan (2020-2025) is anchored on many of these multilateral agreements as well as the UN’s…

Civil Society Monitoring of Localizing SDGs: Nepal

21 April 2021
In this presentation, Arjun Bhattarai shared roles of civil society for localizing SDGs in Nepal.

Governance and Service Delivery: Practical Lessons for Subnational Governments through a Case Study on ADB’s Support to Nepal

11 August 2017
Success in the achievement of the sustainable development goals starts with localization of the global agenda that positively impacts the lives of citizens through improved service delivery. This improved service delivery translates to effective delivery mechanisms which in turn strengthen the…

Post-Conflict in Colombia

16 June 2017
Citizen participation remains a big challenge in post-conflict Colombia despite the economic and social progress achieved in the early 2010s. Planning for peacebuilding started with the creation of a national development plan that highlights the sustainable development goals as a core component of…

Infrastructure and Inclusive Sustainable Development in Chile

16 June 2017
Sustainable infrastructure development in Chile is in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and involves the participation of public, private, and civil society actors. While social evaluation of projects should be complemented by disaster risk assessment, the creation of…

Bringing Finance and Planning Together to Deliver the Sustainable Development Goals Towards 2030: A Nepalese Perspective

16 June 2017
The Government of Nepal makes use of development financing contributed by the public, private, and cooperative sectors as a funding strategy to implement the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Findings of the Development Finance Assessment in Nepal show that while finance is one of the…

The Sustainable Development Goals and Managing for Results: Argentina

15 June 2017
By linking the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and targets to public policy decisions, the Government of Argentina fully commits itself to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Ensuring achievement of the SDGs in Argentina will require the establishment of an…

Sustainable Development Goals in Mexico and Subnational Monitoring: Experience of Jalisco

15 June 2017
With Mexico adopting the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as a state commitment in September 2015, a political council headed by the country’s president was created the following year to integrate the actions of the main stakeholders of the agenda, and to forge a consensus on the next steps…