Completed Projects
Home Safe: Evidence on Community
Funding Agency: VSO Nepal
Duration: December 2016 to March 2017
The objective of this study was to explore the nature and effects of violence against returned women migrant workers (WMWs) and their family members as well as to investigate the informal and formal community responses to gender-based violence (GBV) among them. The findings were to inform interventions targeted at enhancing community’s engagement in the prevention of GBV against returned WMWs, at both family and community levels.
Gender in War to Peace Transitions: Political Settlement Gender Laboratory, Nepal
Funding Agency: Conciliation Resources
Duration: 1 July 2016 to 31 January 2017
This activity was a part of a four-year research programme, the Political Settlements Research Programme (PSRP), which explored how internal and external actors could transform political settlements to be more open, inclusive, and non-violent. A total of 24 women and men from political and civil society spheres were brought together in a gender lab to examine how women’s status and roles changed through twenty years of conflict, peace and transition in Nepal; and what have been women and minorities’ experience of peace and transition – what has changed for these groups (positively and negatively), and why?
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Enhancing Social Sustainability of the Energy Sector in South Asia (ADB-World Bank Gender and Energy Assessment in Nepal-Second Phase)
Funding Agency: Asian Development Bank
Duration: 16 February 2015 to 31 December 2016
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Migration Opportunities and Challenges
Collaborating Partner: Barbara Grossman-Thompson, California State University, Long Beach
Duration: July to December 2016
Research on Representativeness in Nepal’s Political Parties
Funding Agency: Embassy of Switzerland
Duration: 1 September 2014 to 31 October 2016
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Socio-Political Costs and Effects of the Remittance Economy
Funding Agency: The Asia Foundation
Duration: March to October 2016
Surviving the 2015 Earthquake and Its Aftermath
Collaborating Partner: University of Edinburgh
Duration: 25 September 2015 to 30 June 2016
Assessing Impact of UNDP Nepal’s Early Recovery Work on Socially Disadvantaged and People with Disabilities
Funding Agency: United Nations Development Programme
Duration: 21 December 2015 to 30 June 2016
Monitoring of Migration of Health Workers from Nepal
Funding Agency: International Labour Organisation
Duration: November 2015 to June 2016
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New Norms and Forms of Development: Brokerage in Maternal and Child Health Service Development and Delivery in Nepal and Malawi
Collaborating Partner: The University of Edinburgh
Duration: 1 May 2014 to 30 April 2016
A Comparative Analysis of the Documentation of Torture and Ill-Treatment in Low-Income Countries
Collaborating Partner: Dignity-Danish Institute Against Torture
Duration: 1 May 2014 to 30 April 2016
Statistical Analysis on Income Security and Social Protection in Old Age in Nepal
Collaborating Partner: HelpAge International
Duration: 15 June 2015 to 31 March 2016
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