Updates

Since the onset of COVID-19 pandemic, the world’s medical community, led by the World Health Organisation, has recommended everyone to wash hands with soap for 20 seconds multiple times a day. This is perhaps the most tenable instrument to fight the risk. But how can South Asia’s urban poor do this if they have only […]

Dr Prativa Sapkota delivered a presentation on “Non-state research and the co-production of environmental policy knowledge: Lessons from the three decades of experience in Nepal’s forest, climate change, and land sectors”. The conference took place at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia on 5-7 February 2019.   The paper was co-authored with Dr Hemant Ojha.  

Bangladesh is facing a climate crisis, and this is directly impacting its agricultural areas, food production and livelihood security. Research and academic institutes in the country are focussing their work to develop flood-tolerant and climate adaptive technologies for deep water and flood-prone areas across the country. Australian scientists have been collaborating with Bangladeshi counterparts for […]

Drawing on the lessons from over five years of research and local engagement on the interrelation of water, urbanization and climate change in three rapidly urbanizing cities experiencing water stress, this project seeks to contribute towards climate adaptive and inclusive water governance through catalysing evidence informed decision making processes at local level and informing provincial and […]

In a study coordinated by International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), IFSD Director of Research for International Development acted as the coordinating lead author of chapter on Governance. The chapter concludes that the governance of environmental resources holds the key to the future of sustainable development in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH). Four specific […]

IFSD Gender specialist delivered a series of seminars and lectures to international participants who attended a training on disaster management, organised by University of Queensland and Scope Global with funding from Australian government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).

Achieving Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 is not possible without improving how researchers and scientists interact with policy makers and development practitioners. This is because development and environmental management challenges are complex, and solutions require closer and more interactive interface among science, policy and practice. In this seminar, he drew on his last decade of work in Nepal in which attempts were made to catalyse science-policy-practice

IFSD team participates in field research in the Himalayas on water security in relation to changing climate

IFSD team works with Nepal partners to understand federalism and local democracy reforms in Nepal

IFSD holds meeting with researchers from Nepal and India to analyse the impact of policy on building resilient water management systems in South Asia

Dr. Basundhara Bhattarai, Senior Gender and Development Specialist at IFSD, is delivering a seminar as an invited speaker at Women and Gender in International Development Discussion Series of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and the State University, USA.