In Nepal's Kailali and Doti districts, Restless Development and UN Women ran a 2015–2017 peer-education programme against chhaupadi menstrual exile huts, cutting …
Dhangadhi, Nepal
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 9%96/100
OLE Nepal deploys offline digital libraries (E-Pustakalaya) and interactive learning software (E-Paath) on local servers in remote Nepali schools without internet access, …
Kathmandu, Nepal
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 29%76/100
Nepal's 2015 Constitution mandated 40% women in all state organs; the 2017 local elections resulted in 14,352 women elected—40.96% of 35,041 representatives—making …
Kathmandu, Nepal
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 24%73/100
Nepal Customs built an in-house machine-learning module inside ASYCUDA World, now running in the six largest customs offices, screening ~90% of commercial …
ITU and Nepal's Telecommunications Authority ran a 2025 multi-city programme for girls 12–24 — a Kathmandu Valley launch, coding challenges in Butwal …
Lalitpur, Nepal
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 33%53/100
OLE Nepal's 'intelligent OCR' (iOCR) converts scanned Nepali/English documents into screen-reader-compatible e-books, filling a gap in Nepali-script OCR. Built with KDDI Foundation …
Lalitpur, Nepal
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 85%52/100
Nepal's $80m World Bank-financed REED project pairs rural agri-SMEs with mentors for business diagnostics and coaching; two Pokhara firms tracked by the …
Nepal's jurisdictional REDD+ programme covering 1.7M ha of the Terai Arc Landscape: 2.4M tCO2e reduced 2018–2024, US$9.4M World Bank FCPF payment (2025). …
Kathmandu, Nepal
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 64%40/100
A radio drama and weekly community listening groups run by Equal Access International in Chitwan, Nawalparasi and Kapilvastu, Nepal. A cluster-randomised trial …
Nepal channels 12% of Kulekhani hydropower royalties to Makwanpur district, split 50/50 between upstream and downstream communities — a long-running PES-like scheme, …
Markhu, Nepal
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 88%33/100
Melbourne and Tribhuvan universities, with Nepal's disaster authority, pilot SAFE-RISCCS, AI fusing rainfall, ground-movement and satellite data to flag landslide risk weeks …
A Nepal-based disability-led organisation won AT2030 Frontiers seed funding in December 2025 to open wheelchair and assistive-technology repair hubs in all seven …
Piloted in Kimtang (Nuwakot) and Jyotinagar (Dhading), SAFE-RISCCS combines satellite imagery, rainfall and ground-motion sensors to forecast landslides. After two months its …
Nuwakot, Nepal
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 99%13/100
Butwal Sub-Metropolitan City launched Nepal's first municipal government AI chatbot to help residents access local service information; the launch is confirmed by …
Nepal Kasthamandap College researchers surveyed 150 students and interviewed 11 educators across urban and rural Nepal, finding 90.7% AI awareness but a …