What works in Nepal
8 evaluated practices · All catalogues
Evidence snapshot for Nepal
Nepal has demonstrated significant progress across education, governance, and social reform. Digital learning programmes reach over 40,000 students across 180 schools in 16 districts, while constitutional gender quotas in local government resulted in 14,352 women elected (40.96% of representatives) in the 2017 elections. A peer-education programme against chhaupadi menstrual exile reduced the practice from 19.4% to 5.5% while reaching nearly 46,000 women and girls. These practices show measurable gains in education access, political representation, and elimination of harmful traditional practices, though the evidence does not quantify broader national-level outcomes or long-term sustainability.
Drawn from: Abolition of Chhaupadi — Ending Menstrual Exile Huts in Nepal's Far- and Mid-Western Districts · OLE Nepal – E-Paath & E-Pustakalaya Digital Learning for Rural Schools · Nepal's Constitutional 40% Gender Quota in Local Government (2015/2017) · OLEN i-OCR — AI-Assisted Document Accessibility for Blind and Deaf Students in Nepal · Nepal Terai Arc Landscape REDD+ Emission Reductions Programme · Chitwan-Annapurna Landscape REDD+ Pilot — Community Forest Carbon Trust Funds (Nepal) · SAFE-RISCCS — Nepal's Early-Stage AI Landslide Early-Warning Pilot · ChatBot 'Butwal' — Nepal's First Municipal AI Chatbot for Local Government Service Delivery
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +0.644
Equity & inclusion +0.443
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced +0.442
Documented learning +0.27
Demonstrated reach +0.254
Effectiveness +0.189
Sustainability +0.188
Impact on gender equality +0.173
Evaluated outcomes +0.163
Innovation level +0.146
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +0.098
Weaknesses
Fire resilience — risk reduction, evidenced -0.095
Transferability / replicability -0.105
Governance, certification & transferability -0.107
Teacher capability & pedagogy -0.147
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control -0.186
Transparency, fairness & accountability -0.214
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -0.217
Curator validation -0.25
Transparency, ethics & data protection -0.251
Scalability & sustainability -0.356
Evidence of impact / measured public value -0.598
Top good practices here
Abolition of Chhaupadi — Ending Menstrual Exile Huts in Nepal's Far- and Mid-Western Districts · 100
OLE Nepal – E-Paath & E-Pustakalaya Digital Learning for Rural Schools · 96
Nepal's Constitutional 40% Gender Quota in Local Government (2015/2017) · 74
OLEN i-OCR — AI-Assisted Document Accessibility for Blind and Deaf Students in Nepal · 53
Nepal Terai Arc Landscape REDD+ Emission Reductions Programme · 47
Chitwan-Annapurna Landscape REDD+ Pilot — Community Forest Carbon Trust Funds (Nepal) · 40
SAFE-RISCCS — Nepal's Early-Stage AI Landslide Early-Warning Pilot · 33
ChatBot 'Butwal' — Nepal's First Municipal AI Chatbot for Local Government Service Delivery · 13
Recommended to adopt or replicate
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Rwanda's Land Tenure Regularization Programme — Titling Land in Women's Names · fit 115
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Copenhagen Business Hub (Erhvervshus Hovedstaden) · fit 115
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Guyana's One-Third Gender Candidate Quota — Two Decades of Sustained Representation · fit 107
- Rated highly transferable
Serbia's 40% Electoral Gender Quota — From One-in-Three to Near-Parity Party Lists (2020-2025) · fit 107
- Rated highly transferable
Bogotá's Care Blocks (Manzanas del Cuidado) · fit 107
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