News Nepal Security: Nepal bans Tibetans from celebrating Dalai Lama’s birthday, citing security concerns
The Tibetan community in Nepal called off plans to mark the birthday of their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama after their request for a public celebration was rejected over security concerns, a ...
News Nepal Security: Bridging barriers to advance multisector approaches to improve food security, nutrition and population health in Nepal: transdisciplinary perspectives
Understanding stakeholders’ perceptions is crucial to the development and implementation of any intervention. However, a structured approach to eliciting stakeholder insights into complex, multisector issues of food security, household environment and health is lacking in many low and middle-income countries. This qualitative, workshop-based participatory study explores stakeholders’ experiences of developing and implementing multisector interventions to provide transdisciplinary lessons for future developments in low and middle-income countries. Participants were purposely selected based on their involvement in, or exposure to, the multisector intervention. Participants with interests in agriculture, nutrition, household air-quality, drinking water-quality and health from academic institutes, government and developmental organisations were brought together at a one-day workshop to participate in a series of discussions on issues relating to food security, nutrition, household environment and health in Nepal. All group discussions were audio-recorded and transcribed, and a thematic qualitative analysis performed to identify relevant themes. The government’s ongoing Multisector Nutrition Plan, stakeholders’ willingness to work together, availability of local infrastructure for cross-institutional inputs and increasing global movement towards transdisciplinary approaches were identified by the 33 workshop participants, representing 23 organisations as key factors determining success of transdisciplinary work. Fragmentation, lack of research-based and practice-based evidence, limited transdisciplinary knowledge amongst sectoral stakeholders, short-term funding and lack of knowledge-sharing mechanisms were identified as barriers, often creating systematic problems for successful implementation. Stakeholders suggested methods to bring about success included: improved knowledge, both amongst policy-makers and implementers, of food security and its linkage with nutrition, household environments, health and hygiene; investment in collaborative practice-based research and evidence-based practice; and strengthened transdisciplinary collaboration between multi-stakeholders, such as researchers, implementers and beneficiaries, throughout the intervention development and implementation process. This study suggests that multisector approach needs to adapt to take into account the experiences and views of the stakeholders concerned. The paper offers recommendations for successful development and implementation of future multisector interventions in Nepal that can be extrapolated to other low and middle-income countries, and lays foundations for future transdisciplinary working to support realisation of the recommendations.
News Nepal Security: Nepal floods: Death toll touches 78; over 17,500 displaced
Nepal has been hit by heavy rainfall since Thursday ... have displaced around 17,500 people whereas 3,366 people stranded have been rescued by the security personnel. As the situation continues to ...
News Nepal Security: More deaths in monsoon-hit Nepal due to flooding, landslides
Over the past week, rains have hit 30 of Nepal's 77 districts including the capital, Kathmandu, with thousands of security forces deployed in the areas affected by the floods and landslides. On Sunday ...
News Nepal Security: India & Nepal: China Lurks But Here Is How We Can Deal With It
It was further agreed that, Nepal would be free to import – from or through India – arms, ammunition or warlike material, necessary for its security. However, in practice Nepal has derived the ...
News Nepal Security: UP's Maoist-affected districts near Nepal on alert after Gadchiroli blast
Security has been stepped up along Uttar Pradesh's Nepal border and the three naxal affected districts after 15 security personnel and a civilian were killed in a blast triggered by Maoists in ...
News Nepal Security: Growing gun culture grave threat to public security
according to Nepal Police. Police have also warned that easy availability of small arms might pose a serious threat to public security. The security agency arrested 351 persons with 267 firearms ...
News Nepal Security: Nepal holds meeting with Oman to send more skilled workers
As per recent reports in the Himalayan Times, Ram Prasad Ghimire, joint secretary at the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security, Nepal said that their country has had fruitful ...
