Nepal | The Impact Initiative

Three young boys, some deaf, some hearing, in Kochi, India

Peer to peer deaf multiliteracies: research into a sustainable approach to education of deaf children and young adults in the Global South

The exclusion of deaf children and young adults from access to school systems results in individuals and communities being denied quality education, leading to unemployment, low income, and increasing poverty.

Integrated policies to reduce poverty in its many dimensions

Principal Investigator: Sabina Alkire. Lead Organisation: University of Oxford

This research project addresses the overarching research question: What factors shape pathways into and out of poverty and people's experience of these, and how can policy create sustained routes out of extreme poverty in ways that can be replicated and scaled up?

Rethinking environment and development in an era of global norms: exploring international politics of justice on carbon forestry and hydropower

The research responds to the unprecedented emergence of global environmental norms intended to reconcile natural resource management with poverty alleviation. Prominent examples of such norms are the social safeguards included in global conventions and the human rights-based rulings of international courts.

Energy on the Move: longitudinal perspectives on energy transitions among marginal populations (a comparative study)

Examining the energy practices of very poor women, men and young people living in informal settlements in peri-urban situations in Nigeria, South Sudan, Nepal and Bangladesh and how these are changing, drawing comparative lessons.

New development frontiers? The role of youth, sport and cultural interventions

Investigating the role of sport, cultural and educational programmes in sustainable development among young people in low-income countries, tackling poverty, conflict in fragile states, environmental sustainability, and gender inequality.

Narratives of violence: the impact of internal displacement on violence against women in Nepal and Myanmar

Myanmar and Nepal are countries in transition. Both have recently emerged from long-term civil conflicts, and their populations have been afflicted by natural disasters. As a result these two countries have seen rates of internal displacement among the highest in the world (e.g. in 2015, 9200 per 100,000 residents in Nepal, and 3000 per 100,000 in Myanmar).

How the Urban Poor Define and Measure Food Insecurity and Nutrition

Principal Investigator: Cecilia Tacoli. Lead Organisation: International Institute for Env and Dev

Co-investigators: Somsook Boonyabancha; Anna Maria Walnycki; Alice Marin Sverdlik; David Satterthwaite

Urbanisation in low-income nations presents both opportunities and immense challenges.

Resilience policymaking in Nepal: giving voice to communities

An intensive resilience policy-making process is currently underway in Nepal, a country with a recent history of conflict and disaster that also faces future risks resulting from environmental change. This ground-breaking project will utilise a participatory video (PV) approach to create new and potentially challenging interventions in that process, whilst simultaneously developing methods and approaches that could have broader applicability.

Organizational Perspectives on Accountability and Learning (OPAL): school management models and the social impact of schooling in Mumbai and Kathmandu

The project will investigate how the accountability of schools differs according the school management model and whether accountability is linked to differences in learning outcomes. Recently, a great deal of attention from international development donors has focused on new models of school management (e.g.

Improving learning: developing measures of accountability and evaluating their association with students' gains in achievement in Nepal

Principal Investigator: Dirgha Ghimire. Lead Organisation: University of Michigan

Co-investigators: William Axinn; Brian Rowan

We propose to develop and validate measures of accountability to be shared with the Nepal Ministry of Education (MOE) and to use those measures in an analysis of the determinants of accountability and its association with students' gains in achievement.

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