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Advocate for evidence-based policies for improved decision-making

The Daayitwa Nepal Public Service Fellowship (DNPSF) program, initiated in 2013, identifies service-minded talented youth, capacitates them to conduct policy research, connects their policy recommendations with government actions and builds an evidence-based policy ecosystem. Under the flagship of DNPSF, Daayitwa offers the Daayitwa Nepal Public Policy Fellowship (DNPPF) program to support government organizations and parliamentarians at the federal level with evidence-based policy research, as well as the Daayitwa Nepal Public Administration Fellowship program (DNPAF) to support public officials and elected representatives of local governments in researching, formulating and implementing local policies and programs.

 

Daayitwa has conducted Policy and Governance Research on several topics including youth employment, enterprise ecosystem, climate governance, as well as women’s political and economic empowerment. In partnership with Inclusion Economics at Yale University and researchers at the London School of Economics, Governance Lab at Daayitwa Abhiyaan  seeks to understand how policy and development programs can support the objectives of inclusive political and economic growth in the context of Nepal’s recent federal transition. 


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