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Understanding Global Environmental Governance (GEG) is crucial in today’s globalised world. To understand the global environmental governance we might have to start with what is environment and Governance?  What do we mean by Global Environmental Governance? Is the system of global environmental governance a success or a failure?

Admission Notice for Master of Science in Forestry, Watershed Management, Natural Resource Management and Rural Development (NRMRD)

Academic Session 2067-2069 BS (2010-2012AD)

I would like to invite you to very exciting seminar by Dr Manohara Khadka on aid and exclusion in community forestry to be held on June 18 in Kathmandu.

Forest management strategy in Nepal has been guided by the assumptions of either conservation or utilization; and till date very little research has been made into how these both assumptions can go together, or utilization related disturbances can be a part of forest management.

This seminar will present the results of a research which has examined how the scheme of Payments for Environmental Services (PES) has been implemented in Kulekhani watershed, with a focus on the institutional dynamics of hydroelectricity revenue sharing mechanisms. Results indicate that payments to upstream communities are made in the form of conservation and development projects, most of which are spent on rural electrification and road construction, putting less emphasis on the environment itself. The analysis has found three fundamental design problems of PES institutions.

The results of household disease surveys in two rural districts in Tanzania informed a process of health service reforms that contributed to over 40% reductions in infant mortality between 2000 and 2003.

The evaluation evidence from Mexico’s Progresa/Opportunidades cash transfer programme has inspired governments around the world to invest in social protection for children and their families.