Polar Opposites? NGOs, Left Parties and the Fight for Social Change in Nepal

Ismail, Feyzi

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“…However, they suggested that NGOs can play a significant role in bridging the government, markets, and citizens. Ismail () argued that foreign‐funded NGOs are unlikely to counter neoliberal development. Tanaka () argued that the majority of NGOs in the country belong to a group of elites and very rarely include members from excluded, marginalised, and underprivileged communities.…”

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Implementation of Nepal's education policy in ICT: Examining current practice through an ecological model

Rana

Greenwood

Fox-Turnbull

2019

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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Educational policy implementation can be conceptualised in terms of an ecological model that explores roles and relationships within a complex evolving environment. This article draws on an ecological model to examine Nepal's implementation of its policy for information and communication technology in education. The policy is developed by government and mandated to schools, but government does not commit funding to resource infrastructures or train teachers in information and communication technology (ICT) use. Instead, nongovernment organisations (NGOs) have stepped in and provided resources and training. Thus, two separate systems have evolved. This article examines their actions and interactions as components within an ecology. It utilises a methodological approach that involves qualitative case studies of particular rural schools, analysed through interpretive phenomenological analysis and the lens of an ecology model. It reports findings of how a largely symbiotic relationship has evolved that is somewhat successful in meeting immediate needs and examines changes that are developing in the ecology and that may impact on the future of ICT implementation in Nepal. The study contributes to practical understanding of the potentially symbiotic roles of NGOs and government in ICT provision to rural schools in Nepal. It further contributes to ways policy implementation in developing countries may be theorised.

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Section: Review Of Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Implementation of Nepal's education policy in ICT: Examining current practice through an ecological model

Rana

Greenwood

Fox-Turnbull

2019

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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“…However, with the decline of secure, formal unionized workforces, there is a recognition that mainstream unions are increasingly compelled to try to adopt new strategies to engage with the struggles of informal, unorganized, and gig workers (Eaton et al., 2017). Simultaneously, there is a growing acknowledgment that NGOs engaged with informal workers cannot take the place of unions (Domínguez Reyes & Quintero Ramírez, 2019): the focus of NGOs on alternative income generating activities at the expense of workers' rights (RoyChowdhury, 2005), with depoliticizing agendas tied to funding from donor governments in the Global North, tends to delegitimize labor insurgency (Ismail, 2018; Siddiqi, 2020).…”

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Women construction workers in Nepal: Collectivities under precarious conditions

Wilson,

Ismail,

Kharel

et al. 2023

Gender Work & Organization

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In this article, we explore the experiences of women construction workers in Nepal and the strategies that these workers have adopted to challenge the exploitation and inequalities they confront. We firstly argue that the experiences of women construction workers in Nepal are shaped by compulsive engagement in labor markets under conditions of informality, precarity, and gendered responsibility for social reproduction. These experiences reflect multiple intersections of gender, class, caste, and ethnicity in the arenas of the household, the workplace, trade unions, and the state. However, policy interventions related to women's participation in labor markets and inspired by the Gender Equality as Smart Economics approach, such as Nepal's post‐earthquake mason training scheme targeting women construction workers, render invisible these structures of inequality, exploitation, and violence. Second, we argue that women construction workers negotiate—and in some cases challenge and change—working conditions, primarily through a variety of informal and formal collective strategies. Women construction workers' own narratives and practices, we find, bear little resemblance to the narratives promoted by the International Financial Institutions and the state, in which women workers appear as resilient, altruistic, and industrious entrepreneurial subjects seeking individual self‐improvement within the neoliberal framework. They rather invoke informal and organized collectivities, negotiate, and often resist, gendered norms of behavior and at times radically re‐envision the scope of trade union struggles.

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“…It resulted in no significant changes in its policy within and outside the country, especially the relations with India (Kumar, 2016). The civil war ended in 2006 after all political parties in Nepal, including the Maoist movement, agreed to resolve the conflict peacefully and bring the country into a republic in 2008 (Ismail, 2018).…”

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The new equation of South Asia region: The rising role of China in Nepal's foreign policy

Pankaew

Kaewkhunok

2022

International Area Studies Review

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China's rising role in South Asia has contributed significantly to the changing geopolitics and geo-economics of the region. Nepal is one of the countries where relations with China have dramatically changed from 2015 till pre-pandemic. This study focuses on analyzing Nepal's foreign policy shifts towards neighboring China and India through a framework of neoclassical realism. It argues that Nepal's foreign policy against neighboring countries has changed since the India-Nepal conflict in 2015, where China has become a key option within Nepal's new foreign policy context. Changes in China's foreign policy and the victory of the Nepal Communist Party are among the key factors in enhancing relations between the two countries. However, it doesn't mean that Nepal took side with China and abandoned India. The article suggests that China's rise has a positive effect on Nepal as an option to balancing intra-regional power and opportunities for infrastructure development within the country.

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Polar Opposites? NGOs, Left Parties and the Fight for Social Change in Nepal

Abstract: In the early 1990s, when NGOs were rising to prominence as an ostensible

Cited by 4 publications

References 24 publications

Implementation of Nepal's education policy in ICT: Examining current practice through an ecological model

Implementation of Nepal's education policy in ICT: Examining current practice through an ecological model

Women construction workers in Nepal: Collectivities under precarious conditions

The new equation of South Asia region: The rising role of China in Nepal's foreign policy

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