| Sustainable Development Agenda for Nepal |
Broad Goals
This section lists a set of the broad goals that Nepal aspires to achieve by pursuing sustainable development over the time frame of this agenda. The pathways to achieving these goals are described in the sections that follow.
Successful implementation of the Sustainable Development Agenda of Nepal is defined to mean that:
- Every citizen is able to lead a secure life freely and with dignity.
- Every citizen and household has an income that not just covers expenses needed for reasonable healthy living, but also allows the accumulation of savings and the pursuit of knowledge and leisurely activities.
- Every girl and boy child attends school, every adult is literate.
- Vocational training is accessible to anyone.
- Every citizen is able to pursue higher education based on merit, irrespective of financial circumstances and social standing.
- No home in the country is more than a few hours of travel away from basic medical facilities.
- Every citizen has easy access to adequate amounts of clean water, nutritious food, and clean air.
- Most of the nation's energy is generated from domestic renewable sources, including hydro, solar, wind, as well as sustainably harvested and cleanly burned bio-fuel. The transport sector is increasingly powered by domestic renewable energy sources, with continuing efforts to free it from fossil-fuel dependence.
- Nepal's hydropower potential is developed not just for domestic consumption but also to provide a steady source of export income.
- Land use is planned and managed at the local and national level such that resource bases and ecosystems are improved, with complementarity between high- and low- lands, that forest biomass grows, that agricultural and forest lands are protected from urban sprawl, and that biodiversity is conserved at the landscape level by recognizing threats from habitat fragmentation and loss of forest cover.
- A system of protected areas (including national parks and conservation areas) is maintained and further developed to safeguard the nation's rich biodiversity. Local communities near protected areas are involved in both the management and economic benefit sharing of the area.
- Every citizen has adequate availability of forest products to meet his or her basic need, and also has the opportunity to enjoy aesthetic and spiritual experiences in nature.
- The micro-climates of hills and mountains are used to produce high-value agricultural products and sustainable production of non-timber forest products for domestic consumption and export.
- Scientific research and domestic industry ensures that Nepal gets adequate benefit from the protection of the genetic diversity of its biological resources.
- Domestic scientific expertise on global and regional environmental threats, including climate change, is developed to closely inform Nepal's foreign and domestic policy on those as well as to help adequately prepare for adverse consequences.
- Every Village Development Committee (VDC) is linked to the rest of the country by at least one modern form of transportation and communication.
- Viable domestic industries meet at low cost the demand for products of daily household use as well as produce high-value, low-weight products for export.
- Nepal is better integrated internationally and becomes an attractive place for foreign investment. Its natural and cultural heritage is protected and marketed to visitors to generate maximum revenue.
- All citizens, from every culture, ethnicity and religion have swift access to all forms of state services provided by each branch of the state - the executive, the legislature, the judiciary, and all their sub-entities. Institutions of the state represent women and men of all ethnicity and social groups.
- The national development budget is financed largely through domestic resources.
- Foreign aid is limited to specific sectors only, then gradually phased out, first from areas where Nepal can help itself.
Those goals are to shape the direction of sectoral objectives and policies.
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Sustainable Development
Environmental Policies
Standards and Norms
Acts and Rules
Publications
EIA - Approved List and EIA on Progress
Projects and Programs
Air Quality Monitoring Result
Weather Report
Officials
Organization Chart
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