"This report explores gender relations and equality and Nepal’s transition from war. Focus areas include: affirmative gender action in the transition, for example regarding politics, employment
or development; gender perspectives on
specific aspects of the transition, such as
security sector reform, access to justice
and political participation; gendered
experiences, expectations and priorities
of marginalised groups, including women,
sexual minorities, Dalits (‘low caste’),
Janajatis (indigenous communities)
and Madhesis (from the southern Tarai
plains); and how different identities
intersect. A short case study of the period
of intense political change that followed
the 2015 earthquakes in Nepal provides
an illustrative, contemporary example of
opportunities and challenges.
The report reflects discussions from a
gender workshop convened jointly by the
Social Science Baha (Nepal) and Conciliation
Resources (United Kingdom) in Nepal in August 2016. Workshop participants included 24 women and men, ensuring a broad cross-section of Nepal’s caste or ethnic, gender and regional diversity, and including local-level and national
politicians, civil society groups, academics,
journalists and independent researchers.
This meeting was one of three gender
workshops exploring political settlement
beyond elites, with other events taking
place in Colombia and Bougainville, Papua
New Guinea. These meetings have focused
on how diverse groups in conflict-affected
contexts understand and experience
transition processes, in particular access to
security and social and political goods.