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"This paper outlines options for rural communities to participate in climate change mitigation and adaptation activities in the forest sector in Nepal. We look at the various institutional barriers that would need to be overcome, as well as the existing institutional opportunities, particularly in relation to tenure rights."
http://zunia.org/uploads/media/knowledge/climateChange1260019425.pdf
Keywords: Agriculture, Climatology, Environment, Forestry, In Focus, In Focus 2009, In Focus 2009 Week 52, Nepal, South Asia,

This document reports on achievements in many critical areas including child protection, education, health, livelihoods and disaster risk reduction by Save the Children as a result of their planned five-year response and recovery program in five countries: Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and Somalia.
http://www.preventionweb.net/files/12547_tsunamireport20091.pdf
Keywords: India, Indonesia, Natural disasters, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tsunamis,

Afghanistan has been inhabited for many thousands of years. Known today for its exports of carpets and dried fruit, the country has served humanity as a vibrant continental crossroads and a hub of culture and trade. Its environment has been a source of great natural wealth – from precious minerals to life sustaining agricultural and forest products, representing a wide variety of traditional livelihood opportunities for its people. These opportunities, however, were shattered by nearly thirty years of civil war, international conflict and occupation. The resulting instability has brought widespread insecurity, displacement, poverty, and environmental devastation. It has eroded the rule of law and undermined structures of governance. The United Nations Environment Program took on the task of assessing the environmental impacts of the war on people’s lives, livelihoods and security, and recommended ways to address these issues during the reconstruction process.
http://postconflict.unep.ch/publications/UNEP_in_Afghanistan.pdf
Keywords: Afghanistan, Development, Development. Poverty, Environment, South Asia, Sustainable development,

100 dager med krigen på Sri Lanka : en analyse av dekningen i Aftenposten, Dagens Nyheter og Daily Mirror / Ole Kåre Eide. - Oslo : Institutt for medier og kommunikasjon, Universitetet i Oslo, 2010. - 125 s. (Master's thesis) Hvordan dekker vi en krig som er langt borte og som tar lang tid? Hva er det som gjør den relevant for oss? I denne oppgaven ser jeg nærmere på dekningen av konflikten på Sri Lanka – i én norsk (Aftenposten), én svensk (Dagens Nyheter) og én srilankisk papiravis. Ved å anvende Johan Galtungs modell for fredsjournalistikk – i tillegg til å gjennomføre en kvantitativ innholdsanalyse – viser denne oppgaven at det er store forskjeller i dekningen. Mens Aftenposten på lederplass i stor grad er opptatt av at partene må finne en fredelig løsning, vil også Dagens Nyheter ha fred, men tar i mindre grad stilling til partene. Dekningen i Daily Mirror er derimot i stor grad krigsorientert. Oppgaven viser også at dekningen er mer omfattende i Aftenposten (ut i fra antall tekster, størrelsen på tekstene og forsidehenvisninger) enn i Dagens Nyheter. En stor del av dekningen i Aftenposten handler om tamilske demonstrasjoner i Norge. Til tross for at disse tekstene tar for seg hjemlige forhold, bidrar de til å gi oppmerksomhet til konflikten. Problemene oppstår i kortere tekster. Da usynliggjøres i stor grad konflikten og alle partene blir sjelden identifisert.
http://www.duo.uio.no/publ/mediekomm/2010/107691/masteroppgave-eide.pdf
Keywords: Conflicts. Terrorism, Ethnic conflict, Mass media, News. Media, Newspapers, Nordic Perspective, Norway, Publications, South Asia, Sri Lanka,

14 Challenges when shaping capabilities for research : Swedish support to bilateral research cooperation with Sri Lanka and Vietnam, 1976–2006, and a look ahead / Jan Annerstedt, Shantha Liyanage. - Stockholm : Sida, 2008. - 114 p. (Sida evaluation ; 2008:14) The study summarizes challenges, experiences and achievements during 30 years of bilateral research collaboration between Sweden and Sri Lanka and between Sweden and Vietnam, respectively. The two collaborations both started in 1976 and has since then been financed from Swedish international development cooperation resources. The study shows several types of long-term impacts of the collaboration. A number of suggestions are made on how to reorient and change focus of possible future research collaboration between Sweden and the two countries after the Swedish bilateral development cooperation has been phased out in 2011.
http://www2.sida.se/shared/jsp/download.jsp?f=Utv2008-14_SIDA44696en.pdf&a=39696
Keywords: Bilateral aid, Development, Development. Poverty, Education, Nordic Perspective, Publications, Research, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Vietnam,

The 20th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies (ECMSAS), is to be held in Manchester from 8-11 July 2008. The ECMSAS is the largest gathering of South Asia oriented researchers in Europe, covering all fields from the humanities and social sciences to technology, natural sciences and medicine. The conference is held biannually under the aegis of the European Association of South Asian Studies (EASAS), a professional, non-profit organisation of scholars engaged in research and teaching concerning South Asia with regard to all periods and fields of study. The objectives of EASAS are to support and promote South Asian Studies in all countries of Europe.
http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/ecmsas/
Keywords: Afghanistan, Asian area studies, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, South Asia, Sri Lanka,

2point6billion.com is a blog specifically dedicated to comment and dialogue on matters of China & India trade, development, investment opportunities, politics, and the impact these two huge emerging markets are having on the international business community. 2point6billion.com was designed by the China-India business advisory and tax consultancy Dezan Shira & Associates, main contributors to China Briefing and India Briefing, to enable western and international businessmen, in addition to their Indian and Chinese counterparts, to examine, discuss and explore the complexities of these two huge markets, conducting business with and within them, and the likely impact this will have on their own companies, countries, and globalization in general.
http://www.2point6billion.com/
Keywords: Business. Management, China, Development, Development. Poverty, East Asia, Economic development, Economic issues, In Focus, In Focus 2010, In Focus 2010 Week 16, In Focus 2010 Week 23, India, Politics and society, South Asia,

A bioeconomic analysis of Maldivian skipjack tuna fishery / Solah Mohamed. - Tromsø : Norwegian College of Fishery Science, University of Tromsø, 2007. - 47 p. (Master's thesis)
http://www.ub.uit.no/munin/bitstream/10037/1163/1/thesis.pdf
Keywords: Agriculture, Fisheries, Maldives, Nordic Perspective, Norway, Publications, South Asia,

A discussion paper on donor best practices towards NGOs in Nepal / Amina Singh, Nora Ingdal. - Oslo : NORAD, 2007. - 44 p. (NORAD collected reviews10/2007) he civil society movement is a relatively new phenomenon in Nepal, developing explosively from 249 in 1990 to 19 944 registered NGOs by July 2006, with estimations as high as 30 000. The Working Group of Donor Heads of Agencies, where the Norwegian Embassy is represented, commissioned this study in early 2007 to guide their discussions, provide views from the NGOs themselves, point at areas of consensus and give recommendations for the future on NGO/donor relationships. The study does not give a detailed overview of the contributions from the various donors, but refers in general and points at examples when discussing the various issues treated. Norway is reported as one of the minor contributors among the donors to the NGO sector in Nepal.
http://www.niaslinc.dk/gateway_to_asia/nordic_webpublications/x506033324.pdf
Keywords: Asia Policies, Bilateral aid, Civil society, Development, Development. Poverty, NGO, Nepal, Nordic Perspective, Norway, Politics and society, Publications, South Asia,

A glossary of constitutional terms / Jill Cottrell & Surya Dhungel. - Stockholm : International IDEA, 2008. - 116 p. Nepal is at a critical juncture and is poised to debate about and draft a new constitution through a constituent assembly and to strengthen the nation's commitment to the rule of law. While debating and constitution making amount to political action, drafting a constitution and its supporting laws are more technical processes, which are no less important. So care must be taken while drafting a new constitution. Constitutions are legal texts and must be written in a style that is objective, clear and precise. To reflect the intentions of the law makers, drafters of constitutions and other laws must understand the full meaning of legal terms and the implications that the words used will have and then use the clearest words and formulations consistently. As legal texts are reference documents and normative guides, the words and formulations used in legal texts must be chosen with care, knowing that they will be subject to review and interpretation over time. Today the drafting of a constitution and supporting laws calls for a special style of writing that can be understood by ordinary people and not only by select groups of judges and lawyers. Many legal terms, initially developed through Latin-based languages, literally get lost or mangled in translations, or are defi ned by varied users in differing contexts, creating ambiguity and confusion. International IDEA seeks to support the constitutional process in Nepal through the development of this glossary of constitutional and legal terms. The purposes of this glossary are threefold: to establish Nepali equivalents of English constitutional terms, to standardize Nepali terminologies and to contribute to the development of plain language drafting of legal and constitutional texts at this critical juncture. This glossary is the product of the wonderful teamwork undertaken by Nepali translators and constitutional experts. A number of constitution-related words have emerged during the last couple of years in the Nepali political discourse. The team debated and deliberated on these words, their proper application and recorded them in this glossary with a view to standardizing them and ensuring consistency of practice and understanding. Besides the glossary, another important consequence of this exercise in translation was the creation of a network of translators working on the same topics and themes.
http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/rarebooks/downloads/IDEA_Glossary_Con...
Keywords: Dictionaries, General references, Nepal, Nepali, Nordic Perspective, Politics and society, Publications, South Asia, Sweden,