The Incubation Centers or Programs at Nepal Economic Forum act as nuts and bolts of transformation. NEF’s focus on local and global integration, sustainability, digital transformation and youth empowerment for an empowered private sector is key to its vision of encouraging economic development discourse and analysis and the incubation centers help realize these visions.
The Himalayan region, physically dividing and culturally uniting countries in Asia, ranges from Myanmar to Afghanistan and is home to nearly 53 million people. The Himalayas provide water, energy, and food to directly benefit 240 million people and indirectly support nearly 1.9 billion people living in its river basins. It is an important energy source, carbon stock, and biosphere reserve, and coined a critically important geo-ecological asset. The region is also connected to the largest labor force in the world and is rich in culture, languages, religions, and traditional knowledge systems.
In constant flux due to global and regional changes, the Himalayan region is both extremely vulnerable to climate change and severely under-equipped to deal with its cascading impacts on the environment and society. Yet, this geophysically and socioeconomically unique region has much to offer and provides a prime testing ground for innovative solutions and practices to approach today’s multifaceted challenges. There is an urgent need to consider the region’s growth trajectory against its environmental, social, and economic well-being to ensure a sustainable and prosperous future. A deeper understanding and adoption of green solutions, broad networks, and inclusive pathways will support the transition to the same.
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The Center for Digital Transformation (CDT) is developed to address cross-cutting themes related to digital adoption. The core aim of this center is to create a platform that promotes dialogue among technologists, policymakers, academics, businesses, regulators, financiers, and others. Some of the themes are addressed within this center are – digital innovation and transformation, governance and politics, resources and finance, law and society, and security and privacy.
Nepal and the World (NAW) studies Nepal’s foreign policy and diplomacy against the backdrop of globalization and support public debates on foreign affairs, particularly in relations with the economy. It focuses on the analysis of Nepal’s foreign policy and diplomatic practices to map key areas/players in its international relations that will stimulate economic growth and transformation.
The Center for Private Sector Development (CPSD) focuses on private sector-led development by supporting the growth of small and medium enterprises. CPSD works in areas of skill development, capacity development, financial management, providing business development services for private enterprise’s operation and growth. The center focuses on reforms that are necessary at the policy and administrative level of the government to facilitate business in Nepal.
