Kushal Pokharel is a research fellow at the South Asia Institute of Advanced Studies and an adjunct faculty member in local governance and social inclusion at the College of Development Studies in Kathmandu. He is also a fellow with the Climate Action Network South Asia.
Nepal's Constitution took eight years to hammer out, but in 2015 finally established the Himalayan nation, ruled for centuries as a unitary kingdom, as a federal democratic republic, with three empowered levels of government.
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