Who we Are?
Iset-Nepal hosts South Asia Nadi Sambad [South Asia River Dialogue] (SoANaS), an online platform. SoANaS aims to foster greater dialogue and the sharing of perspectives among sectors, disciplines, epistemologies, ontologies, geographic regions, and generations. The ideas will help seek a mosaic of water solutions in the region and broaden the debate on water management.
What We Do?
We host South Asia Nadi Sambad [South Asia River Dialogue] (SoANaS) an online platform. SoANaS aims to foster greater dialogue and sharing of perspectives among sectors, disciplines, epistemologies, ontologies, geographic regions, and generations. The ideas while helping seek a mosaic of water solutions in the region and broaden the debate on water management.
Bring Systemic Perspectives
Water problems and solutions are imbedded in technological, societal, environmental, economic, and political perspectives. Systemic perspectives can foster crossing boundaries and recognize role of power, politics, social differentials, and the interests of state, market, local community, ecology and culture in water solutions, key for public policymaking
Promote Creative Engagement
Influencing public policy encompasses four interconnected elements in a continuum—opinion-building, discourse-setting, knowledge-uptake, and policy-change actions. SoANaS aims to work towards shaping opinion and then incrementally towards policy uptake by helping agents engage vertically and horizontally within the socio-political space.
Learn & Share
The learning will be used on the one hand to improve public policy and practices and on the other to upscale them from the local to the national and to the international arena.
Team Members
Ajaya Dixit
Mentor
Jasveen Jairath
Mentor
Bijaya Ram Baidya
Mentor
Monirul Qader Mirza
Mentor
Anurag Pokharel
Coordinator
Anustha Shrestha
Member
Dr. Ramdevi Tachamo Shah
Member