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Vol. VIII, Population and Development in Nepal, December 2001

Family Planning Saves Women's Lives: The Nepalese Evidences
Ram Sharan Pathak
The objective of this study is to identify and examine the role of family planning in reproductive health, especially focusing on saving women's lives. Saving women's lives has been the basic theme in the reproductive health policies and programmes of the developing world. Drawing upon data from secondary sources, an effort is made to discuss about why family planning matters in saving women's lives. Although family planning has been recognized as central to all other components of reproductive health, this reality is to be fully recognized by those who are concerned. The study shows that the greatest contribution of family planning lies in avoiding unwanted pregnancies and thereby contributing to saving women's lives.

Adolescent's Reproductive Health In Nepal
Prakash D. Pant
The paper attempts to present the situation of adolescent's reproductive health in Nepal. It also reviews the national reproductive health strategy of Nepal and some selected health indicators, targets and the need for reproductive health care. A substantial proportion of population falls under adolescent and youth and there is high fertility rate among them. The evident rapid succession of birth before 20 years of age further aggravates after 19 years of age. The analysis of early marriage, successive birth, lower age at first child, short birth interval and pregnancy termination show the situation of the adolescents and youth alarming and vulnerable.

Towards Welfare of The Elderly With Reference To Nepal
Prem S. Bisht
This paper provides an overview of the welfare of the elderly in Nepal using the information available in various Plans of Nepal. Nepal does not have a high proportion of the elderly persons, but its population is under the process of aging. It is high time for Nepal to consider the issues pertaining to older population of Nepal and to focus on the challenges of the twenty-first century with regard to those issues.

Population Ageing: Some Emerging Issues In The Saarc Region With Reference To Nepal
Sunil Acharya
An attempt has been made in this paper to look at the current and future trend of older population in the SAARC region with reference to Nepal. The objective of the paper is not to undertake in-depth analysis of different aspects of ageing process in the region but to highlight the issue since this has been a neglected area in population research in the region as well as in Nepal. The paper looks at the growing trend of older population and highlights some of the issues associated with the growth. Data utilized in the paper is obtained from Population censuses of Nepal, and UN and other publications.

Shift of Emphasis in Population Policies and Programmes in Nepal With Reference To
The Global Issue
Yogendra Bahadur Gurung
This paper is about shifts and current concerns of the international debate on population matter. The time frame for the discussion of shifts in debate is from the Bucharest 1974 to ICPD 1994. The discussion begins with the global context and then specifies with Nepalese context. In the context of Nepalese population policy and programmes, the paper discusses how it is fit to the global consensus and how it has shifted from family planning to reproductive rights and choices. Finally, it explores the prevailing Nepalese contexts how it is feasible to implement the population policy and programmes translated from the ICPD goals.

Integration Of Population In Poverty Alleviation Programmes
Laxmi Bilas Acharya
This paper discusses the importance of integrating population concerns in the poverty alleviation programmes in Nepal. It indicates that majority of the population below poverty line in Nepal have poor health, poor education and have high fertility characteristics. So the poverty alleviation programmes in Nepal must be integrated with education, health and family planning programmes. Income generating programmes should be tied up with health, education and skill development programmes as well.

Exclusion From Right To Education: A Gender Dimension
Keshab Prasad Adhikari
Education is seen as a key to open up avenues of economic opportunities, individual freedom and thereby enhancing the quality of life of individuals. Selective distribution of such a social opportunity in exclusionary form for a mass of population diverting resources only for a handful of powerful systematically pushes the whole society in the web of backwardness, marginalization and deprivation. Because of traditional relegation and present practices of exclusionary resource allocation in education within household, societal and state level, a large chunk of population is still out of reach of educational opportunities. Such exclusion is seen quite severe for the case of female population in general and girl child in particular. For each sub-group of population either by residential or by caste/ethnic or religious characteristics, degree of marginalization or exclusion from the right to education of girl child or female population is quite high. However, on the whole the Nepali population is deprived of educational capability.

Alcohol Experience Among Children At Risk In Nepal
Govind Subedi
Utilizing data from CWIN Field Study on alcohol experience among street children of major six urban centres of Nepal, it is argued that street children are the most vulnerable group exposing to alcohol. This has greater implication on children's lives, particularly on physical and psychological development. The policy option is to eliminate the worst form of child labour in the long run and in the short run, there is a need of close motivation to these children through civil societies, including rehabilitation centres.

Population Census 2001
Radha Krishna G.C.
This paper deals with special features of Population Census 2001. It includes some new features which are not covered in previous censuses of Nepal. It has mainly two schedules viz. long form and short form, both of which cover household and individual information. The major specialties of Population Census 2001 are mass census publicity, gender sensitization, sampling enumeration in the census, wider census scope improved and standard classification, wider dissemination, concept of extended economic activity, mass participation and improved training.