Environmental-friendly Local Governance Framework, 2013 (Nepal)

The Environmental-friendly Local Governance Framework 2013 has been issued to add value to the environment-friendly local development concept encouraging environmental protection through local bodies. The vision of this framework is to establish environmental governance and create a sustainable environment-friendly society at household, village, municipality and district levels. 

The objectives of the framework are: 

• To mainstream issues related to environment, climate change adaptation and disaster management in the local planning process
• To make the local governance system environment-friendly
• To make all responsible, starting from the basic level, towards the environment-friendly sustainable development
• To encourage the coordination and cooperation between environment and development
• To increase local ownerships by localizing its different dimensions for the sustainable management of environment