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What We Do

Expatriate Policy Research

We focus on studying the experiences, challenges, and policy environment affecting foreign expatriates in Nepal. This includes examining how expatriates navigate administrative systems, access services, and interact with institutions. Through this research, DKI aims to generate insights that contribute to improved understanding, informed policy discussions, and more effective institutional frameworks.

Expat Coordination

This is a structured initiative focused on coordinated support for foreign nationals during their stay in Nepal. Many expatriates face challenges that require timely connection with relevant stakeholders, especially when immediate access to their embassies is limited. We facilitate coordination with local authorities, police, embassies, and families abroad to help address situations and ensure a safer and smoother experience. This is a non-paid coordination initiative designed to improve access, communication, and wellbeing.

Overseas Voting Research

We focus on the voting rights and electoral participation of Nepali citizens living abroad. This includes examining legal frameworks, access to voting mechanisms, and challenges faced by the diaspora in participating in national elections. The research also explores international practices and models of external voting. Through this work, DKI aims to generate insights that support inclusive electoral systems and inform policy development.

Volunteering

We provide structured volunteering opportunities in Nepal for international participants visiting the country, as well as those already in Nepal seeking to combine their stay with meaningful educational, cultural, and sports-based engagement in collaboration with local institutions. These opportunities can also be extended to academic interns in partnership with institutions abroad, creating pathways for experiential learning, cross-cultural exchange, practical field exposure, and community-based engagement.

Election Observation

We independently observe electoral systems by examining voting and related processes at foreign embassies in Nepal, foreign embassies abroad, and selected participating countries. We prepare impartial observation reports, which are submitted to the relevant election commission, with a copy retained by our research department for comparative, evidence-based analysis of electoral practices and external voting

systems.

Events

We organize educational, sporting, cultural, and competitive events aimed at empowering schools, strengthening sports and culture, and supporting tourism development in Nepal. These events create dynamic platforms for engagement, learning, skill development, and cross-cultural exchange, with the active participation of international volunteers, in close collaboration with local institutions, schools, and communities, fostering meaningful participation, mutual understanding, sustainable collaboration, and long-term impact.