The 2025 edition of NGS focuses on “Doing Development Differently,” emphasizing the strategic mobilization of four core resources—People, Money, Data, and Technology—as foundational pillars for building stronger institutions and accelerating Nepal’s journey toward a self-reliant and enterprising nation. Through keynote plenaries and policy studios, the symposium explores how capable leadership, sustainable financing, integrated data systems, and pragmatic digital reforms can deliver meaningful and lasting development outcomes, while challenging conventional development approaches and encouraging collective action.

The 2025 edition of NGS focuses on “Doing Development Differently,” emphasizing the strategic mobilization of four core resources—People, Money, Data, and Technology—as foundational pillars for building stronger institutions and accelerating Nepal’s journey toward a self-reliant and enterprising nation. Through keynote plenaries and policy studios, the symposium explores how capable leadership, sustainable financing, integrated data systems, and pragmatic digital reforms can deliver meaningful and lasting development outcomes, while challenging conventional development approaches and encouraging collective action.

The 2025 edition of NGS focuses on “Doing Development Differently,” emphasizing the strategic mobilization of four core resources—People, Money, Data, and Technology—as foundational pillars for building stronger institutions and accelerating Nepal’s journey toward a self-reliant and enterprising nation. Through keynote plenaries and policy studios, the symposium explores how capable leadership, sustainable financing, integrated data systems, and pragmatic digital reforms can deliver meaningful and lasting development outcomes, while challenging conventional development approaches and encouraging collective action.

The inaugural NGS in 2022 addressed governance challenges emerging from Nepal’s federal transition, including gaps in policy implementation, institutional capacity, and inclusive decision-making. It provided a politically neutral platform to celebrate, study, and contextualize innovative local governance practices and collaborative public service delivery models. By bringing together municipalities and governance actors from across the country, NGS 2022 laid the foundation for the symposium as a national forum for learning, collaboration, and inclusive governance reform.