Nepal: A Review and Analysis of the 2009 Civil Society Public Submissions to the Constituent Assembly

This study is based mainly on information regarding the public submissions presented before the Thematic Committees and CA through "democratic dialogue" by 17 organizations assisted by United Nations Development Programme, Support to Participatory Constitution Building in Nepal (UNDP/SPCBN). In addition, this study has tried to incorporate, in a comparative manner, public submissions regarding the constitution prepared by a network of other organizations of the same nature which have collaborated with UNIFEM, UNICEF, CEDA and other donor agencies. 

The major objective of this study is to analyze the public submissions collected by UNDP/SPCBN through democratic dialogue. Especially, it aims to analyze how far the voices of the historically marginalized communities and regions reached in the CA and how they are reflected in the preliminary draft of the constitution prepared by the Committees of the CA . The study also aims at providing reference material to the organizations that are receiving UNDP assistance so that they will be able to hold public dialogues on the first draft of the constitution in the second phase.