Monday, October 5, 2009

Current Priorities

The Foundation's priorities at this stage are to help the Constituent Assembly of Nepal to draft a new constitution for the country through technical assistance and policy recommendations. It will focus on providing assistance in writing the new constitution and complementing the process by interventions consisting of public lectures, conferences and publications. It will also serve as a clearing house for information and materials relevant to the Constituent Assembly for the jobs before it. The Foundation will help stimulate thinking about subject of constitutional concern under the proposed constitution from a variety of perspectives and disciplines.

Nepal Constitution Foundation considers it to be very important to archive or document all types of resources produced in Nepal after the 2008 elections to the Constituent Assembly regarding the ongoing constitution making exercises. This is necessary not just to preserve the constitutional debate for posterity, but also to make sure that the new constitution is understood with all its background materials and political discourses. This activity will promote the vitality of the new constitution, once it is promulgated.