Nepal: School Sector Program - Vulnerable Community Development Framework/Indigenous Peoples ...

Nepal: School Sector Program - Vulnerable Community Development Framework/Indigenous Peoples Planning Framework   Nepal: School Sector Program   A. Background   1. Nepal is a country inhabited by people of diverse social, cultural and ethnic backgrounds where 28.5% of the population are Brahmins/Chhetri, 38% are indigenous people, 13% are Dalit, and 4.3% are Muslim. A total of 92 languages have been recorded in 2001 by the national census.1 In Nepal, the indigenous population is popularly...

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