CDPS is the National Center for Population Studies based at Tribhuvan University, Nepal. The centre’s focus is population dynamics and their effect on human lives, environment, social justice and poverty.
Major research issues addressed are
- migration including refugee issues and urbanisation
- fertility
- mortality
- environment
- child labour
- women’s empowerment
- reproductive health and family planning
- ageing, disability and retirement
- demographic techniques for analysing population problems
Website is in English and offers details of research programmes, lists of publications and abstracts of the Centre’s “Population and Development in Nepal” reports.