Nepal:

Youth-led Adaptive Problem Solving for Inclusive Education in Lumbini

With support from development partner Aasaman Nepal and funding from British Embassy Kathmandu (BEK), IDP is implementing “Youth-Led Adaptive Problem-Solving for Inclusive Education” in Lumbini Province to strengthen inclusive, evidence-based education planning by centering youth voices. The program engages 24 youths with diverse backgrounds from three municipalities, ensuring their voices lead the process of identifying education system problems and their root causes, and designing solutions to test, iterate, and adapt, working closely with local and provincial system actors. Adapting the Problem-Drive Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) approach to systems change, this program aims to bridge the gap by placing youth at the center of problem identification and solution design, and by integrating provincial actors—the “missing middle” of federalism—into the process.