User:KL Devkota

Khim Lal Devkota (MA,MSC,PhD)

Dr. Devkota is an expert on fiscal federalism, public finance and local governance in Nepal. He has longstanding experience working as a specialist with government authorities at the highest levels in Nepal. He served as the first Vice Chairman of Policy and Planning Commission of Government of Province, Province 3 (The Capital Province). During his 13 months tenure he lead initiatives to prepare a database profile of province, formulated five years road map of the development for the province, develop project bank, prepare annual planning and monitoring guidelines, organize investment summit and design Human Development Index report of all the local governments . As an expert, he has worked for the Office of Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, National Planning Commission, and the Local Bodies’ Fiscal Commission. During his 15-year long engagement with government bodies, he designed and implemented programs related to intergovernmental fiscal transfers, local finance, and performance-based grant systems. Devkota has written numerous academic papers, articles, and reports mainly focusing on federalism, public finance, intergovernmental transfers, public expenditure management, and local governance. Some of his academic papers have been published at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. He has been interviewed and cited as an expert on federalism and current development issues in almost all television channels, newspapers, magazines and online media of Nepal. As a short-term consultant, he has worked with many international and national institutions such as the World Bank, UNDP, UNCDF, DFID, SDC, USAID, GIZ, JICA, International IDEA, National Democratic Institute, etc.

Currently, he is an expert member of Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations Council. The council membership includes Federal Finance Minister, all the Province Finance Ministers and 14 Local Governments representatives 