2.2 Population Policy of Nepal

The policy's evolution: (1) the family-planning beginnings (the late-1960s' family-planning-and- maternal-health programme (the population "problem" era (the reduction-first approach))); (2) the plans' integration (the five-year plans' population chapters — the targets'-and-the services' faces); (3) the ICPD turn (the 1994 Cairo consensus's domestication: the people-centred-and-rights-based approach (the reproductive-health-as-rights (the target's abandonment (the quality-of-care turn)))); (4) the National Population Policy 2071 (2014) (the modern frame: the population- and-development integration (the fertility's voluntary decline, the migration's governance, the urbanisation's management, the adolescents'-and-the youth's faces, the ageing's preparation, the disaggregated-data's demand)); (5) the federal era (the post-2072 population governance (the provincial-and-local population faces (the Local Government Operation Act 2074's demographic duties))); the current policy's themes (the demographic-dividend harnessing (the youth's employment); the reproductive-health universality; the migration's choice-and-protection; the ageing-and-urbanisation's preparation). Exam Focus Long questions: (i) The census-survey-registration legal architecture (the Statistics Act + the Vital Events Registration Act — the banker); (ii) The population policy's evolution (the targets-to-rights arc). Short questions: the de-jure principle; the vital events' registrable list; the ICPD turn; the 2071 policy's themes. Trick areas: (i) The CENSUS = the Statistics Act's world; the VITAL EVENTS = the 2076 Act's registration (the two-Act division); (ii) The registration's certificate is the GATEWAY document (the citizenship-school-services chain); (iii) The policy's arc: reduction-targets → ICPD's people-centred rights (the "control" vocabulary's error); (iv) The local…