7.3 Research Institution on Population

The research landscape: the university centres (the TU's Centre for Economic Development and Administration (CEDA) (the demographic-and-development research's veteran)); the demographic units (the university's population studies' teaching-and-research (the Central Department of Population Studies (the TU's own population faculty))); the policy institutes (the National Planning Commission's research faces; the think-tank world (the poverty-and- development institutes' demographic wings)); the international partners (the UNFPA's-and-the partners' technical cooperation (the census's-and-the survey's support)); the civil-society's-and-the NGO faces (the family-planning-and-the reproductive-health organisations (the service-and- advocacy world (the FPAN's pioneering face))); the honest audit (the research's thinness against the policy's demand (the disaggregated-and-the projection research's continuing gap)). The institutional map (the exam's table): the COUNTING (the NSO/CBS); the POLICY (the ministry's population function); the RESEARCH (the CEDA-CDPS world); the SERVICES (the health system's family-planning machinery); the LOCAL (the Palika's registration-and-services (the federalism's distributed population governance)). Exam Focus Long question: The institutional arrangement's map (the counting-policy-research- services quartet — the banker). Short questions: the CBS→NSO transition; the ministry's restructuring; the CEDA/CDPS faces. Trick areas: (i) The CBS is NOW the National Statistics Office (the Statistics Act 2075's modernisation — the old name's exam currency); (ii) The population ministry NO LONGER stands alone (the health-and-population integration — the "Ministry of Population" answer's update); (iii) The institutions' DIVISION: the counting (NSO) ≠ the policy (ministry) ≠ the research (TU's centres)…