According to local community and Indigenous representatives Dialogue Earth spoke to, Nepal’s marginalised communities face considerable challenges accessing climate finance. Nepal’s climate finance policiesThe policy framework for managing climate finance has historically been fragmented in Nepal. The Foreign Aid Mobilisation Policy 2025, issued by the finance ministry, provides broad guidelines for all foreign aid, including climate finance. The 2019 National Climate Change Policy shapes climate finance programming across different sectors and levels of government. Mankesh Gupta, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities coordinator at the Center for Indigenous Peoples’ Research and Development, says: “The government’s intention is to channel all climate finance through a single system.