Understanding elections shouldn’t be complicated. Yet many citizens especially young and first-time voters often struggle to find clear, reliable, and easy-to-understand information about Nepal’s electoral system. With this in mind, Youth in Federal Discourse (YFD) launched the Digital Electoral Literacy Project to make electoral information more accessible and easier for everyone to understand.
One of the key outcomes of the project is the Electoral Literacy Handbook. Developed through research, consultations with civil society organizations, and guidance from electoral experts, the handbook explains Nepal’s electoral process in a practical and reader-friendly way. It covers topics such as voter registration, voting procedures, political manifestos, misinformation and disinformation, electoral inclusion, and the roles and responsibilities of elected representatives. Our goal was simple: to create a resource that people can actually use, whether they are voting for the first time, teaching civic education, or simply wanting to better understand how elections work.
To ensure the handbook reaches as many people as possible, it has been published in five languages-Nepali, English, Maithili, Tamang, and Tharu. The local languages were selected based on Nepal’s demographic composition, prioritizing some of the country’s most widely spoken mother tongues so that more communities can benefit from the resource.
We are pleased to share all five versions here on the YFD website. We hope they will be useful for students, teachers, civil society organizations, community facilitators, researchers, and anyone interested in learning more about Nepal’s electoral system. We also encourage organizations and institutions to use these resources in trainings, workshops, and other civic education initiatives.