According to the this report, Nepal is widely viewed as highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, both because of its geography--landlocked and mountainous, with rivers fed by the Himalayan glaciers--and because of its socio-economic makeup, with widespread poverty and a mostly rural population. This report reviews, among others, Nepal"s water resource strategy and water resource plan and depicts how local responses to climate risks and stresses are shaped by externally driven policies, institutions and other conditions (the enabling environment), and explores the relationship between local responses and national and sub-national conditions, which can affect the sustainability of local responses.