Human-monkey conflict mitigation study in Pokhara Municipality Kaski district

Human-monkey conflict mitigation study in Pokhara Metropolitan City is almost completed. The study was commenced from 15 January 2026 and submitted draft report to Economic Development Division (EDD) on 10 April 2026. The monkey problems of damaging agricultural crops is severe in 20 wards of the metropolitan city. This study was the regular program of the EDD.

The study team selected 5 representative wards on consultation with chief of the EDD, Mr. Manahar Kadariya i.e. ward no. 19, 21, 24, 26 and 32 based on monkey incidences, altitude, faces and geographical representation. The study team was designed to discuss with ward committee members at first following by the group discussion and finally household survey. The ward committee identified two most problematic clusters in each ward for the focus group discussion (FGD), whereas the cluster provided the 15 problematic person’s name from each cluster to survey at HH level. In this regards, we took discussion with 5 ward committee members, 10 focus group discussion and 150 individual HH. Before survey taken, organized an orientation training and pre-testing of the HH level questionnaires to the surveyors. HH questionnaires was designing in kobo tool box apps. Surveyors of the study team were Mr. Guna Kumar Shrestha, Ms. Gita Devi Chhetri, Mr. Thakur Giri, Ms. Laxmi Pariyar and Mr. Chet Nath Tiwari, whereas the Supervisors of the study team were Mr. Gehendra Bahadur Gurung and Mr. Padma Kiran Rana.

The draft report was presented twice upon the request of the chief of the EDD, first on March 20, 2026 in meeting of Ward level Agriculture Network (WAN) of Pokhara Metropolitan City and second presentation was made on April 17, 2026 in Agriculture Business Promotion Committee meeting, the meeting was chaired by the chief of Pokhara Metropolitan City Mr. Dhan Raj Acharya. In first slot presentation about 40 participants were presented whereas in second slot presentation 30 participants were participated. The suggestions and comments were incorporated in the final report.