Mr. Dil Raj Khanal is adequately qualified with a Master's degree in Environmental and Natural Resource Management laws from Tribhuwan University, Kathmandu Nepal. Mr. Khanal is an environmental and natural resource management lawyer working for the promotion and protection of common property rights of community-based natural resource management groups in Nepal for the last 25 years. He is also working as an institutional, policy, and legal expert for the drafting of legislative instruments, policies, and policy advocacy plans, facilitating legal capacity building of Indigenous Peoples, and local communities including CSOs, women, farmer groups, and legal research in the sector of environment and natural resources management including land, agriculture, water, energy, forest and biodiversity, MAPs/herbs and NTFPs, climate change, customary practices, traditional knowledge and social and environmental safeguards in Nepal. Currently, he is affiliated with different national-level federations/associations of local communities including community-based NRM groups, land rights groups, and farmer groups.
