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USAID has faced scrutiny over its role in political operations of influence abroad and potential conflicts of interest. In January 2025, the Trump administration ordered a near-total freeze on foreign aid, making false or misleading allegations of wasteful spending and fraud [5] and planning to reduce employee numbers from around 10,000 to 290.
United Kingdom - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) United States - United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Inter-American Foundation (IAF), Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), and the African Development Foundation (ADF)
This is a list of diplomatic missions in Nepal. At present, the capital of Kathmandu hosts 25 embassies. Many other countries have non-resident embassies either resident in New Delhi or elsewhere. Honorary consulates and trade missions are excluded from this listing. Map of diplomatic missions in Nepal
Baluwatar (Nepali: बालुवाटार) (also Kathmandu Metropolitan City Ward 04 [1]) is a residential area of Kathmandu, the capital city of Nepal on the banks of Bagmati River. It is just 15 minutes away from what is known as the downtown of Kathmandu, New Road and Ason and shares borders with Lazimpat and Gairidhara .
DAI Global, LLC is a privately held development company with corporate offices in more than a dozen countries, including in Bethesda, Maryland, in the United States; London and Apsley, Hertfordshire, in the United Kingdom; Abuja and Lagos, in Nigeria; and Brussels, Vienna, and other European capitals.
FNCCI organizes among others Nepal International Trade Fair [3] every year to promote Nepalese products across the globe. This trade fair is the biggest in the country and takes usually place in March or April. With the support of USAID, FNCCI established the Agro Enterprise Centre in 1991 which is promoting agro-business in the country.
The Nepalese Ministry of Foreign Affairs rapidly expanded in the 1950s and 1960s, driven by Nepal's precarious strategic position sandwiched between India and China. As of 2025, Nepal's diplomatic network consists of 32 embassies, 7 consulates-general, and 2 permanent missions.
The Peace Corps temporarily suspended its operations in Nepal in 2004 due to increasing security concerns and officially terminated its Nepal program in 2006. Ambassador Randy W. Berry was appointed to Nepal on October 25, 2018. He replaces Alaina B. Teplitz, who is now the United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives.