Durga Karki is a Programme Officer in Kathmandu Office, Nepal Programme where she oversees the implementation of EU-International IDEA co-creation project: 'Support to Nepal’s Democracy and Inclusion Processes through Electoral Reform Initiatives’. 

Durga has been with International IDEA since 2018 working in various capacities for the Coherence Programme in Nepal until a year ago, before she left us to pursue a master's degree at Harvard Law School. During her four and half years with International IDEA, she supported in developing and publishing resource materials for local government representatives and providing training and backstopping support to different cohorts of local government mentors. She also led the process of developing visual resource materials on different aspects of local governance, including an animation video mini-series on the same. Durga brings a dynamic personality to International IDEA with her background of law, journalism, creative writing, as well as legal and sociological research.

In her new role, she will look after the partnership with Civil Society Organizations and key stakeholders to engage in Nepal's electoral practices and policy reform by generating evidence from the ground and learning from the comparative practices around the world.