About the Authors

Jeremy Kohlitz

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Jeremy.Kohlitz@uts.edu.au

Affiliation Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Melita Grant

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Ratan Bahadur Budhathoki

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, Kathmandu, Nepal

Shova Chhetri

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, Kathmandu, Nepal

Heman Paneru

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, Kathmandu, Nepal

Min Prasad Basnet

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, Kathmandu, Nepal

Sunetra Lala

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, Kathmandu, Nepal

Gabrielle Halcrow

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, Kathmandu, Nepal

Naomi Carrard

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Competing Interests

RBB, SC, HP, MPB, SL, and GH are staff of the funding organisation who worked closely with JK, MG, and NC in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, and preparation of the manuscript.