Niti Foundation is a Nepali non-profit organization engaged in strengthening Nepal’s policy process through research, innovations, and alternatives. With local and international support, it promotes individual and organizational initiatives that strengthen policy engagement, policy process reform and ownership capacity in Nepal. Through its funding and technical assistance, Niti Foundation enables access to intellectual resources and platforms for policy discourse and contestation. It was established in June 2010 with initial funding from a group of policy entrepreneurs in Nepal and the Open Society Foundations, and institutional support and technical assistance from The Asia Foundation.