The Kathmandu University School of Arts signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Nepal Administrative Staff College on 18 March 2021. The objective of this MoU is to establish public-academic partnership framework for contributing to conducting high quality research for evidence-based policy and developing and utilizing professional management resources and practices through the use of each other’s institutional strengths, experiences and resources that will eventually strengthen research and management capacity in the country for its social, cultural and economic transformation.