The Policy Research Institute (PRI) is a think tank of the government of Nepal formed pursuant to the Policy Research Institute Board (formation) Ordinance 2018 (2075) by exercising the power conferred by Article 3 of Development Board Act 1956. The objectives of the PRI are to review public policies, programs and strategies through rigorous research and analysis and provide the policy recommendations to the government of Nepal, to carry out studies in various public sectors to generate policy relevant knowledge, and to serve as an interface of knowledge and policy making in the spirit of the Article 51 of the Constitution of Nepal.