Min Bahadur Shahi
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Min Bahadur Shahi is the elected Deputy President of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) for International Board of Directors. He served as the President of Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (ACORAB), Nepal for more than 7 years. Currently, he is working as an Ex-officio Board Member of ACORAB. He is also working as the Executive Director of Karnali Integrated Rural Development and Research Centre (KIRDARC) Nepal. KIRDARC Nepal is operating and managing two community radio stations - Radio Karnali (Jumla) and Radio New Karnali (Kalikot). He is also the founder Editor-in-chief of Karnali Mirror, a research and development magazine. He is affiliated with different national media, human rights and social organizations. He has published articles in national dailies and other newspapers. He is working as a researcher in different fields. He was nominated as an Executive Board Member of Social Welfare Council (SWC) by Government of Nepal (Ministers Council) from social development sector in 2008. He has also served as a member of the High Level Committee on Information and Communication of Nepal Government as a media expert. Min has a Masters degree in Sociology/Anthropology from Tribhuwan University.
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Min Bahadur Shahi
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Executive Director
Madhab Raj Neupane
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Mr. Madhab Raj Neupane belongs to one of the beautiful mountainous district of Nepal, Jumla. He has been working in KIRDARC since 2006 at different capacities. Currently, he is working as Deputy Executive Director. As a development professional, he has been found of piloting new ideas and approaches for organizational effectiveness, delivering high quality results and sustainability. With experience of grass-roots level community development in fostering grass-root democracy, peace and protecting human rights, he is now intensifying his engagement on Quality Assurance, Result Based Management (RBM) and Human Rights Based Development (HRBA) principles into strategic intervention of organization.
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Madhab Raj Neupane
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Deputy Executive Director
Gobinda Bahadur Shahi
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Gobinda Bahadur Shahi the permanent resident of Melchham-7 Humla is the Master Degree holder in English Education from Tribhuwan University, Kathmandu. He has 15 years of teaching experience in government and private education institutions in rural part of Nepal. He is the Program Director managing all the projects implemented by KIRDARC Nepal along with managing 200 project staffs in 10 project districts. The core specialization of Mr. Shahi is Education Management along with the project management and the advocacy of contemporary issues affecting the life of rural community. He is the Steering Committee Member of Asia Partnership for Sustainable Development (APSD), the Asia level civil society advocacy network for the effective and inclusive implementation of SDG 2030 agendas. He is also the Secretary of Association of Family Forest Owners Nepal (AFFON), a national level association to ensure the rights of the family forest owners. Mr. Shahi is active in different national level networks i.e. Humanitarian Accountability Monitoring Initiatives (HAMI), Nepal SDG Forum, Technical Group for mainstreaming DRR formed by NPC, Nepalese Civil Society Mountain Initiatives (NCMSI) representing KIRDARC Nepal.
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Gobinda Bahadur Shahi
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Program Director
Nabin Kumar Shahi
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Nabin Kumar Shahi, the permanent resident of Lalu-5 Kalikot is the Master Degree holder in Peace and Conflict study from Mid Western University, Surkhet Nepal and Bachelors from Pune Board and Nagpur University of India. He has started his professional carrier as Secondary School English teacher from his own village Lalu. He has the 10 years experiences on Water, Sanitation and hygiene working with nongovernmental organization. He has demonstrated the high capacity working under pressure, high conflict sensitivity and extreme geographical remote area of Nepal. He is the WASH Theme Leader in the Organization. He is managing more than 40 human resources in 6 districts under wash project. He is leading the over coordination with donors related with WASH programs at all level. He is leading multi-stakeholder facilitation processes at DWASH/RWASH and NWASH level. He has shown high technical knowledge and skills on emergency and recovery WASH. He has presented his paper on rural ODF campaign during SAACOSAN-5th from Nepal and participated AMCDRR in 2016. He is the active member of: JSR, RWASH-CC, NWASHCC, WASH Cluster, DPNET, Transparency and accountability Forum for Mid –West. Food Security Forum for Mid-West Nepal, Forum for Human Right Mid-West Nepal ,Bhajan Smriti (Bhajan Memorial) Trust Mid-West.
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Nabin Kumar Shahi
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WASH Theme Leader
Gautam Raj Adhikari
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Gautam Raj Adhikari
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Monitoring and Evaluation Expert
Prakash Budha Magar
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Mr. Budha Magar is working as a Team Leader for AADHAR Project being implemented in six districts: Humla, Dolpa, Mugu, Jumla, Kalikot and Surkhet. The project envisages promoting human rights based approach to development and advocating for human rights. He is also a thematic leader for Human Rights and Peace Building Officer for KIRDARC, Nepal. Mr. Budha Magar is a permanent resident of Takasera VDC, Rukum district, currently residing in Kathmandu. He is a recipient of Open Society Foundation Scholarship Award, graduated from University of Essex, England, and has a Master's degree in Human Right and Cultural Diversity. He also holds Master's degree in Development Studies from Kathmandu University School of Arts, Nepal. He is also currently working as a visiting faculty at Kathmandu University School of Arts, teaching Human Rights Impact Assessment. He has more than 8 years of working experience in the field of social work and has expertise in both research and development interventions. His area of expertise include human rights and research works.
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Prakash Budha Magar
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Human Rights Expert
Rajan Bhurtel
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Rajan Bhurtel
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District Coordinator
Padam Bahadur Malla
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Padam Bahadur Malla
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District Coordinator
Megha Raj Neupane
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Megha Raj Neupane
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District Co-ordinator
Hari Prasad Laudari
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Hari Prasad Laudari, the permanent resident of Dhamilikuwa VDC-7 Lamjung is the Bachelor Degree holder in agriculture from Institute of agriculture and animal science, Rampur, Chitwan. He has the 20 (Twenty years) of overall Programmatic and project managing work experience in INGO and NGO in various remote and non-remote districts of Nepal. He is working since 2009 in KIRDARC-Nepal. Now, he is the District coordinator of SEEDS program in Kapilbastu implemented by KIRDARC Nepal partnership with Stromme foundation. The core specialization of Mr. Laudari is livelihood program like, food security, nutrition, income generating activities, enterprises; market analysis with value chain approach promoting income generation activities for contemporary issues affecting the life of rural community.
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Hari Prasad Laudari
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District Co-ordinator
Gorkha Bdr. Thapa
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Gorkha Bdr. Thapa
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Station Manager
Dipak Raj Neupane
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Diparaj Neupane, the permanent resident of Shipkhana-3 Kalikot is the Bachelor Degree from Tribhuwan University, Kathmandu. He has over 15 years of experience in Non-Government Sector of Nepal. He is the Senior Finance and Admin Officer managing all the projects implemented by KIRDARC Nepal. He is also the member of KIRDARC management team and is the senior employee in terms of his experience in KIRDARC Nepal since its establishment. The core specialization of Mr. Neupane lies in efficient financial and internal control management. He is the also the life member of Nepal Red Cross Society, and Board Member of Karnali Development Joint Forum (KDJF).
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Dipak Raj Neupane
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Sr. Finance & Administration Officer
Rishi Adhikari
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Rishi Adhikari, the permanent resident of Pagnath, 5 Dailekh is the Master’s Degree holder in English Literature and Bachelor’s Degree in Law from Tribhuwan University, Kathmandu. He has the 6 years teaching experiences in private education institutions in western part of Nepal. He is the Theme Leader/Project Coordinator of the women empowerment project has been leading the entire aspect (planning, implementation, monitoring, coordination, team building, capacity building of staff) of the project. The core specialization of Mr. Adhikari is Human Right and Good Governance along with the Gender Equality and Social Inclusion, project management and the advocacy of contemporary issues affecting the life of rural and Marginalized community. He is the Coordinator of Association of Family Forest Owners Nepal (AFFON) District Committee Dailekh, a national level association to ensure the rights of the family forest owners. Mr. Adhikari is active as a media worker (Research Coordinator of Nirman Media Pvt.Ltd) also.
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Rishi Adhikari
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GESI Theme Leader
Alok Rai
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Alok Rai the permanent resident of Biratnagar – 20, Morang is the Semi-qualified Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountant of Nepal along with Bachelor degree holder in Business Studies from Tribhuwan University, Kathmandu. Currently, he is pursuing his Masters Level in Economics from Tribhuwan University, Kathmandu. He has over 5 years of experience in auditing, accounting, financial consultancy and taxation in the various organizations of Nepal. He is the Finance Coordinator managing all the financial related issues of the projects implemented by KIRDARC Nepal. He is also the member of Senior Management Team of KIRDARC Nepal. The core specialization lies in Financial Management and Risk Analysis.
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Alok Rai
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Finance Coordinator
Geeta Pandey
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Ms Pandey holds Masters' Degree in Environmental Science with specialization on mountain environment. As a development professional, she has more than five years of experience of working with different National and Regional level Networks and provided her professional support for advocating on people's rights over natural resources. She has worked on Policy advocacy on different issues and agenda such as Environment, Gender, Climate Change and Natural Resources related issues. She is managing and working for institutionalizing the advocacy practices in different projects in KIRDARC. She has been involved in development of advocacy materials, press releases, press notes, reports, case studies and materials for creating visibility and promotion of best practices of the organization and different programme including newsletter and annual reports.
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Geeta Pandey
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Advocacy and Knowledge Management Coordinator
Resham Bahadur Shahi
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Resham Bahadur Shahi the permanent resident of Kudari- 5 Jumla is the Bachelor Degree holder in Population Education from Jumla Multiple Campus, Jumla. He has more than 13 years working experience in development Sector, specially in Income Generation, Life Skills, good Governance, Human Right, Quality Education, and Community Development. He is currently serving as District Coordinator of KIRDARC Nepal, He is responsible for staffs mobilization, coordination with line agency, coordinating field program activities, budget planning, program monitoring & evaluation for smooth implementation of project activities. Facilitating multi-stakeholders process for developing district plan in light of social inclusion, human Right based approach and gender inclusion and participatory rural appraisal method and social analysis and campaigning in development activities. I also have experienced in Leasehold forestry programme. He is very familiar with multicultural environment. Handle all relevant programmatically report writing, implementing project , Facilitating all the GOs , NGOs, political parties , Data fill link and proactively uses of related format in computer. Very familiar with advance internet search and produce excellent Power Point presentations, Take easily meeting minutes and reports. He is the Advisor Committee member of Intellectual Society development Centre, Jumla. He is active membership of western Regional Networking popular Educationist for Transformation and Master Fellow of Action Aid Nepal (Volunteer Service).
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Resham Bahadur Shahi
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District Coordinator
Sakun Shrestha
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Sakun Shrestha
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Sr. Human Resource and General Systerm Management Officer
Bharat Bahadur Bista
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Bharat Bahadur Bista
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Acting Station Manager
Surendra Dhakal
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Surendra Dhakal
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District Co-ordinator
Tula Ram Pandey
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Tula Ram Pandey
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District Co-ordinator