Three Day Training Commenced

Short Training Course Started

March 16, 2012

Three day training course on Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) organized by Department of Environment Engineering and Department of Mechanical Engineering with the support from Water Aid Nepal (WAN) commenced in Kathmandu University (KU) today.

Addressing the delegates and participants in the training, Dr. Bim Shrestha welcomed and briefly introduced the training program. Mr. Ashutosh Tiwari, Country Representative of Water Aid Nepal spotlighted on multiple aspects that go along with WASH such as economic, political, health among others. Chief Guest of the program, Registrar of Kathmandu University, Prof. Dr. Bhadra Man Tuladhar, welcomed and wished for productive training session. Prof. Dr. Sanjaya Nath Khanal from Kathmandu University highlighted on the major components of three day training program.

Around two dozen individuals from NGO/INGOs working in WASH sector, Government Institutions concerned with WASH, WASH stakeholders, WASH practitioners and Academic institutions with course on WASH have participated in the program. The training covers various dynamics of WASH ranging from social, economic, health and political aspects of the domain.

Resource persons of the training program include experts from Nepal Government bodies, NGO/INGOs sector, independent consultants and academic experts like Mr. Ashutosh Tiwari (Country Representative, WAN), Mr. Suman Pd. Sharma (Director General, DWSS), Mr. Nanda Khanal (Water Supply and Sanitation Division), Mr. Binaya Shah (Water and Sanitation Specialist, ICON), Dr. Nawaraj Khatiwada (Associate Professor, KU), Mr. Bhusan Tuladhar (Regional CTA, UN-HABITAT), Namaste Lal (Project Officer, UNICEF), Mr. Uddhav Timilsina (LDO, Chitwan DDC), Mr. Henk Veerdig (WASH sector leader, SNV), Mr. Rabin Lal Shrestha (Research and Advocacy Manager, WAN), Mr. Madhav Pahari (UNICEF), Mr. Dinesh Manandhar (Research Fellow, KU).

The training program aims to introduce the participants with the existing policies, functioning of concerned stakeholders, technologies in use and feasible ones in WASH.

Participants: (the organizations will be updated instantly after the information is available)

1.      Indra Prasad Dahal

2.      Rameshwoar Ghimire

3.      Mohan Kunwar

4.      Karna Bahadur Nepali (United Mission to Nepal)

5.      Kamal Prasad Chapagai

6.      Surya Raj Acharya

7.      Lakpa Sherpa

8.      Anusha Airi

9.      Restan Kadel

10.  Yagya Raj Panta

11.  Dhananjaya Poudel

12.  Birodh Adhikary

13.  Ram Basnet (Citizan Forum, Udayapur)

14.  Chandra Neupane (Citizen Forum, Itahari)

15.  Dilli Prasai (Citizen Forum, Biratnagar)

16.  Mohan Bhattarai (Citizen Forum, Biratnagar)

17.  Narayan Wasti (Citizen Forum, Biratnagar)

18.  Krishna Bahadur Karki (Australian Embassy, Nepal)

19.  Roshan Kumar Joshi (District Development Committee, Morang)

20.  Nirajan Rijal (Sigma College, Kirtipur, Kathmandu)

21.  Nabendra Poudel (Kathmandu University)

22.  Md. Latif Mansur (Kathmandu University)