Background
Contract management is a continuous procurement process that ensures suppliers adhere to their agreed contractual obligations along with negotiating any future changes that need to take place. Contract management is a major activity in most of the development projects of Nepal. In fact, almost about three fourth of the development budget is spent on procurement and this is even higher in case of construction projects. Hence, success of development activities largely rely on effective contract management to a large extent. ADB’s Nepal Country Partnership Strategy has emphasized the need for improvement of portfolio performance of projects funded by it. There is an urgent need of developing capacity in key agencies and to meet an immediate requirement for better contract management in those agencies.
In this regard, the training program on contract management has been designed to impart contract management related knowledge and skills of the participants to improve portfolio performance.

Course Aim
The aim of this course is to enhance the contract management knowledge and skills of the participants from ADB assisted projects of Nepal.

Objectives of the Course
At the end of this training program, participants are expected to be able to:

• understand the legal procedures, principles and practice of contract management (works-large);
• conduct contract management activities; and
• make claims and settle disputes.

Course Contents
The training course will be organized to deliver the following contents:

• FIDIC contract and provisions
• Financial clauses and procedures; risk, force majeure and termination
• Claim applications; processing of claims and dispute resolution
• Managing construction contracts in COVID-19 situation

Training Approach and Methodology
Adult learning principles will be used to facilitate the learning of the participants. Particularly, instruction techniques such as interactive lecture, exercises, plenary discussions will be used to enhance participants' learning. Due to current pandemic situation and the measures taken by the Government of Nepal in response to the outbreak of COVID-19, this program is being conducted online.

Duration
The program will be implemented for five working days with about 2 hours of session every day.

Date
26 - 30 Ashwin 2077 (12 - 16 October 2020)

Training Management Team
Mr. Shiva Hari Adhikari
Dr. Shyan Kirat Rai
Mr. Shashi Shekhar Acharya

Participants

S.NO	Name	Designation
SASEC Airport Capacity Enhancement Project; CAAN
1	Murari Bhandari	Project Director
2	Dipendra Shrestha	Deputy Project Director
3	Prabhuram Thapa	Chief Officer
4	Sunita Shrestha	Chief Officer
5	Anjana Bhatta	Chief Officer
6	Nirmal Paudel	Officer
7	Ashok K Shrestha	Resident Engineer
8	Prem Raj Lohani	Document Handling Expert
9	Manikant Mishra	Contract specialist
Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
10	Ram Kumar Shrestha	Project Director
11	Narayan Prasad Acharya	Deputy Project Director
12	Bikesh Wadhanthachhya	Deputy Project Director
13	Prakash Bhattarai	Under Secretary (Account)
14	Padam Bahadur Kunwar	Regional Project Chief
15	Sanjiv Kumar Sah	Regional Project Chief
16	Manish Kumar Raj	Engineer
17	Parikshit Shrestha	Team Leader (PMQAC)
18	Anil Kumar Yadav	CMS (PMQAC)
19	Ram Chandra Devkota	Team Leader (CRDSMC)
20	Suraj Sigdel	Contract Management Specialist (CRDSMC)
21	Indra Paudel	Team Leader (ERDSMC)
22	Hari Prasad Dhakal	Team Leader (WRDSMC)
Project Implementation Directorate; KUKL
23	Bhoj Bikram Thapa	Project Director
24	Ujwol Prajapati	Deputy Project Director
25	Laxmi Pant	Procurement Manager
26	Suman Karmacharya	Procurement Engineer
Melamchi Water Supply Development Board
27	Kamal Raj Shrestha	Deputy Executive Director
28	Rajendra Sapkota	SDE
29	Rajendra Prasad Pant	SDE
30	Samrakshya Karki	Engineer
31	Kapil Ghimire	Engineer
National Pride Project; Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal
32	Ram Hari Maharjan	Manager
33	Him Jyoti Thapa	Dy. Manager
34	Anjila Bhatta	Sr. Assistant