Social and environmental assessments and good safeguard practices should be a well-established elements of project preparation and implementation processes. Government of Nepal is committed to address safeguard requirements while designing and implementing any development projects that could have adverse social and environmental impacts. It goes without saying that the officials from local government need to better understand the safeguard provisions as well as acts, rules, and guidelines.
Nepal Administrative Staff College, Capacity Development Resource Center (CDRC) is actively being engaged in enhancing knowledge and skills of executive/implementing officials from ADB assisted projects since 2015. In continuation to this, CDRC is organizing a workshop on ADB Safeguards Requirements and Procedures with a view to orient Elected Representatives and Environmental and Social Officials of 5 municipalities from Rupandehi District.
Course Aim
The aim of the workshop is to bring together Mayors, Deputy-Mayors, Ward Chairpersons, Environmental Officers and Social Officers from local governments to discuss the ADB safeguards requirements and procedures.
Course Objectives
Upon successful completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Describe ADB’s safeguard policy statement and specific safeguard requirements; and
- Analyze project specific requirements regarding grievance handling and compliance monitoring.
- Scope of Deliberation
Major topics of the workshop are:
- ADB business process: project preparation to implementation
- General introduction of ADB’s safeguard policy statement 2009
- Specific safeguard requirements (Environment, Involuntary Resettlement, and Indigenous Peoples)
- Project specific requirements, grievance handling, and compliance monitoring
Methods
The workshop will be conducted in interactive approach. The program will include a mix of methods, including presentation-discussion and group discussion. Participants will get ample opportunities for interaction and experience sharing.
Resource Persons
ADB and CDRC experts will facilitate the sessions.
Participants
Participants of the workshop will be from Sainamaina Municipality, Lumbini Cultural Municipality, Siddharthanagar Municipality, Tilottama Municipality and Devdaha Municipality. Altogether, 38 participants from 5 local governments will join the workshop.
| S.N. | Name | Designation |
| Tilotama Municipality | ||
| १ | Jageshwor Devi Chaudhari | Deputy Mayor |
| २ | Khemraj Gurung | Chairman, Ward No 15 |
| ३ | RamKrishna Khand | Mayor |
| ४ | Pharsu Ram Giri | Chairman, Ward No 1 |
| ५ | Krishna Prasad Poudel | Chairman, Ward No 8 |
| ६ | Narayan Dhakal | Chairman, Ward no 13 |
| ७ | Ashwin Poudel | Chairman, Ward no 14 |
| ८ | Yubaraj panthi | Environment Department Head |
| ९ | Jhabilal Bhusal | Chairman, Ward No 16 |
| १० | Shova Rana Magar | Chairman, Ward No 17 |
| DevDaha Municipality | ||
| ११ | Dhurba Prasad Kharel | Mayor |
| १२ | Bidhya Laxmi Gurung | Deputy Mayor |
| १३ | Yagya Prasad Aryal | Chairman, Ward No 3 |
| १४ | Hari Prasad Panday | Chairman, Ward No 8 |
| १५ | Mohan Bahadur G.C | Chairman, Ward No 9 |
| १६ | Man Bahadur Tharu | Karyabahak |
| १७ | Ravi Panday | Engineer (Environment Branch Head) |
| SiddharthaNagar Municipality | ||
| १८ | Istiyaq Ahmed Khan | Mayor |
| १९ | Ujjwal Pokharel | Chairman, Ward |
| २० | MuktiNath Yadav | Chairman, Ward |
| २१ | Damodar Sharma Ghimire | Chairman, Ward |
| २२ | SheshKanta Bhandari | Chairman, Ward |
| २३ | Deb Prasad Gyawali | Senior Officer |
| २४ | Badshah Shekh | Secretary |
| २५ | Bishnu Prasad Panthi | Assistant Planning Officer |
| २६ | Prashant Sharma Wagle | Secretary |
| २७ | Chet Narayan Gyawali | Sub Engineer |
| Sainamaina Municipality | ||
| २८ | Phanendra Prasad Sharma | Mayor |
| २९ | Bina Rana | Deputy Mayor |
| ३० | Krishna Prasad Ghimire | Chairman, Ward No 10 |
| ३१ | Ram Prasad Bhusal | Chairman, Ward No 11 |
| ३२ | Keshav Raj Aryal | Officer |
| ३३ | Ram Kumar Bhattarai | Officer |
| Lumbini Cultural Municipality | ||
| ३४ | Kalpana Harijan | Deputy Mayor |
| ३५ | Ram Chandra Aryal | Finance Officer |
| ३६ | Ashish Kumar Yadav | Engineer |
| ३७ | Binod Kahaar | Chairman, Ward No 10 |
| ३८ | Ram Prasag Gyawali | Chief Administration Officer |