Dr Shibesh Chandra Regmi
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Senior Consultant
New ERA, Nepal
shibesh.regmi@gmail.com
Fields of Expertise:
Good Governance, Gender and Social Inclusion, Participatory Development, Project/Program Development/Management, and Disaster Risk Management
Overall Strengths:
- Over 40 years of development experience managing multiple projects, hundreds of staff and partner NGOs, & several donors simultaneously
- Over 25 years of senior management experience, as a Team Leader, Country Director, Executive Director, Chief of Party, Chairperson, Technical Director
- Led several philanthropic, voluntary and international organizations such as Muhan Health Cooperative; Durga Bhawani Polyclinic; Association of International NGOs (AIN) in Nepal (a couple of times); Ipas Nepal; USAID Nepal’s Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Project; World Neighbors Asia that included Nepal, India, Indonesia and Timor Leste; ActionAid Nepal; New ERA, the pioneering research organization in Nepal; Nepal Participatory Action Network (NEPAN); Durga Bhawani Savings and Credit Cooperative Society Limited
- Extensive work in policy advocacy; social movements and campaigns on rights of various excluded groups around tenancy, food security, livelihood, women’s property, education for all etc., good governance; gender equality; social inclusion; health and nutrition; civic engagement for peace, democracy, and human rights; natural resource management like community forestry, water supply and sanitation; research, evaluation and impact studies; community and rural development; disaster risks management and humanitarian response; organization management; monitoring and evaluation; participatory approaches and participatory planning trainings etc.
- Facilitated many trainings on the use of participatory approaches for site assessment, participatory planning and implementation, and participatory monitoring and evaluation
- Initiated in making Social Audit public while in ActionAid Nepal in 2002
- Long association with voluntary and philanthropic organizations sector as Board Member, Advisor and Senior Advisor
- Steered the drafting of many long-term strategic plans, including organizational structures and staff capacity building plan, for NGOs, INGOs and government agencies
- Extensive travel experience, both within and outside Nepal
- Open, transparent and value based
- Authored a couple of books, including some in co-authorship, and published many articles on social development issues, gender and water, organizational history, social inclusion, good governance, government annual budgets, role of INGOs, health issues, among many others, in daily vernaculars and national & international journals etc.
Education:
- PhD, Gender and Development, Thesis on Gender Issues in the Management of Water Projects in Nepal, Institute of Irrigation and Development Studies, University of Southampton, UK, 1997-2000
- Masters of Science, Social Development (Distinction/Second Topper), Dissertation on Female Participation in Forest Resource Management: A Case Study of a Women’s Forest Committee in a Nepalese Village, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines, 1987-1989
- MBA, Management (First Division), Dissertation on Loan Disbursement and Repayment of Provident Fund Corporation/Nepal, Institute of Management, Tribhuwan University, Nepal, 1981