Dr. Suresh Tamang
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IPLC Engagement & GESI Specialist
Rural Reconstruction Nepal (RRN)
suekta@gmail.com
Academic Affiliations & Memberships:
Chairperson: Sustainable Development, Governance & Law Association Nepal
Chairperson: Start Fund Nepal
Editorial Board: Journal of Indigenous Social Development (JISD)
Trustee: Native Arts and Heritage Academy Nepal (NaHAN)
Board Member: Healthy Mother Healthy Baby Coalition of Hawaii
Team Member: Yogmaya Himalayan Ayurveda Universtiy, Arun Valley, Nepal
Member: Indigenous Peoples of Asia Solidarity Fund, Amnesty International Nepal
Nepal Red Cross Society (Life Member)
CIVICUS Allance
Planetary Health Alliance
Social Work Health Inequalities Network
Women Orgnizing for Change in Agriculture and NRM (WOCAN)
Core Competencies [five Major]:
- Strategic Partnerships & Project Management: Experienced in leading multi-disciplinary teams, budgeting, implementation, and monitoring of large-scale development projects engaging diverse stakeholders including IPLCs.
- Research & Policy Advocacy: Expertise in decisgning and conducting high-level social
research, inlcuding using power aware tools and methodologies, organziing public policy advocacy, and inclusive governance strategies. Proficient in ethnographic and qualitative research methods, program evaluation, monitoring and evaluation; right-based approaches and feminist methods of data collection and data analysis. - Stakeholder Engagement/Environmental & Social Safeguard: Extensive
collaboration with government agencies, donors, NGOs, and civil society organizations. - Gender Equality, Disability & Social Inclusion (GEDSI): Strong advocate for marginalized communities, with expertise in GEDSI frameworks, disability rights, and
human rights issues. Experienced in participatory training, curriculum development on
GEDSI concept, feminist and right based approaches in development - Public Health & Climate Change: Specializing in ecological and planetary health
approaches to emerging public health crises, social determinants of health and indigenous and alternative health and healing.
Awards:
Nepal Vidhya Bhusan “Ka”, Nepal Government (2018) – Prestigious academic honor
awarded by the President of Nepal for achieveing the highest degreee/PhD.