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Date: Thursday, Jul 24, 2003 |
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Topic: Lamjung Development Model
Understanding the bottleneck in development work in Nepal
Speaker: Dr. Poorna Kanta Adhikary;
Managing Director, Communication and Management Institute (COMAT)
President, Institute for Conflict Management Peace and Development (ICPD)
Date: July 24, Thursday
Time: 7:15-9:00PM
Location: Room 105, William James Hall, 33 Kirkland St., Harvard University, Cambridge
Synopsis:
After more than five decades of development efforts through nine Periodic National Plans and hundreds of millions of dollars of foreign aid, Nepal has not made a dent in poverty reduction. The multiparty democratic rule since 1990 has been as unsuccessful as the thirty years of partyless Panchayati rule. Dr. Poorna Kant Adhikari argues that lack of participation and ownership in the development process is the biggest bottleneck in achieving the national objectives.
Dr. Adhikari will use Lamjung Development Model initiated by a local NGO - Self-help Reliant Society Service Center (SERSOC) based in Besishahar as an example of one of the successful models which adopted a polycentric model. Here the people concerned are the main actors of development activities while outsiders play the supporting role. The locals not only decide on the objectives but also the means to achieve them and contribute their share in realizing them. The most successful example of this has been the "green road" construction. The German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) has provided partial support for SERSOC's efforts.
Speaker: Dr. Poorna Kanta Adhikary
Poorna Kanta Adhikary was born and brought up in Lamjung, Nepal. He has worked closely with Nepali Congress leaders since B.P. Koirala's time in grass-roots organization and Central Departments/Units in international relations, policy and programs, planning and development, information and publication, and training of party workers and leaders. He was an elected member of Nepali Congress Mahasamiti from Lamjung during 2048-2052. Currently he is with Nepali Congress (Democratic) Party as an invited Central Committee Member. After his graduate studies at Indiana University he did his post-doctoral studies on "Third World Education and Development" with Prof. Paulo Freire in Geneva, Switzerland which took him to Latin America, especially Chile during 1972-73.
He has worked with several governments, multi-lateral and bi-lateral agencies and NGOs and academic institutions in several countries in Americas (USA, Ecuador, Chile, Peru and Paraguay), Europe (France, Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden), Africa (Uganda, Kenya, South Africa for Namibia), Middle-East (Iran), and Asia (Japan, Philippines, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Pakistan). As a Visiting Professor he teaches Participatory Strategic Planning Course including Conflict Management at School of Environmental Management and Sustainable Development (SchEMS), Pokhara University. He is a member of National Development Council and is also associated with a number of other civil societies in Nepal. He is also a member of the United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC) training team on Early Warning (of Conflicts) and Preventive Measures (EWPM).
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Venue:
Room 105, William James Hall, 33 Kirkland St., Harvard University, Cambridge
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