London Chhalphal presents
Fateful Synergy: Linking Nepal's Political Quagmire with Development Disorder
Speakers:
Pragya Dipak Gyawali and Ajaya Dixit
Leading Nepali Social\Development practitioners
Date:
SUNDAY 12th June, 2005, 16:00 BST
Venue:
Churchill Room
London House
Goodenough College
Mecklenburgh Square
London
WC1N 2AB
(5 mins walk from Russell Square Tube Station)
Directions:
From Russell Square Tube Station: Take right onto Bernard St. Turn right onto Grenville Turn Left onto Guilford St. Turn Left onto Mecklenburgh Place Enter London House, and receptionist can point you towards Churchill Room
About the Speakers
Mr. Dipak Gyawali is a Pragya (Academician) of the Royal Nepal Academy of Science and Technology. By profession he is both a hydroelectric engineer (Moscovsky Energetichesky Institute, Russia) and a political economist studying resource use (Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA) with a research interest in society-technoloogy interface. He served briefly as Nepal's water resources minister in 2002/2003 and introduced communitization of electricity in Nepal among other things.
Mr. Ajaya Dixit is the Chairperson of Kathmandu-based Nepal Water Conservation Foundation which promotes sustainable development, management and protection of fresh water. He is also the Chairperson of Nepal Water for Health (NEWAH) which works with community groups to build water supply systems in the hills and Tarai of Nepal. Mr. Dixit was trained as an Engineer in India (Roorke) and UK (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow).
Mr. Dixit and Mr. Gyawali have worked together and continue to do so, most notably as co-editors of Water Nepal, an interdisciplinary journal published two times a years since 1986. They have also co-authored/co-edited numerous publications including Aid Under Stress (2004) and Political Economy of Water in South Asia (1997).
For more information, map and directions, please visit www.london-chhalphal.org
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