Posted by: dharilo April 27, 2015
My expertise - Nepal Earthquake
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@magorkhe1 - Nepal has a LOT of training institutes that provide trainings in the areas you identified. In fact, the Employment Fund (funded by SDC, UkAid, World Bank) has trained more than 70,000 (seventy thousand) Nepalis since 2007. The problem has never been lack of training institute or lack of funding, the problem has always been the attitude of people. Even though training is free, it is hard to find serious trainees (they don't want to be seen getting trained for something as "demeaning" as masonry; they don't want to "waste" their time getting trained when they can be earning money working in bidesh). In essence, the attitude is bidesh ma je gareni huncha Nepal ma testo kaam garyo bhane ijjat jancha. This is why you see a lot of Indians working as construction workers in Nepal. 70K may not sound like a lot of people, but if serious interest was there additional funding would easily be available. Remember, what happened when the UN offered training to VMLRs (verified minors and late recruits).   

Here's a link to Employment Fund's 2013 report http://www.employmentfund.org.np/images/downloads/TradeAchiev2013.pdf

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