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Seventeen people from fourteen organisations participated in the workshop held in Jhalko Restaurant in Pokhara. The core group members including Ram Chandra Poudel, Krishna Kumar Lamichhane, Gopal Lama and Yangchen Dolkar Gurung facilitated the workshop.The workshop started with a discussion about the activities done by The Everest Network since its initiation. The members discussed the strengths and the place for improvement for the programs such as the virtual seminars and newsletter. The representatives from six organizations shared their experiences of failure and success, what worked and what did not work for them. This workshop gave them an opportunity to strengthen their bond, learn more about each other and offer support to each other with their past work experiences. The network also shared financial report ensuring transparency for the members.

In this news, Prasain talks about how the various factors such as lumpy skin, low monsoon rainfall, slow transplantation might result in reduced harvest and India’s announcement of an export ban on non-basmati rice on top of that could possibly create food crisis in Nepal.Read the complete news here.

Everest NetworkProject 2Brief report of Peer Learning of Milan Myagdi at PokharaDate 2082/12/06-07 (20-21/02/2026) Frida and SaturdayTopics: Workshop on review of existing administrative and financial policy and preparation of new child rights and protection policy for Milan Myagdi.General Objectives: At the end of phase first at Pokhara and phase second at Myagdi City, they will have a final reviewed administrative, financial and a new child rights and protection policy, amend it by general assembly and bring practiced it.Specific Objective of this workshop: At the end of this phase second at Myagdi City, they will have a basic training/orientation on the policy and prepare a draft of an administrative, financial and child rights and protection policy, to amend it by general assembly and bring into the practiced.Name Of Mentee Organization: Milan MyagdiName of Mentor Organizations: Bikalpa Nepal and Economic Society Kaski, Pokhara NepalResource Persons/facilitator: Mr. Ramchandra Paudel (advisor of Bikalpa Nepal and core group member of Everest Network) Coordination on behalf of Everest Network: Mr. Krishna Kumar Lamichhane Venue: Hotel Dolphin, Myagdi BazaarActivities plan Day one:1 PM to 2 PM: Participants arrivals, lunch and program opening (Til Kumari Rana/ Bal Kumari Pun from Milan Myagdi)2 PM to 3 PM: Welcome, introduction and highlights the objectives of the day (Ram/Krishna)3 PM to 7:30 PM: Detail workshop/training on of administrative and financial policies preparing its pre-draft preparation (Krishna/Ram)8 PM to 9 PM: DinnerDay two:7 AM – 8 AM: Break fast8 AM to 9:30 AM: highlights of the first day and work plan of this day (Krishna/Ram)9:30 AM to 3:30 PM: Detail workshop/training on child protection policy and making its pre-draft Preparation (Ram/Krishna)3:30 PM: Program closing (Milan Myagdi)Brief Report: 1.  According to the above schedule on behalf of Milan Myagdi (Chairperson Mrs. Til Kumari Rana and secretary Mrs. Bal Kumari Pun from Milan Myagdi, jointly did the opening program and also briefly shared about the outcomes of already conducted one day’s workshop at Pokhara.2.  In day first, Mr. Krishna Lamichhane and Mr. Ramchandra Paudel jointly did the facilitation with a presentation of basic principles, group interaction, group discussion and group work on the existing administrative and financial policies of the Milan Myagdi. Finally, reached to prepare a pre final drafts of it. Its finalization and hand over to Milan Myagdi is to be done in a couple of weeks.3.  In day second, Mr. Ramchandra Paudel and Mr. Krishna Lamichhane jointly did the facilitation with a presentation of basic principles, group interaction, group discussion and group work on the new child rights and child protection policies for the Milan Myagdi. Finally, reached to prepare a pre final drafts of it. Its finalization and hand over to Milan Myagdi is to be done in a couple of weeks.4.  Finally, Mr. Ramchandra Paudel discussed about what next or plan of the third phase and agreed as followsi)       Next workshop will be minimum one day nonresidential; the date and venue are to be finalized.ii)     Number of participants will be maximum 5(only board members)iii)   The dates of second phase workshop are: 2082 Chitra 6 and 7 (20 and 21 March,20226)iv)   Final typing policies, printing, binding, handing over the documents and report writing will be done with in 15 days and handed over these three policies to the board members of Milan Myagdi. v)     The facilitator will be Mr. Ram Chandra Paudel and coordination management will be done by Krishna Lamichhane Details of the participants this two day’s workshop SN Name of participants Position Organization Remarks MS Til Kumari Rana Chairperson Milan MyagdiMS Dil Maya Bitalu Immediate past chairperson Milan MyagdMS BalKumari Pun Secretary Milan MyagdiMS Mina Rajali Vice Chairperson Milan MyagdiMr. Binay Shrestha Past chairperson Milan MyagdiMS Gyanu Kumari K C Treasurer Milan Myagdi 7. MS Gyanu Kumari Baniya (KC) Treasure Milan Myagdi 8.. Mr. Chitra Nath Achary Member Milan Myagdi 9 . Mr. Ram Bahadur Khadka General member Milan Myagdi 10.. MS Kamala Baniya (Thapa) Past Chairperson Milan Myagdi 11 MS Chhabi Purja Pun Vice Secretary Milan Myagdi 12 MS Chandra Kala Baniya Past staff Milan Myagdi 13 MS Pratap Baniya Past vice secretary Milan Myagdi 14 MR. Anjana Bhandari Volunteer Milan Myagdi 15 Mr. Ramchandra Paudel Main facilitator/ EN CG member Bikalpa Nepal 16 Mr. Krishna Lamichhane EN2 project coordinator EN /JNF Some photographs of the program Thank youBrief report by: Krishna Lamichhane, EN coordinator

Poudel reports an increase in drought-like situations in most of the Tarai districts apart from Koshi Province during this monsoon. The quantity of rainfall has decreased compared to last year and has gone below their average. He writes that these variations in rain pattern, among other things, have more impact on people than what is acknowledged.Read complete news here.

यस लेख्मा लेखकले नेपाल्को खाद्य सुरक्षाको अवस्था, अहिले खाद्य सुरक्षाको हिसाबले नेपाल कहाँ छ र के गर्दैछ भन्नेबारे कुरा गरेका छन् | पूर्ण लेख पढ्न, यहाँ क्लिक गर्नुहोस् |

This article talks about what urban flood is, how it works, its impact and how it could be reduced. It also discusses briefly the roles of government bodies in minimizing impact and risk.See full article here.

In this article, Mishra writes about the issues that the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (DHM) have and also suggestion on how DHM could make the forecast more reliable and efficient and accessible to the people.See full article here.

33 people were rescued from different parts of the Valley by Tuesday afternoon. Two injured have been receiving treatment at KMC Hospital and the National Trauma Center based in Sinamangal. Ojha in this news writes about the risk that squatters are at due to the continuous rainfall and how despite being ordered to evacuate, many squatters have not left the area.See full news here.

This piece by Associated Press published in The Himalayan Times talks about how scientists are looking for other factors that could be contributing to the rise in the temperature and although that is being done, these two factors definitely are in play.Find the detailed news here.

The Everest Network conducted the virtual session through Google Meet on June 25, 2023. It was facilitated by Mr. Keshav Datta Bhatta. Mr Bhatta has worked in the sector of disaster for almost twenty years. The session was attended by the members of the Network. During the two-hour session, Mr Bhatta made a presentation, followed by questions and answers. The open floor discussion started the conversation between the participants and the presenter on the issues such as the issues of child protection in disaster, differences in the impact of disasters based on geographical region, the importance of social safety net, and the need for strong monitoring and evaluation. The Everest Network conducts an online seminar each month on different themes related to climate change until the month of August. The links to the session could be found here.

Two days training workshops for civil society organizations in Gandaki Provience was completed. There were total of 30 participants representing different civil society organizations who are connected with the work of different disaster and disaster related program. There were the participants from Syangja, Rupandehi and Kaski who are the civil society organizations working in communities.The participants appreciated the workshop very much. They discussed the underlying causes and key issues of human resource management as well as to explore its strategies during disaster. They reflected on the post traumatic institutional stress and its management   in harnessing CSOs’ human capital and secure institutional knowledge from disappearance. News from http://bikalpa.edu.np/news/preparing-civil-society-organizations-in-responding-post-traumatic-institutional-stress-during-disaster

The seventeen members of the network met in Kathmandu for three days.All the members were together for three days. We were inspired by a number of presentations by inspirational speakers. We were introduced to basic knowledge regarding climate in general but specifically to the changes we are seeing here in Nepal by Dr. Deepak Rijal. (please see under resources for his presentation)We were also introduced to local planning methods such as LAPA and we shared how climate change is affecting our and our communities daily lives. Although we are a very diverse group working in many different subject areas, from child protection, education to cultural heritage preservation, it was quite amazing how we contribute and learn from each other.As we are a relevant new network we spent time talking about our collective vision and goals for the next three years. All the organizations have focus on the most vulnerable groups in Nepal. Inclusion is an issue that always needs to be addressed. We had an inspirational talk from Mr. Bimal Phuyal, who has been working with this issue and organizational set up for 30 years. We talked about how the network can by example abide by inclusive norms.Our slogan - where we want to be in three years:We are a strong resourceful and visible network in three years’ time.We discussed the steps to take to get to this stage and agreed to work to create a network culture of  Not I but a We sprit!We will try to be inclusive, open, transparent, responsible to each other, have solidarity, empathy and promote true dialogue…………We will seek to capacity strengthen ourselves, to upgrade our knowledge in all aspects of climate change so we can better operate, take wise choices together with our communities.