Personal presentation Geeta Pandey Karnali Integrated Rural Development

Personal presentation Geeta Pandey Karnali Integrated Rural Development and Research Centre (KIRDARC) Nepal fren. gp@gmail. com IPROMO Mountains in a changing climate: Threats, challenges and opportunities 28 September-09 October 2020

Education • Masters Degree in Environment Science (MSc) Employment and main activities Working as Environment Climate Change and Advocacy Manager at KIRDARC • Lead policy advocacy forums and policy lobby and influence especially on Environment and Climate change, DRR, livelihood and food security, gender and inequality and Natural resource management on behalf of organization. • Contribute on organisation’s strategic objective on Environment and climate change and DRR into policy and programme and provide thematic inputs. • Develop policy paper, briefs, press notes, research paper. • Coordination and collaboration among different stakeholders and government and policy makers for influencing the policy process and provide

Other interests (volunteer work, hobbies etc. ) • Each place has a new thing to learn and a story to tell so i love to travel new places and learn new culture tradition and practices and capture them on my photography and articles. • I am in the movement of fight inequality so love to partcipate and do volunteer works on the campaigns and events to reduce inequality and fight injustice.

Presentation of a project you are working on 1/3 JAL KACHAHARI: Dialogue for Water and Life • The project will implement local water management (LWM) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) activities related to local water management linking with livelihoods and employment generation for the COVID-19 affected families of Karnali River Basin • Support Local Government to prepare COVID Sensitive Monsoon Preparedness and Response Plan • Training on Climate resilient Vegetable Farming • Support Input Supplies for Irrigation Ponds, Tunnel Farming and Drip. Irrigation System • Establishment of Water Collection Ponds • Green House/Tunnel Farming for Vegetable Production at Commercial Scale • Support to Establish House Holds (HHs) Level Kitchen Gardening Beneficiaries : 10000 people as daily wage laborers and 500 HHs

Presentation of a project you are working on 2/3 Advancing resilient local development in the Himalayas Vulnerable communities in remote mountain areas of Nepal are being socially and economically impacted by disasters and climate change effects. This vulnerability is further increased by the poor technical capacity and understanding on DRR and CCA policy and provisions by the local government. This project will develop local capacity to deal with risks and climate change started in previous projects by the local partner KIRDARC. Local community adopt DRR and Resilience practices CSO alliances (municipal and district) are reinforced for effective advocacy on resilient local development Local governments are better prepared to respond to disasters and impacts of climate change Beneficiaries : 6, 000 people (3, 000 family members of local farmers + 3, 000 people through knowledge/awareness and policy changes)

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