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Formation of the National Parliamentarian Forum on Development Evaluation Policy in Nepal (NPFDEPN)

International Evaluation Partnership Initiative (EvalPartners) launched a project Innovative Challenge 3 with a main objective to enabling environment of evaluation, and supported through International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation (IOCE). Partners of the IC3 project are European Evaluation Society (EES), Parliamentarian Forum on Development Evaluation in South Asia (PE), Pakistan Evaluation Association (PEN) and Community of Evaluations – South Asia (CoE-South Asia). As a part of CoE-South Asia, a face-to-face meeting was conducted on 21 August 2014 in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Community of Evaluators – South Asia (CoE-South Asia) appointed Prabin Chitrakar who is a founder and board member of the Community of Evaluators – Nepal (CoE-Nepal) as a country catalyst for Nepal mainly to conduct face-to-face meetings in Nepal under the Innovative Challenge 3 project which is supported by EvalPartners.

During the meeting, with the leadership of Hon. Ananda Prasad Pokharel, the National Parliamentarian Forum on Development Evaluation Policy in Nepal (NPFDEPN) was formed with 15 parliamentarians. Below are the names of current members;

  • Hon. Ananda Prasad Pokharel
  • Hon. Bhanu Bhakta Dhakal
  • Hon. Sherdhan Rai
  • Hon. Parbat Gurung
  • Hon. Shankar Bhandari
  • Hon. Raju Khanal
  • Hon. Raju Thapa
  • Hon. Dr. Babu Ram Pokharel
  • Hon. Dr. Shivajee Prasad Yadav
  • Hon. Ganesh Pun
  • Hon. Aman Lal Modi
  • Hon. Sita Nepali
  • Hon. Sita Gurung
  • Hon. Shiva Gauttam