About Khem Prasad Nepal

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About me

Education

  • 2006 - 2011
    Tribhuwan University, Nepal

    Bachelor in Arts (BA)

    Bachelor degree in Social Science with Sociology and Major English.

Experience

  • 2023 - 2023
    China State Construction Engineering Corporation

    Public Relation Officer

    • Work in close coordination with the Client for smooth operation of the project, preparing proper plan to address the grievances of the project affected community in timely manner;
    • Coordinate with Government bodies, including Police, Nepal Army, political leadership to resolve the issues related to the project work;
    • Work as a liaison focal person with the government and other stakeholders;
    • Coordinate with Local Government to identify appropriate modality to protect local resources including water sources, cultural and natural heritage etc.;
    • Lead for the meaningful dialogue with concerned authority, representatives and influential people to resolve or mitigate any potential dispute related to the project;
    • Coordinate with Administrative authority/Nepal Police and other concerned bodies in case of any emergency.
    • Monitor the social and behavioral activities of project workers ensuring they build social cohesion and respect local culture.
    • Mitigate and address disputes among project workers and with community people.
    • Prepare reports and contract agreements (both in English and Nepali) as required.

  • 2021 - 2023
    CE Construction Pvt.Ltd.

    Public Relation Officer

    • Work in close coordination with the client for smooth operation of the project, preparing proper plan to address the grievances of the project affected community in timely manner;
    • Organize meetings with Local Government, District Administrative Office, Nepal Police, users’ groups, and local political leadership to resolve the issues related to the project;
    • Engage in dialogue with the project affected people and local leadership to provide compensation, resettlement to the affected families due to the hydro construction work managing their expectation within limitation;
    • Mediate to resolve dispute among project workers or with local people;
    • Coordinate with Local Government to identify appropriate modality to protect local resources including water, cultural and natural heritage etc.;
    • Prepare reports and contract agreements documents (both in English and Nepali) as required;
    • Assess and monitor the ongoing construction sites regularly to mitigate any potential dispute with local people;
    • Organize meeting with Nepal Police and other key actors to ensure the security of the project.

  • 2020 - 2021
    Janajibika Sambriddhi Multipurpose Cooperative Ltd.

    Manager

    • Provide consultation/expertise in developing/implementing policy of cooperatives program, group formation and promotion of small entrepreneurship programs for the members and their families;
    • Organize routine meetings and prepare meeting agendas of board of directors;
    • Take lead role on developing business promotion and implementation plan and coordinate with stakeholders including concerned government authority and District Cooperative Union;
    • Submission of routine reports to the monitoring authority in Provincial and Local level;
    • Supervise/monitor day to day business of the cooperatives ensuring the effective implementation of the mandates provided by annual general meetings;

  • 2018 - 2020
    Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Nepal

    Governance and Advocacy Officer

    • Contribute for effective planning, management, implementation, monitoring and supervision of program activities;
    • Regularly monitor/coordinate the activities of relevant Community Based Organizations (CBOs) to make sure that the targeted activities are completed within time;
    • Conduct training /workshop for Community Based Organizations, users group and local networks on Child Protection; Prevention and Response to the sexual and gender based violence and the protection of elderly people;
    • Contribute in preparing TOR, guidelines/policies, budget plan and yearly/monthly activity plan for CBOs for their self-sustainability;
    • Prepare and submit annual and quarterly work plan of the activities, and periodic reports regularly;
    • Establish linkage and expand networking with government counterparts and local level stakeholders that benefits the program/project /activities, in order to make them accountable for local solution of the refugee;
    • Assist PPC and PM and act as governance focal point for effective implementation of activities by engaging multi-stakeholders to strengthen the governance mechanism at refugee camp and host community;
    • Facilitate coordination between local government, civil society, right holders;
    • Strengthen governance mechanism and analyze the innovative strategies and new approaches of good governance;
    • Maintain good Coordination and working relation with CBOs, local like-minded organizations and government authorities;

  • 2013 - 2017
    United Nations High Commissioner for Refugee (UNHCR), Nepal

    Protection Associate

    • Organize and facilitate multi-sectoral meetings with diverse participant list, including Government counterparts, partners, and members of civil society and refugee community leaders;
    • Organize and facilitated focused group discussions with different members/groups of the refugee community to identify their protection risk, community capacity and appropriate support mechanism;
    • Develop/conduct training activities and workshops in different forums and areas, including SGBV prevention and response and child protection to enhance capacity of community volunteers and representatives;
    • Engage and take lead on finding protection mechanism and solutions for SGBV survivors, children-at-risk, elderly persons and persons with disability in close coordination with concerned stakeholders;
    • Pro-actively work for community and agency mobilization against SGBV, providing facilitation of and support to District-level WCDO, Municipality, Inter-Agency SGBV Working Groups, Gender Focal Persons and others;
    • Prepare reports including year-end/mid-year/monthly reports, event based reports and other official correspondence;
    • Monitor the regular school activities both academic and non-academic activities, identify the drop-out students, assess their problem and coordinate with their families, neighbors and school for re-enrolment;
    • Conduct Best Interest Assessment (BIA) and Best Interest Determination (BID) of unaccompanied and separated children and present to the BID panel to find appropriate care arrangements for them;
    • Engage as a focal person in planning and implementation of activities such as International Women’s Day, 16 Days of Activism against gender based violence with active involvement of community volunteers;
    • Take lead to develop, implement and monitor community-based Sexual and Reproductive Health) project with partner.

  • 2006 - 2013
    United Nations High Commissioner for Refugee (UNHCR), Nepal

    Senior Community Service Assistant

    • Work on the identification of and provision of support to vulnerable persons;
    • Support a profiling exercise of vulnerable refugees to find appropriate support mechanism;
    • Conduct training and orientation to support capacity building of community-based organizations (CBOs);
    • Enhance coordination and monitor the activities of Project Partners and CBO’s in the camps and provided necessary technical support/feedback whenever required;
    • Identify and recommend for needful support mechanism for extremely vulnerable persons in community including women-at-risk, persons with disability, unaccompanied and separated children etc;
    • Support a profiling exercise of elderly refugees to identify immediate and long term protection risks;
    • Conduct training and orientation to support capacity building of community-based organizations (CBOs);
    • Enhance coordination and monitored the activities of Project Partners and CBO’s in the camps and provided necessary technical support/feedback whenever required and shared monitoring and evaluation reports;
    • Engage in operational planning by conducting focus group discussion and preparing prioritization reports;
    • Carry out interviews, conduct social foot printing for checking credibility of refugee claims, conducted character assessment and prepare resettlement cases for resettlement submissions.

  • 1998 - 2005
    Jyoti Secondary English School, Budhabare, Jhapa

    Teacher

    • Teach students in Mathematics and English and Social Studies based on the curriculum;
    • Conduct periodic exam and tests for students’ evaluation and promotion;
    • Conduct teacher/parents meeting and assisted school to conduct extra-curricular and sports activities in school.

Expertise

• Excellent inter-personal, negotiations, communication and leadership skills bringing together people, organizations, and resources; • Advocacy skill with authority and stakeholders to meet the organization goal; • Capacity building and leadership, community mobilization, evaluation and reporting; • Knowledge on monitoring of the program/project and contribute in evaluation process; • Good team work in diverse environment.

Languages

English
Proficient
Nepali
Proficient

Skills