(An effective advocacy meeting)
On 17th April 2011 Concern Universal-Bangladesh, together with the six representatives from two Nepali local partner NGOs (Jagriti Child and Youth Concern Nepal and Volunteer Aid Nepal) met with Mr. Ganga Lal Tuladhar, the Education Minister of Nepal.
It was an effective and fruitful advocacy meeting with top level policy maker of Nepal on disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change. We proposed to the Education Minister to incorporate DRR and Climate Change issues into children education curriculum. The Minister informed us that he was a student of DRR and really wants to incorporate the DRR and Climate Change issues into their education curriculum. He suggested us to provide him with an appropriate guideline so that he can take initiatives. Local partner NGOs of Nepal are preparing the guideline under guidance of Concern Universal – Bangladesh to be submitted to the Ministry of Education of Nepal by the end of April 2011.
Tough the Education Minister mentioned that part of his academic is from DRR, he was very eager to learn from us about field realities. We informed him about the capacity building project on community managed disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. He was very interested and requested Cordaid and Concern Universal to continue these supports within the South Asia region because of location vulnerability due to climate change.
Besides the above discussion, The Education Minister also agreed to provide regular supports to the Nepali local partners NGOs on education, DRR and Climate Change.
The meeting took place in the frame of the project “Capacity Strengthening on Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation”, funded by Cordaid (Netherlands) working with 67 local NGOs in Bangladesh, India (Assam, Meghalaya and West Bengal) and Nepal.
Reported By :
Abdul Hamid
CU_Bangladesh
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