Nepal Update and Recovery from COVID 19

• Malcolm Odell, a Peace Corps volunteer in the first group to go to Nepal in 1962, has lived and worked in Nepal for 13 years. There he helped build and teach in one of Sir Edmund Hillary’s Sherpa School project that was significantly funded by Rotary Clubs around the world. Malcolm’s career includes working for over 35 years in international community mobilization, women’s empowerment, strategic planning, evaluation/monitoring, conflict resolution, eco-tourism, climate change, training, and project management for poverty alleviation. He is known globally for the creation of an innovative organization development and mobilization strategy, "Appreciative Planning and Action” (APA), known in Nepal as APPA, and used successfully in peace-building following the Maoist Rebellion. Malcolm has used APA with numerous US and international firms and organizations, including a dozen Habitat for Humanity affiliates, 250 local NGOs, and almost 400,000 poor men and women in Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Kenya, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, and several other countries. During the 19 years he has lived and worked abroad, he has spent 9 years in villages of Asia and Africa, including 5 years working for the Government of Botswana in Southern Africa. Malcolm has worked with the World Bank, USAID, NORAD, IFAD, CARE, NIH, IRC, Pact, Japan International Cooperation Agency, The Heifer Project, Winrock International, Salvation Army and other organizations. He has a BA from Princeton and MS and PhD degrees in applied development sociology from Cornell University.

• Achyut Hari Aryal is an international expert in Inclusive finance. He has more than 20 years of international/national experience in livelihoods, banking, inclusive finance, microfinance/rural finance, micro-insurance, challenge fund and private sector development, of which 8 years in leadership positions such as Country Director, Program Head, Deputy Chief of Party, Component Leader. At the international level he has worked in various countries including Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Laos, Indonesia, Cambodia, Malawi, USA and UK.26 years of Experience 26 years in his fields of expertise; Financial Inclusion, Agriculture Finance, Energy Finance, MSMEs, Microfinance, Value Chain Financing, Private sector support, Fund Management, Impact measuring, Loan guarantee scheme Citizenship Nepal Languages English, Nepali, Hindi, Urdu, Bangla Education MA, Rural Development, ISS, The Netherlands, 1995 PGD, Regionl Planning, Development Study Center, Israel 1992 MBA, Tribhuvan University Nepal, 1986 Countries of Work Experience Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Malawa, South Africa, USA, and the UK.

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