Bhawana Bhatta's Page

What motivated you (or your organization) to become involved in peace and conflict resolution?

I am Bhawana Bhatta working as a social activist since 2003. I have been involving in Path Ways to Peace Program which is jointhly initiatied by search for common ground,Youth Action Nepal and other two youth organizations in Nepal. So I thought this network will be healpful to get more information and share knowledge and experience.

Please feel free to provide a short bio about yourself or the work of your organization (no more than 3 paragraphs)

I am 26 year young energetic women working as a social activist since 2003. I am doing my master degree in sociology from Tribhuwan University.

I have more than six year experience working on Human Rights, Democracy, Peace, Sexual and Reproductive health and rights and so on. As being a youth social activist I got a chance to visit 45 dristicts of Nepal out of 75 and got a opportunity to participate various activities related these theme in India, Thailand, South Korea and Sweden. I know somehow socio -political situation of most of the countries of Asian and Sweden of Europe.

Please list the countries and/or regions in which you (or your organization) have direct and significant expertise

Nepal,India, Shree Lanka, Philipines,Thailand, South Korea and Sweden

What is your current country of residence (or location of your organization)?

Nepal

What is your current job (and organization) and/or where and what field are you studying?

I am a coordinator for peace program within my organization. Similarly, I am in the leadership position "Treasurer". This is Youth Action Nepal

How many years professional experience do you have ?

3-5

What is your personal or organizational website?

http://www.youthactionnepal.org.np

What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)

http://www.hrw.org

What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)

http://www.ohchr.org

Which are your primary sectoral areas of expertise (or the primary sectoral areas of your organization) ?

Civil Society, Conflict Resolution, Facilitation, Gender, Human Rights, Organizational Development

Which are your primary skills areas(or the primary skill areas of your organization)?

Advocacy, Evaluation, Monitoring, Program Design, Program Implemenation, Training

What are some of your current areas of research (if any)?

I did one research among 204 adolescent school girlsfrom four government secondary school on Menstruation Hygiene in four geographically different district of Nepal.www.wateraid.org/nepal