As part of an AZEECON Exchange, Exposure and Training Visit (EETV), the Lutheran World Federation Nepal (LWF Nepal) hosted a three-day workshop on “Partnership in Development and Emergency” at Nagarkot, Kathmandu. The workshop, which started on 15 October and ended on 17 October 2006, focused on various aspects of development, partnership and emergency, and their interrelation.

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Altogether 15 people from Bangladesh (4), Cambodia (2), India (4) and Nepal (5) participated in the workshop. Eight of them were females and seven males.

The EETV of 2006 held in Nagarkot is the third of its kind. Two EETV programmes were held in India and Bangladesh in 2006. The fourth one, the last in the series of EETV for this year, will be held in Cambodia in November. Bangladesh will host the annual AZEECON Summit in December 2006. Nepal hosted the same event in Pokhara in 2005.

Programme Planning and Monitoring Coordinator of LWF Nepal Mr Krishna Rawal, ODA Coordinator Ms Shashi Rijal, Executive Director of CEAPRED Dr Pius Mishra and former community coordinator of Nepal Red Cross Society Mr Tirtha Raj Onta were the resource persons for the workshop. Dr Mishra also facilitated the workshop.

Dr Pius Mishra, executive director of CEAPRED, giving a presentation at the Partnership in Development and Emergency Workshop, Kathmandu

On 14 October, a dinner was hosted by LWF Nepal to the participants at Nagarkot. Country Representative Marceline P Rozario welcomed the participants. A cultural event was organised in the evening of 16 October. Participants and resource persons recited poems, cracked jokes, played a musical instrument, sang and danced.

Programme Planning and Monitoring Coordinator Mr Krishna Rawal opened the workshop on 15 October, and briefed the participants about the programmes of the first day of the workshop. Dr Pius Mishra initiated the workshop by asking all the participants to introduce themselves to each other through an interesting game that lasted for nearly half an hour. In this game, participants exchanged name cards and introduced the fellow participants.

Participants of the workshop doing a group exercise

At the end of the workshop on 17 October, an AZEECON representative from each country thanked LWF Nepal, resource persons and facilitators for providing an opportunity and a platform to familiarise themselves with the concept of partnership and how it fits into the development undertakings pursued by LWF Nepal, among others. Mr Rawal formally closed the workshop by thanking the participants for showing a great interest in the workshop.