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Appendix 5A – Consultations the List Includes Stakeholders Interviewed During the Inception and Field Phase of the Joint Evaluation Joint Evaluation of the Secondary Education Support Programme Appendix 5a – Consultations The list includes stakeholders interviewed during the inception and field phase of the joint evaluation. In addition, the joint evaluation has benefited from feedback made by participants at the inception seminar and the seminar arranged to present the draft report. These included government officials, researchers, peer reviewers, civil society representatives and development partners. Appendix 5b has details on stakeholders consulted at districts and school level. Name Position Institution 1. Arjun Bahadur Bhandari Joint Secretary MoE 2. Janardhan Nepal Joint Secretary 3. Dr. Lava Deo Awasthi Joint Secretary 4. Bharat Nepali Pyakurel Under Secretary School Inspectorate, MoE 5. Ram Bahadur Khadka Section Officer 6. Ms. Usha Paudel (Kandel) Section Officer 7. Gopal Prasad Bhandari Section Officer 8. Nakul Baniya Section Officer Policy Analysis & Planning 9. Pralhad Aryal Section Officer Section, MOE 10. Deepak Sharma Under Secretary 11. Geha Nath Gautam Section Officer Planning Section, MoE 12. Narayan K Shrestha Section Officer Foreign Aid Coordination 13. Indra Bahadur Kunwar Section Officer Section (FACS), MOE 14. Mukunda Khanal Section Officer 15. Lesha Nath Poudel Under Secretary 16. Subhadra Kumari RC Thapa Under Secretary 17. Frank Jensen Chief Technical Adviser Education Sector Advisory Team / MoE 18. Mahashram Sharma Director General DoE 19. Chudamani Poudel Section Chief Gender Equity Section, DOE 20. Damodar Regmi Section Officer 21. Dibya Dawadi Section Officer 22. Kamala Gyawali Section Officer 23. Ram Hari Rijal 24. Arun Tiwari Section Chief Inclusive Education Section, 25. Ganesh Poudel Section Officer DOE 26. Narayan Subedi Section Officer 27. Kumar Bhattarai Section Officer 28. Jaya Prasad Lamsal Section Officer 29. Jeeban Sharma Paudel Deputy Director Secondary Education 1 Joint Evaluation of the Secondary Education Support Programme Name Position Institution 30. Badri Timilsina Section Officer Section, DoE 31. Sugrib Prasad Tripathi 32. Hari Prasad Lamsal Deputy Director Planning and Budget Section, 33. Megh Nath Section Officer DoE 34. Pitamber Sharma 35. Balaram Timilsina Section Chief M&E Section, DOE 36. Bhoj Bahadur Balayar Section Officer 37. Thomas Jensen ESAT Adviser 38. Baburam Poudel, Section Chief REMIS, DOE 39. Shankar Bahadur Thapa Section Officer 40. Nanda Lal Poudel Section Officer 41. Shambhu Upreti Section Chief Physical Section, DOE 42. Youb Raj Paudyal Civil engineer 43. Hari Bole Khanal Executive Director CDC 44. Ananda Poudel Deputy Director 45. Drona Dahal Deputy Director 46. Shambhu P Dahal Deputy Director 47. Hari Shankar Manandhar Deputy Director 48. Dinesh Kumar Shrestha Deputy Director 49. Madan Nath English Curriculum Specialist 50. Kamala Pokhrel Deputy Director, Social Studies 51. Bishnu Tharu 52. Harka Prasad Shrestha Executive Director NCED 53. Hari Khadka Radio Engineer, Production & Broadcast 54. Shiva Sapkota Under Secretary, Mgmt Section 55. Kamal Pokharel Deputy Director, Mgmt Section 56. Usha Dixit Director, Distance Education /HRD 57. Sukhadeve Sapkota Technical officer, Teacher training section 58. Chandra Prasad Luitel Technical officer, Research Section 59. Maya Rai Deputy Director, Material Development Section 60. Balkrishna Chapagain Technical officer, Teacher resource section 61. Ram Hari Shrestha Deputy Director, Teacher resource section 2 Joint Evaluation of the Secondary Education Support Programme Name Position Institution 62. Krishna Prasad Kapri Deputy Director 63. Narayan Prasad Kaphle Deputy Director 64. Renuka Pandy Section Officer 65. Khubi Ram Aahikasi Technical Officer 66. Ishwori BK 67. Gopal Bhattarai Deputy Comptroller OCE 68. Gyanendra Ban Training /Programme Officer 69. Prem Prasad Swarnakar 70. Bimal Aryal Director JEMC 71. Lokesh Baral Managing Director 72. Sujan Nepal Manager 73. Ove Fritz Larsen Minister Counsellor Royal Danish Embassy to 74. Shiva Lal Sharma Bhusal Programme Officer Nepal 75. Krishna Ram Pandey Senior Project Implementation Officer ADB 76. Steen Sonne Andersen Education Advisor Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Copenhagen 77. Krishna P Dhakal President Nepal Teacher's 78. Chunni Sharan Yadav General Secretary Association (NTA) 79. Mrs Pura Joshi Women Committees Vice President 80. Pradeep P Pandey Treasurer 81. Mohan Gyawali President Nepal National Teachers' 82. Keshay Niraula General Secretary Association (NNTA) 83. Baburam Adhikari President Teachers Union of Nepal 84. Baburam Thapa General Secretary (TUN) 85. Bidyanath Koirala Researcher Faculty of Education /TU 86. Mohan Gopal Nyachhon Researcher M Phil Programme Coordinator / TU 87. Ram Bahadur Thapa Magar General Secretary National Federation of Indigenous Nationalities, NEFIN 88. Birendra Pokharel President National Federation of Disabled Nepal 89. Janak Raj Gautam Assistant Auditor General, Education Office of the Auditor General Directorate 90. Khem Prasad Sharma Audit Director 91. Venkatesh Sundararaman Sr. Economist World Bank 92. Dr. Tirtha Dhakal Member, Education National Planning 93. Pradeep Shrestha Planning Officer Commission 3 Joint Evaluation of the Secondary Education Support Programme Name Position Institution 94. Tirtha Bishwokarma Executive Director Dalit NGO Federation (DNF) 95. Mrs Durga Sob Chairperson Feminist Dalit Organisation (FEDO) 96. Raj Mukut Bhusal Education Advisor United Mission to Nepal 97. Averil Education Advisor 98. Simone Bandrine Deputy Country Director CCS Italy 99. Kathryn Edmonson Education Consultant Save the Children (US 100. Ashok Kumar Aryal Administrative chief (Joint secretary) Teacher Service Commission 101. Baikhunta Prasad Kafle Under secretary 102. Padam Kharel Under secretary 103. Nripendra Pandey Researcher 104. Dharma Prasad Sharma Researcher 105. Elvira Graner Researcher 106. T. R. Dhakal General Secretary Private and Boarding Schools' Organisation (PABSON) 107. Thapa President, Central Committee Nepal Institutional School member Teachers Union (NISTU) 4 Joint Evaluation of the Secondary Education Support Programme Appendix 5b – District and school level consultations Bardiya Name Position Institution 108 Ram Hari Rijal Planning Officer DEO Bardiya 109 Sugrib Prasad Tripathi Acting DEO 110 Pitamber Sharma Accountant 111 Bishnu Tharu District Chair BASE Bardiya 112 Ishwori BK Program Coordinator DWO Bardiya 113 Prem Prasad Swarnakar Treasurer 114 Nripendra Pandey Civil Engineer 115 Dharma Prasad Sharma HT Janata Secondary 116 Ram Chandra Chaudhary SMC Chair School, Belawa, Bardiya 117 Mohan Lal Chaudhary PTA Chair 118 Hari Chandra Tharu SMC Member 119 Pratap Singh Tharu SMC Member 120 Dambar Pariyar Grade 7 Student 121 Ganga Kumari Oli Grade 8 Student 122 Hansaraj Tharu Grade 8 Student 123 Ruma Kumari Tharu Grade 9 Student 124 Sunita Chaudhary Grade 9 Student 125 Hira Chand Grade 9 Student 126 Pradip Kumar Tharu Grade 10 Student 127 Kamala Shahi Grade 10 Student 128 Five teachers Lower Secondary and Secondary Level 129 Bholanath Chhettri HT Banglamukhi 130 Govinda Prasad Tharu SMC Chair Radhakrishna Tharu Secondary School, 131 Dayaram Khadka SMC Member Gulariya, Bardiya 132 Indra Bahadur Rawal SMC Member 133 Krishna Gautam PTA Member 134 Sagar Sharma Grade 8 Student 135 Aradhana Chaudhary Grade 8 Student 136 Prashant Chaudhary Grade 9 Student 137 Sachin Gahatraj Grade 9 Student 138 Tulasi Chapagain Grade 10 Student 139 Prabhat Baisya Grade 10 Student 140 Seven t eachers Lower Secondary and Secondary Level 5 Joint Evaluation of the Secondary Education Support Programme Kailali SN Name Position Institution 141 Laxman Devkota Planning Officer DEO Kailali 142 Bir Singh Dhami Coordinator ETC B, Kailali 143 Bhim Bahadur Balayar RP Malakheti RC 144 Hari Krishna Pant RP Phulbari RC 145 Dharma Raj Rana Program Coordinator BASE Kailali 146 Kucchat Narayan Tharu Program Officer 147 Padam Singh Kunwar Chair Nepal Teachers' Association 148 Tul Bahadur Saud HT Durga Laxmi Higher Secondary School, 149 Surat Bahadur Karki SMC Chair Attariya, Kailali 150 Tulsi Ram Poudel SMC Member, PTA Chair 151 Bikram Bahadur Khadka SMC Member 152 Chintamani Ghimire Construction Committee Member 153 Dambar Singh malla Lower Secondary Teacher 154 Lok Raj Dhungana Lower Secondary Teacher 155 Draupati Shahi Lower Secondary Teacher 156 Keshav Raj Ojha Lower Secondary Teacher 157 Manamohan Joshi Lower Secondary Teacher 158 Hari Prasad Joshi Secondary Teacher 159 Lok Bahadur Mahara Secondary Teacher 160 Ramesh Chaudhary Grade 8 Student 161 Parbati BK Grade 8 Student 162 Hira Dhanuk Grade 8 Student 163 Shobha Tamang Grade 9 Student 164 Sunita Saud Grade 9 Student 165 Birendra Ayer Grade 9 Student 166 Dipak Chaudhary Grade 10 Student 167 Jayanti Saud Grade 10 Student 168 Manabir Sankhe HT Janakalyan Secondary 169 Shankari Rana Tharu SMC Chair School, Jugeda, Kailali 170 Ganesh Prasad Joshi SMC Member 171 Ashok Rana Grade 7 Student 172 Tulasi Joshi Grade 7 Student 173 Krishna Thapa Grade 8 Student 6 Joint Evaluation of the Secondary Education Support Programme SN Name Position Institution 174 Subash Singh Grade 8 Student 175 Yasoda Thapa Grade 9 Student 176 Kiran Karki Grade 9 Student 177 Hima Bhandari Grade 10 Student 178 Dev Raj Rana Grade 10 Student 179 Gyanu Khatowada Lower Secondary Teacher 180 Sunil Kumar Jha Lower Secondary Teacher 181 Keshav Raj Joshi Secondary Teacher 182 Nanda Raj Joshi Secondary Teacher 183 Meghnath Khanal Secondary Teacher Dadeldhura SN Name Position Institution 184 Padam Singh Bista DEO DEO Dadeldhura 185 Siddharaj Pandey Section
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