NASeA’s Monthly Talk Session over the phone with Dr. Murari Suvedi
Date: Sunday, September 28, 2014
Time: 11 AM Eastern Time
Venue: Conference Call
Phone: 712-432-0385
Pass Code: 139004#
The Public Relations Committee of Nepalese Association in Southeast America (NASeA) Extends a cordial invitation to the Sunday, September 28, 2014 Monthly Talk Session over the phone (Free Conference Call)
with Dr. Murari Suvedi
Professor at Michigan State University and Senior Associate to the Dean
The theme of this month’s talk session is:
How can we help the people of Nepal through Impactful Projects?
Dr. Murari Suvedi, Professor, Department of Community Sustainability, Michigan State University
Dr. Suvedi has been on the faculty of Michigan State University since 1990. His responsibilities include teaching, research, extension and international development. He provides leadership in building evaluation capacity in agriculture, environment and natural resources management. He teaches a senior level course on program development and evaluation and a graduate course on program evaluation in agriculture and natural resources. His research focus is on program evaluation and rural development. He is the lead PI for impact evaluation and local evaluation capacity building project funded by the USAID/Cambodia’s Feed the Future initiative. His on-going evaluation projects include student assessment of College of Agriculture and Natural Resources and off-season vegetable production for income generation in the hills of Nepal.
He is actively engaged in international education and development. He served as Assistant Dean of International Studies and Programs at MSU during 2001-2004. He now serves as the point-person for the MSU-Tokyo University of Agriculture partnership program. He developed and coordinated Michigan State University’s semester-long study abroad for undergraduate students in Nepal (1997-2001) and Thailand (2002-2011); served as Fulbright Senior U.S. Scholar to Nepal and Fulbright Senior Specialist to Cambodia and Nepal; and offered evaluation workshops to rural development and agricultural extension professionals in Mexico, Nepal, India, Ecuador, Guatemala and East Timor. He served as evaluation consultant to FAO of the United Nations and Ministry of Agriculture, Mexico to evaluate the Alliance for the Countryside (Alianza para el Campo), Mexico.
He provided leadership in securing funding and coordinating the implementation of the following education/development projects in Nepal:
- Elementary school near Pokhara – Sri Kalika Elementary school—funded through Empower Nepal Foundation
- Construction of Drinking Water Supply for Hamsapur Village, Kaski—funded through Rotary Club of Traverse City and Rotary International
- Developing Green Space Park at P.N. Campus, Pokhara—funded by UNDP Global Environment Fund
- Establishing Science Lab and Computer Lab with Internet access at Ramkot Higher Secondary school, Kaski
- Construction of new Higher Secondary School complex and Community Education Center, Kaski funded through Empower Nepal Foundation
- Off-season vegetable production demonstration and scaling-up in Hamsapur– funded USAID/MEAS and MSU
- Fulbright-Hays Group projects to Nepal, 2003, funded by U.S. Department of Education – focus on rivers, environments and cultures
- Fulbright-Hays Group Project to Nepal, 2009 funded by U.S. Department of Education—focus on contemporary development
- Fulbright Senior Specialist, 2003. Institute of Forestry, Pokhara – research methodology course
- Fulbright Senior Scholar, 2006/07, TU Kirtipur Campus and P.N. Campus, Pokhara – teaching research methods
- Implemented “agricultural education in the village” project to demonstrate improved farming practices in Hamsapur VDC, Kaski in collaboration with Tokyo University of Agriculture
- Conducted institutional assessment for the Feed the Future initiative in Nepal through USAID/MSU Food Security project
- Conducted an assessment of agricultural extension in Nepal through USAID/MEAS project
- Training of senior agricultural development officials on demand-driven, pluralistic, and participatory agricultural extension in Nepal through USAID/MEAS project
Date: Sunday, September 28, 2014
Time: 11 AM Eastern Time
Venue: Conference Call
Phone: 712-432-0385
Pass Code: 139004#
Please do not miss out this important interactive session with Dr. Murari Suvedi. Following his talk, he will take questions.
Moderator:
Nar Kaji Gurung, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Animal Sciences at Tuskegee University, Alabama and Chair
Public Relations Committee
Nepalese Association in Southeast America (NASeA)
