IHRICON - Institute of Human Rights Communication Nepal

Staff Members

Centre Office Staffs

Name : Ms. Shobha Gautam
Designation : Founder President/Chairperson
Email : shobha.gautam@gmail.com
Profile: Shobha Gautam is a journalist and women's rights activist who has written extensively on women who have been affected by conflict situations and has been advocating for the rights of women for the past twenty-two years. She is President of the Institute of Human Rights Communication in Nepal (IHRICON), General Secretary, Nepal Press Institute (NPI), Core group member, South Asia Peace Alliance (SAPA), coordinator, SAPA-media and Executive Member of Nepal's Citizen Peace Commission.
Ms. Gautam has worked with the South Asia Women's Institute for Peace Studies as well as with International Alert as a National Consultant on "UN Security Council Resolution 1325: Women, Peace and Security in Nepal." Her work as the Organizer and Coordinator of a research program on women's participation in politics was instrumental in having all major political parties sign the Declaration on Enhancing Leadership of Women in Major Political Parties. Ms. Gautam is also a senior media, peace and gender trainer, providing training to journalists all over the country on conflict, gender issues and human rights reporting.
Shobha Gautam has authored Women and Children in the Periphery of People's War, Study of Women Living in Conflict Situation in South Asia, co-authored "Women, War and Peace in South Asia" and co-edited "Women in Nepalese Media" and "Gender and Armed Conflict," published by McGill University Canada. In 2005, Ms. Gautam received the "Krishna Mohan - Nudup Peace Award" for playing a leading role in raising awareness of the role of women in carrying out good governance and peace work in Nepal.

Name : Mr. Kapil Kafle
Designation : Executive Director/Founder Member
Email : patrakarita.khoj@gmail.com
Profile : Kapil Kafle is a journalist who is also a Human Rights activist as well as a trainer. He is currently the Executive Director of the Institute of Human Rights Communication in Nepal (IHRICON). He has previously worked with the field of media for more than two decades and he has completed a Master's Degree in Management. He had worked as an editor for three newspapers: Samacharpatra Daily Newspaper, Rajdhani Daily Newspaper, Mahanagar.

Kapil is also a senior media, peace and gender trainer, providing training to journalists all over Nepal on conflict resolution, the principles of UNSCR 1325, gender issues and human rights reporting. He prepared the "Peace Journalism" Training Manual, "Peace Module" for school teachers, "Women Peace and Security" Training Manual, "Democracy and DDR Process" Training Manual. He has also written "Susam Chandika", novel on gender equality and the people's movement for the democracy, "Patrakarita.khoj" (Journalism & Investigation), "Chitragupta", Collection of short satire essays that promote the rule of law and good governance and "Ek Samsadko Antya" a collection of short stories about the demise of Parliamentarian.

Kapil is well traveled both nationally and internationally. He has visited several villages across 60 of the Districts in Nepal. He has also participated at many different international seminars and training events in USA, China, India, Denmark, Philippines, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Tunisia and Qatar. His role in peace education ha played a vital part in uplifting the society and country as well as to motivate the people to live happily and peacefully.

Name : Ms. Anita Bista
Designation : Program Manager
Email : anitabista@gmail.com
Profile : Ms. Anita Bista holds an MBS degree with specialization in Finance. She is capable in maintaining books of accounts as well as forecasting financial requirements of an organization. Further, she is proficient in internal auditing of the organization. She is also competent in preparing qualitative and quantitative proposals for various funding agencies. Her skill to coordinate programs is also mention worthy. She had facilitated trainings at community level as a resource person on human rights, women rights, child rights, UNSCR 1325, Madhesi women in CA and gender. She is also competent in preparing and presenting slides through multi media projector.
She had undertaken trainings on Good Governance, financial and administration management, TOT on Advocacy, proposal writing, TOT on peace education which help in her personal as well as official performance. These trainings help in the individual capacity building which ultimately assist in the organizational development. Hence, she is executing both work of Program and Account Management.

Name : Mr. Bishnu Hari Bhandari
Designation : Program Officer
Email : chitwan7@gmail.com/yahoo.com
Profile : Mr. Bishnu Hari Bhandari is currently a Programme Officer for the Institute of Human Rights Communication Nepal (IHRICON). He has completed his Master's Degree in Humanities and Social Science with major subject Sociology.
He has previously worked as a Program Coordinator in National Labour and People Awareness Campaign Nepal(NLPACN). He has been working as a Trainer in the following areas: Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA), Report Writing, HIV/AIDS, proposal writing, Monitoring & Evaluation, Community Development and Gender in National Institute of Career Development.
He is good at updating database and expanding indicators, developing format for human rights monitoring and reporting system, media monitoring, drafting & preparing project proposals, monitoring & evaluation, baseline survey, prepare the minutes of the meeting and producing the project report. He took the training on TOT, Project Design and Proposal writing, community development, Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA), Report Writing, Facilitation skills, Social Inclusion, Gender Issues and Development, Office Management and Human Rights.He also has involved in training on UNSCR 1325, CEDAW shadow report writing, Human Rights, TOT on Justice and Security Sector Reform and Peace Education. He is aware about the human rights, women rights, child rights, UNSCR 1325 and gender issues. He is also working as a instructor of Sociology in Glacier International College, Kathmandu. He has also participated at many different international seminars and training events in Sri Lanka and India.

Name : Ms. Sharada Koirala
Designation : Account Officer
Email: koirala.sabina@yahoo.com
Profile : Ms. Sharda Koirala has been working as an Account Officer in IHRICON since 2004. She has completed the Bachelor Degree in Education. Along with this formal education, she has done a basic course on Account management, which is helpful in assisting daily accounting basics like vouching, bank and cash management and day book management.
She was also involved in trainings on Human rights, psychosocial counseling, Monitoring and evaluation, Reconciliation, Reintegration which is relevant to work. These trainings had build up her capacity not only on the Accounting work but also developed her skills for programs. She is also an executive board member of IHRICON.

Name : Ms. Menuka Khanal
Designation : Account Officer
Email: khanalmenuka@gmail.com
Profile : Ms. Menuka Khanal Completed Beachlor degree in Management. She has been working as an Account Officer. She is good in maintaining books of accounts as well as forecasting financial requirements of an organization. Her skill to coordinate programs is also mention worthy. Her skill for the projection of financial budget is very good. She had previously worked as a Finance officer in Human Right and Democratic Awareness Center (HURDAC)

Name : Mr. Khadga Bahadur Aslami (Chintu)
Designation : Computer Assistant & Procurement
Email : ak83aslami@gmail.com
Profile : Mr. Khadga Bahadur Aslami is a computer and procurement assistant. He is one of the responsible and devoted staff in this organisation. His role in resource centre is highly appreciated. He has passed School Leaving Certificate. He has been working in IHRICON since its inception on 2000.

Name : Mr. Khadga Oli
Designation : Office Assistant
Email : khadga60@gmail.com
Profile : Mr. Khadga Oli is an office assistant. He is responsible in dispatching documents, helping all the staffs as per the requirement and assist in the official day to day work. He is studying Intermediate in Commerce.

District Office Staffs

Menuka Suwar District : Kailali
Name : Ms. Menuka Swar
Designation : Program Co-ordinator/ Member
Profile : Ms. Menuka Swar is a Program Coordinator. She has passed Bachelors Degree in Arts.

District : Kailali
Name : Ms. Chitra Paneru
Designation : Advisor/Member
Profile : Ms. Chitra Paneru is an advisor. She has passed Bachelor’s degree of Arts in Nepali. She has worked as a resource person on Women rights.

District : Dang
Name : Ms. Sharada Sharma
Designation : Program Co-ordinator/Member
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District : Dang
Name : Mr. Sushil Gautam
Designation : Advisor/Committee Member
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District : Gorkha
Name : Ms. Sanu Maya Basnet
Designation : Program Co-ordinator/Member
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District : Gorkha
Name : Mr. Bisheswor Kattel
Designation : Advisor/Member
Profile : Mr. Bisheswor Kattel is an advisor. He has completed MA. Training. He has worked as a trainer on Community Development, Management Leadership, Human Rights, Child Nutrition, Social Inclusive and Conflict management. He previously worked as an editor in Kantipur National Daily and Sagarmatha Daily.

District : Sindhuli
Name : Ms. China Lama
Designation : Program Co-ordinator/Committee Member
Profile : China Lama is a Program Coordinator. She has taken Gender Analyses, NGO management Training, women rights and human rights. She has passed Bachelor Degree in Education.

District : Sindhuli
Name : Mr. Krishna Shrestha
Designation : Advisor/Member
Profile : Mr. Krishna Shrestha is an advisor. He has passed Bachelor Degree in Arts. He has taken Integrated Health, Integrated Management, Human Resource Development and Gender Sensitization training.