Professors

Contact Address	:	Address: Kirtipur Municipality, Ward No. 2, Kathmandu Nepal
Contact. No	:	977-9851128857
Email	:	:gurungyb@gmail.com , yogendrabahadur.gurung@cdpl.tu.edu.np
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Yogendra B Gurung (PhD), Professor at Central Department of Population Studies, Tribhuvan University, is trained in Population Studies and Development Studies. He pursued his Master’s Degree in Population Studies at Tribhuvan University and in Development Studies at Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands and PhD at Tribhuvan University, Nepal. He has also gained professional training on Demographic Techniques at Center for Population Studies (CPS), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, on survey research at Survey Research in Institute of Social Research (ISR), University of Michigan, USA, and on impact evaluation research in a number of workshop/training organized/supported by the World Bank and others. He has more than 25 years of experience in teaching and social science research. He has been continuously updating his expertise through various training, workshop/ seminars and research activities.

Dr. Gurung has published a number of research articles in peer reviewed national and international journals. In addition, he also has a number research monographs published at both national and international levels.

Dr. Gurung’s main area of interest is survey research mainly focused on impact evaluation, social inclusion/exclusion, poverty, education, child labour, migration and development. He is well acquainted with both quantitative and qualitative research methods including survey design, sampling, data collection and analysis, however, volume of work is more on quantitative methods. He has conducted several nationally representative household surveys mainly related to inclusion and poverty in Nepal. He is well aware of both paper based and CAPI based surveys. He also has an interest in education and its socio-economic and cultural correlates. Currently, he has been involved in quite a big survey research project, A Study of the State of Social Inclusion in Nepal (SOSIN), being carried out by Central Department of Anthropology, Tribhuvan University and commissioned by the USAID/Nepal. He is team leader of one of its components, Nepal Social Inclusion Survey, which is based on 36,000 interviews in about 18,000 households throughout the country. He is equally versed in policy research. He was involved in a number policy researches on child labour and child rights in relation to time-bound project of elimination of child labour with International Labour Organization (ILO) during 2000s. He was involved as one of the team members for preparing 13th Interim Plan of Nepal. He also conducted a policy research on the impact of COVID-19 on gender and social inclusion in Nepal for NPC and prepared a technical paper for the latest Population and Development Policy in Nepal. He has good experience in collaborative research with national and international team and organizations. He has considerable working experience with government, the World Bank, USAID Nepal, CMI Norway, SDC, and a number of INGOs/NGOs. Dr. Gurung has been associated with a number of professional organizations. He is life member of Population Association of Nepal (PAN) and member of Asian Population Association (APA). He has served as an expert member in National Population Committee (2009-014) and National Population Council (2017-019), Government of Nepal. He is currently a member of a subcommittee on Research on Children in National Child Rights Council (NCRC), the Government of Nepal.

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Contact. No	:	977-9841382556
Email	:	:mahendra.sharma@cdpl.tu.edu.np, sharmamahendra993@gmail.com
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Prof. Mahendra Prasad Sharma (Baglung, Nepal) is Professor of Population Studies and affiliated with the Central Department of Population Studies (CDPS), Tribhuvan University (TU), Nepal. His field of expertise is Ageing, Fertility, Health and Development. He has a number of national/international publications on various aspects of population, ageing, fertility, health and development. He has participated and presented papers in the national/international seminars/workshops/conferences on various aspects of population and development, ageing, fertility, health, environment and development.

Prof. Sharma has about 27 years of teaching and research experiences in TU and has been supervising M.A, M. Phil. Theses in Population Studies. He has been a principal investigator and researcher in several research projects of the national level conducted by the CDPS, TU for the Ministry of Health and Population; Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare. He was also the Deputy Controller of the Examination Controller Office, Balkhu, TU for one tenure from July 16, 2012 to 15 July 2014.

Prof. Sharma's professional involvement includes: Resource Person/Advisor for the GOs/NGOs/INGOs and National Universities; Executive Member (2012 - 14) Population Association of Nepal (PAN); Member Technical Committee of the National Population Census 2021 (2078 BS), National Planning Commission, Government of Nepal; Member (2017-2019) National Population Council Chaired by the Right Honorable Prime Minister, Government of Nepal; Member (October 18, 2011- 2022) of Standing Committee, Population Studies Subject Committee, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal and Member of Population Subject Committee (2016 - 2022) at +2 level, Ministry of Health Science and Education, Government of Nepal, CDC, Sanothimi, Nepal.

Prof. Sharma was awarded Nepal's Central Bank fellowship to accomplish his Bachelor level, Full Freeship in MA; UGC Nepal Fellowship to accomplish his MPhil and also obtained Ph.D. fellowship from Tribhuvan University, Coordination Division Central Office, TU, Nepal.

Prof. Sharma has published several books in Population Studies (+2 Level to Bachelor and Master Level) and several articles at national and international journals.

Prof. Sharma has visited number of countries including Singapore, Hongkong, South Korea, China, and India.

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Keshab Prasad Adhikari (PhD, Tribhuvan University, Nepal in Gender and Childhood Poverty) is currently working as an Associate Professor of Population Studies and coordinator of Masters Programme in Labour Studies, Tribhuvan University, Nepal.

Dr. Adhikari has gained teaching and research specialization in the areas of poverty & multidimensional poverty; labour relations, and labour migration; access to finance for poverty reduction and social wellbeing; gendered and child poverty and child protection. He has also gained specialization in project planning, monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) and population ageing, and social security issues.

Dr. Adhikari did MA in Population Studies from Tribhuvan University, Nepal in 1989, and MA in Development Studies in the major of Population and Development from the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) the Hague, the Netherlands in 1999. In March 2015, he earned the degree of the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FoHSS), Tribhuvan University.

Dr. Adhikari has experience in conducting large-scale research projects and baseline surveys with academic importance from the Central Department of Population Studies, TU for the Government of Nepal, UN agencies, and bilateral development Partners (for detail see the CV). Dr. Adhikari is also instrumental in designing specialized courses from undergraduate (Four year BA in Population Studies, TU) to Masters’, M.Phill and course-based Ph.D. level in the field of Population and Development.

Dr. Adhikari has participated in a various national and international seminars, workshops, and conferences and has authored and co-authored many research articles, books, and reports. Currently, he is the supervisor of four and co-supervisor of four Ph.D. fellows under the faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of Tribhuvan University. He has more than 26 years of experience working with public, private, and multinational organizations in the country as a team leader to conduct large scale baseline household surveys and policy and evaluation studies.