SHRESTHA NEERA (PRADHAN)
Management Officer

Professional Training:

• 15-26 April 1997: A two-week Training on "Management of Reproductive Health Care Programmes" organized by UNFPA CST for CASA, Kathmandu, Nepal.
  
• 10-11 April 1997: A two-day Training on Logframe Analysis in project formulation, monitoring and evaluation, conducted by UNFPA CST/CASA in Kathmandu, Nepal.
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• June 1 - July 6, 1993: Five weeks Training on "Health Care Financing", sponsored by East-West Centre, Programme on Population and Nihon University Population Research Institute, Japan, under Twenty-fourth Summer Seminar on Population, Hawaii, USA.
  

• Ms. Neera Shrestha joined UNFPA Country Support Team in Kathmandu as a Research Assistant in September 1995. Since July 1997, she is functioning as the Acting Management Officer with the CST. At CST, she is assisting the Director in drafting of six-monthly progress reports, contribution to annual report of the Executive Director and other periodical reports of the CST; developing, updating and monitoring of the Team's workplan; analyzing mission reports and carrying out follow-up actions as necessary; supervising computerization of CST mission reports in retrievable form; and in collaboration with the CST Advisers, assisting in establishing and maintaining data bases, analyzing data and producing reports and newsletters; and supervising the works of Documentation Assistant in ensuring a fully functioning documentation centre. As a Research Assistant, she reviewed the commonalities in the Programme of Actions of the recent UN Conferences on Population and Development (Cairo, 1994), Social Development (Copenhagen, 1995) and Women (Beijing, 1995); reviewed the reports and literatures on RH research in South Asia region; prepared summary project profiles of UNFPA supported project documents; and assisted in the preparation of training materials of Gender training and RH Management workshop.
  
  
• Prior to joining UNFPA CST/CASA, Ms. Shrestha was a Senior Research Associate with Institute for Integrated Development Studies (IIDS), a leading non-profit making NGO based at Kathmandu and involved in multi-disciplinary research activities and action programmes oriented towards self-reliance development of rural poor in general and women in particular. Her major job responsibilities included preparation and conceptualization of project proposals; designing of research instruments; training, management and supervision of field activities, data analysis and report writing. During her 14 years of affiliation with IIDS, starting from February 1982 -August 1995, Ms. Shrestha was involved in several socio-economic, population, health and family planning related research projects in various capacities. Some of them are as follows:
  
  
• As a Principal Investigator undertook an evaluation study of JOICFP sponsored and FPAN implemented project on " Sustainable Community-based FP/MCH Project with special focus on Women" in Panchkhal, Kavre Palanchok, Sunsari and Morang Districts in Nepal in 1995.
  
  
• As an Associate Investigator in a WHO funded project entitled "Determinants of Abortion and Subsequent Reproductive Behaviour Among Women in three Urban District of Nepal", Jan.1992 - Aug.1994, she was responsible for designing and pre-testing of research instruments; recruitment and training of field interviewers; management and supervision of field activities; conducting case studies; analyzing data and writing report.
  
  
• Worked as an Associate Investigator in a JOICFP sponsored Baseline Knowledge, attitude and Practice Survey on Sustainable Community-based Project with special focus on Women in Sunsari District, Nepal in 1993; and in a WHO funded project on "Determinants of Abortion and Subsequent Reproductive Behaviour among Women in Three Urban Districts in Nepal", 1992-94.
  
  
• Worked as a Core Team Member in the University Research Corporation (URC) sponsored Operation Research Studies on (i) "Developing Strategies to Increase the Use of IUDs in Urban Areas of Nepal", and (ii) "Improving Family Planning Acceptances Through Panchayat Based Clinics and Outreach Services Through Women Volunteers in Nepal", 1988-92; CRS Company of Nepal sponsored study on "Impact of CRS Advertising Tracking Survey: A Baseline Wave",1987; and IDRC, Canada sponsored study on "Prospective Study on Rural Abortion in Nepal", 1985.
  
  
• Was a Project Coordinator in PIACT, USA sponsored study on One-Year Hospital based Prospective study on Abortion in Nepal" in 1984 and involved in design and preparation of research instruments, analysis of one-year prospective hospitals records and interviews with abortion-complication related cases in four main hospitals of Kathmandu Valley, conducting case studies of patients with induced abortion related complications and report writing.
  
  
• As a Team Member, involved in the collection and analysis of secondary data, preparation of research instruments, supervising field activities pertaining to several socio-economic, women and development related projects for HMG, Nepal, and other bilateral and multilateral agencies, such as UNCTAD/GATT, Geneva; USAID Nepal; UNDP, UNFPA, Nepal; IFRP/ USA; SATA/Nepal etc., 1982-83.
  
  

"Abortion in Nepal: Emerging Insights", an article published in Advances in Population, Psychosocial Perspectives, edited by Lawrence J. Every, Vol.2, 1994 (Co-author).

"A Hospital-based Study on Abortion in Nepal",an article published in Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 23, No. 5, September/October 1992 (Co-author).

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