"Enhance awareness about life insurance, encourage financial security to the people of Nepal through life insurance products and contribute to the nation’s development" is the vision of the IME Life insurance Company. This life insurance company was registered on October 2008 and have been providing life insurance service to all over the country since…

It was immense pleasure when I got the call from Mr. Sudhir Thakur the executive director of Eastern Region Eye Care Center (EREC). Hello Mr. RC, I am Sudhir Thakur from EREC Birtatnagar, do you remember ? we met in Dhulikhel in CBM training on Proposal Writing and Fund raising. Oh yes sir, how are you? how is everything going on? I replied.…

The history of Nepal is general considered to have begun in 1768-69 B.S., when Prithivi Narayan Shah, the king of Gorkha, unified Nepal. The total area of Nepal at present is 147,181 Sq. Km. with a rectangular shape. It is about 192 Km. wide from North to South and 880 Km. long from East to West. Nepal is located between 26022' and 30027' north latitudes and 8004' and 88012' east longitudes and has four vegetation zones viz, tropical, deciduous, monsoon forest, subtropical mixed evergreen…

Can an Appreciative Inquiry conference slated for Jan. 8-10, 2014 in Nepal help spark peace in the conflict-ridden country? Co-organizer RC Lamichhane has high hopes it can, given his past experiences with large-group AI summits. Pictured above, speakers of the 2009 World Appreciative Inquiry Conference, which took place in Nepal. http://www.axiomnews.ca/node/3894

A two days training was organized in Kathmandu for the tourism entrepreneurs on Appreciative Inquiry for Positive Business and Social Change on 7-8 June,2013. 34 business persons from the tourism development sectors were participated in the training. The peak points of the business people and tourism business were discovered and shared. The stories have proved…

RC Lamichhane, Ph.D. (Peace and Community Development in Nepal: An Appreciative Inquiry Approach)

Chairperson – Eastern Research Institute of Positive Science (ERIPS)

President – Imagine Nepal Email:- rc.erips@ntc.net.np

Executive Director - Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (ACORAB) Nepal

How it all began... First time I read AI in Nepal newsletter back in 1997 when I was working in Community Based Economic Development Project Baitadi.…