Pallav R.

I am pleased to send you a work profile recapping some of the work I have done over the years. This letter includes some of the work that has not been integrated in the following pages. 1) Baseline survey report featuring 1600 samples from eight districts, special individual reports on each of the eight districts, consolidated research paper for publication and wider distribution pertaining to this research. Involved quantitative data analysis, qualitative data input, literature review. Ongoing. Search for Common Ground. 2) For Save the Children, we concluded a young people program that saw students from 12 schools research – write – prepare art exhibition – deliver poetry readings – PowerPoint presentations – live music – and a video film before an audience of journalists, artists, decision-makers, doctors, and parents. In particular for the video film, I had the joy of getting the young people themselves to sing, record music in the studio, act, and edit and finalize in musical in the jyaure tradition made famous by Devkota's Muna Madan. 3) I am working on a book, "This Wide Earth" based on meetings with more than 50 people across Nepal on peace building and how the radio has contributed to help assure peaceful constituent assembly elections. I will also translate this book into Nepal as "Farakilo Dharti." This work is funded by Search for Common Ground. Politicians, radio program producers, community leaders are a part of this book. EXPERIENCE Awareness generation and communication Recognized for innovative approach towards arts and communications, planned and structured communication based projects and programs for Spiny Babbler and Outreach and Communication Center. Founder: Spiny Babbler, a nationally recognized arts institution working to make positive impact on human life through the use of the arts. Involved in planning, structuring, and assuring effective implementation of efforts. Chairperson: Outreach and Communication Center. OCC supports international development organizations in reaching out and achieving awareness and behavior change. Chairperson: Evolution, an education network that features a preschool, school, and club for the young seeking individualized education. While offering regular schooling, it offers special arts, science, and outdoors approaches. Representative: C2C Project funded by ILO aiming to improve the conditions of domestic child laborers in seven districts of Nepal, primary signatory, involved in planning the effort as well as hiring and overseeing the implementation of the project. Representative: TEMLP, wetland environment and livelihoods protection project funded by UNDP in the Taudaha area, primary signatory, involved in planning the effort as well as overseeing the implementation of the project. Advisor, AMP, Spiny Babbler. An action research project to identify the preferences of local communities as regards media and communication forms funded by the Ford Foundation through ICIMOD. Involved in planning the effort for Nepal as well as overseeing the implementation of the Nepal end of project. Project lead, PACC. An awareness generation effort funded by the Rule of Law Project operated by ARD Inc. through the second round of selections. Involved in planning and negotiating the effort. Communication and outreach material design and production Helped prepare nationally and internationally praised print, web, alternative, and video/animation material from 1994. Supported Search for Common Ground, Save the Children, ICIMOD, GIZ, SDC, SNV, Helvetas, UNICEF ROSA, Spiny Babbler, The Mountain Institute, Lutheran World Federation, and other organizations. Work involved identifying and targeting specific audiences and assuring that products were appropriate through testing and improvement. Managed teams of up to 40 persons and built-up individual and institutional technical knowledge and experience in media forms and people-to-people approaches. Special strength in researching, testing, designing, and producing material involving new technologies. Involved in the change from printing in places such as Bangkok and Singapore to printing in Kathmandu. The entry of the world wide web in Nepal, [login to view URL] being among the first websites in the country and editor of [login to view URL]: selected site of the year twice, ranked top among sites for wood work internationally, and being the only site to be given five stars by the Nepali Times review at the time. Planning customized applications and programming in PHP, ASP, Visual Basic for better institutional functionality and data management. Testing and experimenting technicalities in 3-D animation (Studio Max as well as Maya) since 2001, digital video and sound. Lead: survey report with special focus on five-year trend review and evaluation of a radio project that has completed five years on air. Search for Common Ground. Researcher, writer, featured field trips to five districts, coverage of young people and their relations with the police. The research was published as I Learn to Trust in English and Samjhana ra Umanga in Nepali. Producer/director: musical Chhati Bharika Kura, featuring pneumonia that kills 5 million children around the world every year, with music, acting, and technical input by young people of 12 schools, Save the Children. Technical lead/director: GIZ documentary Voices of the Silent Half on gender issues featuring people of some of the most remote areas of Nepal, communication material including video, publication. Director/writer: Three 30-minute docu-dramas: Driver, Pasalni Galli, Due Haat Jamin, prepared for ARD Inc. Technical lead/director: documentary The Peace Film, on peace building and reconciliation featuring 5 programs across the country, Nepal Peace Trust Fund. Technical lead/director: MLD-UDLE documentary Cities of Hope on participatory learning, communication material including video, publication. Technical lead/director: GTZ-PASRA documentary Taking Charge on participatory learning, communication material including video, publication. Director/writer: 3-d animation, video combination movie Seven Wonders of Kathmandu for UNICEF Nepal. Technical lead: Build Homes, Build Hopes video documentary for Habitat for Humanity in Nepal. Technical head: SNV/Netherlands Consulate, 25 year celebration, communication material production: including print and audio-visual media. Writer/director: Goreto Nisafko a 100+ minute video film aired four times over national television and acclaimed by industry leaders. Producers: UNDP, HMG. Advisor – Spiny Babbler, assessment of World Neighbor’s activities ranging over three years in the Sarlahi District. Product coordinator – Spiny Babbler, UNICEF’s groundbreaking manual on Violence Against Women and Girls in South Asia. Product coordinator – Spiny Babbler, UNDP’s groundbreaking manual on Gender Manual for use in South Asia in English as well as in the Nepali language. Product coordinator – Spiny Babbler, ICIMOD’s Women of the Himalayas documenting women’s concerns regarding natural resource management as well as several other efforts ranging over ten years. Product coordinator – Spiny Babbler, GTZ Nepal’s corporate information dissemination material including presentations, leaflets. Consultant, Small Business Promotion Project, documentation and presentation of awareness generation and communication tools over a period of three years including research, writing, editing, production of material. Consultant, NGO Fund Project, documentation and presentation of awareness generation and communication tools over a period of seven years, including writing, translation, editing, production of material. Consultant, Lumanti, re-packaging of awareness generation and communication material over a period of ten years, including writing, translation, editing, production of material. Editing and content management IUCN/Nepal, UNFPA CST, ICIMOD, UNDP, Adventure Nepal, Nepal Traveller, PC Quest Nepal, Nepal Travel Trade Reporter, Royal Nepal Golf Club Souvenir, The Nepal Looms, The Nepalese Tibetan Carpet, and publications of international development organizations. 1991 onwards. Extensive experience in translation and presentation of material to and from the local language. Prepared national and international publications involving extensive teams and multiple forms of communication backed up by research. Associate Editor, PC Quest Nepal Associate Editor, The Nepal Looms Associate Editor, Adventure Nepal Associate Editor: Casino Times Associate Editor: Royal Nepal Golf Club Souvenir Assistant Editor, Shangri-La Assistant Editor, Nepal Travel Trade Reporter Assistant Editor: The Nepalese Tibetan Carpet Assistant Editor, Nepal Traveller Writing, more than 100 articles published in journals with national and international circulation Translated more than 100 technical as well as creative products for development organizations as well as established and upcoming creators. Consultant, UNFPA, documentation of CST regional planning meeting. Serviced Save the Children US, Save the Children UK, Redd Barna, Save the Children Japan, production of material as well as translation Writing, photography and art Art, two solo exhibitions, Swasthani launched by Her Royal Highness Helen Shah, Fragments launched by General Secretary of UML, Madhav Nepal. "E-opportunities" took an 8x54 foot canvas (perhaps the largest artwork in Nepal along with other work) to 19 places in the country: furthest east to furthest west. Publishing, nationally and internationally published books planned, written, edited, translated, published: including work involving more than 100 European poets (including 10 Nobel Laureates), work involving 22 create writing departments of Australasian Universities, youth of 20 nations, key poets of Nepal… Writing, more than 100 articles published. Contributed to The Rising Nepal, Everest Herald, AD: Architectural Digest, Poetry Nottingham, Shangri-La, Nepal Traveller, Casino Times, and other publications. 1988 onwards. Led the Nationwide Poetry Festival across Nepal. Photography, more than 100 photographs published in journals with national and international circulation. Volunteer: AWON Library, involved in cataloging and issuing books to members. Assisted in restructuring the Young Reader section of the library. 1988 to 1991. Interviews, profiles, reviews of work published/broadcast in national media outlets including television, print, and radio. Publications/video films Swasthani, Spiny Babbler Selected Poems of Nepal, Spiny Babbler Welcome to the World, International Labour Organization Sun on the Mountains, Netherlands Development Cooperation Maya, My Love, Spiny Babbler I Learn to Trust, Search for Common Ground Samjhana ra Umanga, Search for Common Ground Manuscripts: Goreto, a novel on community level mediation Sadaharan Deen, a novel on how corruption impacts daily lives of ordinary people Farakilo Dharti, a journey across Nepal meeting more than 50 radio program producers, station managers, listeners, and community-political leaders with influence This Wide Earth, the English version of Farakilo Dharti aimed at an international readership Poetry collections: Seven Wonders of Kathmandu, Whispers from Around the World, The Color Red…