Our Organization - Nepal Development Society

Where it all began

Who are we?

Nepal Development Society (NEDS), founded in 2013, is a leading Nepali NGO focused on evidence-based governance, public policy, research, and planning. We work across national and local levels to strengthen policy impact in health, social equity, economy, and environment.

Our core strengths include community health programs, non-communicable disease prevention, maternal-child health research, and sustainable development initiatives. NEDS combines solid research with practical implementation to shape effective policies and support local governance.

Through collaboration with government, academia, and global partners, we deliver lasting solutions that empower communities and drive equitable progress in Nepal.

Nepal Development Society
“Healthy communities sustain vibrant lives.”

Official Information

Description	Organization	Pan/VAT	Social Welfare council
Place of Registration	District administrative office, Chitwan	Inland Revenue Office, Chitwan	Social Welfare council office, Kathmandu
Date of Registration AD	Aug 18, 2013	Aug 25, 2013	Aug 23, 2013
Date of Registration yy/mm/dd	2070/05/02	2070/05/09	2070/05/07
Registration No	14	601354766	37768

Organization Structure

The organization has a team of experts with several years of experiences from diverse sectors such as health, agriculture, forestry, engineering and social science. It has gained substantial experience on farmers’ health, effects of pesticides, gender-based violence, community-based intervention for hypertension and diabetes, female community health volunteers, cooperatives for farmers, fields of governance, institutional development, management, development planning caters the needs of quality services to its clients using their networks and innovative ideas. The organization has an executive board of directors which consists of experts from different fields. The executive board assign an executive director as a focal person who coordinates between the executive board members, partners and employee. The executive board is responsible for hiring staff, approviding budgets, supervision and planning. There is a regular meeting, at least once a year for general assembly.

Know Us More

NeDS has gradually evolved as a multi-disciplinary research and development organization with its innovative, technical, management and research competencies. It has delivered quality services to a diverse spectrum of organizations ranging from Governments, Development Agencies, I/NGOs and Private Sector Organizations. The NGO has a wide reach and spread of its services in all geographical regions, provinces and local governments of the country. It has strong legacy in the areas of research and surveys, institutional development, capacity assessment, evidence and result based planning, monitoring and evaluation, engineering, management and policy advisory services in the context of federal governance of system the country. NeDS has a strong team of dynamic professionals well recognized by all ranges of the client for its cost-effective, innovative services and practical solutions through a sharing of knowledge and expertise.

The NeDS provides policy, guideline and direction towards the achievements of its vision/mission and goal. The organization structure adopted is based on virtual organization concept, which is run by small core team and has capacity manage to all kinds of project and assignment at once by mobilizing the resource person in its pool. The NGO is backing up by qualified and experienced professionals and advisors of various fields for helping the core team for quality services.

NeDS has sound project management capability. It appoints a project coordinator to each project, who is responsible to ensure quality control and time accomplishment of deliverables and facilitate work progress according to the project plan. According, it mobilizes expert services and support from associate consultants.

An effective and efficient quality assurance practice and measures implemented in accordance to the standard procedure to ensure proper planning, design, supervision and management to accomplish the project. The organisation is well organized and structured to fulfill the needs of the clients and offers reliable, innovative and quality services with an aim to promote goodwill and cordial relationship.

Projects and Timelines

NeDS has undertaken various studies in the past of similar nature for several governmental and development agencies including Government of Nepal (GoN), sub-national governments, UN Agencies, I/NGOs. NeDS has successfully carried out following related works:

SN	Tasks	Clients/ Funding Agency	Year
1	Community-based management of non-communicable diseases in Nepal	Aarhus University, Denmark; Jayanti Memorial Trust, CDC, Johns Hopkins University, USA, Monas University, Australia etc	2013-2021
2	Health, Engineering and Agriculture Project	Medico International (m.i.) Gmbh, Germany	2014-2018
3	Diabetes Management by Lay Health Workers in Nepal	World Diabetes Foundation	2017-2021
4	May Measurement Month (MMM)	Torrens University Australia, CDC America, JMT Nepal, International Society of Hypertension, Ministry of Health, Provincial Governments	2017-2021
5	Management of hypertension utilizing trained community health worker in rural municipalities of Gandaki province of Nepal (Mutu)	Johns Hopkins University (JHU), USA	2019-2021
6	Helmet Doctor Project, Rupa Rural Municipality, Gorkha, Project to support community in the COVID pandemic situation	World Diabetes Foundation	2019-2021
7	Composting and recycling for household and industrial waste management in Chitwan, Nepal (CAR-Nepal)	International Center for Occupational, Environmental and Public Health (ICOEPH, Denmark)	2020-2022
8	Helmet Doctor Project, Palungtar, Gorkha, Project to support community in the COVID pandemic situation	Nepal Med e.v., Germany	2020-2021
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Our Board Members

Photo	Board Position	Name	Brief Profile
	President	Dr Nisha Rana	PhD Uppsala University (Neonatal Health) \| Public Health & Scientific Research Expert in Maternal & Child Health \| Pioneer in delayed cord clamping studies…Learn More

	Vice President	Dr.Rajshree Thapat	PhD Epidemiology (Monash) \| 3MT People’s Choice Winner \| Ex-Save the Children, GIZ, UNHCR \| NCDs & Health & Leader in LMICs… Learn More
	Secretary	Mr Ram Krishna Dahal	EMBA (Pokhara University), MScCSIT (Tribhuvan University) Founder NPCERT, CSRI & multiple IT institutions Cybersecurity expert & academic entrepreneur … Learn More

	Treasurer	Mr Hari Krishna Bhattarai	MPH (BRAC JPGSPH), PhD Fellow (UPO Italy) \| Health Systems Expert with 15+ years in Govt, UN, INGOs & NGOs…Learn More

	Member	Dr Bishokshan Kafle	PhD (Roskilde University) \| Researcher at IMDEA Software Institute, Spain \| Expert in Automated Reasoning, Program Verification & Horn Clauses Analysis…Learn More

	Member	Dr. Aamod Dhoj Shrestha	PhD Fellow (Aarhus University, Denmark), MPH (SRM University), Expert in Non-Communicable Diseases & Environmental Health…Learn More

	Member	Dr. Tara Ballav Adhikari	Health researcher specializing in non-communicable diseases and COPD and environmental health in Nepal…Learn More

	Member	Mr. Mahanta Babu Maharjan	Experience in community empowerment, mental health; Senior roles at ActionAid, Plan International, SAGUN, & CMC-Nepal…Learn More

	Member	Ms Soni Bassi	Nepal public health expert (20+ years): Program Manager (REACH), Medical Program Supervisor (Save the Children UK)….Learn More