User:Kedar Khadka

Please bear in mind that this is written by Mr Khadka to promote himself. His real avatar is more complex and controversial. Mr Kedar Khadka (1 August 1960), Director, Good Governance & Anti-corruption, Pro Public claims to be a recognized person as a good governance and anti-corruption campaigner in Nepal. He also holds position as Vice-President, National Election Observation Committee (NEOC) and Vice-President, Human Rights Home. Mr Khadka holds Postgraduate Degree in Sociology and Bachelor Degree in Mass Communication from Tribhuvan University, Nepal. He is someone who affiliates himself into multiple organisations, as a way to pursue his political interests. Not to mention, he works as a consultant for a number of INGOs and donors. He has received advance course on Corruption & Anti-Corruption from Australian National University, Australia, Training of Trainer course from Netherlands and Diploma in Communication under Cheavening (look he cant even write Chevening properly, but has got this scholarship) Scholarship from University of New South Wales, UK. Similarly, he has also obtained Civic Education: Informing the Public Debate in US Democracy from USA and short courses from UK, Thailand, Bangladesh and Srilanka.

His foreign funded campaign through mass media and civic mobilization introduced him as a governance campaigner in Nepal. His governance & anti-corruption campaign has recognized by the national and international media. Recognizing his untiring campaign against corruption for more than 20 years, he has been awarded National Investigative Journalism Award with cash prize by the Nepal Press Institute and also Rotary International, Kathamdu, all due to his political affiliation. Mr Khadka has contributed dozens of simple rhetoric articles through national media on good governance, anti-corruption & right to information. He has given numerous media interviews to the radio/television to promoting governance & right to information initiatives in Nepal. He fails to see that the Nepali State does not have capacity or resources.

He claims to have worked closely with the Commission of the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) & National Vigilance Center (NVC) to reduce corruption since +10 years, which is clearly wrong. Mr Khadka is Convener of the National Coalition against Corruption (NCaC). He has also contributed to establish National Chapter of the Global Organization of Parliamentarians against Corruption (GOPAC) in Nepal. He takes handsome salary from donors to do so, and was criticized for undermining democracy in Nepal in an article that came out in a Nepali magazine in 2004.

Mr Khadka has administered governance & anti-corruption project professionals/staffs & backstopped & supervised Projects funded by SDC, DFID, Asia Foundation, National Democratic Institute (NDI), Norwegian Embassy, US Embassy & Canadian Cooperation, which is nothing to be proud of. He claims to have trained +6,000 good governance/anti-corruption defenders. More than 62,000 governance vigilant members are associated in his governance campaign all over the country, and he uses them for his political advantage.

Mr Khadka has presented a paper on "Downward Accountability Deficit" at the IMF/World Bank Annual Meeting held in Washington DC from 5-10 October 2010, which was found to be plagiarized and also contributed 2 sessions as panelist. During his US visited he also presented research outcome on "Citizen Report Card and Downward Accountability Deficit" at the University of Maryland on 11 October 2010. Mr Khadka presented a country paper on "Democratic Accountability Mechanism & Practice" at the Asian Regional Conference on Effective Local Governance, Accountability, Participation & Inclusion organized by PRIA, India, LogoLink & IGD from 2-4 June 2011 in Kathmandu, Nepal. Mr Khadka also presented a country paper on "Promoting Governance through Improving Public Service Delivery" at the Oslo Governance Forum (OGF), Norway from 3-5 October 2011. All these papers lack substance, and only consists of rhetoric.

He is an experienced development professional with decade-long experience in advocacy & civil society campaign for good governance, anti-corruption, public service delivery & capacity building, among others, which is how he manages his middle class life in Kathmandu. He comes of a journalistic background & commands experiences of almost two decades in media advocacy & had worked as a presenter of "Ek-Aapash" a popular television talks-show broadcast through Nepal Television from January 1993-June 1998.

He has also produced & anchored 250 episodes of TV program (Public Hearing/Audits) & has worked a resource person in dozens of capacity building trainings for government officials to enhance transparency, accountability & integrity in public service delivery system, and takes pride in undermining the Nepali State. His specialization lie in project management, grassroots & policy advocacy and sensitization, research, capacity building on good governance issues, and everything else where he can get money.

He falsely claims to have pioneered the concept of Public Hearing, Public Audit and Citizen Report Cards for the first time in Nepal a decade back which has now been owned by the Nepal government bodies & development partner organizations at wider level as an effective tool to enhance transparency to hold the governments accountable toward the people.

Similarly, Mr Khadka has written a Country Paper on "Democratic Accountability in Nepal" and submitted to PRIA, India to include in the regional publication, for which he took help of some academics. He has contributed as Member-Secretary of the Whistle-blower Protection Bill Drafting Committee formed by the Law Reform Commission of the Government of Nepal. He has also advocated bringing Good Governance Act & Right to Information Act in Nepal. He served as Member of Citizen Charter Drafting Committee of Supreme Court of Nepal, all this is due to his networking skills. He also played a catalytic role to organizing nationwide signature campaign to pressurize to induct Codes of Conduct for parliamentarians in 2001. He has also served as a member of the Nepal Medical Council & also Doctor's Consultation Fee Fixation Committee formed by the Ministry of Health, Nepal.

Mr Khadka has published several good governance, anti-corruption, Public Hearing, Public Audit, Citizen Report Card and Right To Information (RTI) resource books, manuals, guidelines, directives & briefing papers. Mr Khadka has recently wrote a "Resource Book on 21 Social Accountability" which is supported by the World Bank. He has also facilitated Global Video Conference and Face2Face session organized by the World Bank Head Quarter, USA. He has traveled more than 24 countries (five continents)of the globe, and this is his achievement.

He should be in the list of CIAA, and his property should be investigated.

Contract (he wrote contract because he uses that word often) address:

Kedar Khadka Director, Good Governance & Anti-corruption, Pro Public Vice-president, National Election Observation Committee (NEOC) Vice-president, Human Rights Home Convener, National Coalition against Corruption (NCaC) Management & Coordination, Global Organization of Parliamentarians against Corruption (GOPAC) Nepal Chapter, Kathmandu, Nepal Cell: +977 98510 72225 E-mail: kedarkhadka@hotmail.com, www.facebook/kedar khadka