User talk:Jeevan Baniya

Jeevan Baniya Jeevan Baniya was born in 1979 in a small remote village named Singa of Myagdi district of Nepal. He hailed from a lower middle class family background. He has three siblings.

He started his schooling from a public school, Dhawalagiri Ma. Vi. Singa Myagdi and for a year he also attended Vrikuti Primary School, Thamdanda in his maternal uncle's village. He studied in Dhawalagiri Ma. Vi. Singa Myagdi until grade 10. After completing his SLC, he joined Myagdi Campus located at Benibazaar Myagdi where he studied I.A. with major English literature, Economics and Political Science. In the first year of I.A. in the year 1998, he was the campus topper. He then joined Patan Multiple Campus, TU for B.A. in Arts with major English Literature and Political Science, which he successfully completed in 2003. While he was pursuing his M.A. in English Literature at the TU central campus in Kritipur Kathmandu, he decided to go to Ajou University (GSIS) for studying M.A. in NGO Studies which he achieved with flying colours in December 2007. For his outstanding performance he was also awarded with two prestigious awards, the Presidential Award 20007 and the Ajou University Alumni Association Award 2006.

Immediately after his M.A., he was associated as a research fellow at DaSMI, Sungkonghoe University, and at Nautilus Institute Seoul Branch were he served until May 2009. He then joined PhD education in Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Science, University of Oslo Norway. His PhD study was supported by the Quota Scheme Scholarship of Norwegian State Loan Fund which he had secured. He successfully defended his dissertation in December 2014 and he was awarded the PhD in Political Science in March 2014.

He returned to Nepal in December 2014 and was associated permanently as a researcher at Social Science Baha, a non-profit research institute, where he is involved in planning & designing research, writing research proposals, designing survey questionnaire and qualitative questions, mentoring and supervising junior researchers and field researchers, managing research team; liaising with partner organizations & local stakeholders including the government and, taking part in external professional activities etc. and his areas of expertise and interest include: public/social policies, inclusion and exclusion, politics and development, governance, development and co-operation, migration, disaster and its impacts, analysis of livelihood issues, evidence-based research and assessment of development policies and programmes. He has a regional focus: South Asia (Nepal, India), Scandinavia, Southeast Asia. He is also serving as a part time faculty at Tribhuvan University, Masters in International Relations and Diplomacy (MIRD) since December 2014 and at Tribhuvan University, Conflict, Peace and Development Studies (CPDS), Kathmandu Nepal since January 2015 - where he gives lectures on courses such as: Public Policy and Governance; Development Studies; Comparative Politics; State Building and State Failure in the developing world;Governance:Concepts and Issue.

Previously he has had worked as an intern at People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD), Seoul South Korea. And he tought for two years in Vidyapunja English Secondary School Lamatar, Lalitpur Nepal. Recently, he also served at the National Reconstruction Authority (NRA), Government of Nepal, Kathmandu Nepal as a Social Inclusion and Grievance Adviser and helped in designing the Standard Operational Procedures for Grievance Redress and Management, Rural Housing Reconstruction Programme (RHRP), assisted in developing forms such as Grievance Registration Form, Grant Participation Agreement Form, Proxy Form, Land Authorization Form etc. and provided necessary support to grant enrollment process in various earthquake affected districts.

His major publications include: Civil society, social movements and democratization: A case study of Nepal, Faculty of Social Science University of Oslo Norway, 2014, ISSN 1504-3991, PhD Thesis The Journey of Civil Society on the road of social movements in Nepal in (eds.) Cho Hee-Yeon, Andrew Aeria and Song-Woo Hur: From Unity to Multiplicities: social movement transformation and democratization in Asia, 2012, SIRD Malaysia Liberal Democracy, Governance and Civil Society in Nepal, PEER, Yonsie University, South Korea, 2009 With Sambriddhi Kharel, Deepak Thapa, Bandita Sijapati with Kalpana Jha, Manoj Suji, Tashi Tshering Ghale, Mohammad Ayub 2016. South Asia State of Minorities Report 2016: Mapping the Terrain, South Asia Collective, BFC An Imprint of Action Enterprise, New Delhi India, ISBN: 978-81-926907-3-5 Co-authored with Jeevan Sharma, Bandita Sijapati, Anish Bhandari, Dinesh Pathak, Ashim Bhattarai, Tobias Kelly & Steffen Jensen 2016. Torture and Ill-Treatment: Perceptions, Experience and Justice-seeking in Kathmandu's Squatter Communities. Dignity, the Danish Institute Against Torture, Social Science Baha, School of Social and Political Science University of Edinburgh 2016, ISBN:9789937009775 Co-authored, Work, family and pensions: Old age income security in Bangladesh, Nepal, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, Social Science Baha/UNFPA & HelpAge International, 2016 Co-authored with Austin Lord, Bandita Sijapati, Tracy Ghale and Obindra Chand 2016. Disaster, Disabilities & Differences: A Study of Challenges Faced by the Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) in the Post-earthquake Nepal, Social Science Baha/UNDP in Nepal: Kathmandu. Co-authored with Bandita Sijapati, Neha Choudhary and Ashim Bhattarai 2016. Migration of Health Workers from Nepal. CESLAM/ILO 2017 (forthcoming) Co-authored with Bandita Sijapati, Anish Bhadari, Ashim Bhattarai, Sambriddhi Kharel, Amrita Limbu, Dinesh Pathak Nabin Rawal and Prakriti Thami 2015. Migration and resilience: Experiences from Nepal’s earthquake 2015, Research Paper VII, CESLAM, Social Science Baha, ISBN: 9789937296632/ILO, 2015 Co-authored with Bandita Sijapati, Sanu Lama, Jacob Rink and Kalpana Jha 2016. Socio-Political Impacts of Remittance Economy, CESLAM/The Asia Foundation/USAID 2017 Co-authored with Sambriddhi Kharel, 2017. Gender in War to Peace Transition in Nepal: Insights from Political Settlement Gender Lab, Social Science Baha & Reconciliation Resources, London (forthcoming)