Daayitwa graduates 12th Cohort of Public Policy Fellows

• Daayitwa Nepal Public Service Fellowship Alumni Council Inaugurated

KATHMANDU: Daayitwa organised the Fellowship Symposium to celebrate the graduation of the 12th Cohort of Public Policy Fellows and the inauguration of Daayitwa Nepal Public Service Fellowship (DNPSF) Alumni Council. The Daayitwa Nepal Public Policy Fellowship 2022, which started in June 2022,  successfully placed six fellows selected from over 200 applicants trained in 15 countries, at three government host institutions, including the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MoCIT), Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies (MoICS) and National Planning Commission (NPC), and three parliamentarians — Gagan Kumar Thapa, Gokarna Bista and Kamala Roka. Over the six months, these youth researchers have conducted evidence-based policy research and have submitted their policy findings and recommendations to their host institutions.* The symposium brought together stakeholders from public, private, and social sectors who discussed and recommended ways to strengthen youth-government relationships and promote evidence-based policy decisions which are the major aims of Daayitwa Fellowship. Daayitwa runs Nepal Public Policy Fellowship at the federal level and Nepal Public Administration Fellowship at the municipal level under the umbrella of Daayitwa Nepal Public Service Fellowship (DNPSF) programme. Since 2013, DNPSF has supported 170 young Nepali public policy professionals, trained in 31 countries to conduct research projects for 74 public agencies and 25 parliamentarians at the federal, provincial and local levels across all seven provinces. Marking the successful 10 years of the fellowship journey, Daayitwa has inaugurated the DNPSF Alumni Council to support its mission of promoting evidence-based policy research for an inclusive and enterprising Nepal. An ad-hoc committee has been formed to take forward the Alumni. Addressing the ceremony, Baikuntha Aryal, MoCIT Secretary stated that the research done by the Daayitwa fellows has profoundly facilitated the work of the Nepal government and emphasized increasing the number of fellows. “It is our own responsibility to make the country better, we cannot rely on others to work on it. Therefore, if the Nepali youth, government, social, private and all other sectors work together, the overall governance system and style of the country can be improved”. Sharing his journey of Daayitwa Fellowship since its inception, Daayitwa’s Founder and  Chairperson Pukar Malla emphasized the magnitude of the importance of youth-government collaboration for the progress of the nation and encouraged the government to institutionalise innovative programmes like fellowship. Sharing the fellowship experience at the event, Daayitwa Fellow 2022, Rashi Maharjan said, “I believe that this fellowship triggered hope in me. The trust deficit between the youth and the government that we talk about so often is addressed by opportunities that we got through the fellowship”. Representatives of various government, private, social, international and media organisations as well as Fellowship Alumni participated in the event. The Daayitwa Nepal Public Policy Fellowship 2022 has been made possible by capacity partners, Nepal Leadership Academy and Governance Lab, as well as funding partners, Credit Information Bureau, Fusemachines, Incessant Rain, Worldlink and Onta foundation. Daayitwa is a Nepali non-profit, non-governmental organisation that envisions an enterprising Nepal, where every individual has opportunities for a prosperous future. READ ALSO:

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