Laligurans Community Development and Training Institute, Nepal
Nature restoration for healthy earth and prosperous societies.
About
- Laligurans Community Development & Training Institute (LCDTI) was established in 1995 as a non-governmental organisation registered in the District Administration Office, Kaski, Nepal. Likewise, it has been registered at the Social Welfare Council. This organisation is firmly committed to social changes through sustainable management of natural resources by mobilising local communities/organisations. This organization focus on 1) Training 2) Consultancy 3) Research 4) Development of projects and implementation 5) Advocacy sectors. This organisation focuses on the social, ecological/environmental and economic (SEE) model for sustainable development. LCDTI believes in a holistic development approach, prioritising sustainable development activities and natural resource management. It has been working in partnership with CBOs, NGOs, INGOs, GOs, and bilateral organisations, including private companies and firms. It works in agriculture, forestry, natural resource management and rural development through local resource mobilisation, animal health, local water management, Enterprise development, community development and advocacy, cooperative development and financial strengthening, poverty reduction and disaster risk management sectors. Moreover, it is also involved in research, development, knowledgeable products development, advocacy for laws & policy formulation and strengthening. LCDTI use its working framework during the implementation of its activities. LCDTI coordinates with the local government, provincial government, donors, international organisations, and the private sector for funding for the cooperative activation in the development field. LCDTI provides capacity-building training, managerial skills, planning and implementation, leadership development for resilience activities of climate change, disaster reduction, local water management, women empowerment, food security, disaster reduction, water management, natural resources, especially water forest, biodiversity conservation, management and sustainable use, reduction of emissions, degradation and deforestation in the working area.
Organization
Organisation Name: Laligurans Community Development & Training Institute (LCDTI), Nepal
Office address Pokhara Metropolitan city-5, Samichhyamarga Malepatan Pokhara, Kaski District, Gandaki Zone, Nepal
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Contact person: Bhola Dhakal
Designation: Chairperson/ Programme Manager
Cell: +977-9856049557
Email: bholadhakal@gmail.com
Alternate Email: lcdti.nepal@gmail.com
Establishment year: 2 November 1995 A.D.
Registrations
1. Registration Number: 234/2052 District Administration Office Kaski, Nepal
2. Affiliation Number: 3470/2052 Social Welfare Council, Kathmandu, Nepal
3. Permanent Account Number (PAN): 301319162 and VAT Registered on 2020 Inland Revenue Office Pokhara, Nepal
4. Affiliation to NGO Federation Kaski: GDK-KSK-154
5. Bank Account name and number:
Account Name: Laligurans Community Development and Training Institute
Bank Name: Agriculture Development Bank Prithiwi chowk Branch, Pokhara, Nepal
Account number: A/C 0316400214811014
Departments
| S.N. | Departments | Desination |
| 1 | Climate Change Management Department | Climate Change Adaptation & Mitigation Specialist |
| 2 | Natural Resource Management Department | Natural Resource Management Specialist |
| 3 | Training and Capacity Development Department | Curriculum Development & Training Delivery Specialist |
| 4 | Community and Cooperatives Management Department | Community Development Specialist |
| 5 | Administration, Account & Finance Management Department: | Admin and Finance Management Specialist |
| 6 | Watershed and Landscape Management Department | Watershed Management Specialist |
| 7 | Business & Social Enterprises Development Department | Business & Social Entreprise Development Specialist |
| 8 | Forest and Biodiversity Restoration Department | Forest and Biodiversity Management Specialist |
| 9 | Waste Management Recycling Department | Waste Management & Recyling Specialist |
| 10 | Agriculture and Livestock Farm Development Department | Agriculture and Farm Development Specialist |
| 11 | Science and Technology Development Department | GIS and Remote Sensing Specialist |
| 12 | Research, Consultancy and Knowledge Management Department | Science, Technology & Research Specialist |
| 13 | Alternative and Green Energies Development and Promotion Department. | IEE, EIA and Environmental Specialist |
| 14 | Donors Coordination and Project Development Department | Planning and Project Development Specialist |
| 15 | Information Technology Data Management Department | Information Technology and Data Management Specialist |
| 16 | Social Safeguard, Good Governance and Advocacy Department | GEDSI, Good Governance and Advocacy Specialist |
| 17 | Private Forest Development Department | Private Forest Development Specialist |
| 18 | Community Forestry Development Department | Community Forestry Development Specialist |
| 19 | Health, Sanitation and Water Management Department | Water Management Specialist |
VMGO
To maintain healthy earth and create a prosperous society.
Mission
- Strengthening & empowering peoples' organizations by focusing on poor and disadvantaged groups and enhancing their roles in the participatory development process.
- Promoting local community initiation for the improvement of the quality of life through the effective and considerate use of local resources.
- Managing natural resources for sustainable development in developmental activities and natural resources.
- Promoting, Integrating and advocating the applications of sustainable development principles and practices for achieving, collaborative, community-based, equitable, and efficient initiatives, actions, and Programmes.
- To develop sustainable livelihoods for poor and natural resources dependent communities
- To enable vulnerable and disadvantaged groups to climate change adaptation and build resilience to disasters
- To facilitate change in knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) for achieving overall sanitation.
- To promote partnerships among small farmers, producers and entrepreneurs in collaboration with private sectors.
- To advocate knowledge and evidence-based inclusive policy change at different levels.
- To improve the natural resources by collaborating with different stakeholders; government, donors and the private sector.
- To empower women to generate and have control over their income.
- To care for the landscape, especially in areas such as soil and water conservation and management, biodiversity conservation, and forest restoration.
- Capacity development of community people and community-based organisations, the private sector, the three tiers of government institutions, NGOs, INGOs, and lateral and bilateral organisations.
- To work on climate change adaptation, mitigation, technology development, research and development.
- To be involved in improving people's livelihoods, community development, and the development of micro-enterprises and small enterprises.
- To be involved in the capacity building of migrant people and resolving their issues.
- To be involved in IEE/EIA, ecology and environment sectors.
Executive Board
Bhola Dhakal
Programme Manager/Chairperson
Bhola Dhakal has experience working NGOs, INGOs and bilateral organisations in the field of natural resource management and rural development, climate change adaptation and mitigation and climate change resilience activities, biodiversity conservation, control the deforestation and degradation, environmental safeguarding and livelihood improvement sectors since 1990 A.D. in Nepal.
Ramchandra Poudel
Vice Chairperson
Ram Chandra Poudel has strong skill and knowledge in women and children field and their development. Strong facilitation skills on children and development field. He is the founder of Children Nepal organization in Nepal.
Rabi Bahadur B.K.
General secretary
Rabi Bahadur B.K. has experience of business promotion and managing the business. He has also experience of working in the Pokhara Chamber of Commerce and leading the business development sector.
Pampha Devkota Pahari
Secretary
Pampha is the leading figure in the women and tourism business in Pokhara. She is also leading beautician business including hotel management, environment and ecology conservation sector in Pokhara, Nepal. Her involvement is in Gender and Social Inclusion (GESI) including control of women violence sector.
Laxmi Devi Sharma
Treasurer
Laxmi Sharma has 10 years of experience in managing admin finance and entrepreneurial developments in the micro-enterprise development sectors under the UNDP project.
Dhanajaya Poudel
Executive member
Dhanajaya Poudel has experience in livestock management, cooperative management, project planning, implementation and skill training delivery. He gained experience from Nepal and Japan.
Hira Gurung
Executive member
Hira Gurung has experience in water and sanitation including technical and sociology fields. Hira has good entrepreneurship skills as well as ecotourism/home-stay and hotel management skills. She is involved in Gurung's culture conservation and exploration including development activities.
Bobin Nepali
Executive Member
Bobin Nepali has work experience in the gender and development field including the right-based approach in Nepal. He advocates for marginalised and minority communities including development activities and the social sector in Pokhara, Nepal.
Madhav Prasad Baral
Executive member/Research, Consultancy and Knowledge Management Department
Madhav Prasad Baral has experience in long government jobs and has strong knowledge of policy related to natural resource management rural development and land management policy. He recently published a book of Bhumi-Chintan ( Land management issues) of Nepal. He advocates the thought of people and our long-term practice of culture, politics, religion and philosophy. His contribution is mainly guiding people and society including development.
Anita Dahal
Executive member
Anita Dahal has five year experience of gender and development studies field in Nepal. She has good social engineering field.
Seniormost Member & Advisors
Ram Prasad Gyawali
Senior Member
Ram Prasad Gyawali, Founder of Laligurans Community Development Institute, Nepal. He is a Political-economist and leader of appreciative inquiry and development field. He led Nucleus for empowerment through skill transfer, Red Cross Kaski and the Naulo Ghumti. Now He is in San Francisco, California in America.
Gopal Khadka
Advisor
Gopal Dhowj Khadka has NGOs experience of about 30 years in the field of organisation development, capacity building and social sectors. He is also chairperson of the Federation of NGOs of Gandaki province in Nepal.
George Vernon Byrd, Ph.D.
International Advisor
George Vernon Byrd, Ph.D. serves as an international advisor. His expertise is in sustainable technology in food, energy, and water and biodiversity conservation. He currently serves as Department Head of the College of Science and Technology and Director of the Sustainable Technology Research Centre at the University of the Nations, in Kona, Hawaii, USA.
Ajaya Thapa, Ph.D.
Advisor
Ajay Thapa, PhD, Dean of Pokhara University is playing advisory roles for the organizational growth and Business and entrepreneurship development field as a knowledge resources.
Team members ( Staff)
Kaanchan Sharma
Account and Finance Specialist/Account & Finance Management Department
He has been involved in this organisation in the admin and finance management sector. He has work experience in the banking sector.
Naina Bataju
Women Empowerment Officer/Social Safeguard and GESI Department
Naina Bataju is a Women Empowerment Officer in Laligurans Community Development and Training Institute. She had graduated in Population, Gender, and Development from Pokhara University. She involved in women empowerment programme design, right based advocacy trainings and awareness and social mobilization in Gender Equity and social Inclusion (GESI) sector. She has excellent skills of office management, communication, and problem-solving.
Rashmi Poudel
Assistant Team Leader/Enterprises and Cooperative Development Department/ Gandaki River Basin
Rashmi Poudel is the Forestry graduated professional. She was leading enterprises and cooperatives development department in Gandaki river basin in Laligurans community development and training institute, Nepal.
Dharma Neupane
Agricultural Field Practitioner/Agriculture and Livestock Farm Development Department
Dharma Neupane is a Agricultural Field Practitioner. He involved to run farmers' field school under Agriculture and Livestock Farm Development Department of Laligurans Community Development and Training Institute, Nepal.
Sharada Sherpa
Gender Equity Disability & Social Security (GEDSI) Specialist/Social Safeguard, Good Governance and Advocacy Department
She has experience working with Mercy Corps, Jal, Jungle Global DAI LLC. She has experience of working in private and international organisations.
Team Members ( Staff)
Bigyan Gautam ( Kushal)
Agro-forestry Officer/ Agriculture and Livestock Farm Development Department
Bigyan Gautam is a agriculture based professional. He is a fresh and energetic staff members involved in agriculture/horticulture based business supports and promotion including research and development activities. His quality to mobilise youth in agriculture/horticulture improvement and management. He is practising climate change adaptation and resilience activities in agriculture section.
Yudhisthir Sharma
Eco-tourism, Enterprises and Cooperative Development Department
Yudhisthir Sharma, who is business and finance professional. He involved in micro-enterprises development sector as a implementing partners of Micro-Enterprises Development Programme of UNDP. He also worked longtime in MEDEP organisation. He was basically involved in Parbat district Nepal as a Programme Coordinator. He had developed many entrepreneurs in that district. Resha Pariyar( Leader of National Micro-Entrepreneur Group Association), Buddhi Purja ( Allo Entrepreneur) and Jusmaya Pun ( Allo entrepreneur) are the renounce entrepreneurs in district and country those were developed in his working period in MEDEP/UNDP in Nepal.
Sneha Poudel
Watershed Associate , Watershed Management Department ( Gandaki River Basin)
Sneha is a forestry professional. She interested in managing of wetland ecosystem.
Gokul Poudel
Agricultural Practitioner/Agriculture and Livestock Farm Development Department
Gokul Poudel is a Agriculture practitioner work in agriculture sector for more than 12 years. He was holding practical knowledge and skill in agriculture field of farm development and agriculture skill transfer. He is the professional of running farmers' field school.
Team Members ( Staff)
Ramji Prasad Devkota
GIS Analyst/Research, Consultancy and Knowledge Management Department
Ramji Prasad Devkota is a Geographer. His profession for GIS analysis and supporting for different project proposal development in development field a long time in Nepal.
Basanta Baral
Project Coordinator / Waste Management Department
Basanta Baral is graduated professional development field. He is highly motivated and inspiring Team Leader with multidisciplinary academic background and several years of project development and implementation experiences along with teaching experiences in different kinds of organisation.
Jonilal Hirachan
Executive Director
Jonilal Hirachan who had contributed long time in forestry sector of government of Nepal. He has leaded the Thakali society members those originated from Marfa of Mustang and those inhibited in Pokhara valley in Gandaki province in Nepal He has experience of human resource and office management. His professionalism in forestry sector in Nepal.
Saugat Bhattarai
Forest and Biodiversity Restoration Officer/Forest and Biodiversity Restoration Department
Saugat Bhattarai is a young professional in the field of forestry and biodiversity restoration. He worked in Nepal under the Laligurans Community Development and Training Institute, Nepal, from 2025.
Services
What services provide from the Laligurans Community Development and Training Institute Nepal?
1. Capacity building through facilitation and skill transfers ( Training)
2. Research and Development activities ( Research)
3. Consultancy services ( Consultancy)
4. Implementation of development projects and programmes ( Project Development & implementation)
5. Advocacy for policy development and policy improvement in the communities, cooperatives, three tiers of governments and institutional level. ( Advocacy)
What types of training charge other facilities you have managed?
- Lead facilitator's fee per Person per day=10000
- Co-facilitator's fee per person per day = 7000
- Facilitators' lodging per Person per day=1500
- Participants' Lodge per Person per day=1500
- Participants' Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snacks, high tea + Mineral water per Person per day=1500
- Stationery for training Facilitation per Day= 500
- Teaching materials for Participants per Person=1000
- Stationery and Bag for Participants per Person=2000
- Transportation cost for participants per Person per event=3000
- Medical costs per Person per event =500
- Training hall rent per day=3000
- Training banners per event= 1000
- Transportation cost for field observation per event= 50000
- Projector rent per day =1000
- Training Communication cost per event= 5000
- Training report writing fee per event=10000
- Report printing per event= 3000
Add TDS 2% on facilitation and report writing fee
Add 10% of the total cost (Administrative and management contributions) for the organisation's sustaining
Note:
a) USD 1=143.37 NPR and the rate calculation for FY 2026 A.D.
b) Mode of payment: • 50% of the total amount should be paid before the commencement of the training • 50% amount after the completion and submission of the report of the training
What types of your organisational resources can we use as learning documents ?
- Shitake Mushroom Cultivation Business plan Bhola Dhakal.pdf
2. Business plan for Lapsi Pickle (Auto saved).pdf
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358415775_Business_plan_for_Lapsi_Pickle_Autosaved
3. Allo (Girardinia diversifolia) Enterprise Business Plan.pdf
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/364182331_Allo_Girardinia_diversifolia_Thread_Production_Enterprise_BUSINESS_PLAN_Glimpse_of_Allo_Thread_Production_Enterprise's_Business_Plan_Nepalese_context_Gandaki_province_Western_Nepal
4. Bamboo plywood production business plan/project
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335738344_Bamboo_Nepal_private_limited_BNPL_ppt
5. Tejpat processing business plan/project
https://www.academia.edu/44028413/Business Plan Tejpat
6. Chyuri (Bassia butyracea) based enterprises development business plan/project
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317597566_CEPP_Nepal_the_proposed_projects_for_implementation
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317040084_Development_of_Chyuri_Diploknema_butyracea_Roxb_Fruit_Biomass_Models_A_case_study_from_Piple_Basaha_Community_Forest_of_Baglung_Nepal
https://www.academia.edu/76530135/Development_of_Chyuri_Diploknema_butyracea_Roxb_Fruit_Biomass_Models_A_case_study_from_Piple_Basaha_Community_Forest_of_Baglung_Nepal_
Bhola thesis 133.pdf
7. Begnas Rupa Aesthetic Park development plan/project in the eastern part of Kaski District (proposed).
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333114263_Begnas_Rupa_Aesthetic_Park_BRAP_for_socialeconomy_and_ecologyenvironment_balance_model_for_the_implementation_in_eastern_part_of_Pokhara_valley_in_Nepal
8. Turmeric processing business plan/ project
https://www.academia.edu/74702977/Turmeric_processing_Business_plan
Can you explain about your human resources for providing the services?
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We use your resources for Natural resource management and rural development activities including climate change resilience, adaptation and mitigation activities. Simultaneously, we empower women, Dalits, minorities, ethnic groups and marginalized people for the Social, Economic, and Ecological/Environmental (SEE) model implementation including Sustainable Development Goal achievement.
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Account Name: Laligurans Community Development and Training Institute
Bank Name: Agriculture Development Bank Prithiwi chowk Branch, Pokhara, Nepal
Account Number: A/C 0316400214811014.
