Organizational Profile

Part 1 Introduction

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ITRA Samaj is striving for the overall improvement of health and socio-economic condition of Nepalese people. It's forwarding its endeavors for empowerment of society through various research, strategic behavior communication, organizational development and social marketing thereby contributing in achieving national goal of poverty alleviation. In line with the its vision MITRA Samaj will; Conduct research and provide technical support in order to contribute for poverty alleviation, improvement in health, education and development of society. Implement capacity building and human resource development programs by working with the NGO, CBO, civil society organizations and other institutions to contribute for developing strong vibrant civil society. Develop a wider network and forge partnership to contribute for achieving goals of poverty alleviation and inclusive development in the national and international level. Implement Social Marketing and Strategic Behavior Communication campaign to achieve positive behavior change to contribute in improvement of health, education and development of society. Implement empowerment programs for disadvantaged women, dalits, and other ethnic groups to increase their access to poverty alleviation initiatives thereby contributing in poverty alleviation.

MITRA Samaj works to support national goals as outlined in government policy, strategic and planning documents. It provides technical assistance to the Government at national, district and local level by promoting Public Private Partnership (PPP) for Social Marketing of Family Planning (FP); Maternal Child Health (MCH) and HIV/AIDS Prevention Products and Services.

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MITRA SAMAJS CORE CAPACITY

Social Mobilization/Health Program Implementation: MITRA Samaj has a pool of technical experts including medical doctors and highly experienced social mobilizer who have worked in remote areas of the country to implement health program including organizing mobile health camps, implementing safe motherhood programs, Maternal and Child Health, Family Planning and Child Health programs through social mobilization for deprived and marginalized class of the society.

Research: MITRA Samaj has capacity of carrying out research on health as well as non health sector. MITRA Samaj has completed number of research and evaluations; to name few End line evaluation of Youth Friendly Services implemented by Family Planning Association of Nepal and funded by UNFPA; Final evaluation of Safe Motherhood Innovation Project implemented by ADRA, Strategic review of Radio Health Program implemented by NFHP/USAID, Field Monitoring of VCT implemented by GTZ, GIS mapping to monitor products and services performance.

Strategic Behavioral Communication including materials development, media production, and public relation: With internationally acclaimed and recognized professionals in the team, MITRA Samaj is competent in designing and implementing strategic behavior communication strategies, Information Education and Communication (IEC) materials and audio/visual mass media campaigns. It holds the credit of having a pool of professionals who have formal education and wealth of experience in this area. Also, the team of MITRA Samaj is comprised of the individual who lead a Global award winning project on HIV/AIDS.

Organizational Development: The professional team of MITRA Samaj has more than two decades of experience on capacity building of employees and organizations. An organizational assessments tool was developed and assessment of four local organizations was carried out with technical support from Harvard Business School graduate. The team has extensive experience in the area of need identification followed by organizational capacity assessment, capacity development, curriculum design, training and evaluation of capacity building activities at various levels.

Management Support: MITRA Samaj holds expertise on providing technical and management support, conferences/ seminars to match tailored needs. In addition, the team has experience in strengthening the system in equipment and commodities and disposal of commodities and equipment.

Social Marketing: Team members of MITRA Samaj have almost a half decade of hands-on experience in social marketing of the health products and services in their capacity as program managers of leading international social marketing organization with formal education on Social Marketing from University of South Florida.

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MITRA SAMAJS WORKING AREAS

Gender and development: One of major focus of the MITRA Samaj is to facilitate inclusive development focused on equal participation of men, women, dalits and other ethnic community. MITRA Samaj is working towards achieving results in various remote districts of Nepal by helping women and youth to acquire knowledge and skills to make informed decisions and take appropriate actions to address their educational, social and reproductive health needs through its implementing partners by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with them.

Water, Hygiene and Sanitation: MITRA Samaj has a pool of infrastructure development experts, social mobilizers and communication experts having decades of experiences in designing, implementing and monitoring and evaluating WASH program in remote districts of Nepal.

Gender Based Violence: MITRA Samaj in coordination with office of Prime Minister, Government of Nepal and support from The Asia Foundation supported to implement the campaign against Gender Based Violence. Under this programme MITRA Samaj developed a Public Service Announcement (PSA) on form of a Television Commercial (TVC) which visualized key issues concerned with gender based violence. Its audio sequence provided a Punch Line, Jingle and Signature Music, which simultaneously can be used for broadcasting via radio.

HIV/AIDS/STI Prevention: MITRA Samaj is working to increase the scope and breadth of HIV/AIDS prevention activities in Nepal through public and private sector mobilization. MITRA Samaj will be carrying out the activities to increase access to services through its partners.

Adolescent and Youth: MITRA Samaj supports activities for overall development of girls and boys by disseminating information on issues such as human sexuality, basic health care, family planning, girl trafficking, womens legal and human rights and relationships. Girls and boys are linked with non-formal education opportunities, including basic literacy training and are encouraged to participate in formal schooling.

Decentralization and good governance: MITRA Samaj realizes that inclusive development will not be achieved without effective decentralization at all level and good governance. To achieve results on overriding goals of decentralization and good governance, MITRA Samaj will build effective partnership with local community, their organization at different level and national stakeholders to implement a right based approach.

Food Security and Nutrition: MITRA Samaj has a pool of resource persons who have involved in the food security and nutrition program. Ensuring food security is an important aspects of ensuring nutrient of mother and child. MITRA Samaj is building its niche to build partnership and implement food security and nutrition program in food insecure districts of Nepal. The focus of MITRA Samaj is to work together with private and public sector partners for multi-sectoral approach to development issues by ensuring ownership of local bodies for sustainable development and quality of care in health programs.

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Part 2 List of main staff

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MITRA Samaj Human Resources

MITRA Samaj is managed by a multidisciplinary team of development professionals committed to working together for prosperity. A core group of 18 staffs indicated below manages MITRA Samaj. The core group comprises of Chief Executive Officer, Programme Coordinators, Finance Manager, Data Manager, Researcher, Social Mobilization Officer, Logistic Assistant, Research Assistant, Office Assistants, Drivers and Helpers. Brief profiles of its regular staff are presented below. Position Brief Profiles of MITRA Samaj's Human Resources Name Education Mr. Vivek R. Singh Dr. Samir Koirala Mr. Anil Poudyal Mr. Dharma Ratna Shakya Mr. Nilesh M. Joshi Mr. Sanjaya Dhakal Mr. Rajan Pudasaini Mr. Sudarsan Dahal Miss Parisha Shrestha Mr. Bijay Basnet Miss Niru Bhandari Mr. Tirtha Ghimire Miss Mamta Pradhan Mr. Ganesh Basnet Miss Kalpana Karki Ms. Kalpana Thapa 2 person MBA and Diploma course on Social Marketing MBBS, MPH Bachelor in social science Bachelor in Commerce Masters in Business Studies Masters in Business Studies and MA in Sociology MA in Sociology - Ongoing BA in Sociology B. Sc Nursing IA - Ongoing BBS - Ongoing BA - Ongoing B. Sc BA - Ongoing Years of Experience 12 6 12 24 10 7 8 4 2 15 3 2 2 2 3 7 5

Chief Executive Officer/Team Leader Programme Coordinator Programme Coordinator/Social Mobilizer Finance Manager Data Manager Researcher Social Mobilization Officer Research Assistant Research Assistant Sr. Office Assistant Data Entry Operator Logistic Assistant Executive Secretary Office Assistant Helper Helper Drivers

Besides the core group of regular staff, a strong group of professionals have consented to work for MITRA Samaj on assignment call basis. Table below provides the briefs on persons consenting to work for MITRA Samaj on assignment basis.

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Part 3 Project /Program Achievements (July 2006 to May 2012)

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Project /Program Achievements (July 2006 to May 2012)

SN Project Project Period Supporting Organization

Ongoing program 1 Pilot introduction of Vi polysaccharide typhoid vaccine through school-based vaccination program in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, using cross subsidization scheme, Completed Projects 1 Gender Based Violence - Free Nepal Campaign 2010 Study to track the inflow/coverage/ sustainability of resources for the HIV/AIDS programme in Nepal. Deployment of Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor in N-MARC/AED, Nepal Public Private Partnership for Social Marketing for FP, MCH and HIV/AIDS Prevention Product and Services, Nepal GIS mapping of HIV risk zones in 26 districts of Nepal A GIS study for measuring product performance and strategic planning M GIS round IV the preliminary work related to Zinc Commercial Sector Technical Support and Provider Orientation Program Zinc Commercial Sector Technical Support and Provider Orientation Program Endline survey on the Family Future Project Facilitation and Advisory Services to Population Division, Ministry of Health and Population to Accomplish Questionnaire Design and Sampling Design Program Deployment of Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor in N-MARC/AED, Nepal November 10 to December 15, 2010 April - June 2010 The Asia Foundation October 2010 to February 2013 International Vaccine Institute

World Bank

January- April 2010 November 2009 to April 2010 June - November 2008 August 2007 to November 2009 April 2009 to May 2009 May 2009 to November 2009 July - August 2009 September October 2009

N-MARC/ AED /USAID

N-MARC/ AED /USAID

5 6 7

N-MARC/ AED /USAID N-MARC/ AED /USAID N-MARC/ AED /USAID

8 9 10

N-MARC/ AED /USAID CEDPA GTZ

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October 2007 to December 2009

N-MARC/ AED /USAID

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Project

Project Period

Supporting Organization

12 13

GIS Mapping of Sangini Network to measure product and service performance, Nepal Production of Audio-visual training materials to health professionals (Health Assistants), Nepal Mobilizing Commercial Companies in Universal Access for Children Affected by AIDS in Nepal (UCAAN) Initiatives under Public Private Partnership, Nepal Public Private Partnership for Social Marketing for FP, MCH and HIV/AIDS Prevention Product and Services, Nepal Capacity Building on GIS Mapping of product/services Delivery Monitoring and Evaluation in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Impact Assessment of Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) Awareness program, Nepal A documentary on Climate Change in Nepal, a documentary to capture the variation of climate change in Nepal. GIS Mapping of Hot Zones to measure performance of product and services in Kathmandu Valley Strategic Review of Radio Health Program NFHP Stakeholders Workshop on HIV/AIDS Monitoring of HIV Voluntary Counseling And Testing (VCT) In Nine Districts of Nepal Micronutrients Fortification Of Cereal Flours At Water Mills In Rural Nepal, A Documentary on a Pilot Project Naulo Kiran, Ray of Hope A documentary on the successful implementation of the B.P Memorial Health Foundation/ RHIYA Project, Nepal Eauta Prayas, An effort, a documentary on HIV/AIDS at Workplace Education Program

January - May 2009 December 1, 2008 to February 15, 2009 February - June 2009

N-MARC/ AED /USAID Nick Simons Institute (NSI)

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Family Health International, Nepal

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15 August 2007 to 14 August 2008 17 Nov 26 Dec 2008

N-MARC/ AED /USAID

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Tanzania Marketing and Communication Company Ltd (T-MARC), Tanzania Chemonics/ USAID World Wildlife Fund

17 18

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N-MARC/ AED /USAID

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12 July, 2007 to 28 September 2007

USAID Health Sector Support Program / GTZ Health Sector Support Program / GTZ Micronutrient Initiative

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BP Memorial Health Foundation

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International Labor Organization, ILO office in Nepal

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Project

Project Period

Supporting Organization

26

Assessment of the Commercial Condom Market,

March, 2007

Nepal Social Marketing and Franchise Project (NMARC)/Academy for Educational Development (AED) ADRA /EU UNFPA UNFPA

27 28 29

The Final Evaluation of Safe Motherhood Innovation Project, Documentation of Youth Friendly Service Programme, Evaluation of the Youth Friendly Service Programme in Mahottari and Kapilvastu,

January- February, 2007 July, 2006 July, 2006

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Part 4 Physical resources, communication facilities and software available

MITRA SAMAJS RESOURCES

MITRA Samaj, located in Panipokhari, Lazimpat, Kathmandu, have a well furnished office situated in its (2.5 floor) rented building duly equipped with all necessary office facilities computers, printers, power-point multimedia, intercom, vehicles, photo-copiers, motor-bikes, etc. It has access to 24-hour broadband internet services putting. MITRA Samaj has at its disposal adequate assets and resources, which can be effectively mobilised for different activities to be carried out.

Physical resource of MITRA Samaj

SN 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Description Desktop Computers Data Server Laptop Laser Printer Photocopy machine Scanner LCD Projectors (Multimedia) PABX Digital Camera Power backup Generator GPS PDA Car/Jeep Motorbike Bicycle Specification Nos. Pentium IV, Dual Core and Core2Duo 12 Dell Power Edge T110 1 HP, ACER, DELL and MAC 9 Canon LBP- 1210 (2), LBP-6300dn 4 (1), LBP-2900 (1) SHARP 1 Microtek 1 Canon, Dell 3 (Intercom- 16 Line) Sony 3 KVA UPS (locally manufactured by ITE and Exide Battery) Elemax Honda Different brands HP Maruti Gypsi, Toyota Shine Mountain bike 1 5 1 1 10 2 2 1 4 Ownership MITRA Samaj MITRA Samaj MITRA Samaj MITRA Samaj MITRA Samaj MITRA Samaj MITRA Samaj MITRA Samaj MITRA Samaj MITRA Samaj MITRA Samaj MITRA Samaj IVI Rented MITRA Samaj MITRA Samaj

Communication facilities of MITRA Samaj

SN 1 2 3 4 5 6 Name Telephone CDMA Phone Office Mobile phones CDMA Modem - Sky Phone N-cell Connect 24-hour broadband internet service Description Land Line Land Line Nepal Telecom/Ncell NTC Ncell Wlink 1 Mbps Numbers 2 (16 internal extension lines) 1 3 1 (with internet facilities in remote areas) 2 (with internet facilities in remote areas) 1

Software available in MITRA Samaj

SN 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. Name SPSS Stata EPI Info EPI Data Arc GIS Health Mapper Foxpro Visual Studio Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows Server MAC OS Microsoft Office Package Adobe Creative Suite Primo Pdf Quick Book Acronis True Image SPSS 20 Stata 12.0 GIS Software Microsoft Visual Foxpro 9.0 Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Microsoft Windows 7 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Microsoft Office 2010 - Access; Excel; Word; PowerPoint; Outlook; One note; Publisher; Groove Adobe Creative Suite 4 Acrobat; Photoshop; Premiere; Illustrator; Flash; Firework; Dreamweaver; After Effects; Sound Booth Accounting Package Acronis True Image Enterprise Server 9.1 for Data Backup Description

For further information on MITRA Samaj MITRA Samaj GPO Box: 13283, Panipokhari, Lazimpat, Kathmandu, Nepal Tel: +00977-1-4002587, 4442577 98510 46510 (cell phone Vivek) Email: info@mitrasamaj.org; vivek@mitrasamaj.org Website: www.mitrasamaj.org

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