The 31st World AIDS Day was celebrated at Butwal with an awareness rally, a cultural musical concert and a charity programme. On 1 December, various organisations working in the areas of HIV together with the government celebrated…

To provide advocacy skills on interfaith peace and harmony, Interfaith Peace Federation Nepal (IPFN), in collaboration with UMN, organised national advocacy skills training to the member organisations of IPFN. The two-day training was held last week with…

Where does Nepal stand in environmental issues? A research report titled ‘State of Climate Action in Nepal’, was recently launched, which was co-authored by UMN’s Environment and Climate Change Advisor, Durga Prasad Upadhyay. An article published in…

This year, the theme of World Mental Health Day (Today – 10 Oct) is ‘Young people and mental health in a changing world’. The Ministry of Health observed the day yesterday where UMN Health Team participated. In…

To help science teachers develop their practical teaching skills, UMN recently organised ‘The Practical Science Training’ for 12 teachers from 12 different government schools in Salley, Rukum. The teachers were shown how to perform simple experiments using…

In the past two weeks, 23 UMN line managers came together in several groups for ‘Ignite’, which is a two-year programme to build capacity of our UMN leadership. It consists of eight modules, each running for three…

Globally, each year around 800,000 lives are lost due to suicides. The recent statistics from Nepal Police shows 5,346 suicide cases were reported over the fiscal year 2017/18. To raise awareness and global commitment to prevent suicide,…

We are very sad to inform our friends about Mia Voreland’s passing away early Monday morning on 13 August, 2018. Mia had been fighting cancer for some time and her health rapidly got worse during the last…

On the celebration of International Youth Day 2018, here’s a story of Indra who struggled and finally made it as a successful micro-entrepreneur. Indra is probably one of the most successful entrepreneurs the ICAV project of UMN…

The 11th batch of interns officially graduated today at UMN which was celebrated with a formal programme and lunch. The 10 interns had spent a year with UMN working hard with various technical teams and clusters of…