Community Development Workshop

May 3, 2005. Community Development Workshop. Imagine Initiative, Lalitpur organized a day's "First Lalitpur Community Development Workshop (FLCDW) at Jawalakhel. Chief District Officer inaugurated the workshop. The Program was run in the presence of Local Development Officer, Lalitpur. General Secretary of NAINN ran an introductory class of Appreciative Inquiry in the workshop. He explained the theory, philosophy and 4 D cycle of AI. Papers on Agro-Forestry, Education, Health and Women were presented and discussed there. Mr Bimal Kumar Baniya., Mr. Harsanarayan Dhaumadel, Mr Rituraj Gaudtaula and Ms. Kamala Parajuli presented the paper respectively. District level GOs, NGOs, INGOs and other organization involved in economic sectors participated in the programme. The total presentation was 63 including half of female. The participants were encouraged to have known about AI and about how social development can be run through AI. All the present organizations including Lalitpur District Development Committee were agreed to implement AI in their planning, Social development activities and also agreed to organize such programs in the days to come.