Deependra Chaulagain
Short vita
Deependra Chaulagain is the Director of Operations & Outreach at Samriddhi Foundation where he designs operational systems and oversees outreach programs. His key strengths are coordinating with parliamentarians, politicians, and bureaucrats. He has successfully led numerous advocacy campaigns, debate and Leadership programs.
He joined Samriddhi Foundation in 2007 and is also a former president of Liberal Youth of South Asia (LYSA). He also holds long experience of designing and executing several national and international programs in youth politics, entrepreneurship and leadership. As a Director of Operations and Outreach Deependra also has long experience on working with Policy makers, political leaders and non-partisan leaders in Nepal. Deependra is also Acting Managing Country Director of Global Entrepreneurship Network in Nepal. Deependra holds a post graduate degree in Political Science.
Contributions
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Nepal’s Democratic Transition: Turbulent but Promising
While the situation in Nepal appears to be chaotic at the moment, what is evident among countries globally that have gone through such transitions is that they have all faced a similar challenge. Nepal’s transition from an authoritarian regime to a multi-party democracy was merely over 30 years ago. Much like other young democracies, Nepal is still struggling to make intricate adjustments on the executive, legislative, and judicial fronts, whilst also ensuring that the problems of the previous system are addressed, and good practices retained.
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A change of guard
The second round of general elections held on November 20 under the new federal republic system has given us a number of reasons to feel hopeful, the most important being the reassertion of people’s trust in democracy
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Youth Participation in Politics: Shared vision and sustainability of federalism in Nepal
Across the world, the youth has played a historically significant role in major political revolutions. What has also been seen is those young people who frequently lead protests but are not later included informal political proceedings are left frustrated, resulting in destabilization of the democratization process, which later leads to conflicts. To avoid adversities in the political and civil environments of a nation, encouraging the active participation of young
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Boosting the Vaccination Drive
The best shot to mitigate the profound risk of health crisis and move beyond the COVID-19 pandemic is by expediting the vaccination drive and ensuring that everyone is vaccinated. However, in Nepal, merely ten percent of the population have received a complete dose of the vaccine and an additional fifteen percent have received the first of the two doses.
