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CV – Laxman Kharal Chettry (updated in Feb 2016)
Experience SUMMARY
1) Professional work experience of 27 years in WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) - in
development (rural, emerging towns and city) and emergency from India, Nepal, Sri Lanka,
Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan covering the following :
(a) Gravity and pumping drinking water piped and on site systems – survey/assessment, design,
implementation using surface and groundwater sources – with spring protection, stream diversion,
bore/tube wells with hand and electric pumps, sand and membrane filters, chlorination, and basic
water testing including e-coli count.
(b) Sustainable sanitation technologies – particularly on-site sanitation using innovative alternating
double pit pour flush and double vault dry ecosan toilets, septic tanks with soakage pits and
absorption trench/beds, and short term and long term emergency latrines, faecal sludge
management in emerging town.
(c) Community mobilization for sustainability and behaviour change in hygiene –classical and
participatory research including PHAST and social marketing approach.
(d) Planning, management and research related work – (i) monitoring, evaluation, review and
impact assessment of projects and programs; (ii) formulation of policy and strategy, (iii)
management information system/ knowledge management, (iv) social survey on demand/use,
knowledge, attitude and practice; and baseline preparation, (v) Capitalization.
(e) Proposal preparation – field assessment and preparation of draft proposals, review of proposal
before finalization [following sound project cycle management and logical framework approach]
(f) Social marketing mainstreaming.
(g) environmental impact assessment and environmental monitoring (in Melamchi Drinking Water
Supply project of Nepal)
Emergency experience (detail)
 One month in Sri Lanka, post war Vavuniya IDP camp
 Four months in India - tsunami affected Andhra Pradesh and Andamans and
Sunderbans of West Bengal
 Two months in Bangladesh, reconstruction in SIDR cyclone affected areas (Borisal)
 Four months, in flood induced disaster preparedness – in Nepal.
 13 months in the response of the earthquake of 8th Oct 2005 in Pakistan mostly in
reconstruction works in Kashmir and Mansehra.
 2 months in Nepal earthquake response in 2015.
Major Organizations and countries served : (1) Oxfam GB – Pakistan and Nepal, (2) Unicef –
Afghanistan, (3) Terre des hommes (Tdh) – Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, (4)
Asian Development Bank – Nepal, (5) National consulting firms in Nepal – CEMAT, SchEMS,
DMI, (6) With international consulting firms as counterpart in Nepal – Metcalf & Eddy (Americal)
and Nippon Koei (Japanese), (7) Department of Water Supply and Sewerage, Nepal and (8)
Melamchi Water Supply Development Board, Nepal; (9) World Bank – Nepal.
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CV – Laxman Kharal Chettry (updated in Feb 2016)
(A) Personal information
Name: Laxman Kharal Chettry (Mr);
Nationality: Nepalese;
Date of Birth: 1 March 1964;
Address: Shankhadevi, Lubhu-8, Lalitpur, Nepal.
Phone : ++ 977 – 9841 616896 (mobile); ++ 977-1-6912524; ++ 977-9849034724;
Email : [email protected]
(B) Academic Qualifications and Training
Dates
Course completed
Place of training
Grade/result
1991-93
Master in Human Ecology
Free University of Brussels, Belgium
Cum-laude
1982-86
Bachelor in Civil Engineering
University of Roorkee, Roorkee, India
First Division
19801982
Bachelor of Science (Physics
Honours)
St. Anthony’s College, Shillong, India
First Class
28 Jan – 6
Feb 1991
Training – “Preventive
maintenance of Water
Distribution Systems”
National Environmental Engineering
Research Institute, Nagpur-20, India.
Successful
completion
22-27
July 2008
Training – Environmental
Health in Emergencies
RedR Pune, India
Successful
completion
13-17 Oct
2008
Training – Essentials of
Humanitarian Practice
RedR Pune, India
Successful
completion
2-6
January
2010
Community Based Disaster
Risk Management
RedR India, Dhulikhel, Nepal
Successful
completion
(C ) Employment History (starting with the most recent)
Dates
Employer
15 April
2009 to
date
(Excluding
: 15 May
to 21 June
&
15 July to
15 Sep
2009)
Terre des
hommes (Tdh)
Foundation,
Lausanne,
Switzerland
Positions held
(title and summary of duties)
Title – Regional WASH Adviser (for India, Sri Lanka,
Bangladesh and Nepal)
Duties – Responsible for all/any WASH related tasks for
the South Asia Region of Tdh – in development and
emergency; in the community, temporary settlements
(brick kilns) and in institutions including schools, health
centres, and child development centres. Important tasks
covered so far are the following:
(a) mainstreaming of social marketing for behaviour
change communication
(b) proposal preparation – field assessment and
preparation of draft proposals, review of proposal before
finalization [following sound project cycle management
and logical framework approach]
(c) Inputs in recruitment of WASH personnel,
organization of regional knowledge sharing workshop,
preparation of hygiene promotion framework for the
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Reason for
leaving
In position
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(C ) Employment History (starting with the most recent)
Dates
Employer
(1)
15 May to
21 June &
(2)
15 July to
15 Sep 2009
Asian
Development
Bank
The Philippines,
Manilla
1March14 April
2009
4 Sep
2008 to
28 Feb
209
7 Nov
Positions held
(title and summary of duties)
region, participation with inputs in policy, plans and
strategy formulation.
(d) Monitoring, evaluation, training/mentoring and
support in county work through field missions, with
mission report covering detailed analysis, findings and
suggestions.
(e) Incorporation of WASH for emerging towns – (i)
assessment of the existing approaches on the subject and
incorporation in the regional workshop the tools available
for sanitation in emerging towns such as – excreta flow
diagram and Community Led Urban Environmental
Sanitation (CLUES); (ii) implementation of Katarniya
Emerging Town Water and Environmental Sanitation
Project in Bardiya district, mid-Western Region of Nepal
as joint endeavour in partnership with Helvetas and Swiss
Red Cross - the environmental sanitation part of the
project also include faecal sludge management at the
household and the community level – the project is in the
initial stage of development, MoU has been signed with
the key stakeholders.
Title - Utility Benchmark Expert - national consultant.
(Baseline survey – funded by the World Bank)
(1) Assessment and design of data collection
methodology and application to collect data and
information to bench-mark indicators of water quantity
and quality in the KUKL (Kathmandu Valley Drinking
Water Limited) distribution network and consumers.
(2) Major work in this comprised of survey of households
in 1600 house-buildings through a team of 21
enumerators.
(3) The work was carried out under an international
researcher from the University of Tokyo.
Reason for
leaving
Completion
WASH Expert. Assessment of the institutional capacities
of the district based WASH organization (Parbat, Myagdi,
Tanahu, Pyuthan) in connection with the implementation Completion
of Finnish Government supported Rural Water Supply
Bansbari,
Kathmandu, Nepal and Sanitation Project – Western Nepal.
Development
Management
Institute,
CEMAT and
SchEME jv
(consulting firm)
(Note: was on leave
from 7 Nov 2008 to
7 Jan 2009 for the
following Tdh
assignment in
Bangladesh)
Environmental Engineer.
Monitoring the implementation of ‘environmental
management plan’ of the under-construction Melamchi
Drinking Water Supply Project for Kathmandu
Valley and implementation of mitigation measures.
[monitoring – (a) compliance of construction contractors’
work; (b) river water quality and flow; (c) social impacts;
(d) other biophysical impacts.]
For other
career
opportunity
Terre des homes
WASH Consultant. Technical support (assessment,
Completion
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(C ) Employment History (starting with the most recent)
Dates
Employer
2008 to 7
Jan 2009
Foundation,
Switzerland
(SIDR response
program,
Patharghata,
Bangladesh)
1-30 June,
2008
UNICEF,
Afghanistan
27
October
2007 to
17 March
2008
Terre des
hommes.
Lausanne,
Switzerland
1-15
October
2007
Centre for Policy
Research and
Analysis (CPRA),
Kathmandu Nepal
1 August
to 30
Septembe
r 2007
18 April
to 30 July
2007
Asian
Development
Bank (ADB),
Nepal
Oxfam GB,
Nepal
Oxfam GB,
Positions held
(title and summary of duties)
design and initiation of the work) in connection with
launching of program on construction of 100 ‘dry-urineseparation-compost-latrines’ and two pond-sand-filters
along with formulation of complementary hygiene
promotion and training program.
WES consultant international. Evaluation of
demonstration drinking water supply project in Herat,
Afghanistan and preparation of draft policy on operation
and maintenance focusing sustainability.
WatSan Project Manager, Mansehra, Pakistan.
Reconstruction of 22 piped water schemes, construction
of 700 latrines along with hygiene promotion using
PHAST methodology. [earthquake response
reconstruction program]
WatSan Expert in ‘Sector Assessment of Capacity
Building Activities and Needs of Local NGOs’ for Water
Aid, Nepal [this also included small town water sanitation
project in the project samples assessed]
worked as “water supply and sanitation planning and
management specialist” – in the mid-term review of
community based water supply and sanitation program
(36 million US$ program of 6 years for disadvantaged
850,000 people) – for disadvantaged communities
targeting gender and social inclusion
Reason for
leaving
Completion
Completion
Completion
Completion
Public Health Engineer-WatSan.
Monitoring of local NGOs work (water supply, sanitation,
shelter and river training works) with advice on technical
Completion
aspects covering flood induced disaster preparedness
needs; including preparation of guideline for use in such
works in future under the DipECHO flood induced
disaster preparedness programs
Earthquake response
program in
Pakistan, Bagh, AJ
Kashmir
Public Health Engineer-Team Leader, international
Work performed: repair and rehabilitation of fifty
drinking water piped supply schemes; sanitation work;
and usual relief tasks.
Completion
December
2003 to
July 2006
Department of
Water Supply
and Sewerage,
Nepal.
Post: Chief, National Management Information Section
Work Performed: Development of approach and
strategy for national water-sanitation sector monitoring
and collection of nationwide data.
To join
OXFAM
GB
Sep 2003
to
December
American Peace
Corps, Nepal.
Post: Water-sanitation Technical Trainer. Work
Performed: Design, implementation and evaluation of
pre-service training for the 197 batch of the American
Peace Corps Volunteers (water-sanitation) to Nepal.
Completion
2 August
2006 to
15 Feb
2007 -
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(C ) Employment History (starting with the most recent)
Dates
Employer
Positions held
(title and summary of duties)
Reason for
leaving
2003
August
1998 to
August
2003
July 1996
to August
1998
October
1993 to
July 1996
January
1990 to
Septembe
r 1991
October
1986 to
January
1990
Different
dates
(for about
one year in
total during
1986-88)
Two
weeks in
1994
Melamchi Water
Supply
Development Board,
Kathmadu, Nepal.
His Majesty's
Government,
Department of
Water Supply and
Sewerage,
Appropriate
Technology Section,
Kathmandu, Nepal.
Department of
Water Supply and
Sewerage, Far
Western Regional
Project Management
Office, Dhangadi,
Nepal.
Department of
Water Supply and
Sewerage, Central
Human Resources
Development Unit
(CHRDU),
Kathmandu, Nepal.
Department of
Water Supply and
Sewerage, District
Water Supply
Offices, Rasuwa,
Kalikot and
Nuwakot Nepal.
Rural Water
Supply and
Sanitation Fund
Development
Board, Nepal.
Commission for
EIA – The
Netherlands
Post: Environmental Engineer. Work Performed:
Preparation of EIA; construction of groundwater wells;
artificial recharge of deep groundwater; preparation of
database on groundwater; review of past studies;
evaluation of pre-qualification and tender documents.
Promotion
Post: Water Supply and Sanitation Engineer. Major
Work Performed: Completed the research: "Impact of
the Second Water Supply Sector Project (SWSSP)
implemented in Nepal (1990-1995): A case study"
[Through Robert S McNamara Fellowship program of the
World Bank – using PRA tools]
Transfer
Post: Assistant to Regional Manager. Work Performed:
Review of feasibility and final design, appraisal, and
monitoring and evaluation. [ADB funded rural water
supply and sanitation program]
Award of
World Bank
Robert S
McNamara
Fellowship
Post:Trainer/Training Coordinator.
Work performed: Need assessment, design,
implementation and evaluation of community based
water-sanitation trainings.
Post: District Engineer/ Project In-charge
Responsibilities: Planning, Design, and implementation
of district rural water supply and sanitation schemes.
Posts: Technical chief/Freelance consultant/ Team Leader
Duties: review of design, appraisal, and progress and
compliance monitoring of water sanitation schemes
implementation.
For Masters
study
Transfer
Completion
[World Bank initiated and funded, programs implemented through
NGOs]
Post: Local resource person in Nepal
Duty: Tasks in connection with review of the EIA of 402
MW Arun-III hydroelectric project of Nepal
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(D) Other Achievements and Skills
PAPER
a) “Artificial recharge of groundwater by injection well” paper presented at the 28th WEDC
(Loughborough University, //www.lboro.ac.uk/) conference held in Kolkata (Calcutta), India in
2002.
b) “Water supply and resources in Kathmandu Valley” paper presented at the 26th WEDC
conference held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 2000.
c) "Impact of SWSS Project, Nepal" paper presented at the 24th WEDC conference held in
Islamabad, Pakistan in 1998.
d) "EIA as applied in the case of Arun-III hydroelectric project of Nepal: a case study'' paper
presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA)
held in New Orleans, USA in 1997.
e) “Knowledge Management as understood in NMIP” paper accepted for WEDC (Loughborough
University, //www.lboro.ac.uk/) conference held in Sri Lanka from 13-17 Nov 2006. [Paper on an
attempt of the use of knowledge management in development sector, revealing a new comprehensive
perspective]
f) “Management of wastewater in good public health practice” – article in the Summer 2007,
Oxfam Public Health Bulletin (Habari ja afya?)
g) Mainstreaming Social Marketing in the WASH interventions of Tdh in South Asia. 38 th
WEDC conference, UK, 2015.
https://www.google.com/search?q=mainstreaming+social+marketing+in+the+wash+interventions+of+terre+de+hommes&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
COMPUTER SKILL - Proficient in MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project, MS PowerPoint, AutoCad
and familiar with MS Access.
LANGUAGE - English, Nepali, Hindi, Urdu (speaking only), Bengali (basic), French (very basic).
Online COURSES –
1) Introduction to Marketing, 4-week course. University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School.
Coursera. 2015
2) Social and Behavior Change – Basics, 2-day e workshop, New View Media, USA. 2012
3) Systematic Behaviour Change in Development Projects. 2-day PEAK Practise oriented courses.
Eawag, 2015
4) Data science – (i) The Data Scientist’s Toolbox; (ii) Exploratory Data Analysis; (iii) R
programming; will be undergoing the course “Statistical Inference” in the coming months.
Coursera.
5) Faecal Sludge Management – UNESCO-IHE, the Netherlands (4 Jan to 6 May 2016)
Referee:
(1) Nathalie Praz, Asia Program Manager, Terre des homes Foundation, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Email - [email protected]; Phone - + 41 (0) 58 611 06 74. [Supervisor]
(2) John Brogan, Resource Person WASH, Terre des homes Foundation, Lausanne, Switzerland.
[email protected]; Phone - + 41 (0) 58 611 06 74. [Supervisor, thematic]
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(3) Ms Neeta Pokhrel (Asian Development Bank, Nepal) (supervisor during the ADB ‘baseline
survey’ assignment) Phone: ++ 977 1 4225419 (office); ++ 9771 98510 10890 (mobile); Email –
[email protected] [may need to ask for her new address as she may not be with ADB, Nepal now]
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Laxman Kharal Chettry
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