Study

Assignment name: Feasibility Study of Milk Production and Potential Collection/Chilling Centers Establishment in Mid-Hill Highway and Hulaki (Postal) Highway.

Approx. value of the contract:

(State Currency):

NRs 18,00,000.00

Country: Nepal; Location within country: 20 Emerging Cities of Mid-Hill Highway and Hulaki (Postal) Highway corridors.

Duration of assignment (months): 4 Months

Name of Client: National Dairy Development Board (NDDB)

Total No of staff-months of the assignment: Number of Staff:5

Number of Person Months: 20 Months

Address: Hariharbhawan Lalitpur

Approx. value of the services provided by your firm under the contract: NRs. 18, 00, 000.00

Start date: 2074-09-14

Completion date: 2075-3-15

No of professional staff-months provided by associated Consultants: N/A

Name of associated Consultants, if any: N/A

Name of senior professional staff of your firm involved and functions performed:

Mr. Arjun Jung Shah (Team Leader)

Mr. Suvash Khanal, Project Manager

Narrative description of Project:

The overall objective of this assignment is to help increase both the volume of milk production and proportion of produced milk entering into formal market meeting the demand of growing dairy industries in one hand and ensuring hygienic and wholesome milk and milk products to the consumers as per the market demand.

Description of actual services provided by your staff within the assignment:

• Extensive review of Nepalese dairy sector focusing on past performance and forecast future growth potentials
• Identify and recommend technically feasible milk production areas in road corridors with solid base/ justification
  1. Existing dairy production scenario of the identified potential locations
  2. Growth potential in these location
  3. Need assessment for promoting milk production.
• Identify and map potential collection/ chilling center (need/technical feasibility) along the corridor- numbers, potential milk collection volume, possible markets
• Assessment on the availability of minimum requirement (like water, electricity, road access etc) for the establishment of collection/chilling centre. in the preferred location.
• Estimation for the establishment of collection/ chilling center in the preferred location.
• Assess economic feasibility of production pockets and collection centers
• Document socio cultural and economic set-up and potential market link of the identified potential locations
• SWOT analysis, risk assessment and mitigation measures
• Program and plan identification, Assess resource requirement

Assignment name: Study on Design Module Centre and Milk Processing Plant at Local Level

Approx. value of the contract:

(State Currency): NRs 4,87,482.00

Country: Nepal; Location within country:  All over the Nepal (Covered in all 7 Provenance)

Duration of assignment (months): 6 Months

Name of Client: National Dairy Development Board (NDDB)

Total No of staff-months of the assignment: Number of Staff:3

Number of Person Months: 18 Months

Address: Hariharbhawan Lalitpur

Approx. value of the services provided by your firm under the contract: NRs. NRs 4,87,482.00

Start date: 2077/Mangsir

Completion date: 2078/Baishek

No of professional staff-months provided by associated Consultants: N/A

Name of associated Consultants, if any: N/A

Name of senior professional staff of your firm involved and functions performed:

Er. Subash Bhattrai,/Mr. Arjung Jung Shah/Mr. Binod Paudel

Narrative description of Project: The study was prepared the Design Module Centre and Milk Processing Plant at Local Level for 500 ltrs and 1000 ltrs capacity.

• Secondary Data collection/ Desk Review/SWOT analysis
• Checklist/ Questionnaire preparation
• Consultation with relevant stakeholder
• Rapid Consultation with CDCAN and DMPCUs
• Inception Report preparation and submission
• Discussion at NDDB for finalization of methodology
• Deployment of enumerators and training, pretesting of the questionnaire
• Prepare the Design Module Centre and Milk Processing Plant at Local Level to 500 ltrs and 1000 ltrs.
• Scope of the studies are as:

• Financial assessment required for the establishment of  a milk collection unit/center and milk processing plant
• Environmental impact assessment template design to be used while establishing a milk collection unit/center and milk processing plant
• Detailing out of responsibilities of all the key personnel as well as supporting actors in milk collection unit and milk processing plant
• Development of a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) of various activities (such as quality analysis, product diversification, cleaning and sanitization etc ) that is supposed to be carried out at milk collection unit and milk processing plant
• Development of an action plan for implementation of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) in milk collection unit and milk processing plant
• SWOT analysis, risk assessment and mitigation measures of a module milk collection unit and milk processing plant

Assignment name: Study on the Milk Producers' Cooperatives with special reference to Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) of Cooperative Management

Approx. value of the contract:

(State Currency): NRs 16,00,000.00

Country: Nepal; Location within country:  All over the Nepal

Duration of assignment (months): 4 Months

Name of Client: National Dairy Development Board (NDDB)

Total No of staff-months of the assignment: Number of Staff:4

Number of Person Months: 16 Months

Address: Hariharbhawan Lalitpur

Approx. value of the services provided by your firm under the contract: NRs. 16,00,000.00

Start date: 2075-09-14

Completion date: 2076-3-15

No of professional staff-months provided by associated Consultants: N/A

Name of associated Consultants, if any: N/A

Name of senior professional staff of your firm involved and functions performed:

Mr. AL Yadav (Team Leader), Mr. Suvash Khanal, Project Manger

Narrative description of Project: The study was abided with the knowledge, attitude and practice of cooperative operation and management by the office bearers and members of dairy cooperatives and will explore the proper situation, and find the gap between conditions desired by policy or theory the present situation.

• Secondary Data collection/ Desk Review/SWOT analysis
• Checklist/ Questionnaire preparation
• Consultation with relevant stakeholder
• Rapid Consultation with CDCAN and DMPCUs
• Inception Report preparation and submission
• Discussion at NDDB for finalization of methodology
• Deployment of enumerators and training, pretesting of the questionnaire
• Focus Group Discussion and Resource Mapping
• KAP survey
• Data management (cleaning and analysis)
• Spatial GIS Mapping of locations
• Technical analysis: KAP Assessment
• Draft report submission
• Presentation in consultative meeting incorporating the suggestions in the draft
• Final Report submission incorporating suggestion in Nepali and English Language

Assignment name: Benchmark Survey of Raw and Processed Milk in Nepal

Approx. value of the contract:

(State Currency): NRs 16,00,000.00

Country: Nepal; Location within country:  All over the Nepal

Duration of assignment (months): 4 Months

Name of Client: National Dairy Development Board (NDDB)

Total No of staff-months of the assignment: Number of Staff:4

Number of Person Months: 16 Months

Address: Hariharbhawan Lalitpur

Approx. value of the services provided by your firm under the contract: NRs. 16,00,000.00

Start date: 2072-09-14

Completion date: 2073-3-15

No of professional staff-months provided by associated Consultants: N/A

Name of associated Consultants, if any: N/A

Name of senior professional staff of your firm involved and functions performed:

Dr. Krishna Ram Amattye (Team Leader),

Mr. Suvash Khanal, Project Manger

Narrative description of Project: Assess the current nutritional and bacterial quality of raw and pasteurized milk in Nepal against the Nepal Standard (NS); Establish benchmark of raw and pasteurized milk available in the Nepali market; Recommend appropriate approach to maintain the established benchmark at different level of production and market chain to maintain the NS; Assess the adulteration status of raw milk and make doable recommendation to avoid adulteration.

Description of actual services provided by your staff within the assignment:

• Review of the current chemical and bacterial quality of raw and pasteurized milk available in Nepal market
• Assess the implementation level of CoP administered by the government by all concern stakeholders.
• Assess whether the stakeholders in the production and market chain of raw and pasteurized milk adopted the standard spell out by the Food Act of Nepal
• Assess any GMP process of raw and pasteurized milk undertaken by the stakeholders in market chain.
• Assess the adulteration in the milk and recommend method and strategy to control and monitor the type and level of adulteration in raw and pasteurized milk.
• Formulation of New Methods and Strategies of gathering information about raw milk and pasteurized milk and formulation of new, alternative strategies in to be adopted to tackle the various challenges on maintaining minimum standard of raw and pasteurized milk.
• Assess the current practice of dissemination of Knowledge and Learning Knowledge of the new production, processing and marketing methods and practices of raw and pasteurized milk.
• Assess the evaluation of results and feedback information with respect to raw and pasteurized milk quality and tie it up with minimum bench mark

Assignment name: Survey in Unified Property Tax on Nagarjun Municipality

Approx. value of the contract:

(State Currency): NRs 176,000.00

Country: Nepal; Location within country:  Nagarjun Municipality

Duration of assignment (months): 3 Months

Name of Client: National Dairy Development Board (NDDB)

Total No of staff-months of the assignment: Number of Staff: 2

Number of Person Months: 6 Months

Address: Nagarjun, Kathmandu

Approx. value of the services provided by your firm under the contract: NRs. 176,000.00

Start date: 15th March, 2015

Completion date: 16th May, 2015

No of professional staff-months provided by associated Consultants: N/A

Name of associated Consultants, if any: N/A

Name of senior professional staff of your firm involved and functions performed:

Ms. Shakuntala Neupane (Team Leader)

Narrative description of Project: The program has been related to 3 year unified property tax payer plan.

Description of actual services provided by your staff within the assignment:

• Review of the current tax provision
• Questionnaires preparation
• Consultative meeting with concern stakeholder at Nagarjun Municipality
• Collection Secondary Data and SWOT analysis
• Field Survey
• Data Entry
• Preparation and discussion about draft report with concern stakeholders at Nagarjun Municipality
• Finalize the report

Assignment name: Survey in Unified Property Tax on Nagarjun Municipality

Approx. value of the contract:

(State Currency): NRs 176,000.00

Country: Nepal; Location within country:  Nagarjun Municipality

Duration of assignment (months): 3 Months

Name of Client: National Dairy Development Board (NDDB)

Total No of staff-months of the assignment: Number of Staff: 2

Number of Person Months: 6 Months

Address: Nagarjun, Kathmandu

Approx. value of the services provided by your firm under the contract: NRs. 176,000.00

Start date: 15th March, 2015

Completion date: 16th May, 2015

No of professional staff-months provided by associated Consultants: N/A

Name of associated Consultants, if any: N/A

Name of senior professional staff of your firm involved and functions performed:

Ms. Shakuntala Neupane (Team Leader)

Narrative description of Project: The program has been related to 3 year unified property tax payer plan.

Description of actual services provided by your staff within the assignment:

• Review of the current tax provision
• Questionnaires preparation
• Consultative meeting with concern stakeholder at Nagarjun Municipality
• Collection Secondary Data and SWOT analysis
• Field Survey
• Data Entry
• Preparation and discussion about draft report with concern stakeholders at Nagarjun Municipality
• Finalize the report

Assignment name: Study on history of election of Nepal and make a Electoral Statistical Pocket Book

Approx. value of the contract:

(State Currency): NRs. 298, 941.50

Country: Nepal

Duration of assignment (months): 1.5 Months

Name of Client: Election Commission, Nepal.

Total No of staff-months of the assignment: Number of Staff: 1.5

Number of Person Months: 1.5 Months

Address:  Nepal

Approx. value of the services provided by your firm under the contract: Rs. 298, 941.50

Start date: 29th Ashad 2072

Completion date: 10th  Bhadra

No of professional staff-months provided by associated Consultants: N/A

Name of associated Consultants, if any: N/A

Name of senior professional staff of your firm involved and functions performed:

Sakuntala Neupane, Program Coordinator

Function of Program Co-ordinator:

 Questionnaire Design, Coordination in Field, Communicate with clients for feedback, Manage/Conduct Program,  Monitoring, Report Writing etc.

Narrative description of Project:

Providing the consulting service to Election Commission Nepal for the preparation of “Electoral Statistical Pocket Book”.

Description of actual services provided by your staff within the assignment:

• Developed methodology, format and questionnaire for field Survey to assess of historical election activities.
• Conducted field survey from 1st Sharawan 2072 to 30th Sharwan 2072.
• Collected secondary data, identified the validity of the sources, and made proper referencing and citation of the sources.
• Tabulated, coded, and designed the data management system.
• Analyzed the findings and communicated with clients for feedback.
• Documentation and booklet preparation