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ECSE Departmental Research Seminar, Thursday 07 - 09 - 2006

Title: "Holistic Community Development (HCD) in remote area of Nepal"

Speaker: Dr. Alex Zahnd

Abstract:

Holistic Community Development (HCD) is ONE major new approach which will enable us to may be come at least a bit closer to the MDG No. 1 (poverty eradication) of the remotes and poorest mountain communities where otherwise no-one really works or want to work as it is too hard, difficult, expensive, frustrating and time demanding.

About the Speaker

Alex Zahnd has lived and worked in one of the remotest and poorest mountain communities in Nepal Himalayas as director of the holistic community development project. He is expatriate staff of Kathmandu University, mainly involved in applied research of renewable energy technologies with implementation on a village scale in the remote mountain district of Humla and Jumla

  
Visitors Information
A map of the Clayton Campus of Monash University indicates the venue, Building 72, and visitor parking on the top floor of the North carpark, Building 76.

Limited reserved parking spaces are available for visitors attending the seminar. (Requests for parking should be made in advance)