Centre for Economic Development and Administration

Institutional Network

CEDA is presently a networking member/collaborative partner of the following international institutions:

• Trade and Investment Relation in South Asia and South East Asia, Trade and Investment Division, ESCAP, Bangkok.

• Development Information Network for South Asia (DEVINSA), Colombo, Sri Lanka. The centre's library is also the focal point for the Development Information Network for South Asia (DEVINSA) Project for Nepal. 

• Thematic Node for South and Central Asia, Networking of Environment Training Institutes at Tertiary Level in Asia and the Pacific (NETTLAP), and United Nations Environment Program (UNEP).

• Centre for Regional Development (CRD), Chonnam National University, South Korea

• Faculty of Economics, South Asian University (SAU), New Delhi, India.

Besides, CEDA is also a member of the following institutions:

• Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration (EROPA), Manila, Philippines.

• Asia and Pacific Development Centre, APDC, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

• Association of Development Research and Training Institutes of Asia and the Pacific (ADIPA), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

• Association of Management Development Institutions in South Asia (AMDISA), Hyderabad, India.

• ADB-Asian Think Tank Networking Member Institute of Nepal.

Human Resources

The Executive Director heads the Centre, while the CEDA Management and Development Council formulates and implements the Centre's programs and activities. For the implementation and coordination of the Center's program, it has an internal research and training committee. Both research and training programs are managed by the administrative bureau. CEDA now employs highly qualified and experienced personnel. The following is a complete list of the organization's human resources.

Academic staff

Position	Discipline	Number
Executive Director (Associate Professor)	Management	1
Associate Professor	Economics	1
Lecturer	Geography	1

Administrative Staff

Position	Number
Account Officer	1
Assistant Administrator	1
Office Assistants	6
Office Attendant	9

Publications

Research reports, bibliographies, case studies, seminar reports, and occasional publications are all published by the Centre. It publishes its own half-yearly newsletter, 'CEDA News', in which it updates the public on the status of ongoing projects and operations. It has been publishing the 'Journal of Development and Administrative Studies (JODAS)' bi-annually since 1978 AD. It is a scientific and highly academic publication published by Tribhuvan University that is peer-reviewed twice. It offers articles about Nepal's and other developing countries' development, economics, business, management, and administrative issues. It has also published a collection of papers from an international symposium on "Social Economy, Regimes, and Governance." Along with seminar proceedings, the Centre has so far published some five hundred research reports.

Institutional Involvement Member: BIMSTEC Network of Think Tanks

CEDA is a member of Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) Network of Think Tank. BIMSTEC is an international organization involving a group of countries in South Asia and South East Asia. The member countries of this group are Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Bhutan and Nepal. 

Focal Point: SAARC Network

CEDA is a Focal Point for the SAARC Network of Researchers on Global, Financial and Economic Issues. The major objective of this Network is to focus on external economic issues that will have impact on the individual Member States and the SAARC region.

Research Activities  (On-going Project)

The Centre has completed about six hundreds research studies so far. The findings of the major research studies have directly been used for policy formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. The status of latest research activities are as follows: 

Year	Name of the Project	Donor Agency	Team Leader/ Coordinator	Status
2018	Follow-Up Survey in Five Districts for Impact Evaluation-2018	Poverty Alleviation Fund	Dr. Arun Kumar Thakur	Completed
2018	Essential  Food Subsidy Policy Research for  the Targeted Poor Households of Nepal	Ministry of Supplies, Government of Nepal	Mr. Laxmikanta Sharma	Completed
2017	Reframing Chure Conservation and Management in the Context of Federal Governance	President Chure- TaraiMadhesh Conservation Board	Prof. Dr. Ram Chandra Dhakal	Completed
2017	Impact Study of Social Assistance (Cash Transfer) Program	Save the Children	Prof. Dr. Ramesh Chandra Chitrakar	Completed

Training Activities

Besides, providing training to five under-secretary level's officers of Government of Nepal in 2015,  it has also given an intensive and rigorous Pre-service Training of Officers and Non-officers (around 300) of human resources currently recruited from Tribhuvan University Service Commission in the year 2016.

Infrastructure

It has a library and a documentation sectionto facilitate its researchers, teachers and trainers.  The library has a collection of reports, mimeographs, periodicals and books related to development, public administration, business management, economics, anthropology, sociology, psychology, political science, and geography, etc. The Centre has one auditorium hall accommodating 100 people and two other seminar halls of moderate size, each having the capacity to room 30 people. 

The Executive Director is the head of both the academic as well as the administrative wing of the Centre.