Dr. Narayan Gyawali
Narayan is the Nepal Program Director at Lutheran World Relief (LWR). He ensures the quality of all projects and programs at the country office in Nepal. He is also leading a LWR’s flagship regional project- India-Nepal Transboundary Resilience (TBR) Program, which was supported by a grant from the Global Resilience Partnership’s Water Window Challenge (funded by the Z Zurich Foundation), and Strengthening the local governance for building resilient communities in Nepal funded by USAID.
Narayan has over 20 years of experience in participatory project design, implementation, monitoring assessment and adaptive learning, with expertise in resilience and resilience measurement, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and agricultural entrepreneurship. He served previously as LWR’s Regional Technical Advisor for Monitoring & Evaluation for Asia and Middle East, supporting M&E capacity-building for LWR and partner staff, and engaging in several surveys, assessments and evaluations. Narayan is formerly an executive director of a local social services organization and has also managed close to 100 staff and coordinated projects with a wide number of public and private sector partners.
Mr. Gwayali has developed ‘Design, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (DMEL) framework for LWR. Further, in collaboration with other partners on the TBR program, Narayan has applied the Food Resilience Measurement for Communities (FRMC) tool to measure resilience. The TBR works with communities across the Nepal-India border to boost their ability to absorb, adapt and transform in the face of annual floods, and bolstering the capacity to document and influence policy at the national and regional level through working with the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC). The program has adapted the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework, asking the question, ‘what does a community need to be resilient to floods?’.
Mr. Gyawali holds a master’s degree on Development Evaluation and Management from Antwerp University, Belgium. He also holds master on Sociology and B.Sc. Agriculture from Tribhuvan University, Nepal. Mr. Gyawali has special research interest in flood resilience measurement, social capital, and local governance. Mr. Gyawali is also PhD Scholar at Agriculture and Forestry University (AFU), Rampur, Chitwan Nepal. His PhD research is about measuring the flood resilience in development practices: analysis of community actions in Narayani river basin Nepal.
