Kathmandu is an ideal setting for scholarly exchange between AIT Extension and its Nepal Representative Office. On 4 July, 2010 AIT Extension in collaboration with the Nepal Administrative Staff College (NASC) hosted a three-day course on Performance Management (PM). PM principles are needed everywhere in the workplaces where people interact with their environments to produce desired effects.
Thirty-one participants from nine different organizations attended the course, which was delivered by Michael E. Lowe, AIT Extension's regular Resource Person. Participants came from: Nepal Oil Corporation, Nepal Police, Nepal Telecom Company, Ministry of Peace and Reconstruction, Employees Provident Fund, Ministry of Health, Nepal Tourism Board, the Department of Local Infrastructure Development & Agricultural Roads (DOLIDAR) and the World Bank-funded Rural Access Improvement & Decentralization Project (RAIDP).
To complement the program Dr. Jonathan Shaw, Director, AIT Extension, Thailand had traveled to Nepal. While in Kathmandu, he and Dr. Shailendra Sigdel, Country Representative, AIT Extension Office, Nepal met with the President of the Nepal Development Bankers' Association, Jhapat Vohra; the Inspector General of the Nepal Police, Ramesh Chandra Thakuri; the Chief Executive Officer of Nepal Telecom, Amarnath Singh; the Director General of DOLIDAR, Dhana Bahadur Tamang; the Chief Executive Officer of the Employees Provident Fund, Dr. Ramesh Kumar Bhattarai; and the Director General of the Department of Roads, Tulasi Prasad Sitaula (an AIT alumnus), among others.
