ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2022
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. Over 31,000 young leaders on 2,400+ campuses across 140+ nations applied to join the Class of 2022. 200+ campuses worldwide (just 8%) were selected to host the 3,000+ Millennium Fellows.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT SHIVANI BELBASE, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
Kathmandu School of Law | Kathmandu, Nepal | Advancing SDG 4 & UNAI 3
" leadership, exposure to society, and creativity has made me excited to be a Millennium Fellow. further opportunities to make an impact to develop a personality that will furnish my communication skills, research-based education is striving me to do better. I am doing the work to improve the quality of education in society. society's changing pattern and my aim to make them collaboratively go together has been my major goal in this, to make my country and its citizen educated, and creative. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Jaagriti
" Jaagriti” Sanskrit word that indexically means " Awakening” in English. Our project focuses on the 4th SDG goal “Quality Education” which is also guaranteed by the Constitution of Nepal, 2015 Article 31. The Act Relating to Compulsory and Free Education, 2018 guarantees compulsory and free education up to basic and higher secondary levels respectively. Our aim is to aware of fundamental rights such as “free and easy access to Education” and hold the authorities accountable. Along with holding the authorities accountable, our goal is to work along with the local level government to provide what is stated by the state for the people.
To describe our project modality " Jaagriti" most easily, it would look somewhat as:
1) we, in the project, will initially study the government policies and measures taken for the implementation of The Act Relating to compulsory and Free Education,2018. Not just limited to it, we'll further study and analyze the implementation part as well. To study the implementation part, we’ll do both empirical and comparative studies.
2) In an empirical study, we along with our volunteers will visit different schools in Nepal. On our visit, we will conduct legal awareness on important provisions of the Act for students, teachers, and other staff as well. In the meantime, we will also conduct surveys with students and teachers along with the locals on implementation issues and get certain questionnaires answered by them. The same thing will be done on a societal level. Through this, we can do both legal awareness and collect primary data for our research.
3) In a comparative study, using Right to Information (RTI), we’ll collect information that affects quality education such as Budget allocation, the Recruitment process of teachers, Teaching-Learning methodology, Sanitation, Extra-curricular activities, special provisions for differently able (deaf, blind), etc. as mentioned in the Act. Through comparative study, we can better figure out the problems in implementation.
4) Once we come to know the problems in implementation, we can also suggest certain measures to be taken by Government of Nepal to better implement these laws. we have aimed to present researched report to Education Ministry, concerned departments, NGO's, INGO's as to make a positive impact in policy level.
About the Millennium Fellow
Shivani Belbase is an undergraduate law student, who aspires to advocate for better education and environment. She was born in Nepal and is currently studying at Kathmandu school of law. she is a young, enthusiastic, hardworking student who strives to make an impact through various means. Starting from her initial days at the school and colleges she has been an aspiring leader who led her school captainship and organized various programs and projects impacting various sectors around. making an impact and helping people around has been one of her major goals these days, and with MCN she tends to make an impact by advocating for sustainable development goals that this program provides.
