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 BHAWANA ADHIKARI, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
Nepal Law Campus | Kathmandu, Nepal | Advancing SDG 16 & UNAI 3
" "Social awarness and empowerment of individuals ,what I suppose to uplift,drive my aims and objectives. I can enhance this skills in cooperation with the Millennium Fellowship being part of this. The skills I gain from this Fellowship wiill surely enhance my social impacts on legal awarness and capacities coinciding with the UNAI principles and SDGs.I am exicited to expand my teaching learning horizon embracing new ways of creativity." "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Kanooni Bodh
"Kanooni Bodh", loosely translating into "knowledge or understanding (bodh) of the law (kanoon)", is a project on which the cohort worked collectively.
Through this project, we aimed to equip laypersons with legal knowledge that is useful in daily life by assessing their specific needs in collaboration with local governmental bodies.
Since 2016, the Nepalese government has given local bodies the power to settle disputes through mediation. The Local Judicial Committee, in particular, has this ability. For this project, we will be working with the Judicial Committee of Sunkoshi Village to assess the needs of residents, and design awareness and training sessions accordingly.
The project primarily focused on two actors- the Judicial Committee and the residents. Firstly, since the local committees are constituted by elected representatives who are not necessarily legal experts, we conducted training and informative sessions about relevant legal matters.
Secondly, we identified prevalent legal issues submitted for mediation with the committee's help, and designed awareness sessions for residents to nip the bud of legal disputes. We looked into issues of marriage and divorce, property, special needs, land encroachment, and domestic violence.
We furthered legal accessibility in the region using a need-based approach through in-person awareness programs and disseminating legal information through brochures. The project's impact was measured by observing the difference between the Judicial Committee and the residents' approach to relevant legal issues before and after the project.
The objective of the collaboration with local personnel is to provide continuity to the project even after the fellowship ends.
About the Millennium Fellow
Bhawana Adhikari is a young, enthusiastic ,positive and passionate youth and undergraduate student at Nepal Law Campus .She was born in Okhaldhunga Nepal and resides in Kathmandu Nepal currently.She has always been passionate about her advocacy for social legal awarness and legal education.From her high school days and currently in her college days she has been involved in social legal campaigns and organized various basic legal education programs in local level ,which through her leadership she plans to continue in the future. Bhawana aspires to be in proffessional legal field and promote legal education and awarness further and contribute in the United Nations Sustainable Goals.
