BHOJPUR, NEPAL, JUNE 28, 2026 – The Learning, Innovation and Knowledge Exchange (LIKE) Lab at Kathmandu University School of Arts organized a community-level event under the “Promoting Gender Equality and Social Inclusion in Schools: Building on What Children Value and Aspire to Do and Be (CVEC Project)”. Held at the Bhojpur Municipality Office, the session included the attendance of various local media personnels.
The Knowledge Sharing Program aimed to share the findings of the 2025 Baseline Survey and present the newly created LIKE Club Activity Book video, and its importance in the local context. The event commenced with Mr. Saurav Rajbhandari warmly welcoming the participants and giving a short introduction to the project. He shared that LIKE Clubs have reached one year of establishment in 13 community schools, and that the project aims to further sustainably expand this initiative to the remaining 30 community schools in the Bhojpur Municipality by the end of the project.
The program then moved forward with Ms. Yamuna Basnet giving a brief introductory overview of LIKE Lab and its core values and objectives. She went on to present the findings of the baseline survey conducted in February 2025, which aimed to understand the situations of community schools pre-intervention.
The key highlights from her presentation included:
- The survey methodology and a brief introduction to the Capability Approach as a guiding theoretical framework.
- The two distinct spaces of evaluation which included 1) the assessment of the availability, satisfaction and importance of the resources and 2) the status of children’s well-being and agency
- Findings that noted the infrastructural limitations which included the lack of sufficient sanitary pads and spaces for their disposal, and the school premises not being disability friendly despite stating otherwise.
- The gap between children’s well-being and agency and the factors behind it.
- The segregated results based on gender, ethnicity, and grade.
- Suggestions moving forward
Mr. Saurav Rajbhandari then presented the latest Activity Book, as well as the 16 Capability videos to the stakeholders to familiarize them with the concept and value of LIKE Clubs, and how the club activities can be seamlessly integrated into the existing school curriculum, ECA, and morning assemblies at no cost. Dr. Binayak Krishna Thapa offered further insights into the past and present projects and their conception, and opened the floor for any further queries. After a brief but informative sharing session, the program came to an end.
