Overview
Learning, Innovation, and Knowledge Exchange (LIKE) under the Kathmandu University School of Arts (KUSOA) was established in 2021. Its inception commenced from a grant awarded by the Global Partnership for Education Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (KIX) and the International Development Research Center (IDRC).
LIKE is a social science lab focused on examining socio-economic and socio-political issues. It crafts effective, scalable, and sustainable solutions to solve complex problems in the field of development.
LIKE, intensively engages in processes of learning, innovation, and exchanging knowledge. In doing so we partner with those Government agencies, other organizations, and individuals who are passionate about learning, being innovative in their approach toward research for development, its underlying design, implementation, and transfer at scale.
We engage Academicians, Researchers, Policy Makers, and Development Practitioners to play a crucial role in equitable and inclusive socio-economic development. We are open to multinational collaboration and partnership with Academic Institutions, NGOs, INGOs, Government Agencies that play a crucial role in equitable and inclusive social transformation.
Our Core Values are Based On
LEARNING
Enhancing learning through our participation, collaboration, and partnership for capacity building
INNOVATION
We design social innovations based on equity, inclusivity, gender sensitivity, and accessibility for more effective policy, programs, and practices
KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE
We engage in research for development (R4D) for knowledge generation mobilization and its transfer
We take an interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary approach underpinned by evidence to design workable and sustainable solutions for identified problems in social sciences. LIKE endeavors to engage researchers and practitioners to actively participate in our journey of knowledge generation, mobilization, and transfer for social transformation.