National Consultation
on Standardization of Peer Education was held at Summit Hotel, Kupondole that
brought 50 peer educators representing different organizations of Nepal. The
consultation meeting was held for two day i.e. 24th and 25th June 2012 and was organized by Youth Peer Education Nepal
(Y-PEER Nepal) with the support of UNFPA Country office Nepal. Mostly youth
(15-24 years ) were the participants and most of the youths were peer educators
working in different field related to sexual
and reproductive health, drugs, LGBTI, etc.
Basically the two days consultation
meeting focus on the gathering the views and recommendation from the
participants on the two major questions:
1. Since different approaches to peer
education have been in practice, what would be the minimum standard of the peer
education approaches?
2. What are the modality, quality and
standard for peer education in Nepal?
The consultation
meeting was facilitated by Anup Adhikari and Ram Krishna Parajuli. The two days
consultation gave out some recommendations for the standardization of peer
education in Nepal. The detail about the consultation meeting will soon be
circulated to all member organization. Y-PEER Nepal is very grateful to all the
participants, facilitators and volunteer for their participation and support.
Their active participation had made the program successful.
