Uddhav Raj Poudyal

Uddhav Raj Poudyal is an independent freelance on development management. Recently, he has joined Center for Informal Economy as the Secretary and contributing on research as volunteer. He conducts research, evaluation and assessment of various program on Child Labor, Child Protection and Migration in Nepal and beyond. The last employment he had with Winrock International as Country Coordinator to CLEAR II Project.

In the past, he has served as Chief Technical Advisor to ILO’s IPEC in Nepal, Program manager to SCF (UK) in Sindhupalchowk, Executive Director to Natural Products Industry, in Kapilvastu and Senior Processing Officer to Herbs Production and Processing Company Ltd., in Kathmandu. His initial degree was on Pharmacy and later he did his advance degree in Sociology. He has working experience of more than 32 years on child labor, child protection and migration. He has been providing his expert services to most of the UN (ILO and UNICEF) and international organizations (Plan International, Save the Children International, World Vision International, World Education Nepal, International Organization on Migration, Child Fund Japan, etc.) since last 12 years in Nepal and beyond on issues of child labor, child protection and migration.