Accountabilitea Podcast Nepal

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AccountabiliTEA Podcast Nepal Election Series EP 5 | Revisiting Elections with Shilsila Acharya | AccountabiliTEA PodcastElection series is a 5-episode podcast series on improving the election standards of Nepal via voter education, inclusiveness, equal rights, code of conduct, and tackling misinformation and hate speech. _______________________________________________________ Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/accteapod Twitter: https://twitter.com/accteapod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/accteapod _______________________________________________________ AccountabilitTEA podcast Nepal explores everything you need to know about governance by dissecting different issues we face in our society. Through their personal stories, guests share how their work is helping create a positive change in their community a...

2022-12-2637 min

AccountabiliTEA Podcast Nepal Election Series EP 4 | Dignified access in Election with Sarita Lamichane | AccountabiliTEA PodcastDignified access to ballot is a big topic during elections. As it stands, the marginalized population have shared that they feel voting is a privilage more than a right for the Nepali citizens. Sarita Lamichhane, the under of Prayatna Nepal shares stories of challenges for the disabled community during the election - both in representation and participation. Although Election Commission Nepal has put resolutions in place to ensure everyone gets to vote equally, Sarita feels the country could do a lot more to ensure and increase higher participation during the elections. Just making the polling stations disabled friendly doesn't me...

2022-11-1638 min

AccountabiliTEA Podcast Nepal Election Series EP 3 | Youth in Elections with Amuda Mishra | AccountabiliTEA PodcastWe have already started seeing a lot of progress when we speak about youths in elections, but there still lie a lot of challenges and growing areas. Political awareness, the right ways to vote, and choosing the right candidate - these are all areas that need to be discussed a lot more to synthesize our young population who, undoubtedly, is the catalyst for change in Nepal. We talk with Amuda Mishra in this episode, who is the founder of Ujyalo Foundation, and is actively working with young people, especially women, to fight for their rights and is advocating for e...

2022-11-1537 min

AccountabiliTea From New Age To JesusOne of our main themes of this podcast is how the pendulum swings. In honor of Halloween, in this episode we’re going to talk about those who sell and practice New Age/Occult principles and swing all the way back over to Christianity. There’s a rabbit hole there, if you feel like digging.For the purposes of our discussion, we’ll be using the terms new age, occult, mysticism, etc. interchangeably, and Christianity will include all denominations. The point is that there have been many spiritual business owners that have completely abandoned the philosophies they were l...

2022-10-3149 min

AccountabiliTea Hustle and FlowWhat is flow and what is actually back-end hustle? How many gurus have you heard claim that they only work 4 or 10 hours a week? How many times have you heard that business is easy if you just allow it to be? Most of those claims don’t take into account how much time is spent thinking of a plan for the next quarter, or engaging with your community online, or having a conversation with your VA, or how much easier marketing feels with their accumulated experience.More often than not, the 6-7 figure earners are talking their gr...

2022-10-2454 min

AccountabiliTEA Podcast Nepal Election Series EP 2 | Inclusion in Elections with Simran Sherchan | AccountabiliTEA PodcastHow much right do you actually have as a citizen to participate in the elections? Now, imagine how challenging it is for the marginalized - the LGBTQI+ community who still do not have a proper right to their own identity. Do they have equal access to rise as a candidate? Do they have dignified access to voting? Our conversation with Simran Serchan explores what the government, political parties and citizens have done to ensure equal voting and participation rights to the LGBTQI+Listen people, and what needs to change to ensure an inclusive, fair, and safe electoral process in N...

2022-10-2033 min

AccountabiliTea PolarityFollowing up on last week’s conversation, we’re diving into masculine versus feminine energy and how the pendulum has swung over the last century in the US from masculine-led to feminine-led and back and forth. Now, we’re sort of stuck in this limbo of both men and women being either overly feminine or overly masculine, or attempting to present as one of those and overcompensating. This isn’t a discussion of which one is “better,” but rather how some polarity teachings are toxic on both sides. How can we each strike a balance between our own feminine...

2022-10-1756 min

AccountabiliTea C-E-Ohhhh's: Spiritual Business HeauxsThere’s a lot of layers to this trend of self-proclaimed C-E-Heauxs in the online business space, and we’re going to pick it all apart. There’s a feeling of reclaiming the power, reclaiming the sexuality, but as attraction marketing in business it doesn’t resonate with us.Pleasure-based business - Bottom line, in an attempt to reclaim their power, women are just falling back into the 2 oldest marketing techniques: controversy and sex sell.Brags - We’re 100% on board with celebrating wins and milestones, but the brags are often things that are the opposite of brag-worthy.The Take U...

2022-10-1048 min

AccountabiliTea Selling SisterhoodSpiritual Sisterhood. First words that come to mind? MLM. Pay to play. Mean girls. Fake. Buying into package after package to get into the “inner circle,” but will any of them still be there if you’re unable to pay for the next package?The promise of sisterhood is very tempting to women starting out in online business, particularly lonely young moms who want to be able to work from home. At some point, the pendulum will swing the other way and the fake sisterhoods will disintegrate. Leaders will step back, calling their energy back into themselves, “releasin...

2022-10-0331 min

AccountabiliTea How We Got HereThe pendulum swings from one extreme to the other, but the healthiest balance is somewhere in the middle. We were both raised to be good Christian girls, but the deep magical intuition we felt growing up couldn’t be ignored. In this first episode, we’ll talk about our religious upbringing, the searching and questioning phase of our teen years, and how that got us into the online spiritual business world. The way we met was divine and magical, but the coach we were working for turned toxic and we began to see what the coaching space was t...

2022-09-2643 min

AccountabiliTEA Podcast Nepal Election Series EP 1 | Elections in the Digital Age with Santosh Sigdel | AccoutabiliTEA PodcastThe face of the election has changed a lot in the digital age. Political campaigns that used to be door-to-door are now being boosted on social media platforms, and the conversations that happened in tea shops happen on Twitter, Facebook, and WhatsApp groups. But this digitization has also introduced the flow of misinformation and hate speech to online platforms. Adding to how fast information flows online, this has created big problems during the elections, that maliciously influence the decisions of voters. Listen to our discussion with advocate and founding member of Digital Rights Nepal, Santosh Sigdel on h...

2022-09-0155 min

AccountabiliTEA Podcast Nepal Episode 8 | Life in Manaslu with Rune Bennike | AccountabiliTEA PodcastLife in Manaslu is shaped by the people's religious beliefs, the local governance systems, and the anticipation of a future tourism boom. Over the past two decades, life has been undergoing massive changes in the high Himalayan valleys of the Manaslu conservation area. Development in infrastructure and education has resulted in fast changes in the livelihood of the people. The widespread idea that Manaslu is going to become Nepal’s ‘next Annapurna’ also provides an imagined future that informs the present-day decision-making of the people there. Join us for an interactive conversation with Dr. Rune Bennike, a resear...

2022-08-2252 min

AccountabiliTEA Podcast Nepal Episode 7 | LGBTIQ+ Rights with Bhumika Shrestha | AccountabiliTEA PodcastHave you ever had to explain what your sexual orientation is, or which gender you identify as? Can you imagine how frustrating it would be if people always misinterpreted your gender or treated you differently because of it? How many of us actually know what each letter in LGBTIQ means? The challenges faced by gender and sexual minorities in Nepal stem from a lack of awareness of their identities. Gender and sexual rights movements have recently been rising in Nepal, with the pride month events being the epitome of people’s solidarity towards the issue of LGBTIQ+ com...

2022-08-1244 min

AccountabiliTEA Podcast Nepal Defending Democracy EP 4 | Media and Democracy with Rajneesh Bhandari | AccountabiliTEA Podcast"Media must be free of political alignments and then should be given the freedom of journalism to fight against misinformation." The media has been a big part of the democratic movement in Nepal. But what has its role been in strengthening or weakening our democracy since? How is media affecting Nepal's elections and relations with foreign nations? Rajneesh Bhandari, the founder of NIMJN, shares his experiences of training young journalists on tackling misinformation and his insights on how media has affected Nepal's democracy. Defending Democracy is a 4-episode podcast series on strengthening Nepal's democracy against foreign influences. _______________________________________________________ Find...

2022-05-2832 min

AccountabiliTEA Podcast Nepal Defending Democracy EP 3 | Foreign Aid and it's Effectiveness with Roshani Giri | AccountabiliTEA PodcastForeign Aid contributed to 23.3% of the national budget in 2020 and has remained similar since. But, can we identify how effective these foreign investments have been in Nepal? Are we just accepting money from everywhere, or do we have an agenda to invest them in the right places to ensure economic development? Roshani Giri, a prominent lawyer and academician, helps us understand how foreign aid works in Nepal and how we, as a country, can move in the right direction to not be a recipient but a donor ourselves in the next 50 years. Defending Democracy is a...

2022-05-2041 min

AccountabiliTEA Podcast Nepal Defending Democracy EP 2 | Nepal's Foreign Policy with Anil Giri | AccountabiliTEA PodcastHow much has Nepal's foreign policy affected its democreacy? Are we standing by our "non-aligned" principles still, or is it high time we shift our values along with the shiftin geopolitics of the world? Anil Giri, a renowned journalist for The Kathmandu Post, explains how Nepal's foreign policy currently operates, and how it should be governed going forward. Defending Democracy is a 4-episode podcast series on strengthening Nepal's democracy against foreign influences. _______________________________________________________ Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/accteapod Twitter: https://twitter.com/accteapod Instagram: h...

2022-05-1334 min

AccountabiliTEA Podcast Nepal Defending Democracy EP 1 | Nepal's Democratic Scenario with Hari Sharma | AccountabiliTEA PodcastWhat is democracy? Is it about institutions, procedures, or the people? Is Nepal driven by its democratic values and constitutional norms? In this episode, Hari Sharma shares his insights into what Democracy means for Nepal through his experiences of analyzing the political situation in Nepal for over 3 decades. Defending Democracy is a 4-episode podcast series on strengthening Nepal's democracy against foreign influences. _______________________________________________________ Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/accteapod Twitter: https://twitter.com/accteapod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/accteapod/ _______________________________________________________

2022-05-0640 min

AccountabiliTEA Podcast Nepal Episode 6 | Intergenerational Gender Equality with Archana Thapa | AccountabiliTEA Podcast"The environment that I grew up in isn't necessarily the same as it is now. So, when we speak of equality, we need to understand what equality means now, rather than what it meant for me when I was growing up." How can we improve the fight towards gender equality by reducing the gaps between generations? How is defining gender roles from an early age shaping inequalities in our societies? We talk about Nepali cultures - wedding rituals, period rites, mandatory gender roles, paid vs household works, etc, and dissect how our society has continuously...

2022-02-2842 min

AccountabiliTEA Podcast Nepal Episode 5 | Migrant Women Issues in Perspective with Bijaya Rai Shrestha | AccountabiliTEA PodcastThe issues of migrant women rarely come to light when speaking of labor migration. When in reality, they face layers of stigmatization and are hugely affected by restrictive policies. The government, in turn, seems to have paid no attention to the differential concerns and needs of migrant women. What can be done differently to address the challenges of migrant women? How is the concerned CSO leading advocacy on this issue? In our fifth episode, we discuss all Gender and Migration with the Founder of AMKAS Nepal, Bijaya Rai Shrestha. Learn more about Bijaya and AMKAS Nepal from thei...

2022-01-2643 min

AccountabiliTEA Podcast Nepal Episode 4 | Inspiring Change, Empowering Lives | Maggie Doyne | AccountabiliTEA Podcast“Staying hopeful, staying positive, believing that change is possible, and just one small act can change the world.” Is it possible for a single act from a single person to change the lives of hundreds of people? In our fourth episode, we chat with Maggie Doyne, the co-founder of BlinkNow Foundation shares her story of how they are empowering the lives of countless Nepalis in the Karnali region. She is an inspiration to us all. Maggie has been awarded many titles, along with being the CNN hero of the year 2015, but she will always be the hero of c...

2021-09-2440 min

Accountabili-TEA Podcast Pushing back against civic space restrictionsEmergency powers, limits on movement, surveillance and restrictions on free speech and information - these are just some of the worrying measures that countries around the globe have enacted in clamping down on democracy and human rights. The closing of civic space has affected many of our network labs, as well, encouraging our teams to devise creative strategies to push back against these restrictions. In this next episode of our AccountabiliTEA podcast, Kibo Ngowi speaks to Narayan Adhikari at AL Nepal and Upenyu Makoni-Muchemwa at AL Zimbabwe to understand what strategies communities can use to resist the k...

2021-09-1727 min

AccountabiliTEA Podcast Nepal Episode 3 | Digital Laws in Nepal | Random Nepali | AccountabiliTEA PodcastDo we actually know all of our digital rights? What are the laws that govern our activities over the internet? Rastra Bimochan Timelsena, aka Random Nepali, - youtuber, lawyer, entrepreneur - clarifies all of our confusion concerning digital laws, individual rights, and the legal processes in a very fun episode. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/accountabilitea-podcast/message

2021-09-1047 min

AccountabiliTEA Podcast Nepal Episode 2 | The Lockdown Dilemma | Dr. Anup Subedee MD | AccountabiliTEA Podcast“कुन बेला lockdown गर्ने त भन्दा खेरि चाही, जब हाम्रो system overwhelm हुन लागेको छ, अरु public health interventions हरु गर्दा गर्दै पनि pandemic control भएन भने हो lockdown गर्ने l” In our second episode, we discuss the lockdown dilemma with Dr. Anup Subedee M.D., infectious diseases doctor and a vocal individual about the gaps in Nepal’s public health system. Let’s hear from the doctor himself, whether or not it was the right thing for Nepal to issue different phases of lockdown, and the scientific reasons behind it. We also discuss the dilemma of vaccines in this episode. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/accountabilitea-podcast/message

2021-09-0338 min

AccountabiliTEA Podcast Nepal Episode 1 | Intersectionality - Dalit Women Issues in Nepal | Gauri Nepali | AccountabiliTEA Podcast“दलितको कुरा दलितले मात्र बोल्ने, दलित महिलाको कुरा दलित महिलाले मात्र बोल्ने हो भने त परिवर्तन सम्भव नै छैन नि l” In this first episode, we discuss intersectionality with Gauri Nepali, a Dalit activist and a freelance writer who shares her own experience while advocating for the issues of Dalit women in Nepal. Let's hear from our incredible guest Gauri on everything from her personal journey, struggles, and her dream to liberate our fellow citizens from the helm of caste and social strata. Gauri Nepali is a proud feminist, a Dalit activist, and a freelance writer on gender and cast issues. She is also a board member of Dalit Reader, a knowledge-based production campaign where people can read and write about Dalit issues by joining different workshops. She is also affiliated with various organizations working for LGBTIQ people. AccountabilitTEA podcast...

2021-09-0133 min