NNDCV concluded five year strategic planning meeting

The three days Story Finalization Workshop was conducted with an objective to finalize the stories written by 9 story writers was held at Hotel Narayani Resort, Gaindakot, Nawalparasi from September 19-21, 2024.  9 story writers are the board members of NNDCV. During the workshop, GIZ CPS DWP team, board members and staff of NNDCV were presented at the workshop.  

The purpose of this workshop was to finalize the stories written by the 9 story writers. In this workshop, 16 stories were finalized among 38 stories. Story writers has been writing stories since March 2023. The facilitators of the story finalization workshop were Ramesh Adhikari and Shaileshwori Sharma, Peace Advisors of GIZ CPS DWP team. Before reviewing the stories, facilitators explained the objectives behind the story finalization workshop. Story writers and story tellers reflected their experiences while telling and writing their stories.  

The story finalization session was interactive as the facilitators ensured that the information provided by the storytellers are accurate and storywriters has articulated the stories in a proper way. In order to ensure this, facilitators engaged story tellers and story writers together in discussions and kept the forum open for feedback, queries and suggestions. These discussions and interactive sessions were supported through group discussions. 

Lessons Learnt and Best Practices 

• More interactive sessions were ensured by the facilitators, which helped story writers and story tellers share the feelings more openly. 

• Story Finalization session took more time than allocated as story writers are more emotional during the story telling sessions.