
On behalf of PMAN, Mr. Prabesh Aryal, an Ex-Officio PMAN member, represented Nepal in the 18th Global Symposium 2010 that was held in New Delhi, India between December 6th and 8th, 2010. Around 600 people from Indian companies and educational institutes from the Asia Pacific region, including Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Nepal, USA attended the Symposium. The three-day event covered a wide range of topics around managing infrastructure projects that was inaugurated by Chief Minister of New Delhi Smt. Sheila Dikshit. During the inauguration session, on behalf of PMAN, Mr. Aryal thanked the Honorary President of PMA India, Mr. Adesh Jain, for his leadership, support and cooperation to PMAN. On request, honorable Chief Minister honored the moment by handing over PMAN honorary membership to Mr. Jain. To reciprocate, Mr. Jain thanked PMAN for this honor and said that he was very pleased with PMAN and its contribution not only to Nepal, but region and international symposiums. He further added that he and PMA India team would like to visit Nepal and participate in nation's first national Project Management Conference on May 28th, 2011, which will take place right in between IPMA's Executive Board Meeting between 27th and 29th of May, 2011. See photos.
During the three day event, Mr. Aryal also attended APFPM 3rd Meeting hosted by PMA India and witnessed the signing ceremony of APFPM Memorandum of Understanding. Dr. Bill Young, President of AIPM and APFPM Chair said that it was a historic event for APFPM as MOU was signed by representatives from Member Countries: Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan and Nepal. He said rests of the Member Countries will be signing the MoU electronically. Since the formation of APFPM, PMAN has been playing an active role in the forum including website development of APFPM, excellence awards standard development and other regional activities.
Humanitarian and development aid projects have played an important part to the social and economic development in Nepal for more than 30 years. Some of the humanitarian and development aid projects have run very well and some could have been much improved during their deliveries. Sharing good practices and continuously making effort to identify problems are keys to future improvements. One way could be through the increased level of application of Project Management knowledge and techniques, tools and methods in managing these projects.
PMAN, in association with MAN, concluded a successful 5-day Project Management workshop between Sept 15 and Sept 29, 2010!
PMAN is organizing IPMA International Project Excellence Award in March, 2011. As one of the take-aways for PM practitioners, educators and enthusiasts in 2011's many PM activities, with the certification and PMAN membership, one gets to evaluate international projects in terms of its excellence.
For future collaboration in Project Management, upon request by PMAN, MAN agrees to commit to PM activities that will be planned and executed jointly.
Coaching for Development (C4D) workshop will be held in Nepal in September, 2010. IPMA's first ever workshop on how young PM crew are to help developing and under developing countries will be a historic event. Stay tuned for detail.
The new Asia Pacific Federation of Project Management (APFPM) was successfully launched in Hong Kong on Saturday 24th April 2010. The launch was celebrated at the Annual Dinner of the Hong Kong Institute of Project Management. The night included Hong Kong luminaries from industry and senior government postings, Federation meeting delegates from Hong Kong, India, China, Nepal, Japan, United States, Indonesia, and Australia and 120 or so other guests....
First, Project Management Association of Nepal (PMAN) is a fairly new establishment that promotes the profession of project management (PM) in Nepal. It was started with the initiative of 7 founding members mostly from social development, IT and financial sectors, in January 2006. Till date it has more than 55 institutional and individual members.
The foremost achievement of the visit was to share the steady growth of the Project Management Association of Nepal (PMAN) to be in a position to meet all the criteria for its membership at International Project Management Association (IPMA). It has submitted its application this month to the IPMA Executive Board to be the next member nation to join IPMA....
Project Management Association of Nepal (PMAN) has been formally accepted as a national member association (MA) by the members of the Council of Delegates (CoD) meeting of International Project Management Association (IPMA) in Dublin, Ireland on September 27th. It was hosted by the Project Management Institute Ireland...
IPMA and The APM Group sign agreement to support each other.
The young aspiring future project managers are the lifeblood of a growing professional association. With this recognition, PMAN has been providing support services and mentoring for students and young managers alike.