Achyut Luitel, Nepal Advisory Board Member

Achyut has achieved over three decades of experience in the development sector gaining practical knowledge in different kinds of rural infrastructure and livelihood programmes. He has acquired engineering as well as Social Sciences academic degrees.

He started his career in the government sector, but soon moved to the development sector in 1994 with Helvetas, a Swiss NGO and led three different water projects at different times until 2000, and at the later stage piloted a programme based on Integrated Water Resources Management Approach.

He was part of the core team involved in the design of a transport and livelihood programme of DFID in 2000-2001. Later he continued in implementation of same programme as Deputy Team Leader in the beginning and later as Team Leader until early 2006. He joined Practical Action, a UK based INGO as the Country Director of Nepal Programme in March 2006; and became South Asia Regional Director from 2012 till date. He has also served as the Chairperson of Association of INGOs working in Nepal (AIN), a network of about 150 INGOs working in Nepal between 2010 and 2012, and 2019 to 2021. He has also served as the adviser of Disaster Preparedness Network (DPNet) of Nepal. He is also steering committee member of Duryog Nivaran, a South Asia Regional Network on DRR. He has been the keynote speaker in several regional conventions and seminars in climate change, disaster risk reduction and development management issues organised in Bhutan, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka.