Kathmandu, July 24
The Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and
Industry (FNCCI) has organised an employer training on the relevance of the
care economy.
The private sector employer training on the
relevance of the care economy, organised in collaboration with the
International Labour Organisation (ILO), began on Wednesday in Dhangadhi,
Kailali. The three-day training will run from Wednesday to Friday, the FNCCI
informed in a statement on Wednesday.
The training has been organised by the FNCCI Far-Western
Province under an agreement between the ILO's 'Empowered Women, Prosperous
Nepal' project and the FNCCI Kathmandu.
Astha Bhatta is the lead trainer for the three-day
training.
Kamala Shrestha, a central member of FNCCI and
convener of the federation's Women Entrepreneurship Development Committee, said
that the care economy is now a serious matter for the government and the
private sector and that it is necessary to formulate a necessary procedure for
it. She said that it was necessary to make the care economy a national issue
and that the private sector was ready to facilitate and provide necessary
support for it.
A total of 30 people from the Sudurpashchim Province,
including industrialists, businesspeople, government and non-government
representatives, are participating in the three-day training. Pramod Bhattarai,
Secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Tourism, Forests and Environment, Gagan
Dev Bhatta, Acting Secretary of the Ministry of Social Development, and Padamraj
Chaulagain, member of the FNCCI Sudurpashchim Province Executive Committee had
talked about the importance of care economy.
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