As in most countries in the world education is considered in Nepal as the most effective basis for raising levels of economic and social development. Hence, development of education has been high priority in the country. A number of projects and programmes have been launched to accelerate educational development. As a result, the current situation is a vast improvement upon the situation that existed five decades ago. Despite this development, the present condition poses difficult challenges in the context of the present day world. The development trends during the past few decades show a rapid expansion of educational needs, and the actual growth has been slow despite intensive efforts. The challenge is particularly critical with regard to taking school education to the unreached section of the people who are poor and disadvantaged. The magnitude of problems of illiteracy, non-enrollment and school drop out is massive. Remote rural areas, females, ethnic minorities, dalits, and the poor are disadvantaged in terms of educational development.

The country is now running the Tenth National Development Plan. The focus of the plan is on the need for poverty alleviation. Education is looked upon as a force to address the issue of poverty through human development measures by enhancing the capacity of the people in terms of appropriate life skills, knowledge and experimental wisdom to acquire economic and social prosperity

There is urgent need of international support in developing and implementing programme based activities of the policy objectives. It is in line with this need that the government is collaborating with different international agencies, bilateral and multilateral, for the purpose of education development. Besides, the government is also undertaking several measures for reducing / eliminating risks in implementation of programmes.

Within a short span of time, METCON was involved in several education and training development projects. We provide our expertise in i. supporting initiatives to improve educational quality through capacity building in curriculum development and evaluation, educational material development, teacher training, examination and assessment, educational research ii. Working with Ministries of Education to develop sustainable systems for the provision of teaching and leaning materials to schools. And iii. Assisting funding agencies, national governments, publisher’s etc. to plan and carry out studies and appraisals.

• Project Identification and Design
• Feasibility Studies
• Curriculum Development
• Teacher Education
• Training Material Development
• Appraisals & Evaluation Studies
• Sector and Sub-Sector Analysis
• Policy Studies and Impact Studies
• Benefit evaluation and monitoring
• Project Management

METCON was involved in several urban and rural development programmes. In context of bringing community awareness in development activities, it had undertaken activities pertaining to community mobilization, group formation, providing training to farmers/rural and urban communities for planning, designing, and implement development programmes. Provided following services:

• Cooperative and Self-help Groups
• Rural and Social Infrastructure
• Training and Extension
• Socio-economic Impact Assessment

It is increasingly recognized that sustainable development requires the integration of health and environment within the context of social and economic development. Our Social Development Division covers Health sector with recognition of the fact that environmental enhancement forms an integral part in the adequate response to the increasing demand for health services – especially for the most vulnerable groups and in those regions where environmental degradation is leading to the outbreak of preventable diseases, poverty and disasters. As the major infections and communicable diseases are associated with poor living conditions, crowding and other environmental factors like poor sanitation and lack of access to safe water and adequate food supply.

• disease prevention programmes like tuberculosis and STD/HIV-AIDS through the design and construction supervision of health care facilities as well as design and introduction of oral contraceptive packaging to procurement activities.
• Family Planning and Social Marketing
• Disease Control and Prevention
• Community Participation and
• Health Education (CPHE)
• Information, Education and
• Communication (IEC)