About Us

Centre for Educational Policies and Practices (CEPP) is a mission for change through education that focuses on social justice and climate change. We take education as a great equalizer and seek to establish ecological knowledge as an existential skill for human kind. It is founded by few individuals in their turning point of lives with a singular mission of promoting education as the foundation for sustained prosperity in the Nepalese society and the world at large. It brings along a wealth of experience from their involvement in ‘wide literacy’ work and the rights perspective to development over decades.

For a number of reasons, Nepal’s education system is in shambles. There have been good efforts to improve it from different sides. However, the emphasis is often put on material aspects – benches or buildings – over teachers, pupils and parents. CEPP intends to bring parents and teachers at the centre of our educational process.

Further, purpose of education has been confined to earning over self-reliance – provisioning of education itself being a means of profiteering. While we stand for not using education for profit – at least basic, we support localization to the best possible extent. An education institution should govern itself as a household amidst the other dynamics of a society.

While we have holistic vision and long-term perspective on education, we start where we are, rather than spewing radical ideas without action. We seek to instill change one by one – one student, one teacher, one class, one school, one Municipality and so on keeping the larger world in mind. Unit of our work is one existing school – its students, teachers, and parents living in a school’s catchment. And pedagogy adapted to their realities spiraling out from the learner him/herself connecting life with environment with a lot of emphasis on growing food both as ends and means to promote creativity and critical thinking. We see a lot of room to do so in existing set up and keep on filling existing opportunities.

We view ourselves a part of civil society – registered as an NGO with Kathmandu Administrative Office since 2009.  We strive to operate the organization itself as our message with minimalistic life-style.