Krishna Acharya Email & Phone Number

Sawen Secretariat

Kathmandu District, Nepal

• Provided policy and strategic directions to agriculture and livestock development sectors • Design and manage an annual NRs 40 billion budget funded by Government of Nepal, development agencies such as the World Bank, International Fund for Agricultural Development, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, European Union and USAID • Oversee functions and communication with 15 federal agencies including three federal departments to facilitate smooth implementation of respective departmental programs• Served as the chair of the Steering Committee for approval and management of strategy/programs of development partner supported projects and programs and ensure accomplishment of project targets • Formulated plan, procedures, directives, and technical standards and supervised and monitored agriculture and livestock development programs • Coordinated with national agencies and international development partners• Chaired the Crops and Livestock Insurance Fund Management Committee: Formulated/updated new crops policies, directed for “Assessment of Insurances Effectiveness for Agriculture Sector”.

Kathmandu District, Nepal

• Develop, implement, and monitor integrated Chure landscape restoration programs benefiting nature and community. • Initiate revision of the 20-year Chure Terai Madhesh Conservation Master Plan • Facilitate and support stakeholders to restore degraded watersheds in Chure conservation landscape• Devise programs and activities utilizing restored lands for societal benefits as well as provide supports for appropriate water harvesting mechanism in the landscape• Coordinate with provincial and local government on natural resources conservation, planning and utilization

Karnali Province, Surkhet

• Lead policy formulation, planning, coordination and budgeting functions of the ministry and mobilize human, financial and technical resources for community livelihoods, industrial promotion, tourism development, consumers rights protection, forest and environmental management. • Drafting Province Forest Act/Regulations, Environment Protection Act/Regulations, Tourism Act/Regulations and Tourism Master Plan promoting nature-based tourism. • Conduct feasibility study and prepare detail project reports for natural resources-based enterprises in the province – about 7• Coordinate, monitor and oversee general administration of the ministry and territorial agencies• Coordinated biodiversity profile of Karnali province, conducted a status study on human wildlife conflicts in Karnali province

Kathmandu District, Nepal

• Draft policies and plans on watershed and national forest management • Formulate directives and guidelines on Fland clearance for infrastructure projects by engaging with public sector development agencies and private sector investors• Appraise environmental reports and facilitate forest land uses to national priority development projects• Evaluate detailed project reports and make recommendations for approval of forest land use for public funding and private sectors investment • Develop strategy for balancing conservation and development for societal and conservations benefits

Kathmandu District, Nepal

• Formulate policies and programs, annual plan, budgeting, execution and monitoring of forest and biodiversity outside Protected Areas of Nepal• Mobilization of community for biodiversity conservation including CBAPU outside PAs for controlling illegal wildlife trade• Promote community forestry, restore forest and landscape conservation plans• Regulate forest products supply chain including non-timber forest products • Served as the CITES plant management authority for Nepal • General management over 7,500 staff, 750 offices and about 5 billion NRs public funds annually

Kathmandu District, Nepal

• Plan, coordinate and manage the annual budgeting of the ministry of about NRs 8 billion (2012/13) to about 14 billion (2015/16) • Formulate Forest Policy 2015 and 13th Periodic Development Plan, coordinating Forest Sector Strategy 2015-25 for final approval• Serve as Conservation Landscape Coordinator to formulate Terai Arc Landscape (TAL-II 2015-25), Chitwan Annapurna Landscape, Kanchanjunga Conservation and Landscape Development Initiatives with ICIMOD, Western Hills Conservation Landscape and Conservation Landscape Planning in Nepal • Serve as Working Group Chair for USAID supported 38 million USIAD Hariyo Ban Programme Phase I, National focal point for UNFF, Assessment coordinator for Forest Resources Assessment Nepal• Coordinate GESI working group of the Ministry, updating Hariyo Ban GESI strategy.• Coordinate Post-Disaster Need Assessment and Post-Disaster Recovery Framework for forestry and environment components, Gorkha Earthquake 2015. • Coordinator: Forest Resources Assessment Validation Committee, 2015, MoFSC to validate methodology used and data produced by FRA Nepal. • Mainstreaming CBAPU through public funding and celebration initiation for CBAPU day

Kathmandu District, Nepal

• Developing department policy and progDPWram, annual development plan, budgeting, implementation and supervision of public funds of NRs above 3 billion annually• Oversaw conservation of 20 Protected Areas of Nepal and their buffer zones as well as supervise about 1,800 professional staff • Focal point for IUCN, Global Tiger Forum, CITES and UNESCO-Natural sites and coordinate with national conservation partners including Nepali Army• Lead the “Zero Poaching Years” for Rhino successfully for the first time in the history of Nepal in 2011 AD Nepal history• Develop, introduce and implement cash payments mechanims for human wildlife conflicts mitigation and wildlife damage reliefs• Served as Chair of Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), established 21 district WCCB; Member Secretary - WCCCC, promoted youth for conservation through CBAPU • Served as Coordinator of Protected Areas and Buffer Zone (PABZ) Program Terai Arc Landscape/WWF, Nepal

Kathmandu District, Nepal

• Provide support for policy formulation in environment conservation and biodiversity conservation, • Coordinate, develop and implement CBD (national focal point) and REDD plus instruments in Nepal. • Negotiator for CBD and REDD plus in UNFCCC • Coordinated development of Readiness Preparation Proposal (7.6 m USD) for the World Bank, FCPF. https://www.forestcarbonpartnership.org/system/files/documents/R-PP_Nepal_revised_October.pdf

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Biodiversity Conservation

Conservation conflict in Nepal: An examination of the pattern and ecological dimension of human-wildlife conflict and wildlife conservation.

Master Of Science - Ms, Forest Sciences And Biology

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, General Forestry