The workshop saw presentations from Rosemary Arnott, Country Director of British Council in Bangladesh, dealing with “Equal Opportunity and Diversity” while Sarita Moktan from Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) presented a paper on “Workforce Diversity through Gender and Social Inclusion.”[break]
Speaker from UNDP, Moon Gurung, held a talk on the UN Policy on Traineeship for Socially Excluded Groups, and speaker from Inclusion Empowerment Centre (IEC), Khom Raj, spoke about challenges faced by a visually impaired person in a Nepali society.
Opening the event, Robert Monro, Director of the British Council in Nepal said, “We want to encourage equality and diversity, and it is unreasonable to discriminate people because they are different.”
He also believed that a diverse workforce brings different views and ideas from which an organization can benefit.
The BC took a lead by organizing this event not only to share good practices from within the organization but also to create a platform for other organizations (national and international) to showcase policies and best practices as well.
The British Council is in itself committed to equality of opportunity and inclusion, and believes that an Equal Opportunity Policy helps to ensure that there is not unjustified discrimination in the recruitment, retention, training and development of staff on the basis of gender, including transgender, marital status (which includes civil partnerships), sexual orientation, religions and beliefs, political opinions, ethnicity/race, work patterns, age, disability or HIV/AIDS status, socio-economic backgrounds, spent convictions, trade union activity or membership, on the basis of having or not having dependants, or any other irrelevant grounds.
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