Train the Trainer Certification in Nepal

How to take the TTT from Nepal

All four routes lead to the same Bodhih Certified Trainer credential.

Format	Dates	Fee	Best for
Open classroom batch in India (Mumbai / Bengaluru)	18–21 Nov 2026 / 9–12 Dec 2026 — confirm on the batch calendar	USD 500 per participant (non-residential)	Individuals and pairs who want a full classroom experience
In-house in Kathmandu, Pokhara or any venue in Nepal	Your dates	On request (NPR/USD)	INGOs, banks, hydropower developers and hotel groups certifying a team
Live online batch	On request; runs on IST	On request (NPR/USD)	Field-based staff who cannot travel
Open batch in Nepal	Not currently announced	—	Call +91 99000 11603 to register interest

Why the India open batches suit Nepali participants

For individuals, Nepal is one of the simplest countries from which to attend an open batch in India. Nepali citizens do not need a visa to travel to India, flights from Kathmandu connect to Mumbai and Bengaluru, and the Nepali rupee is pegged to the Indian rupee, so budgeting is predictable. There is no meaningful jet lag: the four classroom days feel like a working week in a slightly different time zone.

A classroom batch also gives something an online course cannot: four days alongside L&D managers, bankers, engineers and consultants from many Indian industries, each presenting real modules and giving structured feedback. For Nepali trainers who usually work alone or in small teams, that range of peers is often the most valuable part. Nepal-based participants receive their fee and invoicing currency when they enquire.

Online timing: Nepal Time vs IST

Nepal Time is UTC+5:45, which puts Kathmandu 15 minutes ahead of India Standard Time all year, since neither country uses daylight saving. A live online day that runs 9:00 AM–6:00 PM IST runs 9:15 AM–6:15 PM in Kathmandu. That is an ordinary office day. The practical constraints in Nepal are more often bandwidth and power at field locations than the clock, so participants outside the Kathmandu Valley should plan to join from a site with a stable connection and a backup. Nepal's public holidays and festival calendar, Dashain and Tihar in particular, differ from India's, so check the four dates carefully. The online TTT page explains how live practice and feedback are run.

Where trainers make the difference in Nepal

Training in Nepal often happens far from head office, in districts reached by long road journeys, with mixed groups and limited materials. Trainers who can design a session that works without slides, with participants of very different backgrounds, are worth a great deal.

INGOs and NGOs

Kathmandu hosts a large community of international and national NGOs, UN agencies and development partners. Their programmes in health, education, livelihoods, governance and disaster preparedness run on capacity-building: a core team trains district staff, who train community facilitators, who reach households. Programme officers who run these TOTs need participatory methods, clear session plans and a way to show donors what changed. Our TOT page covers how cascades hold quality.

Banking and financial services

Commercial banks, development banks, microfinance institutions and insurers train branch staff across the hills and the Terai on products, credit, customer service and compliance. Internal trainers are typically experienced officers who now have to teach, often over several days at a training centre.

Hydropower and infrastructure

Hydropower is one of Nepal's defining industries. Developers, contractors and operators must train engineers, technicians and site workers on safety, operations and maintenance, often at remote project sites. Here the trainer is usually a senior engineer, and the technical train the trainer approach — structured demonstration, practice and checking competence — matters more than presentation polish.

Tourism and hospitality

Hotels in Kathmandu and Pokhara, trekking and expedition operators and the wider hospitality trade train staff on service standards, safety and guest communication. Seasonal peaks mean new staff must be productive quickly, so short, practical sessions designed around real guest situations work best.

Keeping a district cascade on track

Whatever the sector, the weak point in Nepal is usually the second or third step of a cascade, when a district trainer delivers a session alone, in a different language, to a group the original designers never met. Three habits help. First, write session plans that a new trainer could follow, with timings, instructions and the key questions spelled out. Second, build in activities that need no projector or electricity, because many venues will have neither. Third, teach trainers to debrief activities properly, since that is where learning is consolidated and where weaker facilitators most often cut corners. The program practises all three.

CTEVT, TITI and the Bodhih credential

Nepal's formal technical and vocational training sector is overseen by the Council for Technical Education and Vocational Training (CTEVT). Under CTEVT, the Training Institute for Technical Instruction (TITI) runs instructor-training courses for TVET instructors, and also trains skill-test assessors in coordination with the National Skill Test Board. If you teach within the CTEVT system or assess national skill tests, those pathways are the relevant ones.

Corporate, NGO and in-company training sits outside that system. The Bodhih Certified Trainer credential is a professional skills certification issued by Bodhih Training Solutions. Bodhih does not claim CTEVT accreditation, TITI recognition or National Skill Test Board equivalence for it. What it certifies is that you designed and delivered a session to a defined standard, assessed in a final certification delivery.

Who attends from Nepal

Expect HR and L&D officers, INGO and NGO programme and capacity-building staff, bank training-centre faculty, hydropower engineers and safety officers, hotel and tour-operator trainers, and independent facilitators who contract with development projects. The program runs in English, which most of these professionals already use at work; the module each participant redesigns can be one they will deliver in Nepali or another local language. There are no formal prerequisites. Programme staff who already run TOTs often come to replace a lecture-heavy design with one that gets community facilitators practising from the first hour.

What the program includes

Across four days the Bodhih Certified Train The Trainer (TTT) Program works through adult learning (andragogy, Kolb's cycle and Bloom's Taxonomy), Training Needs Analysis and ADDIE instructional design, then facilitation and platform skills, questioning and debriefing, handling difficult participants, virtual delivery and Kirkpatrick evaluation. You leave with 3 trainer toolkits (chosen from Bodhih's library of 100) and feedback scored on Bodhih's Trainer Competency Matrix. See the TTT curriculum.

In-house batches for organisations in Nepal

For an INGO country office, a bank or a hydropower project, an in-house batch of up to 15 trainers is usually best: your venue in Kathmandu or at a regional site, your dates, and practice on your own content, whether a community health session, a loan-product module or a site-safety induction. Organisations that need to build a pool of trainers who prepare other trainers can progress senior staff to the Master Trainer Certification. Scoping, venue needs and group sizes for in-house work are set out on the corporate TTT page.

How to get started

1. Choose your route — an India open batch for individuals, in-house for teams, or live online.
2. Email solutions@bodhih.com with numbers, dates and preferred currency (NPR or USD).
3. Pick a real module you will redesign and deliver during the program.
4. Book travel early if attending in Mumbai or Bengaluru, especially around festival periods.
5. Complete all four days, including the final certification delivery.

See also our Bangladesh page and the full list of countries on the locations page.

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