DanChurchAid
Nepal
Programme work
The overall objective for DanChurchAid's programme in Nepal is to facilitate the most disadvantaged and marginalized households and communities to organize them into groups and community based organisations, so that they can get better access to the opportunities they need to improve their livelihoods and govern their own lives. The target group for the empowerment include poor women, Dalits, Kamaiyas (landless, former bonded labourers) and the poorest of those living in remote and marginalised areas often deprived of their basic human rights.
Livelihood improvement
The empowerment process applied in DanchurchAid's development activities is rights orientated and focuses on the very poor. In Nepal, DanChurchAid is working with the programme type Food Security with strong elements of the programme type Political Space .
Bhutanese refugee camps
Through the Relief Aid Programme and via Danida funding, DanChurchAid is supporting the approx. 110,000 Bhutanese refugees based in 7 refugee camps in Nepal. Half of the project is directed towards the refugee host community; supporting major activities such as school classroom and toilet construction, supply of school furniture, rehabilitation of small irrigation canals, bamboo and tree plantation to compensate deforestation, river bank protection with bioengineering with some civil construction work. Read more at LWS-Nepal .
Dalits
Through a EuropeAid funded project running from 2006-2009, DanChurchAid supports LWS-Nepal's Dalit Empowerment Programme . The Dalit Empowerment Programme in the far-western region of Nepal is mainly concentrated in the district headquarters of 9 districts while its coverage in Lalitpur district is 3,516 people (1723 Dalit households). LWS-Nepal has been active in DanChurchAid regional workshops as facilitator within poverty, human rights and the Dalit issue in South Asia.
Disaster preparedness
Via DIPECHO funds, DanChurchAid's focus in Nepal includes enhancing the local capacity for disaster prevention and preparedness as integral elements of development initiatives.
The administration and monitoring of DanChurchAid's work in Nepal takes place from the DanChurchAid regional office in New Delhi .
