Peace and Development

A programme to raise awareness on peace and human rights in Nepal, and to support conflict victims through education and training.

Description

The initiative includes the organisation of an awareness campaign on fundamental human rights and peace; mobilising the local community in sustaining peace; supporting income generation; and capacity building, especially for women and young people affected by conflict.

Women have been double victims of the conflict because of the gender bias in social status in Nepal, and youths are targeted for recruitment by the Maoist militias because of a lack of employment opportunities. 

Aims / Objectives

The organisation aims:

• to raise awareness of human rights and women’s rights;
• to raise people's awareness of peace and introduce non-violent tools and techniques of conflict resolution. They have generally found that most people are unaware of non-violent means for the resolution of differences in many parts of Nepal.
  
  

How it is Articulated

Training; income generation training for women conflict victims; educational support for child conflict victims; campaigning for peace by raising peoples' awareness of non-violent means of conflict transformation.

Achievements / Learning Points

The organisation has established women's groups to address issues such as rehabilitation services for women affected by conflict. In addition, it has been working with children, providing them with informal education and then sending them to school for formal education, supporting them with basic educational materials. Many women and children have been victims of the conflict and the organisation believes that these conflict victims should be rehabilitated in order to establish lasting peace.

Geographical Area of Operation

Salyan District in mid-western Nepal.

Funding Resources

UNDP-SPDI.