Human Rights Without Frontiers, Nepal(HRWF NEPAL)

HRWF Nepal is an NGO committed to promoting peace and human rights through training and building capacity and awareness, especially among vulnerable groups.

Overview

Human Rights Without Frontiers Nepal (HRWF) is a non-governmental, non-profit making, non-sectarian, non-religious organisation committed towards promoting peace. It works to protect people's rights and freedom by conducting various awareness-raising activities, and is dedicated to creating a culture in which human rights, democracy, the rule of law and peace prevail.

One of the aims of HRWF Nepal is to safeguard and improve the living standard of vulnerable groups who are at particularly high risk of being drawn into the conflict. The organisation has proposed a three-level strategy for implementation in the rural parts of Nepal:

• Grassroots level: training and educational activities to improve the living standards of the targeted people.
• District level: monitoring activity at the grassroots levels, producing qualitative training of trainers (ToTs) and promoting relationships with different organisations.
• National level: policy making, recruitment and monitoring activities at district and grassroots level.

HRWF Nepal has conducted extensive training to help end the conflict by focusing on reducing the socio-economic inequalities that prevails in Nepalese society. It has worked to improve the livelihood status of vulnerable minorities such as ex-Kamaiyas (bonded labourers), Dalits and landless people who are at particularly high risk of being drawn into the conflict.

Similarly, the organisation has campaigned to bring vulnerable groups into the mainstream by developing their sustainable livelihood skills. With the capacity to generate income and employment opportunities, they can empower themselves as well as improve their socio-economic wellbeing. This is intended to create an alternative means of mitigating conflict.

Through its campaigning, HWRF Nepal has successfully raised its target groups' awareness of the conflict’s causes and of appropriate means for addressing those causes. The organisation has empowered underprivileged communities and strengthened their capacity to organise themselves into groups.

HRWF has conducted the following training:

• Appreciative Inquiry training;
• Group Formation and Management training;
• Group Dynamic and Mobilisation training;
• Social Mobilisation training;
• Community Development training;
• Participatory Planning , Monitoring and Evaluation training;
• Conflict Management and Social Transformation training.

The organisation has provided trainers and facilitators in local areas to support different groups. They prepared different TOTs guidebooks in connection with the above training.

What services are provided?

Training, workshops, seminars, peace campaigns, research, advocacy, interaction, campaigning for the protection of the Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs), asylum seekers and migrant workers.

Geographical area of operation

Rural parts of Nepal, especially in the Eastern and Mid-Western regions.

Funding resources

The activities of HRWF are funded by membership fees, donations and publication sales. The organisation is very cautious about accepting grants from INGOs.

What further information would you like?

Information about international and regional organisations working in conflict prevention, peacebuilding and successful dialogue and mediation processes in conflict-torn countries around the world. The organisation would also like information on reconciliation, reconstruction, disarmament, decommissioning and security sector reform processes in post-conflict countries.

What new contacts would you like to make?

HRWF would like to be in touch with organisations working on conflict prevention and peacebuilding, collective trauma healing and reconciliation. It would also like to be in contact with universities that run academic programmes for conflict resolution.

Associated Organisations

Social Welfare Council, Human Rights Without Frontiers International