Empowerment Project
Program Period : 1st July, 2004 to 18th October, 2006
Funding Agency : Lutheran World Federation-Nepal
Targeted HH : 5212
No. of Beneficiaries : 29,440
Program Area : Achham District (6 VDC’s) and Doti (10 VDCs)
Objective of Program
• To support for an increase in the level of awareness among women, female and marginalized community to have equitable society to live in.
Program Output
• One school building was constructed at Khirsen.
• Total 4 drinking water supply schemes were constructed at Pokhari and Kadamadu.
• One CBO building was constructed at Baglekh.
• A three days’ refreshment training and other workshop was conducted on village based interaction, group meeting, group gathering, sanitation and repair and maintenance participating 604 beneficiaries.
• Capacity building of the CBOs/NGOs of the programme VDC were conducted
• Poverty reduction through income generation programmes
• Skill training and community development activities were conducted
• Educational development was promoted through support to school building construction
• Identification and detailed design of water supply schemes
• Community people were mobilized for the construction of DWSS
• Awareness programs on environmental sanitation were organized
• Training and orientation for sustainability
• Supported for the construction of toilet
• Risk management and disaster preparedness against natural hazards like landslides and soil erosion
• Promoted saving and credit activities/system at group level
• Environmental awareness, river preservation training were provided to the beneficiaries
• Advocacy and awareness programs on environmental health were organized
• Communication programs for sanitation and hygiene; advocacy, awareness creation, stigma reduction, peer education and behaviour change on HIV/AIDs were successfully completed
• Training on seasonal disaster issues as well as risk management was conducted.