Annual Report 2018
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Annual Report 2018 I 1 Content IM Swedish Development Partner (IM) 3 Message from the Country Director 4 IM Nepal Partners’ Contact Details 5 Program Achievements for 2018 6 Highlights from the Strategic Period 2015-2018 12 Strategic Period 2019-23 15 New Projects Summary 17 Finance Statement 19 IM Team 19 2 I Annual Report 2018 IM Swedish Development Partner (IM) IM’s history in Nepal can be traced back to 1980s when Commitment: IM empowers civil society, catalyzing it provided humanitarian support to Tibetan refugees. profound societal change towards equality and IM expanded its operations and formally registered as democracy, as a feminist and anti-racist change agent. an INGO with Social Welfare Council in 2010. Through its strategic plan (2015-2017) and bridge year of Theory of Change: IM believes that sustainable 2018, IM’s work focuses on sustainable development societal change is created by targeted right holders approach to contribute towards national priority of and with key enabling partners and actors – catalyzing poverty reduction and quality education. To contribute social impact on an individual, organizational and towards this, IM has been working with six long term institutional level through empowerment, mobilization development partners in Nawalpur, Kapilvastu, Dang, and advocacy – collectively driving the right to social Gorkha and Kathmandu. and economic inclusion and ultimately a strong civil society. Vision: IM’s vision is a fair and humane world. Mission: IM’s mission is to create visibility, fi ght poverty and alienation. IM always defends the principle of all humans’ equal value and rights. Our working area PROVINCE NO. 7 PROVINCE NO. 6 HUMLA DARCHULA BAJHANG MUGU BAJURA BAITADI DADELDHURA JUMLA DOTI KALIKOT DOLPA ACHHAM MUSTANG PROVINCE NO. 4 DAILEKH RUKUM_W KANCHANPUR JAJARKOT KAILALI RUKUM_E MANANG SURKHET MYAGDI BAGLUNG PROVINCE NO. 3 BARDIYA SALYAN KASKI GORKHA ROLPA LAMJUNG PARBAT RASUWA BANKE PYUTHAN GULMI PROVINCE NO. 1 DANG SYANGJA TANAHU NUWAKOT SINDHUPALCHOK ARGHAKHANCHI PAL PA KATHMANDU DOLAKHA SANKHUWASABHA DHADING NAWALPU R BHAKTAPUR RAMECHHAP KAPILBASTU TAPLEJUNG KABHREPALANCHOK RUPANDE HI CHITAWAN SOLUKHUMBU PARASI MAKAWANPUR PROVINCE NO. 5 LALITPUR OKHALDHUNGA PARSA BHOJPUR TERHATHUM SINDHULI KHOTANG BARA PANCHTHAR RAUTAHAT SARLAHI UDAYAPUR DHANKUTA ILAM MAHOTTARI SIRAHA DHANUSHA SUNSARI MORANG PROVINCE NO. 2 JHAPA SAPTARI OUR PRESENCE IM/EU Annual Report 2018 I 3 Message from the Country Director I feel extremely happy to present our Annual report for the year 2018. This year we completed our fi rst strategic period of 2015-2018. We closed the year with evaluation of our work by Social Welfare Council (SWC) commissioned team comprised of experts from SWC, Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizen and Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, and the external independent evaluation 2017. The evaluations reports show that IM’s work has resulted in positive outcomes in our target areas. It was reassuring to know that IM has been effective in reaching out to the most deprived communities attributing to promoting children’s right to education, economic empowerment, and strengthening Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). This period has been important to IM in terms of gaining strategic direction and visibility as a sustainable other local, national and international partners, won The development partner in Nepal. The learnings, European Union’s grant for a four year project called challenges and achievements have strengthened our “Enhancing Citizens' Participation in Sub-National organization and helped us increase our focus. From Good Governance (Local and Provincial Level) in our humble beginnings in 2010 from a small offi ce in the Context of the New Federal System in Nepal” for Nawalpur, today we have grown and reached to four Karnali Province. For this, IM also co-fi nances 5 % of districts including national level policy work. the total budget through Sida funding in addition to its other technical as well as implementing roles. We have Moving forward, with the aim of becoming better, shared brief of these projects in this report. relevant, and strategic organization, this year we worked on developing our next Strategic Plan for Finally, networking with likeminded networks was the period of 2019-2023. For this, we conducted continued as important role of IM for this year by consultation meetings and workshops with our contributing to consultations and drafting process of partners, thematic experts and civil society leaders social development and organizational registration acts including government stakeholders at all levels. We for greater CSO friendly laws together with government gathered insights from leaders and experts in the area agencies and CSOs, Livelihood and Gender Equality of Women Rights, Economic Empowerment, Poverty and Social Inclusion (GESI) with AIN and its working Rights to Food, Human Rights, Civic Space, Quality groups, NGO federation, and other CSOs. Education and Educational Governance. Their insights As we prepare for a challenging yet exciting journey and suggestions have been instrumental in showing us ahead. I would like to express my sincere gratitude the strategic direction for the coming period. We also towards our donors Sida, TCF, The European Union, worked on supporting our Head Offi ce in Sweden to and the generous Swedish people, without whose prepare a fi ve year frame grant application to Swedish support we wouldn’t be able to bring positive impact International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). in the lives of approx. 23, 322 marginalized women, For these purposes, a series of consultation meetings men, girls and boys from 148 community based were held with partners and stakeholders. We have civil societies/groups . I would also like to thank my also brought few new partners like Jagaran Media Nepal and Sweden IM team and our partners for their Center (JMC) and Fair Trade Group (FTG) Nepal on hard work and dedication towards the organization’s board for the new strategic period. Partners have also mission. A special thanks to Social Welfare Council fi nalized their program plans for this period. and their evaluation team, Ministry of Women, Children Another major achievement for IM this year has also and Senior Citizen, and line ministries and agencies been the winning of two proposals from back-donors. for their cooperation. Finally, I thank our communities First we have been able to win a proposal- for a who continue to pursue their dreams despite of the three year project (2019-2021) from The Charitable challenges they face. Foundation (TCF) – Australia- called “Livelihoods improvement of Indigenous Tharu Communities Govinda Neupane, through effective pond management”. Then, we, under Country Director the consortium led-by Sahakarmi Samaj- Surkhet and 4 I Annual Report 2018 IM Nepal Partners’ Contact Details Multi-dimensional Action for Development (MADE Nepal) Bharatpur, Chitwan Tel: +97756528604 Email: [email protected] www.madenepal.org Siddhartha Social Development Centre (SSDC) Bandganga Municipality-10, Siddhartha Chowk Tel: +97776550196 Email: [email protected] www.ssdc.org.np Society for Environmental & Economic Development Nepal (SEED - Nepal) Tulsipur, Dang Tel: +97782522049 Email: [email protected] Indreni Rural Development Center (IRDC) Buddhabhumi, Kapilvastu Tel: +97776545013 Email: [email protected] www.irdcnepal.org Justice and Rights Institute - Nepal (JuRI) Jwagal, Lalitpur Tel: 015538910 Email: [email protected] www.jurinepal.org.np Jagaran Media Center (JMC) Baneshwor, Kathmandu, Nepal Tel: 015172646/ 9861086809 Email: [email protected], [email protected] Web: www.jagaranmedia.org.np Society Welfare Action Nepal (SWAN) Lamahi Municipality- 11, Dang Tel: +97782417020 E-mail: [email protected] Fair Trade Group Nepal Jhamsikhel, Lalitpur, Nepal PO Box 13620, Kathmandu Tel:977-1- 5549848, 5542608 Email: [email protected] www.fairtradegroupnepal.org Annual Report 2018 I 5 Program Achievements for 2018 Education To promote right to free, quality and compulsory reenroll in school and also conducted awareness basic education of the marginalized children, against child marriage at schools and communities. particularly girls, we worked in 35 schools of Dang Our focus was on children from marginalized and Kapilvastu districts. Our education partners are communities and girls. SSDC and SEED. We worked with schools to promote We worked with six schools to develop them as Model quality education, girls friendly and child friendly Schools that provides girl friendly and child friendly teaching-learning environment and strengthening environment, equitable access, participatory learning school governance. Based on community centric environment, quality education, and inclusive school approach, we worked with parents and stakeholders governance. Best practices and achievements from through Girls Education Advocacy Groups, Refl ect the Model Schools are replicated by other schools Groups (a group of empowerment class) and from the surrounding area. Our partners also worked Citizens Watch Dog Groups to raise awareness of with local media and academia to highlight issues education so that all children and particularly girls relating to education sector in the area. This has have increased access to quality education. Based helped towards implementation and follow up of on school centric approach, we supported schools existing education related laws and policies. We with necessary teaching learning