WOREC Nepal ANNUAL REPORT 2012 WOREC Nepal Annual Report 2012
Edited by: Dr Binayak P. Rajbhandari
Prepared by: Renu Shrestha
Layout: Ramesh Bhandari
Publication year: 2013
Published by: WOREC Nepal Balkumari, Lalitpur P.O. Box: 13233, Kathmandu, Nepal Tel: (977)-1-2123124, 5006373, Fax: (977)-1-5006271 Email: [email protected] Website: www.worecnepal.org Abbreviation 4 Foreword 6 Chapter One : The Organization 7 Chapter Two : Program Overview 13 I Violence against Women Campaign 13 1 Women Human Rights Defenders Campaign 19 2 Women empowerment program 21 3 Chhahari program 27 II Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Campaign 30 1 Women health program 31 2 Community health program 37 3 Sustainable livelihoods and bio-intensive farming system 38 4 Empowerment of marginalised communities 43 5 Safe migration program 45 6 Early childhood development Table of Contents Table and child rights program 49 III Campaign for sustainable peace 53 IV Community Radio Udayapur 58 V Database system 59 VI Research, Publication and Documentation 60 Chapter Three: Partner Organizations and Financial Statement 62 AATWIN : Alliance against Trafficking of Women, Nepal AEI : Aide a l’Enfance de l’lnda AIDS : Acquired Immuno-deficiency Syndrome ANC : Ante Natal Care APWLD : Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development AYON : Association of Youth Organizations Nepal BIF : Bio-intensive Farming CA : Constitutional Assembly CAED : Centre for Agro-ecology and Development CBOs : Community Based Organizations CDO : Chief District Officer CIDO : Community-based Independent Democratic Organization COCAP : Collective Campaign for Peace DADO : District Agriculture Development Office DAO : District Administration Office DCA : Dan ChurchAid DDC : District Development Committee DDO : District Development Office
Abbreviations DPHO : District Public Health Office DIG : Deputy Inspector General of Police 4 DNF : Dalit NGO Federation DOTs : Directly Observed Treatment ECDC : Early Childhood Development Centres ESCR : Economic, Social and Cultural Rights EU : European Union FIAN : Food First Information and Action Network FOSI : Foundation Open Society Institute GBV : Gender Based Violence GBVIMS : Gender Based Violence and Information Management System GFMD : Global Forum for Migration and Development GON : Government Organisation HICAST : Himalayan College of Agricultural Sciences and Technology HIV : Human Immunodeficiency Virus HR : Human Right HRD : Human Rights Defenders HRTMCC : Human Rights Treaty Monitoring Coordination Committee ICCO : Interchurch Organization for Development Co-operation ICESCR : International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights IEC : Information, Education and Communication IMADR : The International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 INGO : International Non Governmental Organization INSEC : Informal Sector Service Center IPM : Integrated Pest Management IPNM : Integrated Plant Nutrient Management Isis-WICCE : Isis-Women’s International Cross-Cultural Exchange KIOS : The Finish NGO Foundation for Human Rights LDO : Local Development Office LDTA : Local Development Training Academy LGBTIS : Lesbian Gays Bisexual Transgender Intersex LWF : Lutheran World Federation MFA : Migrant Forum Asia MOWCSW : Ministry of Women, Children and Social welfare NAWHRDS : National Alliance of Women Human Rights Defenders NGO : Non Governmental Organization NHRC : National Human Right Commission NWC : National Women Commission OCHA : Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs OF : Obstetric Fistula
Abbreviations OHCHR : Office for High Commissioner for Human Rights OSCC : One Stop Crisis Centre PNC : Post Natal Care 5 PWESCR : Programme on Women’s Economic, Social and Cultural Rights RBA : Right Based Approach SACTS : STI/AIDS Counseling and Training Service SAN : Sustainable Agriculture Network SDC : Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SOP : Standard Operating Procedure SPSS : Statistical Package for Social Science STD : Sexually Transmitted Diseases TOT : Training of Trainers UN : United Nation UNFPA : United Nations Population Fund VAW : Violence against Women VDC : Village Development Committee WDO : Women Development Officer WHRCC : Women Health Resource and Counseling Centre WHRD : Women Human Right Defender WHRD IC : Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition WOFOWON : Women Forum for Women in Nepal WOREC Nepal : Women’s Rehabilitation Centre
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 WOREC Nepal is a national Non-Government Organization (NGO) working in partnership with local people, I/NGOs, GOs and WHRDs for the promotion of Human rights and sustainable community development based on social justice.
WOREC Nepal, since its inception in 1991, is actively engaged in the promotion and protection of human rights, campaigning on violence against women and trafficking of women as well as economic social and cultural rights (ESCR). The organization has taken a holistic integrated approach with participatory intervention to facilitate formation and strengthening of community-based women groups for human rights and social justice. WOREC Nepal continued its campaigns at local, national Foreword and international levels on VAW and ESCR in partnership with CBOs, local women groups and networks. This year, WOREC jointly with NAWHRD, was actively engaged in 100 days campaign on violence against women and 60 days campaign on violence against women alleged as witches. Similarly, WOREC Nepal has been successful in further strengthening the capacity of more than 1000 local women groups and CBOs. This annual report highlights the major accomplishment and achievements during hte 6 year 2012.
WOREC Nepal would like to express gratitude to all its partners at the community, national and international levels, as well as the government authorities, community stakeholders, and well wishers for the support provided to promote women’s right as human right in Nepal. We also feel grateful for the solidarity in the women’s movement in Nepal. WOREC Nepal is very confident and hopeful that we will receive your support and solidarity in future as well to fulfill our commitment to strengthen the women’s movement in Nepal towards promoting women’s rights and ensuring social justice.
Babu Ram Gautam Executive Director
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 CHAPTER ONE THE ORGANIZATION
Women’s Rehabilitation Centre (WOREC Nepal), the national non-governmental organization has been persistently working for the protection and promotion of human rights with a special focus on women’s right. The organization has been working in the field of women’s empowerment, violence against women (VAW) and economic, social and cultural rights of marginalised communites and population groups with a feminist perspective and a human rights-based integrated approach for the last two decades. The right to bodily integrity and an environment to achieve healthy womanhood by making women safe from all kinds of discrimination and violence has been a key advocacy agenda of WOREC Nepal’s entire programs.
WOREC Nepal has been working with local people, I/NGOs, CBOs, GOs and networks of women human rights defenders (WHRDs) for the protection and promotion of Human Rights and prevention and response to GBV for sustainable peace and community development. It has been working for the voiceless and marginalized groups and for the disadvantaged communities addressing the issues of women's health and reproductive health rights, violence against women, protection and recognition of women human right defenders, safe migration and human trafficking, economical, social and cultural rights of women as well as sustainable management of natural resources and sustainable 7 livelihoods. This annual report presents a glimpse of the programs carried out in the year 2012.
WOREC Nepal’s vision, mission, goal, strategic objectives, strategic directions, strategies, and major campaigns are as mentioned below.
Vision: Society based on women’s rights that guarantees social justice. Mission: WOREC Nepal will continue campaign for the promotion of human rights and sustainable community development based on social justice. Goal : The goal of WOREC Nepal is to ensure economic, social and cultural rights and minimize violence against women through women’s empowerment.
Strategic Objectives a. To organize and mobilize women social justice and women’s rights. to ensure their own rights and end d. To sensitize the mass for violence against them. transformation of the culture based b. Build the capacity of women rights on patriarchal norms and values into activists and targeted groups to the culture based on gender equality. enhance women’s rights. e. Co-ordinate with the likeminded c. Organize advocacy campaigns for institutions and organizations.
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 media advocacy from community level Strategies to national and international level has Capacity Building been adopted by the organization. WOREC Nepal has major strategy WOREC Nepal’s advocacy is based on of capacity building of its own staff, analysis of information, case research, activists and local groups. The process of documentation and established theory capacity building will continue through of social justice. campaigns and program activities within the campaigns. Facilitation Working on right-based approach, Coordination, Networking and when duty bearers decline to realise Partnership duties, their responsibility needs to be Coordination with national, reminded. State is the ultimate duty international, local, government and bearer; however individual in society is non government organizations to take responsible to protect and promote rights forward the campaigns and continuation of women during the violation of their of coordination, cooperation and rights. In this situation, group facilitation partnership with like-minded is considered essential. WOREC Nepal organizations and their networks is has acknowledged facilitation as one of another strategy of WOREC Nepal. the future strategies.
8 Monitoring and Case Research and Dissemination Documentation of Women WOREC Nepal prioritizes knowledge Rights Violation and data based advocacy. WOREC Nepal Case documentation plays a strong focuses on studies, research and their role on advocacy to minimize VAW dissemination to support evidence based and protect woman’s human rights. advocacy. Case documentation has been helping to analyze types of violence, nature of violence, degree and frequency test and Major Campaigns of supports to achieve social justice on the WOREC Nepal basis of evidences. Therefore, monitoring documentation of women human rights WOREC Nepal has been conducting two violation will be taken as major strategy major campaigns – Violence against Women of the organization. (VAW) campaign and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR) campaign. The VAW campaign includes: campaign against-human Advocacy trafficking, women empowerment campaign Being a human rights organization, and women human right defenders campaign, advocacy is one of the major strategies while the ESCR campaign covers the right of WOREC Nepal. Mass sensitization and to food and sustainable livelihoods, right to issue-based advocacy has been strongly health and safe migration campaigns. These continued through different campaign campaigns are strongly inter-linked. activities. Mass-based program to
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 Working areas of WOREC Nepal Table 2. WOREC Nepal programme coverage in Table 1. WOREC Nepal has been targeted districts, 2012 implementing various community- based programs in the following nine S.N Distrcts No of VDCs Municipality districts: 1. Morang 35 1 Eastern Morang, Sunsari, Development Udayapur, 2. Sunsari 18 2 Region Siraha 3. Udayapur 16 1 Central Kathmandu, 4. Dhanusha 19 1 Development Lalitpur, Region Dhanusha 5. Siraha 7 2 Western 6. Dang 5 2 Development Rupandehi 7. Kathmandu - 1 Region 8. Lalitpur (Central - 1 Mid-Western Office) Development Dang Region 9. Kailali 14 1 10. Rupandehi - 1 Far-Western Development Kailali Total 114 13 Region 9 Campaigns and Programme of WOREC Nepal
Women Empowerment Violence Program against Women Human Rights Woman Defenders campaign campaign Women Health Counseling Centers
Campaigns Sustainable Sustainable Livelihoods and of WOREC Peace Bio-Intenseive Farming Nepal Women Health Right Program
Community Health Program Economic, Empowerment of Social and Marginalised Comunities Cultural rights Safe Migration Program campaign Early Childhood Development and Child Rights Program ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 Network Partnership organization works for the leadership WOREC Nepal is working with national institute for women’s economic, social and international networks and and cultural rights and Isis-WICCE’s coalitions. WOREC Nepal is a founder International Exchange Program of various national networks like Institute for Conflict Transformation. Alliance against Trafficking of Women Isis-WICCE’s International Exchange and Children (AATWIN) and National Program is committed for promoting Alliance of Women Human Rights women’s leadership in peace building Defenders (NAWHRDS). WOREC Nepal and conflict transformation through is a member of the following national peace education. and international networks (Table 3): Similarly, WOREC Nepal has been WOREC Nepal is a Sub Committee working in close coordination with Coordinator of International Convention Ministry of Women, Children and Social on the Protection of the Rights of All Welfare (MOWCSW), Ministry of Health Migrant Workers and Members of their and Population (MoHP), National Women Families under the Human Rights Treaty Commission, National Human Rights Monitoring Coordination Committee Commission (NHRC) and different UN (HRTMCC). agencies.
WOREC Nepal has been working closely In the district level, WOREC Nepal has with Networks like Asia Pacific Forum been working in close coordination 10 for Women, Law and Development with District Agriculture Development (APWLD), Forum Asia, IMADR. It has offices, District Women Development been working in collaboration with offices, District Livestock Service Office, various international organizations like- District Irrigation, District Development Programme on Women’s Economic, Committees. Social and Cultural Rights (PWESCR), the
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 Table 3: National and International Networks, where WOREC Nepal is a member National Networks • Human Rights Alliance (Alliance Nepal) • Alliance against Trafficking of Women and Children in Nepal (AATWIN) • National Alliance of Women Human Rights Defenders (NAWHRDs) • Human Rights Treaty Monitoring Coordination Committee (HRTMCC) • National Network for Safe Migration • NGO Federation • Alliance for Human Rights and Social Justice • Right to Food Network • Coalition for Food Security • Right to mobility network
International Networks
• Global Alliance against Traffic in Women (GAATW), • Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition (WHRD IC) • Forum Asia • Asia Pcific Forum for Women, Law and Development (APWLD) • Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA) • IMADR 11
Executive Committee of WOREC Advisors of WOREC Nepal Nepal (2011-2012) Name Area of Expertise Name Designation Prof. Dr. Kailash Nath Pyakurel Sociology/ Saraj Gurung Chairperson Anthropology Anusuiya Shah Vice- Prof. Harsha Narayan Dhaubhadel Education Chairperson Dr. Meena Acharya Economics Bina Pokharel Secretary Shova Yadav Treasurer Dr. Devendra Chapagain Development Economics Dr. Shiv Maya Member Tumbahamphe Dr. Mohan Kharel Animal Science
Shuva B.K. Member Pitambara Upadhyaya Vocational Bindu Gautam Member Training Khuma Gharti Magar Member Dr. Binayak P Rajbhandari Sustainable Sharada Danuwar Member Agriculture and Livelihoods
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ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 CHAPTER TWO Program Overview
I Violence against Women ampaign 13
The growing problem of violence against arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether women, and persecution of women occurring in public or in private life. human rights defenders and victims There are many forms of violence against of human rights violations remains women, including sexual, physical, or pervasive throughout the world. Many of emotional abuse by an intimate partner; our members live in politically challenged physical or sexual abuse by family environments, putting them at risk and members or others; sexual harassment are experiencing restrictions on freedom and abuse by authority figures (such as of movement, arbitrary detention, teachers, police officers or employers); threats to their lives, intimidation and trafficking for forced labor or sex; and harassment for speaking out against such traditional practices as forced or violations of women and women’s child marriages, dowry-related violence; human rights. and honor killings, when women are murdered in the name of family honor. Violence against women is any act of Systematic sexual abuse in conflict gender-based violence that results in, situations is another form of violence or is likely to result in, physical, sexual against women. Therefore, violence or mental harm or suffering to women, against women is a violation of women’s including threats of such acts, coercion or
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 rights. It is increasing at an alarming rate. Nepali girls, women and marginalized There are several reports on incidences groups. Accordingly to the data collected of violence against women including by WOREC Nepal, out of the total 1473 suicide and the murder and different cases from January to December 2012, cases of violence remain unnoticed. domestic violence accounted for a total These violence cases are unheard. There of 768 cases. This means that domestic is no social support mechanism for the violence is the biggest category of VAW, survivors from the government. As a followed by rape cases (215), social result, the situation forces women to live violence (179) which includes blaming as under abusive situation, face physical witch (55), mental torture (19), beating/ violence, get murdered or finally commit physical torture (78), child marriage (9), suicide. The roots of VAW lie in persistent question on chastity (2), threats to kill discrimination against women. In Nepali (6) and verbal assault (10). Accordingly society, semi-feudal and patriarchal murder 153, attempted murder 26, structure, superstitions and illiteracy sexual abuse 64, suicide 8, trafficking among women, as well as poverty and 38 and attempt to trafficking 13 were marginalization of women are the factors reported. However, it has to be kept in accelerating the cases of VAW at large. mind that such figures may not be the At the same time, impunity in the state whole picture as most of the time VAW and weak enforcement of law are also cases are seldom reported. responsible for VAW. WOREC Nepal has been accomplishing 14 VAW campaign of WOREC Nepal is a activities to break the silence relating vibrant campaign. Various programs are to violence and to ensure justice to the being carried out under this campaign. survivors of GBV by providing security These programs are conducted to and other supports. WOREC Nepal also address numerous multi-faceted issues provides the environment to survivors responsible for VAW in Nepal. WOREC to lead their lives with dignity and Nepal’s experience of working at local human rights by building their capacity and national levels has revealed that and advocating for and creating the only a multi-pronged approach, which environment for it. addresses the numerous and complex causes of women trafficking and all other forms of VAW, is effective in WOREC Nepal's commitments eliminating the unequal power relations . Provide support to women survivors and achieving human rights for all of violence. . Develop capacity of women human rights defenders (WHRDs) active at community level to document cases of VAW and advocate for proper redress to survivors of violence. . Advocate for creation of support mechanism for the survivors of GBV. . Increase the access of women
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 suffering from violence to legal of the cases and have facilitated in aid, counseling and other support highlighting the case studies. mechanism. • The provisions of various supportive . Strengthen women’s role as decision- mechanisms (network development, makers and leaders. coordination, community-based safe shelter, emergency fund & support, Major achievements referral system) at local level have . Capacity of WHRD to document promoted self-confidence of women cases of VAW has been strengthened. activists working in the community. The documented cases were used for Final Draft of referral protocol on the compilation of “Anbeshi 2012”, health services to survivors/victims Annual Analytical Report on VAW. of VAW has been developed and • As a result of regular lobby and submitted to the ministry of health pressure during 100 days VAW for its endorsement. The data of GBV campaign, Prime Minister of Nepal cases were regularly shared and Dr. Babu Ram Bhattarai expressed followed up for the national database his commitment to establish a system (GBVIMS). Due to continuous mechanism to address violence lobby, advocacy, training and against women within 24 hours. different interaction and coordination • Documented cases of various forms meeting with Nepal Police, office of of violence such as, rape, torture, Prime Minister, the Nepal Police has murder, witchcraft blaming were developed a Gender Policy. Due to 15 immediately reported to concerned the continuous lobbying, advocacy authorities. and sensitization program, the youth • The women human rights defenders have joined force in VAW campaign (WHRDs) and human rights network more actively. (HRN) are involved in the fact finding
Table 4. Major activities accomplished under VAW campaign in 2012 S. Strategies Activities accomplished Target groups Outputs No. Used No. of Number of activities participants 1 Orientation Orientation on GBV Women and youth 417 13430 cause, consequences, Groups; prevention and response and Sexual abuse, women Local And health rights, domestic Districts level bills and WHRDs stakeholders; campaigns Police Personnel, WHRDs, Professional Organizations Orientation on GBV VAW Survivors 165
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 S. Strategies Activities accomplished Target groups Outputs No. Used No. of Number of activities participants 2 Training Vocational skill trainings VAW Survivors 2 22 Training on Procedure Women groups and 6 172 Law WHRDs networks Leadership training WHRDs and women's 5 147 groups 3 days training on GBV to Adolescence girls and 2 68 the students boys Training on Human Women Networks, 10 294 Rights, Women Rights and groups and WHRDs international Treaties GBV and Documentation Women Networks, 2 46 and Fact Finding Training groups and WHRDs Five days training on for in charge of Govt. 1 21 "referral and behavioural shelter home one part while dealing with stop crisis centre and GBV cases" protection officer/staff of Refresher training on Health service providers 1 36 GBV and Rape screening Seven days TOT to stakeholders 1 18 develop local resource 16 persons to facilitate on GBV and RH. Two days Training for NGOs and GOs Staff 2 46 responsible for data collection related to GBVIMS 5 days training on GBV Verified Minors and 1 30 and Reproductive health Late Recruited(VMLRs) and HIV/Aids training and resensative from community networks 3 Interaction Role and responsibility Local and District 4 120 and Advocacy of stakeholders for level stakeholders Workshops prevention and response (CDO, Judges, LDO, to GBV WDO, DHO, DIG, NGOs, INGOs, NHRC, Politicians) Gender specific community based 2 80 workshops to raise organizations and awareness and mobilize networks and to support job link and stakeholders social rehabilitation of the participants of VMLRs. Workshop on sexual Youth 5 140 abuse and GBV
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 S. Strategies Activities accomplished Target groups Outputs No. Used No. of Number of activities participants National level workshop stakeholders 9 270 and sharing to rollout of SOP Implementation Follow-up workshop Police personnel 4 120 with police personnel to effectiveness measurement Program Follow- up and sharing stakeholders 4 120 workshop with district level stakeholders to identify the situation of GBV and role of different stakeholders to combat GBV. Workshop for Peace and WHRDs and women's 3 80 Constitution, Women: group Fundamental rights and state’s directive Principles Interaction in different stakeholders 131 2988 issues like GVB, role of stakeholders, sexual abuse,VAW, Peace and 17 constitution and in the issues of WHRDs and on discriminatory Laws Workshop on the stakeholders 12 638 outcome of the UPR and government commitment National Consultation on 1 200 Peace day National consultation 1 65 with medical council for the need of medico legal examination of VAW cases 4 Media Interactions and Media 36 933 Advocacy interview with media persons and Talk programs with Media Public hearing –during 1 150 closing of 60 days Campaign on Violence Against Women Alleging as Witches Coordination Meetings Stakeholders 40 968 with National, district 5 Coordination and local stakeholders on Meetings different thematic Areas.
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 S. Strategies Activities accomplished Target groups Outputs No. Used No. of Number of activities participants 6 Support to Safe House Psycho-social 7 safe house-292 Survivors Counseling, legal, Counseling Medical supports and -301 reintegration Legal support-134, Medical-57, Referal case-36
Reintegration -194
7 IEC Materials Distribution of Training Service providers and Approx. Approx. Manuals, Posters, community people 100000` 100000` Broachers, Leaflets, Wall Charts on GBV and VAW Placement of Hoarding - 1 Boards 8 Mass Days Celebration and Campaigns Advocacy / Celebration of 102 International Women’s Day (March 8) 18 Campaign Women's Social Forum 100 days violence against women campaign 60 days Campaign on Violence Against Women Alleging as Witches Women's campaign for peace and constitution 4th phase 16 Days Activism 2012
Chart 1. VAW cased documented by WOREC Chart 2. Services provided Nepal in Year 2012
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 1Women Human Rights Defenders Campaign WOREC Nepal spearheaded the women “The rights not to be discriminated human rights defenders campaign in 2004 against, to dignity, to justice and during the time of armed conflict, when to equality continue to frame women defenders faced HRs abuses and WHRD movement. Patriarchal vulnerabilities. The defenders needed a system and power relation continue common space to start efforts for peace to oppress, discriminate and building and conflict transformation. subordinate women. Disguising They continued to develop working power relationships as norms and with new issues and exploring the values women have been assigned relationship between all the issues they a secondary status in our society work on strengthening and establishing excluded from production and not only the campaign but themselves power. as women human rights defenders. The ” 9 year running campaign has struggled women defenders face a higher level for political participation, security and of risk compared to male colleagues. protection of women human rights WHRD's legitimacy and credibility for the defenders. work they do are not being recognized 19 as a women human rights defenders. Although, WHRD share equal They suffer from the wider patriarchal responsibility for human rights work, strategies that suppresses women and
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 confine them to the private sphere. defenders and to strengthen the Protection and security have become an relationships between WHRDs and issue and its failure to recognise them Women’s Organizations working in as defenders and contribution to human different sectors. rights. • To lobby the government for effective mechanisms for the security, support WOREC Nepal believes that mechanisms and protection of encouragement of WHRD through the WHRDs. • To document cases of violence against recognition of their work will be one WHRDs jointly with NAWHRD and step closer to inclusive democracy. The develop a relevant database. campaign therefore focuses on capacity • To facilitate capacity building of building of WHRDs, dissemination of WHRDs at the community level. information on rights and education materials, documentation in giving Major outcome visibility to the violence against Women • Recognition and visibility of Women Human Rights Defenders, advocacy on Human Rights Defenders Network in legal recognition and safety of WHRDs with districts, national and international changes at grassroots and national level, levels. support mechanisms and networking. • Realization on the importance of The WHRDs Network has been formed special focus on why the needs of 20 in 75 districts of Nepal and has been Women Human Rights Defenders are important. working proactively for the prevention • Networking and collaboration with of VAW. Simultaneously responding to it international networks advocating for necessary action, they also have been for the right of WHRDs. struggling to pass the bill formed for the • Issues forwarded by the WHRD safety of WHRDs. WHRDs have already network are taken seriously by formed the National Alliance of WHRDs, the service providers and other that has started working independently. stakeholders. • Collective action and solidarity WOREC Nepal’s commitments among the women activist in the • To facilitate formation of nationwide issues of VAW and WHRDs. networks of women human rights • A systematic documentation database.
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 Women Empowerment 2 Program The patriarchal norms and values and discrimination against women have compelled women to live in violence and have suppressed them from getting uplifted. The causes and consequences of violence not only lead women to suffer from a range of public health problems but also their ability to participate in public and political life gets diminished. It is hard for a woman survivor to fight for her right and get rid of these problems but when collective or mass stands for the right, they get respected and fulfilled. It is with this concept that WOREC Nepal has been working with women at local level to facilitate for their empowerment through collective approach. Due to its rights-based approach, WOREC Nepal has successfully facilitated the empowerment of the marginalized groups to become the change agents. WOREC Nepal has facilitated formation and strengthening of women’s groups, Networks, women’s federations and women's community-based organizations (CBOs) aimed at elimination of discrimination, violence, and injustice 21 through collective empowerment and social mobilization. Women empowerment program focuses on the capacity building of various groups depending on the need of community groups. Approximately 41,000 groups and networks (Women Groups and Networks, Youth groups and WHRDs) has been working directly with WOREC Nepal.
WOREC Nepal's commitments Major achievements . Facilitate in the formation and . Women’s CBOs, federations and strengthening of women’s groups and groups have become visible at the networks at local level. VDC/municipality as well as district . Facilitate for institutional development level owing to their effective and of the women’s groups and leadership honest activities. There are altogether development of women in the 41,000 women affiliated to women community for social change. groups, WHRD and women CBOs in . Capacity building of women for the the working areas of WOREC Nepal. women right advocacy at VDC and . Capacity of the women’s CBOs, district levels. federations and groups has been . Enhance women’s access to local as enhanced and they are taking well as national natural / financial leadership role in advocacy on the resources. women’s issues at VDC, municipality
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 and district levels. NGOs; and consequently have been . Women’s CBOs and federations have able to receive and mobilize natural been able to build coordination and financial resources (fund from with local government bodies (VDC, allocated budget) at local level. DDC, LDO, DADO) as well as I/ Table 5: Women groups formed in different districts with the facilitation of WOREC Nepal, 2012 S.N District Ward level No of VDC Level Women's No of District level No of Group member member member Federation Federation 1 Udayapur 298 4552 10 111 - - 2 Morang 287 5252 29 552 1 11 3 Sunsari 179 4166 18 348 1 13 4 Dhanusha 162 2597 16 294 - - 5 Siraha 42 726 8 190 - - 6 Dang 89 1510 5 74 - - 7 Kailali 89 1616 - - - - Total 1146 20419 86 1569 2 24
Table 6. The major activities accomplished under Women Empowerment Program, 2012 S. No. Strategies Used Activities Accomplished Target Groups Outputs 22 No. of Number of Activities Participants 1 Orientation Orientation on Women 113 3045 Group, Networks and Groups Organizational management; and CBOs leadership development; self-realization and team building 2 Training Training on Strategic CBOs 3 75 Planning Institutional development CBOs and 1 21 and Resource Management Women women's Groups and women federation Leadership and Organization CBOs and 2 52 development Women Groups 3 Interaction Meeting and interaction with CBOs 1 113 and advocacy all CBOs workshops Women federation meeting Members 130 1370 of Women federation and women's group Women CBO’s access and CBOs and 2 138 control over resources women groups
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 Right Defenders of 40 districts from five Women’s Social Forum development regions including WOREC Nepal office staffs, media persons, nd (Celebration of 102 government officers and state officials International Women’s Day) from different sectors. Social Forum demands for democratic principles and transformation of prevalent structures, recognizing the Objectives of Women's Forum: heterogeneity and the inter-linkages of 1. Highlight the gravity of the women's issues in Nepal. It is aimed at situation that many Nepalese fortifying the voices of the marginalized women live in and the reasons and oppressed by empowering them to that compound this situation. claim their rights. Its main objectives are to create positive pressure to make 2. Bring all the situation and reasons all the stakeholders accountable to end together in the development of a Road all kind of violence and discrimination Map that not only addresses VAW in against women. the context of a globalised world but also offers real and effective support Women in Nepal are considered as to the individual women struggling second-class citizens and targets of against a growing tide of human multiple forms of discrimination are rights violations in Nepal. unfortunately still bearing the brunt 23 of this archaic approach to structuring On 18th March, 2012 an inauguration society. WOREC Nepal, Nepal is the program was conducted at Cooperative pioneer organization that started training centre. During this program organizing social forums at regional there was speech delivered by Saraj and national levels in Nepal. The event Gurung (Chairperson of WOREC Nepal), this year took place in the crucial Dr. Renu Rajbhandari (Chairperson, moment of the current political deadlock and the consequent delayed promulgation of the constitution. This year to mark the 102th International women's day WOREC Nepal organize Women's Social Forum from 18th to 21st March, 2012 to discuss and reflect on present situation of Women working in different sectors including Woman Human Right Defenders Campaign. There were 240 participants including Women Human
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 National Alliance for Women Human Nepal and Isis-WICCE. The last session Right Defenders), Juliya Chitrakar was conducted at Dabali Basantapur (NAWHRD, Member), Bal Bahadur Malla aimed for closing ceremony of “100 Days (Deputy Chief District Officer), Sharada Campaign on Violence Against Women” Pokhrel (Chairperson, Woman's Security by delivering speech, street dramas and Group) Surya Prasad Shrestha (Ministry songs. of Women Children and Social Welfare), Charan Prasai (Human Rights Activists) Women’s Campaign for Peace and WHRDs on the present situation of th women rights and WHRDs. and Constitution: 4 Phase The following major activities were accomplished: On 19th March, 2012 the self care session was conducted at Central Cooperative • Banner Campaign and Petition letter Training Centre. The self care session submission Signature Collection was meant to enlighten women and WHRDs for the need of time to be spared Campaign for themselves to avoid symptomatic and • Public awareness campaign for asymptomatic disorders due to strain and constitution making stress. It was done through breathing • Rally and speech hearing exercises, bio-energetic therapy • Sit in Protest (Anshan) facilitated by Shaurabha Subedi and dance • Awareness through Facebook, SMS therapy facilitated by Sushma Sharma. and emails 24 On 20th March, 2012, the session was • Cultural Programs further steered by Ms. Tanuja Basnet, • Media Advocacy Human Right Officer OHCHR by sharing about the procedures and recommendations related to WHRDs in Universal Periodic Review of Human Rights. Then Mr. Krishna Prasad Paudel shared his views about RIO+20 and women’s situation. Similarly Ms. Tulika Shriwastav shared her ideas and opinions 16 days of Activism 2012 on Asian Women’s Fund. Women organization and activists around the world have been celebrating 16 days st On 21 March, 2012 the program was activism from 25th November to 10th conducted at Nepal Tourism board for December each year. In order to build people’s interaction between Leaders awareness about gender-based violence of political parties (Madhav Kumar and facilitate networking among women Nepal, Amik Sherchan and Upendra activists around the world, 16 Days Yadav) and WHRDs, facilitated by ABC Activism Against Gender Based Violence Television. The next session was aimed Campaign was initiated in 1991.16 Days to disseminate report on “Unveiling Justice: Rape Survivors Speak Out”, joint Activism is a platform being used by research conducted by WOREC Nepal, women activist from around the world
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 to call for the elimination of all forms of VAW by presenting the year book as violence against women and advocate for a proof. women’s right to live in equality. This • To mention everyone about the role year also as a solidarity with international and importance of Women Human campaign and theme "Initiation of World Right Defenders (WHRDs) and to peace from Home: Let's end violence do advocacy for their identity and on women challenging militarization" security. WOREC Nepal planned to celebrate • To initiate for the solidarity of 22nd annual 16-days activism focusing civil society to exert pressure for to raise awareness and link campaign promulgation of constitution and from grass-root level to national conclude peace process. level. WOREC Nepal has accordingly framed a slogan to contextualize the The major activities accomplished ground situation of Nepal - ““Peace during 16 days of activism in country to end violence against 1. Launching of "Anbeshi 2012", an women: Constitution for Peace analytical year book on VAW Building and our Collaboration to 2. Discussion and survey on necessary make Political Parties Responsible for mechanism for the security of Women Constitution making!!" Thus, WOREC Human Right Defenders. Nepal asserts its stand against gender 3. Different programs to collect opinions based violence, and through various on concluding peace process from community and national initiative people of different sectors. 25 4. Discussions and workshops with Objectives: politicians, media and concerned • To exert pressure for political stakeholders on elimination of VAW. commitment to end violence against 5. Different awareness raising and women. pressure creating programs in • To create awareness among common collaboration with different people for ending violence against organizations, federations and women. networks. • To launch "Anbeshi" an analytical 6. Commemorate the Women Martyrs report on VAW and make concerned and respect the Senior Women who stakeholders responsible for ending bestowed to Democratic (Loktantrik)
WOREC Nepal marks the beginning of the 16 days of activism by launching “Anbeshi 2012”; a year book on VAW ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 movement. Campaign on violence against 7. Rally and corner meeting women alleged as witches 8. Information Education Campaign on violence against women Communication fair and cultural alleged as witches was launched to bring program all stakeholders together by eradicating, 9. Fair related to Violence against informing, sensitizing from grassroots to women national level (and even international) 10. Radio Program to act against this heinous crime against 11. Street drama/ Court Drama humanity, particularly against women 100 Days Campaign Against and to ensure rights of the survivors to All Forms of Violence Against get justice and reparation. Women Districts covered: Siraha, Saptari, National Alliance for Women Human Dhanusha, Mahottari, Sarlahi, Rautahat, Right Defenders (NAWHRD) formally Sindhuli, Chitwan , Makwanpur, Lalitpur and Kathmandu, launched 100 days campaign with the theme "SAY NO, ENSURE JUSTICE" on Following activities were part of this December 2011. Senior artist Madan campaign: Krishna Shrestha, Haribansha Acharya, 1. Launch of the campaign by WHRDs Badri Pangani, Ramesh, Rayan, Mr at above mentioned districts along Durgalal Shrestha, Madhu Gurung, Manju with NAWHRD and other alliances. 26 Ghimire committed their solidarity in 2. National hearing of survivors with all nd the campaign. Dr Renu Rajbhandari, policy makers was held on May 2 , 2012. Chairperson of NAWHRD highlighted 3. Interaction with Journalists especially the objective and importance of the from the districts. campaign. 4. Attention letter was handed over to Prime Minister and government The campaign primarily focused on the authorities. It was done by WHRDs in all districts. following two demands: 5. Communication with Special • Create rapid response mechanism Rapporteur on VAW and invited her to address case of violence against to examine the cases to put forward. women within 24 hours. 6. Cases of women alleged as witches • Enact policy to ensure security of and abused in above mentioned WHRDs. districts and other were documented.
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 100 days of campaign against all forms of violence against women 60 days campaign on VAW alleging as witches Chhahari (women health 3 counseling center) Program The internal conflict and crisis in the country, which happens at the spur-of- the-moment, affects the dignified way of living of the people. For the security and lievlihoods of family, people have to migrate from one place to another. Internal displacement on migration of women and girls within the country has enticed large number of girls to get into the informal entertainment sector in the Kathmandu valley. This sector includes dance bar, massage parlor, cabin restaurants, Dohari (Dual song) for such women in Kathmandu. Chhahari restaurants and guest house. Women in provides health care services to the the entertainment sector are vulnerable women working in the entertainment as their work is not recognized and sectors. The counselors help to screen 27 respected by the government of Nepal STIs/HIV infections in these women and by the society at large. This has and provide counseling regarding been putting them into vulnerable RH morbidities. The center has been situations at their work place; and they providing various skill trainning for are facing arbitrary arrests without the empowerment of these women. warrant, violence from their family, Chhahari conducts out-reach activities in hotel owners as well as from their order to provide information regarding clients. Lack of recognition and respect its services through visits to various to their work has been forcing women entertainment. The working area of to follow the culture of silence even Chhahari includes Gongabu, Koteshwor, though they are facing violence at their Balaju, Bus Park, Samakhushi, work place and also violence by the Maharajgunj, Chabahil, Gaushala, Ratna police authorities. Even the government Park, Gwarko, Balkumari and Kalanki. labels women working in entertainment sector as bad women, and has thinking Recently WOREC Nepal has facilitated that government should have strict formation of an independent rules and regulation to control the organization of the women working in the work and sexuality of women engaged entertainment sector. This organization in entertainment sectors. is already registered in the government office; and is named as Women's Forum WOREC Nepal has established women for Women in Nepal (WOFOWON). health counseling centre – Chhahari-
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 WOREC Nepal's commitments and interact about their sexual and . To empower women working in the reproductive health rights; and entertainment sector. has made them aware to prevent . To advocate for the rights of themselves from HIV/AIDS and STDs entertainment sector workers, and for as well as voice for their rights. their dignified life without violence. . In cooperation with WOREC Nepal, . To advocate for the recognition and Women’s Forum for Women in Nepal dignity of the labour of women (WOFOWON), has been actively engaged in entertainment sector. advocating for their right to work; and is demanding for the security and Major achievements fixed time for the work in informal . The skill-based training has helped sector. adolescent girls and women to start . Due to awareness raising program, their business. This has helped them women working in the entertainment in improving their livelihoods. sector have been raising their issues . Chhahari has been able to provide and advocating for addressing their a comfortable environment women issues. working in informal sector to talk
Table 7. The major activities accomplished under Chhahari program in 2012 S. Strategies Activities Accomplished Target Groups No. of No. of 28 No. Used Activities Participants
1 Orientation Orientation on Labour Rights; Women and adolescent 51 1017 Anti-trafficking; Safe Migration; girls working in Law; Sexual Hygiene, Sexual and entertainment sectors Reproductive health/STI/HIV
2 Training Vocational Skill Trainings on sewing Women and adolescent 24 217 and knitting, dancing and singing, girls working in English language, beautician, entertainment sectors housekeeping and waiter. Leadership development training Women and adolescent 2 30 girls working in entertainment sectors Advocacy related training Women and adolescent 1 20 girls working in entertainment sectors Safe migration Women and adolescent 2 26 girls working in entertainment sectors Training on research methodology Women and adolescent 1 18 girls working in entertainment sectors 3 Meetings Meeting with staffs and women women 92 1066 Coordination meeting with Stakeholders 43 472 stakeholders ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 S. Strategies Activities Accomplished Target Groups No. of No. of No. Used Activities Participants
4 Case Case documentation of women 68 documentation working in entertainment sector 5 Support Psycho-social counseling Survivors Psycho- Safe House social Health services counseling- Legal Support 52 Safe House-22 Health services- Legal 51
Table 8. CHHAHARI (women health counseling center) S.N Problems 15-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 over 35 Total year year year year year 1. 10 28 52 21 12 123 Disease Pelvic Inflammatory 2. Cervicities 5 3 11 19 3. Uterus Prolapsed 4 7 11 4. Bleeding 6 10 7 6 29 29 5. Urinary Tract Infection 3 3 6 4 5 21 6. Lower Abdomenal Pain 10 15 29 14 10 78 7. Pregnancy Test 1 5 10 4 2 22 8. HIV test/ Referral 11 28 19 14 6 78 9. STI test 3 19 24 9 6 61 10. Mast logia 3 2 7 12 11. ANC Check Up 6 4 5 15 12. Backache 2 5 10 11 28 13. Fever 5 2 20 12 12 51 14. Post menopausal 15 15 bleeding 15. Vaginal Itching 2 3 5 16. Cut injury 6 4 5 15 17. Diarrhea 4 7 12 1 24 18. APD 8 7 12 12 7 46 19. Others 18 19 15 15 10 77 Total 670
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 Economic, Social and II Cultural Rights Campaign
WOREC Nepal has been advocating and promoting economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR) for women, marginalized and vulnerable communities on the basis of Right Based Approach (RBA) at national and community level. The campaign aims at ensuring the rights of women to enjoy the highest attainable standard of physical, mental and reproductive health, right to food and right to mobility and safe migration for work and for better opportunities to maintain sustainable livelihood and dignified lives.
The government of Nepal is obliged to respect, protect and fulfill the rights realized under the ICESCR, as it has not merely ratified the covenant but also has incorporated some of these rights as fundamental rights in the interim constitution of Nepal and has framed it as law.
The lack of accessible, affordable, acceptable and quality health services and facilities has been causing women live suffering from devastating health problems. The food 30 insecurity rampant in the country has made severe effect on the life of the people living mostly in remote and hilly regions of the country. The lack of work opportunities, access to resources and economic crisis has made people displaced internally and externally for the search of better options, which eventually leads to trafficking, sexual exploitation and other forms of violence both in origin and destination countries. Due to social barriers, discriminatory cultural and traditional norms and values women and marginalized communities have always been suffering. Economically, women do not have access and control over resources like land, house, income, farms, community forest and other natural resources; culturally women are the one who has to eat last in the family; and socially women are deprived of nutritious food, education, participation in decision making and social security. These socio-economic, socio-cultural and socio- political practices make women vulnerable to different kinds of nutritional, reproductive and productive dilemma.
At this alarming situation, the ESCR campaign of WOREC Nepal is aimed at ensuring human’s economic, social and cultural rights; and is focused to make the state accountable to its actions in regard to ESCR from women’s perspective.
WOREC Nepal has been conducting various programs under ESCR campaign.
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 1 Women Health Program Health is the fundamental human right discriminated and isolated life. WOREC and everyone has right to enjoy the Nepal interprets this as the structured highest attainable standard of physical, patriarchy and socio-economic and mental and reproductive health, without socio-cultural values that hinders any discrimination. The article 16 (2) women to live ill life. and 20 (2) of the interim constitution has guaranteed the free essential WOREC Nepal helps to facilitate health services for all and women’s empowering women and educate reproductive health rights, respectively. women to understand women’s right Similarly, the article 12 of ICESCR and to health as well as RH rights from CEDAW has forced the state to respect, feminist perspective and right-based protect and fulfill right to health for approach emphasizing for healthy every citizen of the country. Though womanhood. The women health lots of efforts have been made by the program builds capacity of the women government of Nepal for the accessible and make them aware to have control and affordable health services, due to over their bodies (based on information the lack of effective implementation and access to appropriate health care), 31 of the existing health policies and collaborative participation and decision programs, lack of gender sensitive/ making and a social model of health friendly health care providers and (that takes account of more than just health facilities, and also lack of skilled body parts and recognizes the context health care providers at community of women’s lives and gender roles, health facilities, women’s access to work division, unequal power relations health services is being hindered, thus in the patriarchal society) and health causing physical, mental and different education on causes, consequences and acute and chronic reproductive health prevention of RH morbidities. problems leading women to live a
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 WOREC Nepal is the pioneer WOREC Nepal is the only organization organization that started women’s health working for the Campaign to End Fistula program in Nepal. Today, WOREC Nepal in Nepal. Obstetric Fistula is an injury has been implementing women health affecting childbearing women that has programs in 3 districts (Udayapur, been relatively neglected, despite the Dang and Siraha) of eastern and mid- devastating impact it has on the lives western regions. Various awareness and of women. This is one of the un-acted, advocacy level activities are conducted un-heard, ice-berged in the community at national and community level. due to the discrimination and stigma WOREC Nepal is the first NGO that attached to it. WOREC Nepal has been started advocacy for the prevention and working to break the silence around OF management of various women health condition and the stigma acting upon the 32 issues including prolapsed uterus, five main pillars: prevention, complete Obstetric Fistula (OF), women’s right management (identification, case to abortion and free maternity services. notification, surgery and counselling), Due to the continuous advocacy of social rehabilitation and reintegration, WOREC Nepal, government has now trainings and research. moved forward for mainstreaming prevention and management of uterus prolapse while law has been endorsed Overall Objective for women’s right to abortion; and The overall objective of Women’s promotional activities have been done Health Program was to establish health for the maternity services. as rights and advocate for the effective implementation of health policies and programs to ensure women’s health right from community to national level.
WOREC Nepal's commitments . Contribute to making the community people and women’s groups conceptually clear on the existing reproductive health policies and programs, so as to do advocacy from community level. ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 . Empower and strengthen the local and programs by WOREC Nepal women’s and adolescent girl’s groups community people have been aware and mobilize them for advocacy on about it and has been able to get women’s health rights and end VAW. free health service from sub health . Facilitate the women groups, posts/health posts. The networks networks and community people were succeed to provide incentive to convert WHRCC into sustainable to mother after delivery as there is infrastructure by incorporating it into policy to get incentive under safe local government bodies. motherhood program of government. . Analyze the inter-relationship . 56 obstetric fistula patients were between VAW and health status of operated and among them 67% were women. successfully repaired and are living . Facilitate for the protection and happy family lives. promotion of herbal medicines and . 50 operated fistula patients were local resources. done follow up where they the family member and the community were counseled and oriented on the issues Major achievements of reproductive health of women. . This year a total of 1196 women . 43 operated cases of fistula have been including adolescents’ girls received socially reintegrated in their family. services from WHRCCs. . Urhari VDC has separated NRs. . Due to the massive orientation on 10,000 for women empowerment and uterus prolapsed and Fistula, the women health program. This amount silence against cases of Fistula and has been given for consistency and 33 Uterus prolapsed cases has been stability of WHRCCs. broken and these cases are now . The women who have received coming out for relevant treatment. services from WHRCCs were found Within this year 56 Fistula and 78 healthy during the follow up of these uterus prolapsed cases were treated. cases. About 60% of these women . Due to the continuous lobbying and were found improving their health advocacy with district public health condition. Rests were referred to office (DPHO), uterus prolapsed district hospital. cases has been managed free of . Community people have collected costs by DPHO after WOREC Nepal cash amount worth NRs. 5500/- for reported these cases to DPHO. the consistency and smooth running . After getting information though of community health clinic. orientation program on RH policies
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 Table 9. Distribution of Women Health Resource and Counseling Centers of WOREC Nepal S.N. District No of Municipality and VDC coverage WHRCC
1 Udayapur 19 15 WHRCC in 12 VDCs of Udayapur District ( Jogidaha VDC, Hadiya VDC, Beltar VDC, Saune VDC, Khambu VDC,Triveni VDC,Jalpa VDC, Risku VDC, Katari VDC, Panchawati VDC , 2 WHRCC in Rauta VDC and 2 WHRCC in Bhalayadanda VDC and Sundarpur VDC). 4 WHRCC in Triyuga Municipality ( Bagaha, Partaha, Jhilketole and Chuhade) and 14 WHRCC in VDCs
2 Dang 5 5 WHRCC in 5 VDCs ( Hekuli VDC, Manpur VDC, Urahari VDC, Tarigoan VDC and Shreegaun VDC)
3 Siraha 3 2 WHRCC is Bastipur VDCand 1 in Padaria VDC
4 Total 27 4 WHRCC in Municipality and 23 WHRCC in VDCs
Table 10. Fistula Treatment Centers supported by WOREC Nepal, 2012 S. No. Name of Health Facilities Location Number of Patients Success Rate Treated 1. Patan Hospital Lagankhel, Lalitpur 41 64 % 34 2. BP koirala Institute of Health Sunsari, Dharan 15 76% Sciences (BPKIHS) Table 11. The major activities accomplished within the year S. Strategies Activities Accomplished Target Groups Outputs No. Used No. of Number of Activities Participants
1 Orientation Orientation on existing Reproductive Women and 29 815 Health Policies and Programs to ensure community health rights for community women Orientation on "Violence against Women and 13 362 Women (VAW) and women health" community Orientation on Gender based Violence Women, men 20 587 (GBV) and Women's Health for Men and community and Women in Community. Health education to the adolescent of Students 65 1905 schools One day orientation on Women's right Women's group 5 165 as Human Rights Orientation on the importance, community 1 35 protection and promotion of Herbs (Medicinal Plants) for women health networks and community women: Orientation on cause and prevention of Women and 30 678 Obstetric Fistula, safe motherhood and women's groups nutrition, domestic violence act ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 S. Strategies Activities Accomplished Target Groups Outputs No. Used No. of Number of Activities Participants
2 Training Training on Strategic Planning for the Members of 3 52 members of 5 CBOs CBOs Resource management and Members of 1 31 identification training for the CBOs CBOs Three days Peer Educator training on Adolescent 1 31 sexual and reproductive health and rights Three days training to Female Female 1 25 Community Health Volunteers (FCHVs) Community on GBV, Reproductive Health (RH) and Health rights. Volunteers Training on existing health and Farmer's group, 3 79 reproductive health policies, plans and women's group, programs to the women groups, CBOs youth and and networks. members of CBOs Advocacy training Women 1 29 Networks 3 Interaction Interaction and discussion with the Community, 233 and school management committee, teacher women and Advocacy and parents committee and students on stakeholders 35 Workshop adolescents health issues, needs and challenges. Discussion with district and VDC's Stakeholders, 3 86 level stakeholders on “Needs of Women community and Health Resource and Counseling women Centers” District level interaction program on Community, 1 40 “Access to Reproductive Health Services women and for All stakeholders VDC level Interaction program on Community, 1 53 “Need of Integrated Women health women and policies and programs” stakeholders Interaction program on “Free maternal Community, 5 256 health policies and including Ring women and Pesary in essential drug list stakeholders Interaction on "Women's access to Stakeholders 3 180 health services Meeting with women groups, Networks Women groups, 273 4355 and advocacy Alliance Networks and advocacy Alliance Meeting with Local Health Management Management 114 Committee Committee Meetings with CBOS Members of 55 CBOs ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 S. Strategies Activities Accomplished Target Groups Outputs No. Used No. of Number of Activities Participants
4 Support Support Women health Resource and Women 5 WHRCC Counseling Centers
Regular service to women suffering Women 1196 from various health problems through women health resource centers
Follow-up of women who received Women 1125 services from WHRCCs
Support Obstetric Fistula Treatment women 56 cases
Follow-up and Family counselling for Fistula patience 50 care and support of fistula operated patients for reintegration
5 Study Study on Socio-demographic information 56 cases for fistula survivors
6 Mass Adolescent Health Mela Adolescent 2 560 were informed 36 Gathering Women Health Mela (Fair) Women and 2 940 were community treated
Mass Gathering of women who have Women 1 306 received services from WHRCC
Formation of Sexual and Reproductive Women 1 20 Health Rights (SRHR) Advocacy Groups at district level.
a. Days Celebrations
i. International day of action on Women's health, 28th May celebration: Interaction on Women's Reproductive health rights and Reproductive health problems" with district and VDC level stakeholders and Media persons ii. Our Life Our Rights: Ending child marriage is our concern iii. International World’s AIDS Day 2012: iv. World Population Day 2012: Universal Access to Reproductive Health Services
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 Community 2 Health Program
The concept of the community health awareness programs are also provided. program of WOREC Nepal is to provide essential health services to the marginalized community people in WOREC Nepal’s commitments acceptable way. The community health . To increase the access of rural people clinics in Udayapur and Dang districts have been providing, preventive, curative to primary health care services and and counseling services together with information. promoting the need for health services . To strengthen community health at the grass roots level. These clinics clinic for health service delivery, provide primary health care especially to counseling as well as dissemination the marginalized and vulnerable groups of relevant information to grassroots who have do not have access to health people. services. The community clinics identify the health risks and screens the problems in and during out-reach and refer them Major achievements to the secondary and tertiary level . The out-reach clinic and the mini hospitals. It works in close coordination health camps have been extended to 37 with the District Public Health Offices. the far remote areas in coordination Each year, more than 10,000 community with DPHO. people get services from community . This year 1998 (Female-1475, Male- clinic. The 24 hours services like maternity services (ANC, PNC and maternal and 523) received different services from child health care), family planning, the community clinic. counseling, immunization, management . The faith upon the clinic has been of RH morbidities like uterus prolapsed improving and DPHO has been (management through ring pessary) providing the free essential drugs to and other reproductive tract infections the clinic. and general check up are major service . Rural, marginalized population has provided in the clinic. Furthermore, the awareness and preventive services like access to primary and emergency school education, orientations and health health care services 24 hours.
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 Sustainable Livelihoods 38 and Bio-Intensive Farming System 3 The contribution of agricultural sector changes in the seasonal cropping in employment, livelihoods and national pattern, rainfall pattern and degradation economy is substantial in Nepal. It has a of natural resources (land, water, significant bearing on the manufacturing forest and biodiversity) have left small and export as well. However, there farmers in dilemma. The farmers are many problems that need to be relying in subsistence agriculture for addressed within the conceptual their livelihoods are migrating to cities framework of sustainable agriculture and other countries in search of better and rural development. Almost 62% of livelihood options. This has created the population of Nepal depends up the double burden on the lives of women agriculture, but due to lack of appropriate jeopardizing the agricultural economy knowledge and skill on farming and also of the country.Therefore, WOREC Nepal due to lack of access to crops lands and has been promoting the concept and irrigation facility most of the farmers practice of Bio-intensive Farming System are forced to live under poverty. At the (BIFS) based on the sustainable organic same time, climate change has been agricultural system and participatory posing serious problems on agriculture rural development to eradicate poverty. and on the livelihoods of small farmers of the marginalized communities. The Bio-intensive Farming System (BIFS)
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 relies on agro-ecological principles . To advocate for the food right, food and integrated approaches to food security and women's access and production in ecologically sustainable, control over natural resources. socially acceptable, technologically . To promote the process of sustainable appropriate, economically profitable livelihood through sustainable bio- and politically non-discriminatory intensive farming system. manner. Bio-intensive Farming System is . Minimize the use of hazardous also one of the adaptation strategies to chemical fertilizers and toxic pesticides counter balance the effect of chemical and provide skills knowledge and inputs (fertilizers and pesticides) and support for integrated plant nutrient climate change. WOREC Nepal has management (IPNM) and integrated been facilitating empowerment of small pest management (IPM). farmers to increase food production with cheap, low cost, locally adaptable . Protection and promotion of technologies and local inputs without commercial organic farming among causing environmental damage for the local/small farmers and seed attaining sustainable livelihoods. It is production in the identified pocket the most important component of the areas. approach for increased food production, . Promote commercial vegetables and food security and sustainable livelihoods. livestock farming and facilitate social WOREC Nepal has been conducting this marketing. program in cooperation with Himalayan . Support Sustainable Agriculture College of Agricultural Sciences and Network (SAN) and other farmer 39 Technology (HICAST). groups for advocacy and mobilization
The sustainable livelihood program has been implemented in 6 targeted districts of WOREC Nepal viz Udayapur, Morang, Sunsari, Siraha, Dhanusha, and Dang. In this regard, different training, orientations and support activities for sustainable livelihoods were conducted in all the districts.
WOREC Nepal's commitments . Facilitate for the transformation of traditional villages into eco villages based on the concept of BIFs and social justice. . To orient and advocate for the promotion and preservation of locally available crop seeds and herbal plants.
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 of farming community for their rights farmers has increased. Farmers group and promotion of organic farming. are able to allocate fund and agricultural inputs for themselves and their groups. Major achievements Marginalized communities (Sada) are • The farmers of the marginalized more organized, animated and able to community have internalized the positive reach district looking for their rights. impact of BIFS and support program and They are able to generate resources from have been increasing their living standard. VDC and district level organizations. • The women have been empowered to • After realizing the importance of Bio-Gas, speak on their food and land right; and 2 members of eco-village has constructed have developed the capacity of raising Bio-Gas plant on their own their voice in different program for their • Due to continuous lobby and coordination rights. altogether 40 dose of Swine fever vaccine • The farmers have been involved from has been provided by DLSO. crop cultivation to marketing themselves. They are making good amount of income which is invested in schooling of their children and in their health. Some of the farmers have bought land and house for themselves. • The local farmers have been able to co- 40 ordinate with DADO and other concerned stakeholders themselves for the help needed to them. • Awareness of the rights among the
Table 12. The major activities accomplished within the year 2012: S. Strategies Activities Accomplished Target Groups Outputs No. Used No. of Number of Activities Participants
1 Orientation Orientation on different Farmer Groups, Women 20 539 aspects of BIF system Groups Orientation on food security Farmer Groups and 49 1244 and land rights Marginalized community Compost making and organic Farmer Groups, Women 14 277 manure Groups Insects, pests management Farmer Groups, Women 8 193 using bio-pesticides Groups Conservation of local seeds Farmer Groups, Women 17 384 Groups Climate change adaptation and Farmer Groups and 30 720 organic farming importance Marginalized community
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 S. Strategies Activities Accomplished Target Groups Outputs No. Used No. of Number of Activities Participants
Importance of Eco village Farmer Groups and 8 239 Marginalized community Mushroom farming Farmer Groups and 7 197 Marginalized community Fish farming Farmer Groups and 4 72 Marginalized community Kitchen gardening Farmer's groups 5 101 Animal health and improved 12 281 shed management Women health rights Women's group 17 373 Organic manure for Farmer Groups and 8 155 sustainable agriculture Marginalized community Women Access to natural Women's group 6 75 resources Organic vegetables farming Farmer Groups and 11 95 Marginalized community Farming field school Farmer Groups and 8 656 women's group ESCR rights Farmer's group and 14 440 women's groups Discuss on the issues of stakeholders 19 285 41 marginalized community 2 Training Seasonal and off-seasonal Farmer Groups, Women 1 46 vegetable production Groups Training on organic farming Farmer Groups, Women 1 32 Groups
3 Interaction Interaction on Food Rights, Local and District level 19 491 Workshop/ women health rights, Impact stakeholders , Farmer coordination of climate change, women's groups and Women meeting access to agriculture loan and Groups support,biointensive farming and ESCR rights Farmer 's group Farmers 134 2534 Support's group Drivers 5 84 Rikshaw driver's meeting 2 24 Eco village meeting Members of Eco village 9 242 committee Eco village committee meeting 5 52 Sustainable AG network Agricultural farmer's 2 52 group SAN meeting Members of SAN 1 20
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 S. Strategies Activities Accomplished Target Groups Outputs No. Used No. of Number of Activities Participants
4 Support Suine farming Gaot-5 9 Pig-5 5 Commercial vegetable farming Farmers and Women 5 122 Groups Support for Improved shed Farmers and Women 4 4 Groups Mushroom farming Farmers and Women 12 Groups Support for Model Farmers and Women 16 15 Demonstration Farms, Groups cultivation of mushroom, Support for Eco-Villages Members of eco-villages 1 15 Support for Livestock Need based to 7 7 Marginalized community Support for production of Farmers and Women 2 370 seeds Groups Pheremane trap support Farmers and Women 50 Groups Support for seeds for kitchen Farmers and Women 8 groups 168 gardening Groups 42 Support for making identity Scatter community 172 card for scatter 5 Mass Celebration of World food day Stakeholders, Farmer 3 districts 134 Gathering Groups, Women Groups and Need Based Animal Health Camps Farmer Groups, Women 2 3057 Advocacy Groups Agricultural mela Farmer Groups, Women 2 Around Groups and other 2000 stakeholders Social mapping Dang, Siraha and 8 93 Udayapur Household survey 3 299 Baseline survey Udayapur 7 163 Mass gathering for organic 5 287 friendly village 6 School JTA class Udayapur 16 Education CLA class 19
7 Hoarding Hoarding board 1 Board
8 Radio Radio program, Udayapur 31 Program
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 Empowerment of 4 Marginalized Communities
The marginalized community has always been very far away from access to resources. Although they have actively participated in different movement of the country to restore productive democracy and social inclusion, their expectations are not fulfilled by the political changes. There has been continued movement for the marginalized community for their access to land and water, right to food, their right to health and their access to and control over natural resources. They have therefore continued their movement for their rights. Such movement includes land right movement, Dalit rights movement, movement for identity, and movement for safe housing. However, the GoN has not yet formulated appropriate policy to address those issues, and there is no visible change in the livelihoods and socio-economic conditions of marginalized communities. It is in this background that WOREC Nepal has been working in the field of empowerment of marginalized communities from right-based approach so that they will be able to raise voice and do advocacy for their rights, food security and sustainable livelihoods. Constitutional guarantee of economic, social and cultural rights for marginalized and vulnerable communities has been the main advocacy theme of WOREC Nepal. 43
WOREC Nepal's commitments Major achievements a. Facilitate leadership development . Marginalized community groups among marginalized communities are organized and are now aware and coordinate them with local of their rights; and have come and national level stakeholders for forward demanding for their socio-economic transformation. social, economic, political and civil rights at local and district b. Advocacy for the socio-economic levels. rights of women, land less, dalits and marginalized communities . Organizing various mass as well as against violence and meetings, and handing over exploitation against them. demand papers and appeal to the subject matter committees, they c. Inform and build the capacity of have been able to attract the duty the marginalized communities holders towards their concern about the women and child rights. and issues.
d. Facilitate capacity building of the . Rural marginalized women's marginalized communities for access to natural resources has agro-based enterprise and skill been increasing. development
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 Table 13. The major activities accomplished within the year: S. Strategies Used Activities Accomplished Target Groups Outputs No. No. of Number of Activities Participants Orientation on access Marginalized 165 3252 and control over local community (Dalit, Saha 1 Orientation resources, food security samudaya, Haruwa and ESC rights Charuwa) Leadership and Dalit Networks and 1 31 institutional development groups 2 Training Self realization and Marginalized 4 105 Leadership training community Networks Development Education Marginalized 36 720 community Networks Training on Economic, Women Groups, 1 36 Social and Cultural Right Networks and CBOs 3 Interaction Interaction on Socio- Local and District 24 617 and Advocacy economic and socio- level stakeholders, Workshop political right of Marginalized Marginalized Community community Networks Inclusive Constitution that Local and District 14 778 ensures dalit right and level stakeholders right of landless and Marginalized community Networks 44 Mass Gathering (ward Organizations working 17 739 gathering) on Land , and food rights
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 Safe 5 Migration Program
Safe migration campaign is one of the 1. Micro-level: Community major campaigns of WOREC Nepal under empowerment through awareness the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and increased access to information. Campaign. And with this campaign, This is the basis for macro-level WOREC Nepal is actively advocating advocacy. for mobility right and right to be safe 2. Meso-level: Intervention strategies in the process of migration for work and advocacy activities conducted of all citizens, especially of the women between the micro and macro level and individuals from marginalized and are directed to sensitize and create excluded communities in Nepal. Similarly, awareness at district/regional level. it advocates for the right to employment 3. Macro-level: National level advocacy and right to livelihood of women. The for policy change in coordination and lessons learned from WOREC Nepal's collaboration with different networks experience for last 22 years in prevention and alliances. of trafficking and protection of rights of trafficked person have made clear that 45 trafficking cannot be controlled without WOREC Nepal's commitments . To work towards safer migration of all ensuring safe migration of every citizens. Migration facilitates empowerment Nepali persons, particularly groups more process and it is an inseparable part vulnerable to human rights violations, from developmental activities. This such as women and dalits for work. is an opportunity however, there are . To promote the right to freedom of various challenges, which need to be mobility addressed to strengthen . To lobby the government to adopt a the opportunity and Table 14. Number of people who received information minimize risks and from safe migration information booth, 2012 challenges that migrating communities may come S.N District Total potential migrant who were given safe across to. migration information and counselling Male Female Total WOREC Nepal is one of 1 Udayapur 1888 201 2089 the leading organizations 2 Morang 532 114 646 actively engaged in anti- 3 Siraha 1276 7 1283 trafficking and safe4 Dhanusha 274 12 286 migration issues. It has 3 5 Sunsari 1750 177 1927 fold strategies to address 6 Dang 1375 38 1413 these issues: 7 Kailali 998 108 1106 Total 8093 657 8750
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 national migration policy, as well as to Major achievements uphold the mobility rights guaranteed in • Four women were rescued from the human rights conventions that the attempted trafficking with the government has signed. initiation of participants of orientation . To work in partnership with local state program authorities to protect rights of potential • Resource materials were prepared migrants by providing information on to conduct training and community- safe migration. based orientation through right . To contribute towards prevention of based approach. trafficking and facilitate reintegration • Govt. has expressed commitment to process of trafficking survivors implement existing laws in effective . To lobby the government to ratify the way as well as to amend the laws CMW and ILO convention 189 for to fulfill the gaps from government protection of migrants rights.. level.
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ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 Table 15. The major activities accomplished in the year 2012 S. Strategies Used Activities Accomplished Target Groups Outputs No. No. of No. of Activities Participants 1 Orientation Safe migration Community level 230 6148 and discussion Discussion on Human Women's groups, 21 535 Trafficking Act 2064 and community people Foreign Labor Act 2064
School education on safe Students of secondary 96 5153 migration and human level trafficking
Discussion on act related to community level 26 543 migration 2 Training National level training Members of Coalition 1 18 for Women's Right to Mobility District level training on WHRDs and RMW women's right to mobility Training on safe migration VDC Secretary of 1 27 and human trafficking Udayapur district 47
3 Interaction Meeting with RMW Network Members of RMW 37 383 and Advocacy networks Workshop Meeting with district level Stakeholders 8 242 project advisory committee and other stakeholders
Interaction Meeting With district level anti- 11 197 trafficking committee and stakeholders s National level discussion on Concerned ministry 1 52 existing gaps in the policies and stakeholders on and government initiatives/ Foreign Employment strategies to fulfill these gaps. Act 2012
Interaction program on Stakeholders 1 35 women's right to mobility Interaction on safe migration Youth and community 7 180 and development people
Meeting with district level stakeholders anti-trafficking committee
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 S. Strategies Used Activities Accomplished Target Groups Outputs No. No. of No. of Activities Participants 4 IEC material In order to make people 5000 copies were aware on the issue of safe printed migration IEC materials were developed and printed for dissemination 5 Hoarding In collaboration with Foreign 3 Board Labor Promotion Board hoarding boards were placed 6 Days National anti-trafficking day Celebration Rally Morang, Sunsari, 7 districts 3900 Siraha, Dhanusha, Dang, Kailali, Kathmandu Interaction program Morang, Sunsari, 6 504 Siraha, Dhanusha, Dang, Kailali, Street Drama Community 2 600 Observe International Migrants Day Press Meet 95
Coordination meeting 5 90 48 Interaction Program 9 296 Family gathering of migrant 37 workers: Radio Program, wall printing and street plays were organized
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 Early Childhood 6 Development and Child Rights Program
The situation of women continues enables parents to work, and when to be a major cause of concern. The children’s non-parental care provides patriarchal structure of the Nepalese the stimulation that assists them to be society has hindered women’s growth school-ready at age five. Therefore, child in the democratic process. WOREC care is a social issue for which there Nepal from the very beginning has been needs a collective responsibility. advocating for ensuring the rights of the women. Due to multiple responsibilities WOREC Nepal supported ECDC in of women they were blocked and have community has been a model in terms to face work burden. The convention on of its service and approach it has right of child (CRC) has already been undertaken. The ECDC is one among ratified by the government of Nepal. various approaches under the rights- 49 Thus, it is the responsibility of the state to based integrated approach to empower respect and protect the rights of child. To women and safeguard the rights of have nutritious food, quality education, children. healthy and sustainable, suitable and conducive environment are the rights This program aims to improve the of child. Women rights and child rights condition of young children by are interrelated and inter-dependent. empowering mothers to become Thus, WOREC Nepal has been running economically productive and less early childhood development programs ignorant. This program basically focused in community from very beginning to those women who are marginalized with an approach to increase women and poor and have to take load of works participation in social and economic to feed their children and family and sector to empower women economically was unable to send their children to and to improve the condition of young school due to lack of land and property. children by empowering mothers to This is an integrated program to address become economically productive and the issues of women and ensure their less ignorant. rights. The advocacy is to incorporate ECD center in the government structure. The whole society benefits when families Thus ECDC in the community has been can be economically self-sufficient a good space where children from the because affordable, reliable child care very early age are brought and involved
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 in socialization from the early age and WOREC Nepal’s commitments simultaneously women burden at homes • Contribute to strengthen capacity is reduced and has maximized their time of CBOs and ECDC management doing productive activities. Likewise, Committee for sustainable women who can access low cost or free management of early child child care services have the potential to development program. earn more; when children participate • Contribute to increase the school in center based programs, mothers Enrollment of children with special can have breaks from child-rearing Focus on children from dalit and that allow them to balance competing marginalized community and responsibilities, and siblings are also minimize dropout rate. freed up from child care duties releasing Contribute to improve health status them from domestic child labor and • enabling them to continue their own of children of targeted areas. schooling. • Increase local contribution and resource mobilization for WOREC Nepal in partnership with AEI, sustainability of ECDC. Luxembourg has been supporting a holistic child development concept and Major achievements approach through ECDC since 14 years. • Increased in the enrollment of girls This concept was brought to give good children in ECD center. Enrolment of environment for the children below five new children this year is 216. 50 years and to make favorable environment • The community people have been for the mother to work for their earning taking ownership of running the and for their creative work. Since 1998 ECDC, and also advocating in the WOREC Nepal in collaboration with AEI, district level for the development of Luxembourg is running this program and ECDC and incorporate in government is doing advocacy to make accountable structure. for the government to address the • In Siraha, four ECD center were issues and incorporate the program in registered in VDC and is pressurizing government structure to ensure the to register in district education rights of the children and the rights of the women for economic empowerment. office to incorporate in government The GoN has worked out policy and structure. program for including ECDC in the • There has been increment in school national educational program. The ECD enrollment every year. The centers have Center of the Udayapur was handed facilitated as a pool for school enrollment. over to VDC level women groups, CBOs Children often feel very comfortable to for their operation. The 6 ECDCs of attend school once they are in ECDC. This Udayapur and 2 ECDCs of Dang have year total of 97 children (52 girls and 45 been supported by Government of boys) got enrolled in schools. Enrollment Nepal. 3 ECDC of Dang district have of girls children are increasing which is registered in the VDCs. very positive. • Health post is continuously providing
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 support for monthly clinic operation sum of NRs 110000 till date. and providing medicines to the • A resource package on ECDC from children of ECD center. women perspective has developed • The maintenance of the ECD center and disseminated in the districts. has been started. • Birth registration were performed for • For sustainability Community 9 children after orientation conducted people is supporting continuously in dang on birth registration by providing food, wood as well as • Phoolbari VDC allocated NRs 13,000 money. ECDC Siraha has deposited to Phoolbari ECDC center in Siraha. Rs 350740 and Dang has collected
Table 16. The major activities done in the Year 2012 S. Strategies Used Activities Accomplished Target Groups Outputs No. No. of No. of Activities Participants 1 Orientation Orientation on different Child groups, women 78 1580 and discussion social issues like child rights, groups, management nutritious food, malnutrition, committee of ECDC, gender based violence, parents, teachers, Violence against women, community people women health rights, parental and youths education, sustainability of ECDC, health and sanitation, 51 reproductive health rights, dowry, child protection, child marriage, leadership 2 Interaction Consultation sustainability of major agencies of 5 78 and Advocacy ECDC Centre district Workshop Meeting and interaction with District Education 13 165 District Education Office and Office, management stakeholders committee, parents and VDC stakeholders Coordination meeting district education 4 57 with district child welfare office, management committee and organizations committee, parents working on child rights and stakeholders Meetings with Parents and Parents and 62 930 Management committee management committee 3 Health and Community based nutrition Children of ECDC continuous 652 Nutrition clinic and nutrition education children Monthly Health assessment Children of ECDC continuous 1454 Stool test and Deworming Children of ECDC continuous Treatment Support for basic first aid kit Children of ECDC continuous
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 S. Strategies Used Activities Accomplished Target Groups Outputs No. No. of No. of Activities Participants Day Meal Support Children of ECDC continuous Picnic and outing Children of ECDC continuous Dress Support Children of ECDC continuous 219 Centre Maintenance and Repair Children of ECDC continuous Educational and recreational Children of ECDC continuous support Support in education for Children from continuous the poor and marginalized marginalized community community 4 Annual Enrollment of children at Children of ECDC 216 Enrollment of ECDC children Enrollment of children at Children of ECDC 97 school of ECDC 5 Monitoring/ Monitoring of School going 634 Follow up and children Evaluation Monitoring of children 76 supported by stationery 6 Group Child Group children 27 576 Catch up classes Children of 264 marginalized groups 52 and community 7 IEC Resource Cartoon Book Development 200 printed Development for Advocacy Poster Development 500 printed and Awareness Dissemination of Resource 1 Package Video Documentary on ECDC 1 20 minutes 8 Mass gathering Mass gathering of child groups Child groups 1 102 9 Day celebration
International child rights day/ National Child Rights Day
23rd international child rights day was celebrated by organizing games and were encouraged to explore their talent by providing prizes for the winners. In the program there was presence of more than 150 female and 130 male.
Similarly Children celebrated Saraswati puja. A number of children participated in different activities like songs, dance, debate competition, games and sanitation related events etc. At the end of the program, prizes were distributed to the winners to motivate them in extracurricular activities.
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 S. Strategies Used Activities Accomplished Target Groups Outputs No. No. of No. of Activities Participants Day Meal Support Children of ECDC continuous Picnic and outing Children of ECDC continuous Dress Support Children of ECDC continuous 219 Centre Maintenance and Repair Children of ECDC continuous Educational and recreational Children of ECDC continuous support Support in education for Children from continuous the poor and marginalized marginalized community community 4 Annual Enrollment of children at Children of ECDC 216 Enrollment of ECDC children Enrollment of children at Children of ECDC 97 school of ECDC 5 Monitoring/ Monitoring of School going 634 Follow up and children Evaluation Monitoring of children 76 supported by stationery Campaign for Sustainable 6 Group Child Group children 27 576 Catch up classes Children of 264 marginalized groups Peace and Development and community III 53 7 IEC Resource Cartoon Book Development 200 printed People are waiting to have sustainable failure of constitution drafting leading Development peace and development in the country. to the dissolution of Constitutional for Advocacy Poster Development 500 printed Despite of all this political tantrums and Assembly. This failure on promulgation and Awareness Dissemination of Resource 1 instability the Nepalese people had rays of constitution on time has resulted in Package of hope that the constitutional assembly increased in probability of fading away Video Documentary on ECDC 1 20 minutes will release a draft on constitution all the rights ensuring women's right 8 Mass gathering Mass gathering of child groups Child groups 1 102 this time on 28th May, 2012. With this which was achieved after long exercises 9 Day celebration hope people and different human and pressure campaigns of networks of right organizations and women's group Women Right Organizations. International child rights day/ National Child Rights Day organized pressures campaigns with The expectations of marginalized and 23rd international child rights day was celebrated by organizing games and were encouraged to explore agenda of inclusive and gender friendly their talent by providing prizes for the winners. In the program there was presence of more than 150 constitution ensuring social justice. vulnerable groups i.e. women, children, female and 130 male. indigenous peoples, untouchables and Since the first week of May, 2012 there conflict affected peoples to enjoy their Similarly Children celebrated Saraswati puja. A number of children participated in different activities like was nationwide strikes by different rights, identity and social justice through songs, dance, debate competition, games and sanitation related events etc. At the end of the program, indigenous organizations with demands new constitution is aborted leaving more prizes were distributed to the winners to motivate them in extracurricular activities. of declaring secular state through risks, uncertainties and dilemma on federalism. At the same time several their hands. The issues and indigenous sit-in protests, corner meetings, rallies movement for their identity had led to and hunger strikes were conducted in- increased tendencies enriching and front of Constitutional Assembly Hall nurturing ethnic uprisings. The adverse at New Baneshwor. But the people's effect of next constitutional election hopes were propelled away by the is the cost that Nepali people have to
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 bear with embargo on governmental VAW and gender equality in citizenship. development programs and inflation. • WOREC Nepal was able to call the attention of concerned stakeholders such WOREC Nepal has been implementing a as policymakers and political parties to sustainable peace initiative –SAHAJ- as important issues through handing over an attempt to extend helping hands to of letter of Memorandum, press release, the conflict affected communities. This petitions and consultation and press is a cross cutting program which comes conferences and reporting to the UN under both the campaigns of WOREC Special Rapporteur. Nepal, i.e. VAW and ESCR. WOREC Nepal • The concerned right holders were able believes that women’s economic, social to discuss and lobby with thematic and cultural rights cannot be ensured in constitutional committees to have their a situation of conflict and exploitation. issues (especially women's issues) Likewise, VAW cannot be prevented in addressed in the new constitution. a conflict situation. Hence, civil society • The counselling services provided by organizations have to play a crucial role WOREC Nepal have been able to solve to facilitate the peace process in Nepal. the critical psychosocial issues. The trust of community people to the counsellors created a space for the victims to share WOREC Nepal's commitments their problems which helped to lessen the . Facilitate for constructive dialogue intensity of problems. and increase understanding between • Solidarity among the women activist diverse groups on the issues of new to address the issues of women for 54 constitution of Nepal. sustainable peace and constitution. . Strengthen the capacity of community • Enhanced the capacity of the WHRDs based groups (women, youths and and HRDs to get engaged in the struggle adolescent girls of marginalized for social justice. communities) to lobby and advocate • Increased the visibility of the women on the issues of inclusion and create rights activists and recognition to the environment for transitional justice. women’s identity through political . Facilitate development of institutions. And it is a breakthrough in understanding of members Nepali history that women themselves (women) of Constituent Assembly organized and continued the campaign to understand women’s issue from for peace and constitution continuously rights based perspective. for the national interest, for harmony . Evidence based advocacy for the among political parties and consensus human rights of the marginalized government. and vulnerable groups and advocacy for sustainable peace in the country. . Provide counselling support to the survivors of armed conflict.
Major achievements • WOREC Nepal along with its alliances continued Women’s Pressure Campaign and was able to achieve strong commitment from the political parties on the issues of
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 Table 17: The major activities accomplished in the year 2012. S. Strategies Activities Accomplished Target Groups Outputs No. Used No. of Number of Activities Participants
1 Orientation Orientation on Civil and political Youth groups, 477 11925 Rights; ESC rights; Human Rights women groups and and social inclusion, Sustainable community people peace and reports writing, peace, constitution and transitional justice, non violence, UN resolution 1325 ,1820 2 Discussion Meeting and discussion on roles Youths 100 330 program of youth for promotion of peace 3 Trainings Training on Feminist Capacity WHRDs 11 275 Building training (FCBT) Training on fact finding/ HRDs and youth 2 53 monitoring and documentation of HR violation Training and workshop on HRDs and youth 3 86 Human rights Training on ESCR –Sustainable HRDs and youth 4 102 peace, ESCR, proposal writing and reports writing Training on Psychosocial counsellors 2 48 Counselling 55 Interaction program on the issues Stakeholders 90 2430 of HR violation ad situation of 4 Interaction, HRDs, peace and constitution meetings and Workshops on migrant workers' Youth ,political 6 188 Advocacy rights, role for peace and leaders and Workshop constitution, role of youth for the community promotion of peace Dialogue on timely constitution Local and district 14 487 making for ending impunity and level Political sustainable peace leaders Debates on the role of youth Youth , political 22 606 in constitution making and leaders and sustainable peace community people Meetings on present politics and Youths at VDC and 26 455 critical situation for constitution DDC and its way out
Meeting with local peace 40 513 committee, HRDs and WHRDs Meetings of youth networks 39 578 5 Coordination Coordination meeting with HRDs HRDs 22 296 meeting
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 S. Strategies Activities Accomplished Target Groups Outputs No. Used No. of Number of Activities Participants
6 Mass Days celebration Gathering th st and 47 International Day on Elimination of Racial Discrimination on 21 March Advocacy interaction program : leaders of four major political parties and WHRDs and Stakeholders
International Anti-Torture Day Interaction program: Police officials, Journalists, Representatives of Human Right Defenders and seven tortured victims of prisons there were 43 participants.
World Peace Day -21st September,2012
Peace exhibition, “National Consultation on Women’s Right in Nepal: Rhetoric and Reality, Challenges to Human Right, Peace, Democracy and Development” and Solidarity Mission
National Consultation with the UN Special Procedure; Women’s Rights in Nepal: Rhetoric and Reality was conducted at Kathmandu on 21st September, 2012 by the initiation of WOREC Nepal in collaboration with National Alliance of Women Human Right Defenders (NAWHRD) and APWLD. It was started with massive rally with participation of women from Asia Pacific Region on the occasion of International Peace Day with Slogan “Standing Together for Peace”. There were panel discussions on “Public Private Dichotomy, Socio-economic Challenges and Social and Family 56 Life of Women in Nepal”. At the end of consultation there was lighting of candle for solidarity to Peace in World.
The activities conducted in Peace Exhibition: • Launched four books: • Denied Dignity: Case Studies of Human Right Violations in Nepal. • Socio-economic condition and food security situation in a Musahar Community at Udayapur District in Nepal. • Assessment of Socio-economic status of bonded labour (Haruwa/ Charuwa) at Siraha district. • The situation of Women and Children living in slums areas of Kathmandu Valley. • District Level Workshops and Interaction Programs (reported above). • IEC Fair • Peace related art competition by the school children. • Cultural Programs and Mass Rallies International Youth Day Though international youth day was celebrated by all working districts of WOREC Nepal, the programs were conducted by Dang, Dhanusha and Udayapur district on 12th August, 2012. This day was celebrated by organizing rallies, honouring youth and their contribution, blood donation, cleaning programs and discussed on the issues of youth: Narration of youth policies. Youth and inclusiveness. Dissemination of survey report on Youth and drug addiction (Udayapur). Youth’s collaboration for prosperity.
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 S. Strategies Activities Accomplished Target Groups Outputs No. Used No. of Number of Activities Participants
Psychosocial Support to Women and Youth affected by conflict: 7 Support Information Dissemination on victims of ESC 810 Psychosocial Counselling rights and violations and direct or indirect victim of conflict Psycho-social Counselling Survivors and 569 services vulnerable groups Orientations and School Community 51 Education about psychosocial ,stakeholders counselling Formation of Counselling Centre Government 2 MC Management Committee Officials, different organizations Dhanusha and also youth federations, 5MC at Udayapur interaction program and meeting Counselling 35 1205 on importance of Counselling Management Centre and Sustainable Committee, leaders Management of political parties, civil society and 57 women groups Orientation on Terms of Management 1 15 Responsibilities of members of Committee counselling centre management committee: Meetings of Management of Counsellors, 20 385 Psychosocial Counselling Center committee members and Counsellors Monitoring of service delivered 196 cases from counselling centers 8 Group Women's Groups Conflict affected 3 33 formation women's group of Youth groups Youths 5 72 9 Forums Women's forum Women human 1 131 rights defenders Youth forum Youth 1 387
10 Radio 78 episodes Program 11 Fourth Phase Campaign for Peace and constitution • Banner Campaign and Petition Letter submission • Rallies and sit-in Campaigns • Signature Collection Campaign
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 Community Radio IV Udayapur WOREC Nepal's community radio, a joint venture of WOREC Nepal and Women Resource and Empowerment Centre, is the non-profitable radio broadcasting in Udayapur district of Nepal. It has been milestone that paves the way for the community people for the awareness and education through right based approach. There has been the trend that, most of the mass media houses are run or ruled by men. Many radios are producing programs on women issues but they lack a feminist perspective.
It is in this concept that WOREC Nepal jointly with Women Resource and Empowerment Centre has started a community radio “Udayapur FM 102.4 MHz” run by the group of women in Udayapur district in order to advocate women’s issues and concerns through mass media. WOREC Nepal believes that for women empowerment, women from the marginalized community and the rural setting should have an access and control over the mass media. The community radio 58 Udayapur broadcasts different talk programs, interviews and information related to women empowerment, VAW causes and prevention and reproductive health problems and women's RH rights; sustainable livelihood and agriculture programs.
WOREC Nepal's commitments “culture of silence”. They hardly get . To highlight women’s issue from any space where they can express women's perspective through the their ideas, views and concerns. mass media. Udayapur community radio has filled . Awareness raising and capacity in such gap and local women have building of community women in now become able to express their handling new technology. concerns, views and also to share their experiences, as well as to aware Major achievements the mass on women’s issues from . Community Radio has been women's perspective. operated by community women for . There are twelve community radio consolidating oppressed women’s listener youth clubs. They are giving voices and to raise the issues of feedback and support to the radio in women empowerment and women's different ways rights. . The operating strength of the radio . Social inequalities, patriarchy and has increased and the team can gender discrimination among women operate at least 20 programs without have forced them to continue the any external supports. ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 V Data Base System WOREC Nepal has been doing advocacy at different levels on the basis of right based approach to ensure ESC rights and eliminate VAW. These advocacies are based on the facts and the evidence. Thus realizing the need and the importance of data base, WOREC Nepal has implemented and established the information management system. All the researches, documented cases and fact finding documents are managed in systematic ways at central office database. The database system is a planned system of the collecting, processing, storing and disseminating data in the form of information needed to carry out the functions of organization. This unit has its sub-unit in all the branch offices (Morang, Sunsari, Udayapur, Siraha, Dhanusha, Dang and Kailali) of WOREC Nepal. The database system of WOREC Nepal has been collecting the information and data of programs implemented in working districts.
Database Unit has been collecting data using different formats related to different programs like Safe migration, VAW, Women Human Right Defender, Women Empowerment, Youth program, Women Health program, Child program, Bio-Intensive Farming System and Livelihoods program. The data are processed in computer using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) and EXCEL software. This unit also collects the cases published in National dailies which are fed into computer and analysed. It also collects data from different governmental and non-governmental organizations, relevant networks, CBOs 59 and women federations. The data base has updated its GBV case reporting formats according to the GBVMIS tool for the easy reporting to the National Women Commission (NWC) that has been developed in coordination with WOREC Nepal and NWC.
WOREC Nepal's commitments to analysis and publication of various . Gather, sort, analyse, evaluate and reports like Anbeshi, and other distribute accurate information to research and analytical reports. program and other stakeholders. . Recognition of WOREC Nepal . Provide data for report writing. database from different government . Maintain uniformity in reporting system. and non government organizations . Identify the status, dimension and like National Women’s Commission, assess the impact of program. National Human Right Commission, UNIFEM, Rastriya Samachar Samiti Major achievements (RSS). . National level data base system, . GBVIMS has been developed in The data published in WOREC Nepal’s coordination with different NGOs. publication are being used as reference . The documented VAW cases, from by several media house, organizations different parts of the country has working for human right and National sent to the data base, which support Human Right Commission as well.
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 Research, Publication VI and Documentation A. Research Reports human rights, WHRD, food security, • "The situation of women and children sustainable livelihoods and bio-intensive living in the slum area of Kathmandu farming system. The centre has been Valley" publishing and widely circulating • "Assessment of Socio-economic status magazines, newsletters, books, reports, of Bonded labour (haruwa/charuwa) pamphlets, posters and leaflets. List of at Siraha District" publications of WOREC Nepal in 2012 is • "Socio-economic condition & food presented below. These publications can security situation in a Mushar be obtained from Documentation Unit of community at Udayapur District" WOREC Nepal, Kathmandu or WOREC • "Denied Dignity" Case studies on Nepal branch offices. Human Rights Violation Thesis research conducted in collaboration with HICAST Report/Books • WOREC Nepal Annual Report 2011 • “Pest Diversity in Cucurbits and their (Nepali and English) Mangement Practices in Conventional 60 • Anbeshi 2012, the year book on Violence and Bio-Intensive Farming System against Women - English in Udayapur District” by Upasana • Narrative Report of Reprodcutive Health Dhakal Program (Jan-Dec) 2011. • “Danuwar and Chaudhary • Campaign to End Fistula In Nepal Communities moving towards • Vaw Campaign Report Sustainable Development; the Eco- • Sarkar le dhyan dinu parne mahila village Contribution (A case study of swasthya chhetraka kehi muddaharu Udayapur)” by Anita Gautam • Pictorial book on early child development
B. Publication Publications are the necessary for the E-newsletter dialogue with concerned stakeholders • Sayapatri; a quarterly magazine on and to gain information and knowledge women's health on different aspects. With a broader • Advocacy update; a quarterly aim of facilitating grassroots people, magazine on advocacy against VAW particularly the marginalized groups, and ESCR CBOs, I/NGOs and GOs, WOREC Nepal • Pairabi; a quarterly magazine has been developing various training manuals and IEC materials on the issues of human trafficking, safe-migration, Poster gender and violence, women’s health, • Poster on early child development
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 Brochures/ pocket book/ fact sheet • WOREC Nepal brochure • Fact sheet on VAW in Nepal • Fact Sheet on Migration and women • A brochure about Sunakhari Training center • Integrated Women Health Program brochure • Local Poultry Farming (Nepali) • 16 Days of Activism Concept Paper (Calendar) • An Introduction on 15 months JTA course • Surakshit baidesik rojgari ka lagi dhyan dinu parne kura haru
C. Documentation Documentation Unit is the library of WOREC Nepal. WOREC Nepal has established documentation unit in its central and branch offices. Besides WOREC Nepal’s publications, the documentation unit has a collection of books, reports, newspapers and magazines 61 on Law, HIV/AIDs, Human Right, Health, Migration, ESC Rights, VAW and Human Trafficking, Children, Gender, Agriculture, Annual Reports, Politics, Peace and Conflict, Development. The documentation centre at Kathmandu has a collection of 8939 publication (Table 18).
Table 18. List of reference materials in WOREC Documentation Unit, Kathmandu S.N. Subject Number 1 Law 666 2 Human Right 1302 3 Health 1639 4 Migration 301 5 VAW and Human 1478 Trafficking 6 Children 567 7 Agriculture 268 8 Report 735 9 Politics, Peace and Conflict 485 10 Others 1498 Total 8939 ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 CHAPTER THREE Partner Organizations and Financial Statement
Partner organizations Information about the partner organizations that provided financial assistance as well as other support to WOREC Nepal to implement various programs in its targeted districts are presented below.
Table 19. Partner Organizations of WOREC Nepal SN Partner Programs Districts organizations 1 MISEREOR Continuation of the collective empowerment and Siraha (Germany) sustainable community development in Siraha District
A Peace Initiative : An Attempt to Campaign for Morang, Sunsari,Udayapur, sustainable peace and basic human rights in Dang, Siraha, Dhanusha, Nepal Kathmandu
From survivors to change makers : Up scaling the Morang, Sunsari,Udayapur, practices in addressing violence against women Dang, Siraha, Dhanusha, 62 in Nepal Kathmandu 2 ICCO (Holland) Promoting rights and livelihoods of women Morang, Sunsari, Udayapur, Dang , Siraha, Dhanusha, Kathmandu 3 AEI Early childhood development programme at Udayapur, Dang, Siraha. (Luxembourg) Dang and Siraha
Integrated women empowerment and women Dang health programme in Dang District
Promoting food security and sustainable Udayapur,Dang, Siraha livelihoods program 4 Dan Church Aid To protect the women rights of Nepalese migrants Morang, Sunsari, Udayapur, through ensuring safe migration Dang , Siraha, Dhanusha, Dhangadi, Kathmandu 5 KIOS Women on the frontline : Protection and promotion 40 Districts of rights of the WHRDs in Nepal 6 Danish Embassy Addressing violence against women by building Morang-Sunsari, Udayapur, Nepal capacity of community women Dang , Siraha, Dhanusha, Dhangadi, Kathmandu 7 FOSI Strengthening capacity of community based 75 districts organization to prevent violence against women and promote the rights of women 8 UNFPA GBV 9 UNFPA Women reproductive health: Fistula campaign
ANNUAL REPORT | 2012 Financial statement WOREC Nepal has been publishing the audited financial report in its Annual Report for facilitating transparency. In the F.Y. 2011/012, total assets and balances amounted NRs 65,559,882.
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