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Enhancing Empowerment of the Youth from Marginalized Groups in Nepal for Inclusive Democracy and Greater Realization of Human Rights Enhancing Empowerment of the Youth from Marginalized Groups in Nepal for Inclusive Democracy and Greater Realization of Human Rights Project Annual Report (Banke, Makwanpur, Bhojpur) March 2013 – February, 2014 Himalayan Human Rights Monitors (HimRights) Supported by: Pulchowk, Lalitpur, Nepal Tel.: 977‐1‐5555111 Email: [email protected] Web: www.himrights.org 0 ________________________________________________________________________________________ Annual Report: Enhancing Empowerment of the Youth from Marginalized Groups in Nepal for Inclusive Democracy and Greater Realization of Human Rights (HimRights/Sida) Executive Summary In this program year, we have successfully conducted six Human Rights Trainings; six Mock Village Councils; six Village Public Hearings; 1 Mock district Council; 1 District Public Hearing; and 1 District Dialogue. During these activities, we have reached to 510 participants from 45 Village Development Committee (VDC) of three program districts. There was inclusive participation of youths from Dalit community, indigenous, disabled, and marginalized groups. More than 61% of them were female participants. They were from marginalized communities and represented diverse groups. The series of activities has successfully transformed long lasting impact on youth participants as the issues discussed during the program are directly linked with their community public lives and decision making bodies. VDC, the basic government unit, delivers services and decision making for the people as based on various laws, regulations and directives. The program also has long lasting impact on local level government institution. Youths are now more conscious about good governance, transparency, and accountability of these institutions. Most importantly, they have understood importance of youth participation, their roles, and involvement in local development processes. Youth participation has been significantly increased especially after the program. They have started attending ward level planning meetings, Ward Citizen Forum meetings, and Village Councils and playing active roles. With understanding of how these agencies function they are able to write proposals for development activities, meaningful discussions at the community meetings and lobby at different levels for approval. Youth participants from Bankatawa, Binauna, and Chisapani of Banke and Pyauli and Tiwaribhanjyang of Bhojpur have successfully lobbied at Village Council to allocate budget to conduct youth related activities. One of the participants from Makwanpur was asked by VDC Office to give talk on participatory planning process at VDC meeting. Likewise, a participant from Banke has conducted 6 training sessions on participatory planning processes. These are, in fact, remarkable recognition of participants’ knowledge on these issues. The local and district stakeholders are very positive with our project programs and have been cooperating with our participants. They have recognized youths as partners of local development. With series of follow-up activities, monitoring visits and continuous support, the youths participants are believed to bring substantial changes in their community and established themselves as the real ‘change maker’. 1 ________________________________________________________________________________________ Annual Report: Enhancing Empowerment of the Youth from Marginalized Groups in Nepal for Inclusive Democracy and Greater Realization of Human Rights (HimRights/Sida) Abbreviations CAC: Citizen Awareness Center CPN (UML): Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist and Leninist) CEDAW: Convention on Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Woman CRC: Convetion on the Rights of the Child DD: District Dialogue DDC: District Development Committee Directives: Directives on Local Resource Mobilization and Management, 2069 DPH: District Public Hearing FNCCI: Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry HRT: Human Rights Training IPC: Integrated Planning Committee HimRights: Himalayan Human Rights Monitors LGCDP: Local Governance and Community Development Project MDC: Mock District Council MoFALD: Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development MVC: Mock Village Council Sida: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency SHP: Sub-Health Post UCPN (M): Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) VDC: Village Development Committee WCF: Ward Citizen Forum Terminology: Ilaka: Area covered by 3-5 VDCs Namuna VDC: Mock VDC Citizen Charter: Information board that gives procedures and requirements for services provided by government agencies Guthi: a social organization or simply a clan that is used to maintain the social order of Newar community Janajati: Indigenous community 2 ________________________________________________________________________________________ Annual Report: Enhancing Empowerment of the Youth from Marginalized Groups in Nepal for Inclusive Democracy and Greater Realization of Human Rights (HimRights/Sida) Contents Executive Summary ........................................................................................................................ 1 Abbreviations .................................................................................................................................. 2 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 4 Process: ........................................................................................................................................... 6 Training on international Human Rights framework and mechanisms and Nepal's Legal System ......................................................................................................................................... 6 Mock Village Council ................................................................................................................. 8 Village Public Hearing .............................................................................................................. 11 Mock District Council............................................................................................................... 13 District Public Hearing ............................................................................................................. 15 District Dialogue ....................................................................................................................... 16 Participants Information ................................................................................................................ 18 Outcomes/ impacts ........................................................................................................................ 21 Banke: ....................................................................................................................................... 21 Makwanpur ............................................................................................................................... 24 Bhojpur ..................................................................................................................................... 28 Stakeholders at Village and Districts level: .............................................................................. 30 Overall Finding: ............................................................................................................................ 31 Lessons Learned/ Challenges ........................................................................................................ 35 Recommendations: ........................................................................................................................ 36 Conclusion: ................................................................................................................................... 36 ANNEX: I Programs in brief: ....................................................................................................... 38 Banke ........................................................................................................................................ 38 Makwanpur ............................................................................................................................... 53 Bhojpur ..................................................................................................................................... 69 Success stories ...................................................................................................................... 92 14-steps of Participatory Planning Process: .............................................................................. 96 Categories of Caste/Ethnicity ................................................................................................... 97 News Coverage: ........................................................................................................................ 98 3 ________________________________________________________________________________________ Annual Report: Enhancing Empowerment of the Youth from Marginalized Groups in Nepal for Inclusive Democracy and Greater Realization of Human Rights (HimRights/Sida) Introduction Enhancing Empowerment of the Youth from Marginalized Groups in Nepal for Inclusive Democracy and Greater Realization of Human Rights According to National Population and Housing Census, 2011, almost one fifth of the total populations (17.7%) are youths aged between 16 to 24 years
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