1 WHERE WE WORKED Darchula Baitadi Dadeldhura Kanchanpur Dailekh Surkhet Banke Gorkha Sindhupalchwok g Arghakhanchi Nuwakot Dhadin Kapilvastu KTM Nawalparasi Makwanpur Sarlahi Udayapur Rautahat Saptari Nepal Earthquake Recovery Programme: Kathmandu, Bhaktapur, Lalitpur, Nuwakot, Dhading, Gorkha, Sindhupalchowk Sustainable Development Programme : Arghakhanchi, Banke, Baitadi, Bhaktapur, Dailekh, Darchula, Kanchanpur, Kapilvastu, Kathmandu, Lalitpur, Makwanpur, Nawalparasi, Nuwakot, Sarlahi, Saptari, Sindhupalchowk, Surkhet, and Udaypur 17 Table of Contents Sustainable Development Programme 5 Women Empowerment Programme 17 Nepal Earthquake Recovery Programme Projects in 2017-2018 18 A young man who stopped his own marriage 19 Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH) 6 Food Security and Sustainable Livelihood Programme 20 Sharing a water source to resolve water shortage 7 Projects in 2017-2018 21 Livelihood Recovery Programme 8 Disaster Risk Reduction and Convenient financial services for migrant families 9 Climate Change Adaptation (DRR-CCA) Programme 25 Fixed irrigation canal, increased production 9 Project in 2017 - 2018 26 Housing 10 Access to clean water restored 27 Alternative construction materials improved our live 11 Sustainable Development Programme (Infograph) 28 Reconstruction united a family in Dhading 12 Gender and protection 13 28 True gender champions 14 Programme Support Functions Ganga Maya gets social security finally 15 Nepal Earthquake Recovery Programme (Infograph) 16 Media, Advocacy and Campaigns 29 Human Resource and Organizational Development 30 Financial Statement 31 Cover Picture: Kamima Gurung in Kerauja of Gorkha district smiling after making her citizenship certificate at the age of 70. Photo by: Ayush Raj Manandhar for Oxfam. Editors: Cecilia Keizer, Damodar Kanel, Prerana Marasini Copyright ©Oxfam in Nepal 3 The power of people to address poverty Oxfam in Nepal’s overall goal is: “By 2020, 1.5 million ones. We continued to provide support on construction worked with partner organisations women and men in Nepal are empowered to overcome and rehabilitation of water supply systems, supported and security forces as well to poverty, vulnerability and inequality”. government bodies to prepare disaster preparedness help prevent child marriage and plans, and prepared communities to reduce the risks of violence against women. We It’s a pleasure to document our key activities that disasters. supported economic development by empower people to bring changes in their lives and O xfam’s vision for Nepal is a just society present them in this Annual Report 2017/18. We hope We responded to the it gives you an overview of who we are and what we survivors of floods in four without poverty, in which all women do. In 2017/18, Oxfam teams continued their work to districts and survivors of and men live a life of dignity, enjoy their support people living in 21 districts of Nepal working landslides in two districts. rights and assume their responsibilities with 47 partner organisations in coordination with More than 150 people had government agencies. We supported the earthquake- lost their lives in floods, as active citizens of Nepal. affected families and facilitated the re-building and inundation, and landslides last year. We continued our strengthening several cooperatives reconstruction of their houses. We restored their work in women empowerment and supported some and enterprises that gave people disrupted livelihood and created together with them new women leaders to contest in the local elections. We have better income and jobs. We are very grateful to the support we received from the Government of Nepal, donor agencies, and our implementing partners, and we continue to express our commitment to empower the people of Nepal to address poverty, inequality and vulnerability. Thank you. Cecilia Keizer, Country Director, Oxfam in Nepal 4 Integrated settlement under construction in Bagua of Gorkha. Photo by: Prerana Marasini/Oxfam We have promoted he Nepal Earthquake Recovery retrofitters, entrepreneurs has been an owner-driven T Programme continued in its third year created through various skills trainings. to work in Sindhupalchowk, Kathmandu We provided financial support to the most reconstruction Valley (Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and marginalized families who had lost their approach where Lalitpur), Nuwakot, Dhading and Gorkha houses in the earthquake, so that they the beneficiaries districts. Since last year, we have taken could move in to new permanent houses. themselves are an integrated approach to support To ensure better health and hygiene, we the population affected by the 2015 worked to provide safe drinking water involved to reconstruct earthquakes. In doing so, we have at community and household levels, or rehabilitate targeted the most vulnerable population along with the construction of toilets. infrastructure and that could benefit through four sectors— We are proud to be partners of the Nepal livelihood. livelihood recovery; water, sanitation, and Government in helping municipalities hygiene; housing; disaster risk reduction; and rural municipalities become open- and gender and protection. defecation free. We have promoted an owner-driven To help farmers and producer groups, we reconstruction approach where the rehabilitated and constructed production beneficiaries themselves are involved to infrastructures, promoted mechanized reconstruct or rehabilitate infrastructure Women constructors in Nuwakot. tools, and provided vocational skills to and livelihood. A pool of skilled masons, generate income or find jobs. Nepal Earthquake Recovery Programme Photo by: Cecilia Keizer/Oxfam 5 Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH) 56,424 people benefited through construction/repair of 96 water supply schemes. 2,477 households have built latrines for 13,142 men, A woman in Darchula carrying a bucket of water. Photo by: Bed Prasad Dhakal/Oxfam women and children he goal of the WaSH programme is in Nepal has promoted good hygiene T to “address water insecurity of poor, practices that improved sanitation and socially excluded and vulnerable women helped reduce water-related diseases. 506 and men, and achieve systemic change Additionally, its focus is to build resilience masons trained on toilet for sustainable and equitable access to of targeted communities by empowering construction water and sanitation.” Oxfam, since 2015, Water User Committees (WUCs) and by has continued supporting the poorest working together with the local government 27 and vulnerable communities to access to sustain WaSH infrastructure through wards and 5 palikas reliable and safe water closer to their operation and maintenance support. supported to be declared houses. Together with partners, Oxfam as Open Defecation Free Oxfam, since 2015, has continued supporting the poorest and vulnerable communities to access reliable and safe water closer to their houses. 6 Sharing a water source to resolve water shortage “We’d quietly go to the water source or else the neighbors could wake up and we’d have to line up again,” Januka adds. share the water from their source. Oxfam and Goreto Gorkha finished the construction within two months with a strong participation of the community. People now have running water at their household levels. Photo credit: Oxfam “We spent 36 days days as community eople of Archale village in Saurpani of Gorkha Nights were troublesome too. “We’d quietly go to contribution; it was a lot of hard work and P had long been facing shortage of drinking the water source or else the neighbors could wake pain, but we forgot it all on the day we had water. The Thulo Padhera water source was shared up and we’d have to line up again,” Januka adds. water running in our household taps. Now between Bhailam and Archale villages. After the we have enough time to look after children, 2015 earthquake, it dried up, leaving them with a Oxfam had been working at Saurpani in partnership work in field as well as to attend community distant water point called Samma Paakha. Both the with Goreto Gorkha for the earthquake-affected meetings.” Januka says. The Dhapekhola villages now had a single resource to collect water. households. The people of both villages requested Water Supply Scheme caters to 48 Constrained resources meant long queues and longer Oxfam to support in constructing a water supply households of Archale and Bhailam villages. waiting times. Januka Paneru, a local of Archale village scheme. The nearest feasible source was Apart from building water supply schemes, recalls, “In the day time, there would be more than 50 Dhapekhola, which was inadequate to cater to the households were also supported to build people in line totaling 2-3 hours of our time to collect need of both villages. Finally, an agreement was toilets, which has benefited differently- water.” reached with the nearby village of Kamigaon to abled people as well. 7 Livelihood Recovery Programme 48,439 individuals benefited through rehabilitation of irrigation canals, collection centres, processing equipments, agro machines, and trainings 4,899 individuals got professional training needed for cook, waiter, tourist guide, carpentry, Women in Sindhupalchowk using a grain huller. Photo credit: Oxfam home stay management he main objective of the livelihood Producer groups were trained and provided T recovery programme in 2017/18 was to with modern tools and equipment for farming restore livelihood of earthquake affected that reduced women farmers’ workload. This 982 families by supporting