Present Working Areas/Coverage:
PARDEP-Nepal has been working in many Municipality and Rural Municipalities of Dhankuta, Bhojpur, Tehrathum, and Sankhuwasabha districts in different sectors such as income generation, health, and sanitation, drinking water, literacy and awareness, governance, peace and development, women empowerment, gender equity, training, etc.
Current Working Sector:
- Agriculture Program
- Suspended Bridge (Province-level and Central government support)
- Municipal Waste Management Program
- Access to Justice
- Other Program
Thematic Area:
Drinking water and sanitation, social mobilization, and infrastructure of the project districts.
Targeted Groups and Population:
It has always targeted its programs for marginalized, poor, Dalit, women, and disadvantaged who are backward in the community.
Working Approach:
PARDEP-Nepal adopts a highly participatory approach in the delivery and implementation of its activities and services. It works collaboratively with different stakeholders to achieve its organizational goals. PARDEP actively integrates a rights-based approach to pro-poor development into all areas of its work. This approach is founded on the conviction that every human being is a holder of rights and that promoting human rights is an integral part of improving development in Nepal. A right entails an obligation on the part of the government to respect, promote, protect, and fulfill it. The legal and normative character of human rights and the associated government obligations are based on international human rights treaties and national laws. Thus, a rights-based approach involves not charity or simple economic growth, but a process of changing systems, actions, and priorities to enable and empower people to claim and realize their economic, social, cultural, and political rights as well as the right to development. PARDEP has adopted the following two-pronged strategy.
- Implement integrated community development projects and conduct action-oriented research focusing on the poorest and most vulnerable (indigenous, Dalit) groups in rural areas;
- Raise awareness and promote policy changes through policy research, advocacy, and lobbying at local, national, and international levels on the root causes of poverty, the problems of the poor, social, economic, and cultural rights, and the right to development.
Cross-Cutting Area:
Gender awareness with the purpose of equitable development is the cross-cutting area of PARDEP. The main goal of this program is to facilitate social workers and community people to sensitize for social justice and transformation.