Working Areas and Approach

Areas of work and coverage

The source records work in municipalities and rural municipalities of Dhankuta, Bhojpur, Tehrathum and Sankhuwasabha districts across income generation, health and sanitation, drinking water, literacy and awareness, governance, peace and development, women empowerment, gender equity and training.

Programmes listed in PARDEP-Nepal’s source records

• Agriculture Program
• Suspended Bridge with provincial- and central-government support
• Municipal Waste Management Program
• Access to Justice
• Other programs

Thematic areas

The source identifies drinking water and sanitation, social mobilization and infrastructure in project districts as thematic areas.

Priority groups

The source says PARDEP-Nepal has targeted marginalized, poor, Dalit, women and disadvantaged people who are backward in the community.

Working approach

PARDEP-Nepal adopts a participatory approach to delivering and implementing activities and services, working with stakeholders to achieve organizational goals. The source describes a rights-based, pro-poor approach founded on the recognition that every person holds rights and that government has obligations to respect, promote, protect and fulfil those rights.

The source describes two strategies: implementing integrated community-development projects and action-oriented research focused on the poorest and most vulnerable rural groups, including Indigenous and Dalit groups; and raising awareness and promoting policy change through research, advocacy and lobbying on poverty and social, economic, cultural and development rights.

Cross-cutting area

Gender awareness for equitable development is identified as PARDEP-Nepal's cross-cutting area, intended to support social workers and community members in social justice and transformation.