What is Development Nepal?
Discussions with the Community
Development Nepal is a UK registered charity established in 1999 (Charity number 1085199) and works with the poorest individuals and communities in the Sunsari district of Nepal. Development Nepal aims to improve access to essential resources and opportunities, and to help build the knowledge and skills of the communities. It is hoped that this will translate to a change in attitudes and practices.
Development Nepal does this through Project Ujyalo Bhabisya for more information read this summary.
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Project Ujyalo Bhabisya (UB) staff at UCHEP, our local NGO partner, have been working with the trustees on plans for the next five years of the project, aiming to build on its past successes by expanding it to more communities in Sunsari. In order to ensure the continued and enhanced effectiveness of Project UB we are embarking on a programme of institutional capacity building, looking at ways to improve personnel, finance and project management systems, monitoring and evaluation processes, and UCHEP’s organisational governance.
Our thanks to Tamsin McCarthy, Harihar Marjan and Ravindra Shakya who have been supporting UCHEP through the planning process. Having robust processes in place will ensure the future sustainability of Project Ujyalo Bhabisya.
While these discussions have been taking place, Project UB facilitators have continued to run the core activities in the current communities, such as supplementary classes for children of school age.
The April 2010 newsletter includes a case study on Radhika Pal, a participant in Project UB's Child Supplementary Programme, and details of two of Project UB's new activities: an irrigation support programme and an 'exposure visit' for those participants involved in vegetable farming. For more, download the April 2010 newsletter.