HANDS Nepal

Our Strategy

Advocacy and influence.
Identify and prioritize community needs through participatory tools such as Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA), Participatory Learning and Action (PLA), and Participatory Vulnerability Analysis (PVA).
Organize target beneficiaries - including women, children, adults, and persons with disability from poor and marginalized communities - into groups, building capacities for mobilizing natural and human resources.
Make programmes socially inclusive through advocacy and campaigns promoting equality of opportunity.
Involve communities across all stages of the project cycle.
Maintain political neutrality through the principle of 'Do No Harm'.
Disseminate findings, knowledge, and experience through media mobilization.
Learn from past programmes and build future interventions on documented lessons.
Strengthen public health service delivery through continuous quality improvement.
Support youth-led awareness programmes and their involvement in, accountability, governance, natural resource planning and management.
Build networks and alliances through community lobbying and coordination.
Collaborate with local governments and stakeholders - e.g., the Nepal Government Project with HEIFER and Marin Rural Municipality, and WASH and child protection programming with Tinpatan, Sunkoshi, and Marin Rural Municipalities, Kamalamai Municipality, and Dudhauli Municipality.
Leverage thematic expertise and a dedicated technical staff and expert team across all programme areas.

Our Achievements

Recognized as a pioneer organization in Sindhuli district by provincial and local government authorities;
Established HANDS polyclinic in Dudhauli Municipality to promote health service and sanitation with the cooperation of expertise medical team and equipped infrastructure assuring the public health and safety since 2008;
Contributed significantly to eliminate illiteracy in Sindhuli along with declaration of free and basic education in many then VDCs of Sindhuli;
Promoted gender transformative inclusive education pedagogy and approaches, early learning and reading in more than 60 schools in 5 palikas of Sindhuli;
Supported more than 1,500 indigenous, Dalit and backward people with on-farm and off farm income generation activities;
Constructed 3 water supply schemes and 1000 plus toilets to ensure provision of safe drinking water and sanitation facilities for people in Sindhuli.
Technical and Financial Assistance to Dudhauli VDC, Hatpate VDC and Ladavir VDC of Sindhuli district for Open Defecation Free (ODF) campaign and declaration ODF of these VDCs.
Contributed for increased resiliency of the community to recover from COVID-19 pandemic effects through COVID-19 vaccination campaigning, awareness raising, PPE and logistics support to health facilities.
Technical and Financial Assistance to Dudhauli Municipality, Kamalamai Municipality, Sunkoshi Rural Municipality, Marin Rural Municipality and Tinpatan Rural municipality for preparing Municipal WASH Plan using NWASH Application/MIS prepared by Ministry of Water Supply, Nepal.
The total sanitation/ post Open Defecation Free campaign is implementing through WASH SDG project and declaring clean and hygiene community of different community in Sindhuli

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