To test the findings and outcomes of our five centers, we conduct outreach projects and programs in collaboration with the local community, government, and the private sector. Currently, we are engaging with the following projects:
- Governance Incubation Program
The Governance Incubation Program (GIP) is the first and only Incubation base Program in Nepal focused on the areas of good governance policy and development. This program helps to implement the exclusive and additional functions, duties, and rights of the local government specified by the Local Government Operation Act, 2017 in a collaborative, participatory and inclusive manner. Under this program, specialized training, counseling and resource services are continuously provided to the local government and its subordinates by our thematic experts. This program is directed and operated in an integrated manner, so it is persistently working to achieve the goals of the local government.
The program begins with a process of measuring the overall performance of the respective villages and municipalities and the thematic performance of the tasks specified by the Act. This measurement process helps to identify the current position and status of the local government in the specific functions and her duties. In addition, this test helps to make scientific and mathematical measurements of the total integer score obtained in each subject function area.
The program will contribute and intervene in e-governance, assuring easy and fluent access to the government services, and also contribute to improve, modify, and institutionalizing the existing system or system as per the need, View More.
- Chure-Shiwalik Ecology Conservation Program
- Children’s Parliament Of Nepal (CPON)
Premised on the belief that every child matters and can be nurtured and groomed into capable, conscientious, and creative citizen, a symposium on children in the New Constitution of Nepal is being proposed as an innovative social experiment upon the budding generation of this country. In fact, this experiment may turn out to be fundamentally different from most, if not all, the efforts underway today in Nepal in the arena of corporate child pedagogy and entrepreneurship. The idea is not just to instill a new kind of faith and hope in them, but also to awaken them to the immense possibilities that this youngest republic on the world’s map, indeed the first republic of the 21st century, is about to unfold in the course of its restructuring, and to capacitate them through a variety of courses, orientations, interactions, and public exposures. To put it more specifically, if would open up the following four opportunities to every child participant:
- An opportunity to take part in a fascinatingly creative social experiment
- An opportunity to test oneself, improving self-worth, and owning the process
- An opportunity to acquire civic life-skills deemed so crucial to the success of the twin experiments underway in the state’s restructuring agenda – democratization and development – but often taken for granted in the day-to-day school curricula
- A chance to change the way things are.
The idea of the Symposium on Children is being mooted with the following objectives in mind.
- Building up the capacity of children to participate effectively in voicing and deciding on issues of concern to them
- Strengthening democratic institutions at the children’s level and enabling them to play effective civil and political roles in the future
- Facilitating the role of civil society by establishing a creative partnership network with various agencies and organizations at home and outside
- Enhancing solidarity with various institutions involved in child welfare and development and coordinating the roles to produce optimum social synergy and social capital
- Inputting children’s roles and concerns in the Constitution–in-making in the robust way.
The key assumptions behind the idea are:
- Children’s active participation needs to receive the priority it deserves in areas of concern to them and they have to be seen and heard in any effort to bring about positive social change.
- Participation must be built in from the very early years to instill confidence as well as inculcate skills in children through direct involvement in civic and political activities and roles.
- Children are like human sponge, who show an inherent capacity to learn skills, often in ways unexpected, and their participation can change the prevailing attitudes. The opportunities presented are significant and their presentations can bear positive influence upon social and national policies and practices.
- The U.N.’s adoption of Child Rights Convention (CRC) with its 3P injunctions (Protection, Preservation, and Participation) offers a concrete mechanism for providing accountability and base for power sharing. Respect for child rights can be institutionalized by setting up Children’s Parliament (CPON) later. Formal participation, in such way, can have a greater impact than fringe meetings. CPON, in that regard, can emerge as a strong institutional base to speed up the fourth P, implicit in CRC agenda, that of promotion of their civil and political roles in this nation’s context.
Children today are in a special position to contribute to social change. The Symposium can enable the people, both those in power and those outside it, to recognize that power like any other resource is not a commodity to be amassed, but a resource to be shared as also to gain satisfaction and fulfillment from its optimum and creative use.
Constituency
Any ward, club or school territory can become a constituency with children of school-age elected, a function often facilitated by the teacher-in-charge or a council of advisors who remain in active collaboration with the potential constituents to draw up finally a national charter of the children’s parliament or constitution and rules of the House that decide the venue and arrange for work on a calendar of sessions based on an action plan.
- Youth Parliament (YP)
- Heritage 64
- Digital Saathi
- Agro-Enterprise Development Program
- Protection and Promotion of Minority Rights