A milestone in advocacy, disability and right to education laid 4 years back became a big house now
It’s been four years since we started the second four year project entitled “Promoting Right to Education and Protection of the most vulnerable children 2021-2024” supported by Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland through local partner Interpedia ry Finland. The project is jointly implemented by Patan CBR Organization and Loo Niva Child Concern Group. Target area of this program is two rural municipalities of the southern parts of Lalitpur district namely Mahankal RM and Konjyosom RM. In each of the two RM, five wards have been covered. The wards covered in Konjyosom RM are, Chaughare ward no 1, Shankhu ward no 2, Dalchoki ward no 3, Nallu ward no 4 and Bhardeu ward no 5. Similarly the 5 out of 6 wards covered in Mahankal RM are Bukhel ward no 1, Manikhel ward no 2, Gotikhel ward no 3, Kaleswor ward no 4 and Chandanpur ward no 5. The major target group of the project is vulnerable children of both the RMs. The project defined ANNUAL PROGRAM REPORT 2025 (PREP) Project iv the vulnerable children as children with disabilities, girl students and dalit students.
The major objective of the project is to make all children regardless of their disability, sex and caste or religion, enjoy their childhood in safe, supportive and inclusive environment. This report gives you an overview of the program intervention in the year 2024 and the overall achievement of the project in four years.
It is my great pleasure to serve you the year 2024 report of the project. As this is the last year of the project, the report also describes about the results of the project. The project achieved its major target of reducing the discrimination up to 50-70% in various groups like in disability based discrimination, caste based discrimination, Sexual harassment & Gender based discrimination, Political activity in schools and Child marriage. This year an end line survey has been carried out to track the various project indicators. It is a matter of pride that almost all of the indicators have been met.
Within four years of the project intervention, RMs have developed the child protection and participation plans based on policies and procedures endorsed. This year during the school visit and the home visit, 9 children were identified as orphans or abandoned, 6 new children with disabilities have been enrolled in schools. The end-line report shows that the community members reported a huge rise in their knowledge in child protection, child rights, disability rights and inclusive education.
I extend my sincere gratitude to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland for continuously providing support to the needy children of Nepal. Also, thanks are due to Interpedia ry, Finland, a local donor for cooperating us for more than a decade. Deep gratitude is expressed to the Chairs, Vice-chairs, officials of the local government, CSOs, all the stakeholders, the team members of the project for their continuous support to the project.
Last but not the least, thanks to the parents of children with disabilities, local communities like, LAMC, saving groups, local volunteers, and others without support from whom this project would not have been completed and successful in this way.
Great thank you once again to all who supported this project.
Regards,
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Loonibhah Chitrakar
Executive Director
Patan CBR Organization
March 2025
Please read the full report below.
