DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS |
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Life and Livelihood (Jiwan ra Jibika)
Project for Helpless and Vulnerable Children
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Project Area:
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Sankhuwasabha,
Bhojpur, Rolpa, Jhapa, Morang and
Surkhet Districts |
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Time Frame:
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June 2005- March 2007 |
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Total No. of Beneficiaries:
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2974 (Male
48%, Female 52%, Dalit 13%, Janajati 29%) |
Rationale of the
Project
Nepal has been hit
hard by a decade of Maoist-State conflict. Many children who
have lost their parents/guardians during the war time have
been orphaned or displaced. Many were killed, made disabled
and/or psychologically traumatised. Others have been displaced
due to conflict and were made to leave school forcefully,
not only depriving them of educational opportunities but also
overall development of their future career. Many of them were
compelled to live amidst psychological fear and threats. The
present transitional ‘post-conflict’ situation in
the country has made the children deprived of their basic
rights like education, health care, sanitation and their overall
bringing up as guaranteed and provisioned by CRC. This Convention
on the Rights of the Child, which was adopted in 1989, on
20th November, states that anyone below 18 years of age is
a child and has the right to special care and protection.
JJ project has been implemented in six districts of Nepal
in order to recover and rehabilitate the children, youth and
widows from what they have lost during the war time, to make
access to basic needs, to take care of them, to avail them
the opportunities of education, health, to provide them with
the training and employment for their livelihood and to protect
them from risky and worst form of child labor.
General Objective
The overall objective
is to bring an improvement in the quality of life of people;
especially children, disabled and displaced, youths and widows
affected by the conflict and create an enabling environment
for them to improve their way of living.
Specific Objectives
- To assist the conflict affected
and displaced youths and widows in ensuring them the opportunities
of generating income through the support of providing them
livelihood trainings and vocational education;
- To provide the services of the
community based psych-social counselling and referral services
to the conflict affected and displaced orphans, disabled
children and youths, children and youths at risk;
- To manage an academic scholarship
program to get enrolment in schools for the conflict affected
and displaced orphans, disabled children and the children
at risk;
- To support in enhancing the participation
of the community in the schools of the conflict affected
areas and to assist the schools to make them capable of
ensuring quality education.
- To provide the conflict affected
farmers and youth with an Improved Pest Management services
in order to make them increase their productivity and bring
an improvement in their livelihood opportunities.
- To provide technical assistance
to conflict affected women who were widowed through Business
Development Services and Women Economic Empowerment Literacy
classes.
Beneficiaries
Target
and beneficiaries of the project
| S.No. |
Activities |
Target |
Achieved |
Male |
Female |
Dalit |
Janajati |
BCN * |
| 1 |
Old scholarship support |
750 |
803 |
434 |
369 |
- |
- |
- |
| 2 |
Referral Support |
160 |
145 |
65 |
80 |
45 |
65 |
35 |
| 3 |
General Counselling |
925 |
1092 |
560 |
532 |
175 |
456 |
461 |
| 4 |
WEEL Class |
50 |
53 |
0 |
53 |
6 |
18 |
29 |
| 5 |
Business Development Service |
108 |
73 |
0 |
73 |
9 |
25 |
39 |
| 6 |
Youth Based Vocational Training |
200 |
206 |
128 |
78 |
44 |
93 |
69 |
| 7 |
School Based Vocational Training |
160 |
178 |
143 |
35 |
35 |
79 |
64 |
| 8 |
School Rehabilitation |
10 schools |
10 schools |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| 9 |
Mini Grant for Widows |
104 |
110 |
0 |
110 |
21 |
45 |
44 |
| 10 |
IPM classes |
9 classes |
314 |
94 |
220 |
50 |
96 |
168 |
| 11 |
PTA orientation |
61 school |
61 schools |
- |
- |
- |
- |
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*Bahun, Chhetri and Newar
Results
Due to the implementation of programs such
as Parents Teachers Association, there has been increase in
the enrolment of children, especially of girl children. Awareness
has been created in the community regarding the importance
of educating the girl children. It has brought an overall
improvement in the quality of the schools, increase the regularity
of students and teachers, reduction in the drop out rate of
children, overall improvement in the quality of teaching and
increase in the coordination among parents and teachers. Scholarships
provision has helped to provide education to those vulnerable
children who could not afford to pay for the school fees or
dress/stationeries. The school reconstruction activities which
help to rebuild the school have brought an improvement in
the quality of education and increase in an overall attendance
of the students. Counselling trainings has helped to overcome
the psychological traumas the victims were suffering from.
Referral services have helped the beneficiaries to access
to the especial cure and treatment to recover from their state
of trauma, depression and physical treatments. Various training
activities provided to the youths and widows have made them
equipped with additional skills and many of them have found
job opportunities after the training and others have started
their own business for the living. Various women who lost
their husbands during the war time have been supported with
the seed money and vocational training which has helped them
to start their own business such as pig or goat raising, opening
of small shops and other related activities. It has been particularly
helpful in the fulfilment of basic needs to her and her children.
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