The study showed high usage of contraceptives in five study districts compared to national prevalence. The high prevalence may be attributed to the contribution of family planning programs through various organizations like CARE Nepal. However, the findings indicate a need for a family planning program, primarily focusing on the younger married women in the different districts of Nepal.
Month: August 2022
COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance among People in Kailali, Nepal
The COVID-19 pandemic cannot be curbed if people do not accept the vaccine. The findings of the study showed that a considerable proportion of the respondents did not accept the vaccine due to fear of the side effects and doubt on vaccine efficacy. Hence, there is a need to increase advocacy and awareness of the COVID-19 vaccine to gain people’s trust and increase the vaccine acceptance rate.
POST PROJECT SUSTAINABILITY (PPS) STUDY FOR VISTAR-II PROJECT
Nepal is among the twenty most disaster-prone countries, globally affected by multiple recurrent hazards due to the diverse topography, complex geography, fragile geology, and highly varying climate. Every year the country suffers from significant loss of human lives and property due to natural and human-induced hazards such as floods, landslides, soil erosion, fire, road accidents, and epidemics. To build the resilience of communities and institutions from the impacts of natural disasters in Sudurpashchim and Lumbini Province of Nepal, CARE and Handicap International (HI) jointly implemented the VISTAR II project in Kailali, Dadeldhura, Kanchanpur, and Dang districts with a significant focus on standardizing and institutionalizing Community-Based Disaster Preparedness (CBDP) model that has ensuredthe engagement of multi-level stakeholders, schools, community level preparedness and mitigation, and advocating for inclusive DRM policy. This project was funded by European Civil Protection and Humanitarian aid Operations department (ECHO) and implemented by local partners NRCS, CSSD, FHRD, and NNSWA. This project was for a period of 22 months from March 1, 2015 to December 31, 2016.
CARE Nepal’s Strategic Framework 2021-2025 (Nepali)
We have come up with a new strategic framework from 2021-2025 which consciously addresses the emerging needs caused due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With this new strategy, we aim to demonstrate positive and transformational change in the lives of 2.5 million women and adolescent girls by 2025. We feel highly motivated and rightly equipped for this journey, and are focused on the change we want to make, the approaches we look forward to adopting, the contributions we envision in making, and the impacts we want to see. The document reflects the same commitment of CARE Nepal.
CARE Nepal’s Strategic Framework 2021-2025 (English)
We have come up with a new strategic framework from 2021-2025 which consciously addresses the emerging needs caused due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With this new strategy, we aim to demonstrate positive and transformational change in the lives of 2.5 million women and adolescent girls by 2025. We feel highly motivated and rightly equipped for this journey, and are focused on the change we want to make, the approaches we look forward to adopting, the contributions we envision in making, and the impacts we want to see. The document reflects the same commitment of CARE Nepal.
Humanitarian Partnership Platform
The initiative funded by Pooled Fund serves as an avenue for CARE Nepal and local partners to strengthen coordinated humanitarian actions focusing on Gender in emergency (GiE) through effective and efficient preparedness planning, coordination, capacity building, collective action and resource leveraging.
Co-design and co-implementation for integrated risk sensitive and gender transformative local development
This initiative funded by Pooled Fund is designed to create a nexus between development and preparedness, emergency response and recovery, co-designing and co-implementing initiative together with local governments.
CARE Nepal Annual Report – 2021
Nurturing partnership and Alliances
Sustainable social change can only be achieved through collective effort of people, organizations and institutions. CARE not only sees alliance building as one of our critical contributions, but we also approach this work from the perspective of the people we serve. CARE’s impact populations are in many cases marginalized or excluded from participating in mainstream or formal civil society structures. Thus, CARE emphasizes engagement with non-traditional civil society partners with less formal structures that genuinely represent our impact populations such as women’s rights movements, youth groups, girls’ movements, Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLA), and other networks and alliance of impact populations themselves.
Transforming Social Norms
CARE’s analysis and experience of implementing diverse programs across Nepal for several years now indicates that patriarchal society and deeply rooted, harmful social norms are key hindering factors for transforming lives of women and girls. CARE has been working on changing harmful social norms, advocating to influence wider circles, and integrating its flagship approach into all of its programs.
