Major Program Activities:
- Social Mobilization (Formation, empowerment and mobilization of Social Families – SAMAGRA’s Community Groups)
- Human rights promotion, monitoring and sensitization activities
- Civic Education / Voter Education activities
- Awareness activities related to services from state agencies
- Public Audit and Public Hearings
- Interactive sessions with state agencies/ elected representatives
- Facilitation for participatory planning and resource mapping, advocacy for seeking resources
- Interaction with political parties, community elders, civil society representatives and state agencies about governance & accountability issues
- Seminars / workshops for orienting/empowering state & agencies
- Local and national level advocacy activities
- In-country experience-sharing, exposure / exchange visits of Social Families (Community Group Members)
- Facilitation for local level peace building and conflict transformation; Events aimed for promoting peace and harmony
- Training and mobilization of Social Mobilizers / community volunteers
- Income Generation Activities (Agriculture, SMEDPs, Skill Development Trainings)
- Community Infrastructure Development
- Disaster Preparedness and Climate Change Resilience enhancement activities
- WASH activities
Some achievements:
Advocacy to fulfil human rights & campaign against human rights violation:
- More than 27,000 individuals obtained citizenship certificates
- More than 8,000dalit/janajati children enrolled in schools & more than 6,000 got scholarships
- Empowered SFs, tapped the resources equivalent to Rs.181 million.
- Change of attitude / response of duty bearers towards general people & service delivery improved vertical relation (between people and local state agencies)
- 285 cases of actions taken / monitoring (in addition to regular monitoring within the community groups at the local level)
- In the communities where there are Social Families (community groups), the caste-based discrimination have been reduced to a great extent.
Advocacy for good-governance and policy change:
- Good-governance enhanced and corruption controlled at the local level.
- Social Audits enhanced transparency, accountability and trust; local advocacy reached ministry to change the policy.
Leadership development in marginalized people:
- More than 900 community members have become local level and national level leaders holding different positions.
Civic / Voter Education:
- 25,902 activities/events of civic/voter education were conducted with the participation of 186,640 persons. Invalid votes reduced in many communities.
Conflict transformation/ peace building at local level:
- 324 conflict transformation trainers in district and Social Family levels
- Exposure visits of Terai and hills SFs promoting cohesion / harmony between Madhesi and Pahade.
- More than 10,000 HHs of more than 500 SFs are practicing social harmony / cohesion, helping as peace agents.
Livelihood enhancement / Local resource mobilization:
- More than 2,000 people (25% women) were given skill development trainings and 60% of them employed with various income-generating activities.
- 41 cooperatives formed/trained & mobilizing local resources
- Central revolving fund of Rs. 10 million and local revolving fund of Rs. 20 million – have been mobilized in SFs/IGGs.
Rural Infrastructure and Environment:
- 92 km of mule trails constructed in northern Gorkha based on labour intensive and green road concept
- 47 Km green road constructed in Gorkha
- 137 drinking water schemes including rainwater harvesting systems.
- 449 toilets and 740 awareness raising activities on sanitation and hygiene.
- 37 school buildings, 45 community buildings, 3 micro-hydro, 7 suspension bridges, etc.
- More than 200 SFs including more than 6,000 HHs have been mobilized for forest conservation, landslides/soil erosion protection, improved stoves, bio-gas, alternative energies, disaster preparedness & climate change resilience etc.
Strategic Planning and survey/research:
- 10 enterprise development curriculum was delivered with MEDEP model
- “Strategic and Operational Planning (Participatory Planning)” of SAMAGRA, Social Families and Community organizations were prepared and they are being implemented (more than
300) - “District Enterprise Strategic Planning” for Mahottari and Dang districts were prepared.
- Study of Early Childhood Development Centers in Kathmandu Metropolitan and Status Report 2070
- Effect of Micro-finance on marginalized people – case studies