Prayas Nepal

Organization Profile

Prayatnashil Community development Society (PRAYAS-Nepal) is a registered non-governmental and non-profit making, non religious service oriented district level organization. It is registered in District Administration Office Dhading in 2058 and affiliated in Social Welfare Council. From of the very beginning of its inception, the organization has been organizing several activities to create awareness among marginalized and deprived people so that they are empowered to design their own future. Prayas Nepal has focused its activities in socio-economic well being of community people mainly from rural area and emphasizing deprived and marginalized groups.

The organization has effectively carried out various projects with financial support from various agencies. During a decade lifespan, the organization has been extended its working area and focused on coordination, collaboration with local as well as district level line agencies to achieve the goal. Prayas Nepal has focused both formal and informal education, health sanitation awareness, Women health and Safe motherhood, income generation skill development and capacity development and empowerment of marginalized and deprived people, Dalit, Children and Women.

Vision

To determine the rights, ownership and regulation of stakeholder in sustainable development.

Mission:

Improve socio-economic well being of marginalized and deprived people through community empowerment.

Goal:

To make the uniformed, society with the accessibility of education, health ownership of   each people who were educationally and economically backward making them claim their rights and responsibilities.

Objectives:

a.    To uplift economic status of community people especially women, children marginalized and disadvantaged people and the people living in difficult circumstances, the specifies are to

b.    Facilitate poor and marginalized people for their economic, educational and social development.

c.     Enhance community people for drinking water, sanitation and income generation activities.

d.    Support to community women and children by providing various types of vocational, formal and non formal education, child rights education and skill development training.

e.    Facilitate village farmers to uplift their economic status by conducting sustainable agricultural program.

f.      Conduct advocacy campaign for human rights, child rights and women's rights protection.

g.    Mobilize local resource for community development and encourage community people for innovative activities.

h.    To increase the relation with national and international organizations and conduct the different programmes accordingly.

Target Groups:

Women, children, marginalized and deprived community.

Working Strategy

  • Capacity development
  • Right base approach
  • Networking
  • Partnership
  • Do no harm
  • Empowerment
  • Enhance Quality
  • Promotion of best practice

Policies:

  • Public avocation/discussion.
  • Development of human resources and resources mobilization.
  • Study and research.
  • Conduction of programme accessible to the service as well as resource stake holders group and organization.
  • Plans formulation, implementation and social auditing by the community.
  • Institutional development and conduction of ability increasing programmes.

Core Values and Believes

  • PRAYASH embodies following values and believes that help to guide in its operation. These areas:
  • Equity and equality
  • Transparence
  • Participatory decision making
  • Trust
  • Cooperation
  • Respect
  • Dedication
  • Communication

Organizational Policies:

  • Human resource policy
  • Financial  policy
  • Program implementation policy
  • Strategic plan 
  • Child protection policy
  • Communication Policy
  • Volunteer mobilization policy

Co-Operation With

  • Nepal Government
  • Child Fund Japan
  • Adra
  • Canadian Foodgrains Bank