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Energy changes the face of Dagtundanda

May 07, 2012
The small village of Kharbang in Dagatundada, Baglung (western Nepal) has a government-run Shree Tribhuvan secondary school. Though a lot of people prefer sending their children to private schools as long as they can afford, Kharbang witnesses a different scenario. The Tribhuvan school’s management committee says, “students have now started to prefer this school over private schools. Even those students who had already enrolled in one of the private schools have joined this public school now.” The charm behind joining this school is the benefit that the school can now offer to the students after electricity has come to the village with the support of UNDP micro-hydro project...
“My daughters will go to school…..”

April 02, 2012
Many daughters in the villages of Nepal are neglected and denied their fundamental rights, because they are daughters, not sons. It is not like that with Masina anymore ! Masina now dreams of educating her daughters to make them independent. Unfortunately two of her daughters are now too old to attend regular schooling. But her three daughters – Jaymul, Apsana and Samsa, go to school. “Another two will go to school when they are of school-going age”, says Masina. Sadly, four of her eleven daughters are no more.
Tulsi’s mushroom business

April 02, 2012
Thanks to her steadily rising profit, she has built a home for herself now. In addition, she has constructed a shed for growing mushroom at a cost of 2 million rupees (US$ 25,477). Her total investment in the enterprise is 15,000 rupees (less than US$ 200). Through MEDEP’s support, she also been receiving the opportunity to participate in local, regional and national level agricultural expos and trade fairs.The benefits of mushroom farming are manifold. She has become a known trainer and has trained more than 1000 people.
“Our hands will not carry guns anymore…...”

February 29, 2012
Forty Maoist ex-combatants cheered with joy as they received certificates for successfully completing Community Medical Assistant and Lab Assistant courses from Rapti Technical School. “Our hands that used to carry guns and other weapons now will serve the needy people for medical aids,” said Premabati Gopali as they are gracefully entering into civilian lives. The health course was a rehabilitation option offered by the UN Interagency Rehabilitation Programme (UNIRP)to the Verified Minors and Late Recruits (VMLRs)who were discharged from the cantonment in early 2010.
Mineral Water Plant for PLHIV

February 05, 2012
People Living with HIV (PLHIV) suffer serious health problems as HIV progresses to AIDS alongside widespread stigma and the resulting discrimination. This often seriously undermines the socioeconomic condition of PLHIV and their families as they struggle to cope with the disease and stigma. Today thousands of HIV affected people are receiving drinking water without any hastle. Earlier people did not allow them to use the same source of water such as taps or wells. Nava Kiran Plus (NKP) is one of the NGOs led by People Living with HIV in Nepal and that has implemented the comprehensive package for PLHIV through the Community Care Center (CCC) in seven districts of Nepal. UNDP Nepal, with DFID grant has supported NKP for this project since 1 February 2006.
Vaglu Majhi's hard earned jacket

January 30, 2012
Vaglu Majhi is wearing a jacket for the first time in his life. He belongs to a Mushahar community in Ishworpur village, Sarlahi district, terai (low lands) area of Nepal. Mushahar community has always lived in abject poverty due to lack of education, skills and income generating opportunities. Vaglu's purchase of jacket was the result of NRs 21000 profit he made from selling his vegetables in 10 months time.
Life saved !

January 02, 2012
Bhim recalls, while growing up in the Kathmandu Valley, he and his friends started using marijuana. It developed from simple curiosity to pain killers, then alcohol, smoking brown sugar (opium) and finally to injecting heroine. “My whole life became only about drugs,” he said. ”I worked in a restaurant and used all my money for drugs. I was involved with criminals. I got some money from my family, borrowed from friends, and sold drugs. I went to the Indian border to buy drugs. ... I lost all of friends, and I know that many have since died. But we knew nothing about the dangers nor ever thought about infection. We shared needles and many unsafe practices. None of us knew about HIV.”
Increased access to HIV services in Nepal

November 16, 2011
The DFID and GFATM programmes have made a large contribution to reducing the spread of HIV and AIDS, caring for infected people and helping gear up the national response to HIV in line with the National HIV/AIDS Action Plan (2008-2011) and the National HIV/AIDS Strategy, 2006-2011.
Dhaka enterprise brings fortunes for Subhadra……...

September 30, 2011
A decade long struggle has finally brought good days for Subhadra Rajbhandari, an entrepreneur residing in Myanglung, Tehrathum district in east Nepal.She owns a shop which has products worth Rs. 400,000 (US$ 5,479) made out of dhaka fabric such as caps, scarves, saris, shawls, neckties, handkerchiefs, blouses, shirts etc. She also has colourful threads in different sizes used for weaving dhaka materials.
Little smiles that tell the story !

September 14, 2011
For generations, illiteracy and poverty combined with traditional social customs have deprived the women from any opportunities to progress further. As a traditional practice, not only were the women confined to the four walls of their houses but they also lacked skills or financial resources to start any income generating activities. With the intervention of LRP, a host of new opportunities for women have come up for starting new enterprises.
Ward Citizens Forum- bottom-up approach for inclusive development

June 03, 2011
The Ward Citizens Forum has become the first step of decentralized demand based ‘bottom-up approach’ at the community level for bringing in resources to implement development activities in their villages. It is a new approach for social mobilization in Nepal, stressing the need to engage with local Government to secure services and resources for better livelihood, better access to health services, safe drinking water and education facilities for children.
Ex-combatants start a new life………….

May 09, 2011
The vocational training packages and other skill development trainings such as Start and Improve Your Business earlier was provided to the ex-combatants by the UNDP Micro enterprise Development Programme (MEDEP) while UNICEF, UNFPA and ILO have been providing support related to health, education and psychosocial counseling.
Renewed hopes through improved livelihood

May 09, 2011
The unused waste land of ward 7 in Koluha Bagaiya village, Mahottari has turned into a lush green vegetable farm after 30 poor Dalit families and other marginalized groups leased the land to plant quick-profit green vegetables like cucumber, gourd and lady's finger.
Successful entrepreneur Savitri Devi Chaudhary

April 06, 2011
Life changed for Savitri when she attended the UNDP Micro-enterprise Development Programme (MEDEP) week-long training? on skills development and planning small enterprises. The project also provided a month long technical skills training on weaving jute products.
Bringing out the entrepreneurship in women ex-combatants

April 06, 2011
About one third of the discharged 4008 ex-combatants from the 7 cantonments and 21 satellite camps were females. The rehabilitation programme is providing special support to the women ex-combatants discharged in the category of Verified Minors and Late Recruits (VMLRs). Vulnerable women such as pregnant and lactating mothers with infants are receiving additional nutritional support, child care facilities, grants and maternity allowance.
Community Mediation Centres become popular

March 10, 2011
The cases are related to partition, family disputes, defamation, transaction, land disputes, house rent and petty domestic violence issues. In community mediation, the disputants get the right to engage in the settlement of their disputes through negotiation with facilitation of trained mediators.
Electricity enables establishment of community FM station

March 07, 2011
A 100 watt FM station installed with community initiative in Kharbang- Dagatung Danda Village Development Committee (VDC) in Baglung has started test transmission from14 January 2011. Transmitting at 107.4 MHz, the signal coverage is reportedly being received in numerous VDCs in Baglung and adjoining districts?Pyuthan, Palpa and Syangja.
Solar tukis benefit 3000 deprived people

March 07, 2011

The installation of 525 solar tukis (lamps) in 12 Village Development Committees of Rautahat, Sarlahi and Mahottari districts has changed the lives of 3000 deprived family members belonging to Mushahar and other marginalized communities. The new solar energy has saved money to buy kerosene and provides greater time for the children to study at night.
Incense making enterprise sees huge success......

February 09, 2011
Although the process of making incense stick is fairly simple, the rural Nepali micro-entrepreneurs did not have any knowledge about the technology until very late.Thanks to the UNDP Micro Enterprise Development Programme (MEDEP) that the communities received a good amount of support to conduct a research for identifying the raw materials and discovering the local technology for producing incense sticks for the first time in Nepal.
Youths find a reason to stay back home….

February 09, 2011
The Livelihood Recovery for Peace is one of the few projects that looks into this gap and mobilizes the youths for promotion of peace and social cohesion at the community level which is also generating direct short-term employment to more than 600 youths.