About LWF Nepal

• Natural and Human-made Disaster-Affected People:
Refugees, internally displaced persons and their host communities, and survivors of natural disasters

• Marginalized & Vulnerable People:
Ex-Kamaiyas (former bonded labourers), Haliyas (farm-based bonded labourers), tribal and indigenous groups, Dalits (“untouchables”), trafficked persons, landless, HIV- & AIDS-affected people and people with communicable diseases

LWF Nepal’s programmes focus on the far-western, mid-western, eastern and central regions of Nepal. The multilateral development organisation will continue programme activities in the existing project areas. Limited new working areas will be selected to fulfill the goal of the organization in the coming years.

LWF Nepal focuses on three primary thematic areas in the context of the national and global struggle to reduce poverty, and to increase respect for human rights.

• Emergency Response & Disaster Risk Management:
LWF Nepal will build on its strong experience in all the phases of the disaster-risk cycle, taking human rights into account. Its emergency operations include life-preserving and life-rehabilitating interventions related to food, shelter and water, especially in acute phases and, for the displaced. It engages with the affected groups and communities, supporting their initiatives to plan and implement relief and rehabilitation activities. It applies SPHERE standards to relief operations.

• Sustainable Livelihood:
LWF Nepal facilitates the empowerment of marginalized people to assert their rights and to hold the government and stakeholders accountable to fulfilling these rights. The humanitarian organisation works with and strengthens community organisations of the marginalized and disadvantaged, enabling them to acquire access to livelihood resources.

• Peace, Reconciliation and Human Rights:
LWF Nepal assigns high priority in its programme to promoting peace and stability in rural communities and to enabling the marginalized communities to assert their rights. Its interventions are diverse and context-specific.

Gender, environment, health and HIV & AIDS are the cross-cutting themes stressed across all programme interventions.

LWF Nepal is well positioned to build new links and foster the existing links with local communities, alliances, networks and coalitions on the grassroots, national and international fronts.

Working primarily through intermediary NGOs in empowerment and refugee representative bodies, LWF Nepal expanded its indirect implementation mode of operation.

LWF Nepal envisages a reduced use of intermediary NGOs and a significant expansion of direct partnering with Community-based-NGOs and local networks in 2008-2013. The multilateral organization strives to work mainly through community-based organisations, which it helped nurture.

Over the years, LWF Nepal has received grant assistance from the ACT International, AUSTCARE, Australian Lutheran World Service, DanChurchAid, European Commission, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, FinnChurch Aid, The Interchurch Organisation for Development Cooperation (ICCO), J.S. Foundation, Norwegian Church Aid, PhotoVoice, UNHCR and WFP, among others, to run various programmes and projects.

• ACT Development
• Dalit Support Coordination Forum
• Disaster Preparedness Network Nepal (DP-Net Nepal)
• HIV & AIDS Alliance
• International Agency Coordination Group on Anti-trafficking
• International Dalit Solidarity Network (IDSN)
• Management Association of Nepal (MAN)
• Nepal Participatory Action Network (NEPAN)
• The Asian Zone Emergency & Environment Cooperation Network (AZEECON)
• The Association of International NGOs in Nepal (AIN)
• South Asian Gender Alliance (SAGA)