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The Lutheran World Federation/Department for World Service (LWF/DWS)

Founded in 1947 in Lund, Sweden, The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) is a global communion of Christian churches in the Lutheran tradition. LWF has 140 member churches in 78 countries all over the world, with a total membership of nearly 66.7 million. The Department for World Service (DWS), which has field offices in more than 30 countries, is the internationally recognized humanitarian and development arm of LWF that works to give assistance to those in need, irrespective of their race, sex, religion, nationality or political conviction. Its Secretariat is situated in Geneva.

Nepal Programme

The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Nepal is a humanitarian and development organization, a Country Program of LWF/Department for World Service based in Geneva, Switzerland. LWF Nepal has worked in Nepal with marginalized and disadvantaged communities since 1984. LWF Nepal envisions that Nepali people living in a democratic and just society in peace and dignity united in diversity and empowered to achieve their fundamental human rights.

LWF Nepal challenges and responds to the causes and consequences of human suffering and poverty through empowerment and promotion of all human rights for all people. LWF Nepal is guided by core values such as dignity and justice; inclusiveness and participation; accountability and transparency and dedication, compassion and decency. LWF Nepal designs and implements all development and emergency works following an empowerment and human rights-based approach that builds capacity and competence of poor and oppressed people collectively to achieve improvements in the quality of their lives. LWF Nepal implements program in three thematic focus area; i) Emergency Response and Disaster Risk Management (ERDRM), including climate change adaptation and refugee operations; ii) Sustainable Livelihoods; and iii) Peace, Reconciliation and Human Rights, including safe migration and anti human trafficking. Gender equality, Environment and HIV/AIDS are the cross cutting themes.

 

 

 


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