Legal status : Registration district: Bajura
Registration date/ Number : 2049/09/05 (20 Dec.1992)/ 03/2049
3. Establishment:
PEACEWIN is a non-government, not for profit making, social development organization. It works with marginalized groups, especially children and women for promotion and practices of their social, economic, cultural rights. It addresses on program integration
and mainstreaming of social issues: gender & caste discriminations, child marriage, anti-tobacco, HIV & AIDS Chhaupadi (female has to live in a hut far from a house during menstruation) and structural governance/ social accountability. After the restoration of democracy in 1991, Nepalese society became free and people became aware their roles and responsibilities toward their own development. Village people were gathered and stated to unite as group for development activities. PEACEWIN, Bajura is a leading Non- government organization working in the Far-Western Development Region. It was established locally in 2047 B.S (1990 AD) at Atichaur VDC-4, Oligaon and registered in District Administration Office (DAO) office in B.S. 2049 Paush 5 (20 December 1992 AD).
3.1. Organization Vision, Mission, Goal, Objectives:
Vision: “PEACEWIN envisions developing equitable well-off society.”
Every child & woman of PEACEWIN working areas of Nepal fully enjoyed with basic human rights & development facility. Ensured opportunity and self-esteem of human being by eliminating all forms of injustice and discrimination based on caste, gender, class, age, property. All will be entertained the well-off life in friendly social relations, justice and equality. Trusts to Achieving the Vision:
• It is possible to up groom social justice, peace and equality along with response and well addressing to values and norms of humanity.
• Sustainable development is quite in-door through ensuring of human rights, promotion and practices of positive social values and norms; and obeys to responsibility.
• PEACEWIN is committed to advocate & contribute for social transformation. Mission:
to strengthen and improve the capacity and capability of civil society organizations to promote child rights, enhance the participation of women, youth in decision making
• Advocacy and lobby for policy to develop responsible, accountable, transparent, gender sensitive society.
• Participation of children & women in procedures of social transformation
• Strengthening the institutional governance capacity of local bodies and civil societies.
• Empower the underprivileged groups to make their access to government services. Goal: Promote & practice of children and women rights, good governance enhancing their potentiality
1. Advocacy for access to justice, gender & human rights, good governance, peace culture & responsibility through media partnership
2. Improve access of all to the qualitative services of education, health and social security
3. Develop and mobilize community volunteers for creation inclusive development practices
4. Support for the livelihood of youth & marginalized groups through reconstruction, vocational education & self-reliance opportunity
Directives to achieve the goal:
• Enhance value based inclusion, equity to access and control on resources.
• Media partnership for all human rights to all and social accountability
• Networking & alliance with local, national, international like minded organizations
Objectives:
The main objective is to make peaceful and prosperous society along with making better life for children and women irrespective the race, caste, ethnicity, political agenda, profit motive, religion. Promote and practice the Child and Women Rights
Work for just, accountable, self sustained and equitable society along with enhancing the women's participation in decision making process
Conduct youth initiative programmes for productive, creative skill based activities along with cooperative based enterprises
To work for making better environment considering the issues of disaster, environment as well as community sanitation, infrastructure development and management
Work in the field of formal and non-formal education, safe motherhood, HIV/AIDS and STIs prevention and control as well as other basic health facilities to increase the access of community and needy people
Work for social peace and prosperity as well as work in the field of information and communication along with research in the field of development.
3.2. PEACEWIN’s social exclusion principle and approach include the inadequate or unequal representation, participation and involvement in decision-making in social life or a place in society. It involves the presence of social and institutional barriers that restrict access to essential services and development opportunities for some members of society
PEACEWIN believes in Social Justice in terms of equitable access to socio-cultural, political, and economic and other basic human rights. It is an ideal condition in which all members of a society have the basic rights, security, opportunities, obligations and social benefits. Impact Group: A group that constitutes populations for whom PEACEWIN intends to effect positive long term sustainable changes. The population group upon which the programme and its partners aim to have a positive impact with a long-term commitment to overcome underlying causes of poverty, vulnerability and social injustice. The impact group is typically larger than the subset population directly impacted by an individual project or initiative at the field level carried out by PEACEWIN.
3.3. Thematic Area:
• Child Rights, Education: Participation and Development
• Women and Youth Leadership: participation, vocational skills/ education, cooperatives and micro enterprises/ access to resources, monitoring social security series providing by GoN
• Good Governance: Social Audit, Public Hearing/ Audit etc. for social accountability of services
• Environment management and disaster response
• Economic Development: Income Generation, small scale enterprises based on agriculture products, market linkage
• Health and sanitation: Community led sanitation, infant-maternal health and cross-cutting issues (Chhaupadi pratha, child marriage, gender and caste discrimination, HIV/ AIDS, Anti-tobacco)
• Infrastructure (School and Health institutions, irrigation, community bridges, drinking water schemes, rural access improvement etc.)
3.4. Working Approach:
To achieve strategic directions PEACEWIN has adopted:
- Identify and mobilize human potentiality
- Enhance equity through proper utilization of resources for equality
• Networking with national, international and local like minded organizations
• Program integration and mainstreaming of cross-cutting issues
• Media partnership and cooperative promotion
The approach PEACEWIN has been adopting is:
- Child Clubs
- Women Rights Forum/mothers' groups
- Youth groups
- School Management Committees
- Cooperatives, users groups
- Community Forestry Users Groups
- Village Child Protection Committee
- Local bodies, GOs and other stakeholders
- Local bodies and government agencies
3.5. Partners:
PEACEWIN has ongoing partnership with the following agencies:
• Save the Children since 2000
• Action Aid Nepal since 2008
• CARE Nepal since 1992
• Poverty Alleviation Fund 2004 continue
• District Development Committee/HELVETAS/TBSU1996
• Restless Development from 2014
• Practical Action from 2014
• World Education from 2014
• World Vision International from 2014
Previous partners:
• Global Fund/Family Planning Association 2009-2013
• DFID/ESP/RDIF 2012-2013
• UNDP/Support for Peace & Development Initiatives
• Open Society Institute – Education
• SNV- School Physical Improvement
• CARITAS Nepal
• CONCERN/ PPCC
• DDC/RVWRMP from 2009-2010
• DDC/ LGCDP 2010-2012
• Local Governance Facility (LGAF) 2011-2012
3.6. Physical Presence of the Organization:
PEACEWIN had completed the study on institutional development status and support for their capacity development of 9 District Child Welfare Boards of far-western region in 2004 (Bajura, Bajhang, Achham, Doti, Kailali, Kanchanpur, Darchula, Baitadi and Dadeldhura). It had facilitated to DCWBs regional consultation workshops for UNCRC first periodic report from GoN. Workshops on 'Changing Context & Women Rights' in 2006 for Women Rights Forums of 10 districts (Bajura, Bajhang, Achham, Doti, Kailali and Kanchanpur, Banke, Bardia, Surkhet, Dang) and organized various trainings for these networks at Nepalgunj. A project 'Children in Armed Conflict and Education" successfully completed in Doti with partnership of Save the Children Norway 2003-2005. Baseline survey of Household socio-economic in Building Climate Resilience of Watersheds in Mountain Eco-Regions (Bajura, Doti, Dadeldhura and Achham) supported by ADB/Water Shade Management Department Nepal. Presently physical presence is in Bajura, Achham, Bajhang with different projects.
3.7. Organizational Structure:
a) Executive committee: Nine members (3 female and 1 dalit/ janajati)
b) General member: Total 126 (female 49, male 77)
c) Institutional landscape/infrastructure and capacity of the organization:
• Full time staffs: 101 ( Out of them Female 33, dalits- 18, janajati-1)
Core staffs 14 (Female-3), civil Engineering male - 4, Media person female-2, male 6,
Technical staffs-23
• Part time staffs: 39 (Female 19)
• Program advisors: 5 (GoN II class ex-officer 2, media-2, Socialist-1)
d) Organizational policies/strategies:
Human Resource management/ Personnel policy, Financial Policy, Child Safeguarding Policy, Gender and Social Inclusion Policy, Good Governance Policy, Fund Raising strategic plan, Long Term Strategic Plan 2013-2017, Par
