WaterAid Nepal

01/01/2026

Reflecting on 2025: insights and learning in the development sector! Read this insightful article authored by the Country Director of WaterAid Nepal, Sudarshan Neupane.

Reflecting on 2025: insights and learning in the development sector

31/12/2025

What is your resolution for 2026? Happy New Year! 🩵

Photo: WaterAid/Avash Karmacharya

WaterAid UK

24/12/2025

Season's Greetings!🎄
Our office will remain closed tomorrow for Christmas. We will resume all our operations from Friday, December 26, 2025.

24/12/2025

What did our 🤶 bring us this ?🎄
✨ Thoughtfulness
✨ Kindness
✨ Team bonding
✨ Smiles

A team that celebrates together is a team that progresses together. Our People and Organisational Development/HR has always ensured that staff well-being is of top priority, and staff come together to celebrate festivals, embrace diversity and inclusion.

22/12/2025

: Promoting Dignified Learning for Every Child. 🧼 🏫 🚰

This week in Bardiya, Nepal, five public schools proudly achieved the Three-Star WASH in Schools standard—a major milestone for inclusive education and adolescent-friendly learning environments. 👏

🎖️ The schools that earned this milestone are:

✨ Shree Dhruba Secondary School, Tulsipur, Gulariya municipality, Bardiya

✨Shree Janta Secondary School, Gola Gulariya municipality, Bardiya
✨Shree A**s Barma Secondary School, Jaynagar, Barbradiya municipality, Bardiya
✨Shree Gauri Shankar Secondary School, Dallapur, Gulariya municipality, Bardiya
✨Shree Bangalamukhi Radha Krishan Tharu Secondary School, Bardiya

Through the WASHGAINS project, supported by UKAID and implemented by WaterAid Nepal with our partners Backward Society Education (BASE), National Federation of Disabled Nepal (NFDN) and Nepal Fertility Care Center (NFCC), local governments have not only upgraded school WASH facilities but also institutionalised the national WASH in Schools Procedure across five municipalities.

What makes this achievement special is leadership at the local level. Municipalities verified schools against 10 national indicators, formally declared Three-Star status, and committed to sustaining these standards—turning policy into practice.

From student-led cultural performances to strong commitments from SMCs, PTAs, and teachers, the declaration ceremonies reflected something deeper than infrastructure: ownership, pride, and accountability.

Grateful for the recognition from local governments—and even more inspired by the students who reminded us why WASH in schools matters: because no child should miss learning due to unsafe, inaccessible sanitation.

Together, we’re building schools where girls feel confident, children with disabilities feel included, and learning happens with dignity.

Photo courtesy: BASE

WaterAid UK

11/12/2025

बर्दियामा अभिभावक जागरुकता अभियान – सडक नाटकमार्फत महिनावारी स्वच्छता र समावेशी शिक्षामा सन्देश 🎭

UKAid, WaterAid Nepal को अथिर्क सहयोगमा, BASE बर्दिया, NFDN, NFCC सँगको प्राविधिक सहयोगमा तथा स्थानिय तह सँगको समन्वयमा बर्दियाका ५ पालिकाका ३३ वटा विद्यालयमा WASH GAINS Project सञ्चालन गर्दै आएको छ।

यस परियोजनाले महिनावारी स्वास्थ्य तथा स्वच्छता, लैङ्गिक समानता तथा अपांगता भएका बालबालिकाको समावेशी शिक्षा जस्ता महत्वपूर्ण पक्षमा विद्यालय र समुदायमा उल्लेखनीय परिवर्तन ल्याउँने अपेक्षा गरिएको छ। तर कतिपय समुदायमा महिनावारीबारे गलत धारणा, सामाजिक वर्जना र विद्यालयमा अपांगता भएका बालबालिकाप्रति हुने भेदभावले गुणस्तरीय शिक्षामा बाधा पुर्‍याइरहेका छन्।

त्यसैले, अभिभावकहरूको जनचेतनाको लागि ‘सन्देशमूलक सडक नाटक’ कार्यक्रम सुरु भएको छ ।

यस अभियानको उद्देश्य:

💡 महिनावारी स्वच्छता र स्वास्थ्य व्यवहारबारे सही जानकारी दिन,
💡अपांगता भएका बालबालिकाको शिक्षा, स्वास्थ्य र पहुँचमैत्री वातावरणका लागि अभिभावकलाई प्रेरित गर्न,
💡समावेशी र सुरक्षित विद्यालय वातावरण निर्माणमा समुदायको भूमिका मजबुत बनाउन,
💡 शिक्षा अधिकारवारे अभिभावकमा सहि जानकारि दिन ।

नाटकले उठाउने मुख्य सन्देशहरू: 🎭

🔊 महिनावारीका समयमा विद्यालय नआउने समस्या, समाजमा मिहनावारी सँग जोडिएका
🔊समुदायमा महिनावारीबारे गलत धारणा, सामाजिक वर्जनाले शिक्षामा परेको असरवारे सचेत गराउने ।
🔊अपांगता भएका बालबालिकाको मनोवैज्ञानिक चुनौती र आवश्यक सहयोग ।

अपांगता भएका वालवालिकाहरूको शिक्षाको अधिकार र सहयोगका लागि अभिभावकको भुमिका ।

अपेक्षित नतिजा:

✔ अभिभावकमा महिनावारी र अपांगता सम्बन्धी गलत धारणामा कमी
✔ किशोरी र अपांगता भएका बालबालिकाको विद्यालय उपस्थितिमा वृद्धि
✔ समुदायमा स्वास्थ्य, स्वच्छता र सकारात्मक व्यवहारको विकास
✔ विद्यालयमा समावेशी तथा महिनावारी–मैत्री संरचनामा सुधार

समुदायमामा हाल सम्म ६ वटा स्थानमा सडक नाटक सम्पन्न गरिएको छ भने जम्मा ५ वटा स्थानिय तहको २० वटा स्थानमा सञ्चालन गरिने छ जसमा अभिभावक, तथा सरोकारवाला व्यक्तिहरूको सहभागिता रहने छ । हाल सम्म समुदायमा सञ्चालित नाटकमा अभिभावको सहभिगता उल्लेख्य रूपमा रहेको छ ।
Photos: BASE Bardiya

10/12/2025

To commemorate the last day of the global campaign, 16 Days of Activism: UNitE to End Digital Violence against all Women and Girls, WaterAid Nepal organised a session for its employees on different forms of digital/cyber abuse, harassment and exploitation towards women, girls, children and beyond.

Inspector Satyendra K Mishra from the Cyber Bureau of the Nepal Police facilitated this session for the staff of WaterAid Nepal.

The inspector shed light on:💡

🛑 What is Cyber crime?
🛑 Types of Cyber crime
🛑 Crime against women, children and the impact
🛑 Current trends
🛑 Reporting mechanisms
🛑 Safety measures
🛑 Challenges
🛑 Legal provisions
🛑 Solutions

The Country Director of WaterAid Nepal, Sudarshan Neupane expressed his commitment to make the workplace a safe space for all the employees and encourage the staff to share their learnings beyond the workplace to promote a safer digital community for everyone, everywhere.

Photos: WaterAid/Avash Karmacharya

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10/12/2025

Clean water for everyone, everywhere.💧Happy 🩵

09/12/2025

Post-GDS Symposium: Fostering Ex*****on of Amman-Berlin Declaration - Internalising Government Commitments towards fulfilment of International Human Rights Instruments in Nepal. WaterAid Nepal stands in solidarity.

Supported by UKAID, and in partnership with Backward Society Education (BASE), National Federation of Disabled Nepal (NFDN) and Nepal Fertility Care Center (NFCC), the WASHGAINS project aims to strengthen WASH systems and create safer, more inclusive learning environments for adolescent girls and children with disabilities. At its core, the project contributes to SDG 4: Quality Education, ensuring that schools become spaces where every child can learn with dignity.

Photos: WaterAid/Sarbagya Shrestha

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28/11/2025

Have a good weekend!💧🧼 WaterAid UK

26/11/2025

In strong solidarity, WaterAid Nepal requests everyone to , to be to UNiTE to end digital violence against all women and girls.

❓ What does the 2025 UNiTE campaign call for ❓

We must all act to stop digital abuse. To mark the 16 Days of Activism, the campaign calls on:

🛑 Governments to pass and enforce laws that criminalise digital violence, protect personal information and strengthen tech sector accountability.

👩‍💻 Tech companies to ensure platform safety, remove harmful content, enforce codes of conduct and publish transparent reports.

💵 Donors to invest in feminist organisations working to end violence against women and digital rights advocates.

🙌 Individuals to speak out, support survivors, and challenge harmful online norms.



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25/11/2025

🌟Proud Milestone for Inclusive WASH in Schools in Bardiya, Nepal 🌟

Supported by UKAID, WaterAid Nepal has been implementing the WASH for Gender and Adolescent Inclusive School in Nepal (WASH GAINS) project since April 2023 across five local governments in Bardiya district—Gulariya, Thakurababa, Barbardiya, Madhuban, and Geruwa.

In partnership with Backward Society Education (BASE), National Federation of Disabled Nepal (NFDN) and Nepal Fertility Care Center (NFCC), the project aims to strengthen WASH systems and create safer, more inclusive learning environments for adolescent girls and children with disabilities. At its core, the project contributes to SDG 4: Quality Education, ensuring that schools become spaces where every child can learn with dignity.

Working closely with local governments, WASH GAINS has supported 33 schools to localise and implement the national WASH in Schools Procedure. As a result, five local governments have institutionalised WASH in Schools, and nine schools have proudly achieved the Three-Star WASH standard.

✨ This week, two more schools reached this important milestone:

🥉 Shree Saraswati Basic School, Geruwa Rural Municipality–5 (Bindira), declared Three-Star School on 21 November, in a ceremony graced by Hon. Janmajaya Timilsina, Minister of Social Development, Lumbini Province, and Mr. Jamansing KC, President of Geruwa Rural Municipality.

🥉 Shree Shanti Basic School, Barbardiya Municipality–2 (Kumragaun), was declared a Three-Star School on 23 November, with Hon. Janmajaya Timilsina as Chief Guest and Mayor Mr Chaabi Lal Tharu as Special Guest.

On this occasion, WaterAid Nepal and partners were honoured with letters of appreciation—an encouraging recognition of our collective effort toward “Clean School, Healthy Students.”

A big thank you to our partner organisations, local governments, teachers, students, and communities for their commitment. Together, we are making schools in Bardiya more inclusive, healthier, and empowering for every child.

Photos: BASE and WAN/Umashankar Yadav