Past, Ongoing and Upcoming Projects and Initiatives

With grant support from DFID/UNDP, GERUWA has been implementing the HIV/AIDS prevention programme targeting to mobile population and their families covering the whole Bardiya district and conducting HIV prevention though education and awareness, STI treatment, volunteer counselling and testing. Beside, it has also been working for HIV/AID prevention through awareness raising in Banke, Kailali, Surkhet and Dang district. Moreover, it also involved in the capacity building of CBOs, clubs, CBO networks, peace networks, local NGOs of the mid-western region on HIV/AID, social mobilization, conflict transformation and peace building. GERUWA in partnership with 'Support of Peace and Development Initiatives (SPDI/UNDP) implemented a conflict mitigation and social development programme targeting to internally displaced people (IDPs) and other victims from armed conflicts like formation of their groups, building their confidence through trainings, support for income generating activities and rehabilitation of them in the host communities and reintegration of their own place. GERUWA has also been actively involved in formation and mobilization of peace networks, civil society networks at VDC, district and regional level, campaigning and dialogues between warring parties, conducting community peace building initiatives and promotion for peaceful resolution of community conflicts.

Moreover, GERUWA have been supporting the communities, CBOs and local governments to practice the participatory, bottom up and inclusive development process and promotion of local democracy through constructive social dialogues, institutional and leadership development of CBOs, NGOs and local government organizations, training and facilitation and knowledge sharing. The partnership with CBOs and their networks, VDCs, municipalities, VDCs, DDCs and civil society organizations including private sector have resulted greater impact of development, democracy and peace initiative projects. GERUWA has gained profound experiences about social mobilization process, capacity building and mobilization of existing CBOs and their networks which bring significant change in reducing poverty through promotion of local ownership and governance, strengthening the local democracy and peace building mechanisms.

The major projects and activities implemented by GERUWA in the past are summarized below.

S/N	Period Covered (MM/YY)	Project Title	Core Activities	Client	Region/Place of Assignment	Support Agency
1.	1993 to 1999	Out of School Programme (NFE) NFE-Adult Literacy Classes	Class formation Training for Facilitator Management Community formation Class Implementation Examination Other School Enrolment	15000 Literate	11 VDCs of Bardiya district (Rajapur Area)	UNICEF
2.	1993-1997	Community Forestry Support Program	Local community m eeting Increase Community Forest Coordination with District Forestry Office Gulariya and Forestry Range post in Rajapur Seedling Distribution to support Plantation activities	Community Forestry Groups	7 VDC area of project target groups and households beneficiaries	District Forest Office Gulariya and Rajapur Range Post Bardiya
3.	January 1999-September 2002	HIV/AIDS and STD Prevention Programme	Peer education STD treatment SHP support and social marketing of contraceptive IEC and BCC materials production and distribution	1750 migrants workers and their families	5 VDCs of Bardiya district	Save the Children Kathmandu
4.	November 2000 - April 2003	Reflect Programme of HSSP/ GTZ	Reflect classes Awareness on reproductive heath and women issues	300 women of vulnerable and disadvantaged communities	3 VDCs of Bardiya i.e. Rajapur, Taratal and Sanoshree	HSSP/ GTZ Kathmandu
5.	January 2001- November 2004	Freed Kamaiya Food Security Project	Saving & credit groups formation and mobilization Cooperative formation and mobilization Support the groups for IG activities Community mobilization for labour based infrastructures	7390 Freed Kamaiya Households	28 VDC and 1 Municipality of Bardiya district	RPN (Rural Programmme Nepal) GTZ Kathmandu
6.	December 2003 - December 2004	Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Project	Group strengthening and mobilization Conducting agriculture related IGA training Cash/kind and technology support to the freed Kamaiya groups	2953 Freed Kamaiya households	25 VDCs of Bardiya district	User Group Kathmandu
7.	February 2004-January 2005	Conflict Minimization and Social Development Project (CMSDP)	IDP group formation Confidence building Support IDP/Victim group/individual for IGA Training on conflict management, HR, DNH, UN IDP guideline Campaigning and dialogue with warring parties for conflict transformation Networking for peace building & social healing	300 HHs of IDPs and conflict victims of the Bardiya	3 VDCs of Bardiya district Rajapur, Bhimmapur and Badalpur	SPDI\UNDP Kathmandu
8.	June 2006- 15 July 2011	Comprehensive Package for Mobile Population and their Families Project (CPMPFP) Bardiya	Peer Mobilization Volunteer counselling and testing STI treatment Awareness raising Lobby against social stigma and discrimination to over HIV/AIDS Media Mobilization	Mobile population and their families	Bardiya District (31 VDC 1 municipality	UNDP Hiv\AIDS Unite Kathmandu
9.	January 2005 to December 2007	Community Based Sanitation and Hygiene Program	Sanitation and Hygiene Awareness ODF Hand pup Health Camp School Sanitation Hand Wash	Freed Kamaiaya Area in Bardiya District	28 VDC in Bardiya District 3480 household	Nepal Shwosthaya ko lagi khanepani (NEWA)
10.	June 2006- Dec 2010	Rural Access Improvement Decentralization Project (Consultancy services for social aspect of RAIDP)	Social mobilization Workshops, training and meetings Project monitoring, socio-economic survey and community audit Social screening for community driven development	About 45000 households of project target groups and beneficiaries	Group I three districts of RAIDP namely Banke, Bardiya and Kailali	Rural Access Improvement and Decentralization Project (RAIDP) (DoLIDAR)
11.	1 February 2009 to 15 November. 2010	Comprehensive Package for Migrants Population and their Families Program In Rolpa	Peer Mobilization Volunteer counselling and testing refer STI treatment refer Awareness raising Lobby against social stigma and discrimination to over HIV/AIDS	Migrants population and their families	12 VDC Migrants Area of the Rolpa District	Save the Children Kathmandu
12.	1 November 2009 to June, 2012	Prevention on Human trafficking, Safe migration and Gender based Violence	Awareness raising Scholarship Press group formation Go and stake holder networking Various Issues Training as gender	Migrants Population and Human trafficking Risk Families	3 VDC (Shanoshree, Taratal and Kalika) Gulariya Municipality in Bardiya Districts	Karitas Nepal4
13.	July 2011 to Dec. 2011	Public Hearing and compliance monitoring	Enhance the capacity of CBOs member, WCF and CAC member Participatory consultation with the relevant key development stakeholder Orient member of CBOs leading by marginalized and disadvantaged in terms of good governance Public discussion\Group interaction Organize public hearing events Documentation and sharing of the key finding.	Stakeholder Local government	5 VDC Baridya	LGAF Government of Nepal
14.	Nov. 2011 to Jan. 2016	Breaking Barriers (Marginalised Women and Girlsaccess safe abortion	Advocacy\Workshop Capacity Building Training Community Mobilization IEC\|BCC Material Distribute	Marginalised Women and girls	5 VDC Bagnaha, Dhodari, Baniyabhar, Magaragadi, Dhadhawari	CREHPA\Nepal
15.	1 May 2013 to 31 Dece. 2013	Programme for accountability in Nepal	District level orientate on program Consultation meeting with service providers Observation in the first round of practicing community score card Follow up of joint action plan	VDC, DDC, local service providers,local development stakeholders,	Khairapur, Kalika and soruwa VDC in Bardiya District	Centre for international Studies and cooperation
16	14 april to 16 July 2014	Local Adoption Plan of Action (LAPA)	Stakeholder Meeting and Workshop Awareness and sensitization Street Drama Agriculture Support Dirking Water and sanitation Flood preparation sensitization Provide Services through social mobilise	5 VDC area of project target groups and households beneficiaries	5 VDC in Bardiya (Gola, Pathabhar, Khairichandanpur, Manau and sivpur	District Development Committee (DDC) Bardiya
17	1 May 2015 to 30 April . 2016	District Level Social Mobilisation Programme	Chure area of Bardiya district Social Mobilization	60 percent area is under the Chure range of the total area of Bardiya district.	Chure area of Bardiya district	*President Chure-Terai Madhesh Conservation Development Board*.
18.	Agust to 2015 December,. 2016	Programme for accountability in Nepal	District level orientate on program Consultation meeting with service providers Observation in the first round of practicing community score card Follow up of joint action plan	VDC, DDC, local service providers,local development stakeholders,	10 VDC Bardiay District	Centre for international Studies and cooperation

In partnership with development organizations, government agencies, local governments and CBOs, GERUWA has been implementing three major project in the mid and far western development region. It has been providing consultancy services for the social aspect of Rural Access Improvement and Decentralization Project (RAIDP) in Banke, Bardiya and Kailali district since July 2007.

Similarly, GERUWA has been implementing Comprehensive Package of Mobile Population and Their Families Project (CPMPFP) covering whole Bardiya district i.e. 31 VDCs and 1 municipality with technical support from UNDP and financial support of DFID since June, 2006 and same programme Comprehensive Package of Mobile Population and Their Families Project (CPMPFP) covering Rolpal district 12 VDCs an with technical support from Save the Children US and financial support of Global fund since February 2008 Further, a project entitled "Community Based Integrated Mother and Child Health Project (CBIMCHP) has been operation in 28 VDCs Banke district and 6 VDCs Bardiya district with technical support of DPHO, Banke and DHO Bardiya and support from Plan Nepal.

The summary of ongoing major projects and initiatives are presented as follows.

S/N	Period Covered	Project Title	Core Activities	Client	Funding Organizations	Region/ Place of assignment
1	July 2018-June 2019	Gender transformative community resilient project	Capacity Building for gender transformative TS Triggering on GT-TS Community Mobilization for GT-Total Sanitation Monitoring/Follow up for TS Media / communication for GT-Total Sanitation Clean Home Declaration	Community of Banke and Bardiya	Plan International	Two Rural municipality of Bardiya and Two Rural municipality of Banke
2	July 2018-June 2019	Care and Gender Transformative Parenting Project	Nutrition & hygiene promotion activities in PWG Interaction with HFOMC, husband &mother/father in-laws, community leaders and other's for the advocacy on improving status of health of pregnant mother's Support to strengthen BC/PHC/ORC of PWG program Support HF in local level planning process to incorporate RCES/FH related programs Demonstration kitchen garden Healthy baby, healthy mother & best career mother's award Hygiene promotion of children in the ECD centers Training parents to prepare playing and learning materials for the Capacity building on RCES/child disability Support First aid kit to the ECCD center	Pregnant and childrens of Banke and Bardiya	Plan International	Two Rural municipality of Bardiya and Two Rural municipality of Banke and Nepalgunj sub metropolitan
3	1 January 2016 to December 2018	Women Health programme	improve conditions for IUD service provision in the public sector Improve access to IUD services through PSI’s OK network of private sector providers Increase women’s access to safe abortion services at government certified abortion centers	60,000 WRA informed on SA services	*PSI* (Population Service International)	5 District (Banke, Dang, Bardiya, Kailali and chanchanpur)
4	1 January 2017 to November 2018	Mohanpur Pigey Business form	Capacity building Social mobilization Income Generating Community Business	Poor Community targeted People	PAF (Poverty Alleviation Fund) Nepal Government Kathmandu	Basgadi municipality Mohanpur village
5.	1 June 2018 to December 2018 (First phase)	Urban Sanitation and Hygiene for Health and Development (USHHD)	Sanitation Conference Fund Raising MHM Orientation to students Team formation for SMART Members	13 school students (10500)	*SN-V* (Netherland Development Organization)	Nepalgunj 16 Sub Metropolitan, Banke
6	August 2018 to July 2020 (First phase)	SAFA Water Project (improvements Water quality and sanitation Service in Health Care Facilities and Surrounding communities)	Capacity Building and awareness Raining Activities in WASH Water Quality testing (twice a year) Installation rehabilitation of hygiene sanitation and water suppy system in community and health facilities (CGD friendly) Ceramic filter distribution Formation of DPAC\MPAC with various meetings, Workshops at municipality and Community Level.	3500 House hold in working area	*TDHF* (Terre Des Hommes Foundation)	Bardiya District (Barbardiya, Bashghadi Municipality and Badaiya tal Rural Municipality

Priority project and initiatives in immediate, intermediate and long-term interventions are presented hereunder in priority.

Establishment and operation of open learning centre at Nepalgunj to educate, empower and reintegrate the discharged Maoist army from combatants with support of NCDC and UN
Poverty Alleviation Programme in Selected Rural Areas of Nepal (PASRA) with support of GIZ, IFAD, UNDP and other donor agencies in some district of mid-far western development region
Tackling HIV/AIDS Stigma and Discrimination through Religious Actions (THASDRA) in 50 districts of Nepal with support of World Bank, UNDP and DFID
Community Based Integrated Mother and Child Health Programme in Bardiya district with support of Plan Nepal
Civil society networking and local peace committee strengthening programme
Social and political dialogue for inclusive democracy and development
Development of CBO Federation and Capacity Building Programme
Economic recovery and peace building project for the conflict victims and their communities

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