Nepal Social Development and People Empowerment Center (NESPEC)

Peace, Democracy & Human Rights Campaign

817 conflict-affected households from four Village Development Committees in the Udayapur district have been included in income generation and skill-development activities to support conflict transformation and the peace process. Additionally, community mediation, school peace zone campaigns, and a variety of seminars, processions, press releases, and orientations were conducted in order to involving conflicted parties in reconciliation. This program was supported by the United Nations Development Program's S and Peace Development Initiative.

200 people from ten community based organizations (CBOs) were provided conflict management training with the support of the GTZ's RCIW.

150 people from three different locations in the district received orientations on the issue of the traffickin of women. Supervision committees were formed by connecting communities with volunteers trained with the Women Development Office's Gender Equality Mainstream Program (MGSP).

A Humanitarian Help Camp was established during the 2006 People's Movement in order to serve the injured as well as to provide basic medicine and food to protesters. This campaign was supported by local people and by NESPEC'S core fund.

An Information and Resource Centre was established with the help of NESPEC's core fund in order to provide new information and knowledge to those involved in rights-based campaigns.

NESPEC regularly disseminates human rights-related information through press releases, processions, seminars, and orientations, which are conducted in response to identified needs.

The NESPEC volunteer core group established a fund through donations of 1 rupee per person from local people to support women and children who are at-risk. After organizing this public program, sufficient funds were raised to provide educational materials and uniforms for a girl named Kalpana Rai and her brother, Arjun Kumar Rai, who were inhabitants of Risku, Katari. The children had been trafficked into a circus in India and were rescued and returned to Nepal. They are now being cared for by some of NESPEC's stakeholders who have committed to help them.