• Posted by: Admin
• 2024-06-24 07:26:55

Initiatives for Social and Economic Empowerment of Marginalized Communities

Indreni Rural Development Centre Nepal is implementing Initiatives for Social and Economic Empowerment of Marginalized Communities (ISEE) Project in Bijayanagar Rural Municipality (Gugauli, Khurhuriya) and Shivaraj Municipality ward No. 9 (Shivagadhi VDC) of Kapilvastu district with the partnership of Swedish Development Partner from 2015. The main purpose of this project is to facilitate the marginalized communities to uplift their social and economic status following rights based development approaches.

The goal of this project is Women, Men and youths living in the target locations enjoy their socio economic and cultural rights in diversified ethnicity with unity, human dignity and self respect. The outcome of this project is “Marginalized women and men of project area have increased income and improved social status”.

The project has targeted to achieve 4 outputs:

• Marginalized women, men and youths of project areas have been organized and mobilized to promote ESC rights.
• Economic empowerment of man and women of marginalized communities are enhanced through increasing access to income generating opportunities
• Enhanced advocacy initiatives by marginalized communities to claim their ESC rights and their effective implementation.
• Increased capacities and organizational development of IRDC as a model CSO for the promotion of ESC rights.

For the implementation of project activities IRDC has initiated Livelihood and Entrepreneurship Development Edecuaction (LED) Model which is a social mobilization tool developed for the community empowerment. In this model, the participants of target groups are oriented on family, group and community through the perspective of rights, GESI, environment and livelihood options and facilitated for the conduction of appropriate enterprises.