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Devchuli Municipality, Pragitinagar, Nawalparasi, Nepal

Phone #: +977 078575022 Mobile #: +977 9847073270

Email: jcycnepal@hotmail.com

Website: www.jcycnepal.org.np

Annual Progress Report 2014/15

Centre Contact Office

GPO Box: 14341

Nagarjun Municipality, Suchatar

Kathmandu, Nepal

Cell: +977-9851133858, Ph #: 01-42671288

Registration Number DOA: 909-061/062

Social welfare council #: 16924

Pan Number: 301861711

AFFLICTIONS:

Association of Youth Organizations Nepal (AYON)

Non-Governmental Organizations Federation

DPNET

DEMAND

Human Right Alliance

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1. VISION, MISSION, OBJECTIVES

Jagriti Children and Youth Concern Nepal (JCYCN) is a non-governmental, non- political and non-profit

making organization, which was formed by former child club activists and like-minded youths. JCYCN

is dedicated to the protection and promotion of child and youth rights through advocacy, lobbying and

campaigns. It was established in 2001, during the armed conflicts in Nepal. Since then it has been

working as the watch-dog for children and youth rights. This is because JCYCN believes it is crucial, in

this post-war period and during state rebuilding, that participation grows in every section of the society.

Therefore, in this environment JCYCN is at the forefront to raise key issues and ensure youth and child

involvement.

JCYCN has its thirty three members (male 18 and female 15) working regularly to serve the society.

Among thirty three, there are total five members who are working as a full time employees and rest of

them are working as a part time voluntarily. There is no fund available to provide salary to those volunteer

members, even though they are continuing working and pursuing activities with the coordination and

cooperation of different organizations and government agencies.

VISION: JCYCN visualizes the building of a model society in which every woman, adolescent and child

can live a dignified life without any form of discrimination, exploitation or injustice.

MISSION: To raise a voice for children, youth and women, by supporting and coordinating with

different GOs and NGOS, to protect their right to build peace, prosperity and create a more beautiful

Nepal. Also, empower youth and children in environmental conservation, disaster reduction, economic

access and the establishment of meaningful social activities.

GOAL: To contribute to the development of a fair and just society by strengthening the capacity of

community members, promoting social justice, human rights, peace and by building partnerships at

national and international level.

JCYCN Values: D (dedication) E (enrichment) E (encouragement) P (participation)

Major Objectives

To promote the national and international youth and the child rights movement to eliminate all

types of injustice on them through advocacy, lobbing, social mobilization and by organizing

training workshops and alliance building programs.

To create pressure on the government for the implementation of the commitments made on

national and international levels for the rights of children, youths and women.

To promote and empower the child and youth clubs by enabling them to be capable of playing a

positive role in society, and also providing psychosocial counseling for victim women, youth and

children.

To distribute educational materials and give support to women, youth, children and others at risk,

especially child victims of the conflict.

To empower helpless women, adolescents, children, and youth by assisting them with training in

life skills and by launching income generating programs.

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To create and coordinate libraries to widen the knowledge of children and youth on various social

issues and to raise awareness about youth and children at risk of HIV/AIDS, child trafficking,

illegal labor and sexual abuse, injured people from different movements, and victims of natural

catastrophes.

To provide cultural exchanges between young people of different countries and nationalities, and

to raise voice on the climate change issues and on its affect upon humanity.

2. ORGANIZATIONAL GOVERNANCE

JCYCN always believes in good governance so it adopts the 5 years strategic plan with other following

policy:-

Admin and finance policy

DRR policy

Gender and inclusive policy

Communication policy

Child Protection Policy

Employment policy

JCYCN information and media policy

Human Resources policy

3. HUMAN RESOURCE

Human resource is likely to have an important and unique influence on organizational performance.

Keeping that in mind, JCYC Nepal has got a poop of human resource mostly working as a volunteer. The

organogram of Jagriti Chid and Youth Concern are shown as follows:

General Assembly

Executive committee

General memebers Board of Directors

Executive Director

Volunteering

Advocacy Administration Program Genrating Emergence Response

Board of Advisors

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3.1. Advisory Board

SN Name Designation

1 Homnath Jaisi Patron (Lecture)

2 Dr. Kasim Shah Medical Doctor

3 Dr. Monohar Sayed Medical Doctor

4 Kumar Bhattarai Child Rights Activist

5 Raj Kumar Shrestha Social Worker

6 RamChandra Naupane Legal Advisor, Lawyer

3.2. Executive Members

SN Name Designation Education Experience

1 Tilottam Paudel President Graduate 20 years in Social Sector

2 Shreejana Adhikari Vice-President IA 4 years in Mother Group

3 Deepak Sharma General Secretory BA Social and Development

Sector

4 Narayan Dhakal Secretory BBS 5 years in Child and

Youth Club

5 Sumitra Shrestha Treasure IA Social Worker

6 Debaki Acharya Member BA/B.Ed/MA/M.Ed 12 years in Social Sector

7 Vidya Sagar Pandey Member MA in Social Study 5 years in Social Sector

8 Manoj Pandey Member Master Degree in Conflict and

Peace

5 years in Social Sector

9 Manorama Gautam Member Master in Development Studies 1 year in Social Sector

10 Shova Rana Member BA 1 year in Media (F.M)

3.3. Consultants

SN Name Proficiency

1. Mr. Bhuvan Paudel International Volunteer Program and social media engagement

2. Mr. Prakash Dhakal Volunteering and Human Resource Management

3. Mr. Deepak Bashyal Peace and Humanitarian and climate change

4. PROGRAM PERFORMANCE

JCYCN supports the empowerment of women, youth and children to bring positive changes in the level

of policy making. The organization coordinates and participates in diverse campaigns, public awareness

programs and training programs concerning key issues that affect women, child and youth rights. From

the very beginning JCYCN has been working with a rights based approach. Its major activities are:

4.1. ADVOCACY AND LOBBYING

Commitment from Honorable Foreign Affairs Minister Mahendra Bahadur Panday to Formulate

Children Friendly Constitution

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Concerned stakeholders has expressed to make Devchuli Municipality of Nawalparasi district a first ever

children friendly municipality on February 21 2015.

In a program organized by, Jagriti Child and Youth Concern Nepal and Amar Child Club in collaboration

with Jagrit Child Club Nepal (first child club in Nepal), Devchuli Municipality, Eco-Social Development

Organization Nepal and Dalit Awareness and Development Committee. All the speakers of the program

were obvious about the needed effort from all sides to make Devchuli first children friendly

municipalities of Nepal like the then Pragatinagar VDC first children VDC of Nepal.

Chief Guest honorable Foreign Affairs Minister Mahendra Bahadur Panday laid the founding stone for

Surya Kumar Memorable Library in the initiation of Amar Child Club with estimated cost of around NRs.

1.7 million. Along with that, a program of honoring personalities contributing in the field of welfare of

children was also organized. During the program he opinioned that children are the pillar of nation and

base for development hence it is everyone’s responsibility to safeguard children and has urges everyone

to work for making Devchuli a first ever children friendly municipality of Nepal. In the end of his speech,

he said that the new constitution will be a child friendly one.

Other speakers included central committee member of CPN Maoist Mr. Thakur Chapagian, district

secretary of Nepali Congress Mr. Bishnu Lamichhane, CA Member Mr. Krishna Poudel, Ms. Sindhu

Jalesa Bhudathoki, child right activists Mr. Tilottam Paudel, Mr. Bishnu Chapagain, Mr. Bhojraj BK, and

Mr. Jalashwor Bhusal. Amar Child Club who has chaired the program has honored Mr. Tilottam Paudel

founding president of Jagriti Child Club Nepal, for his immense contribution in children participation and

establishing its legal status. Other honored personalities included Mr. Rasham Lal Chapagain, Mr. Satya

Narayan Bhusal, Mr. Ganesh BK, Lok Natha Bhusal, Mr. Huk Bahadur BK, Mr. Chudamani Bhusal. In

the meantime, media person Mr. KB Rana and Mr. Bidrohi Giri representing JCYCN was honored for

starting social campaign through child clubs. Along with that, literary figure Ms. Krishnaa Devi Sharma

Shrestha, Mr. Homnath Jaisi and Mr. Khimanda Bhusaal were also honored for their contribution in the

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field of child participation. Additionally, 10 senior citizens were honored and provided with ‘Dosalla’. In

the same program, as part of JCYCN peace building program, children played and sing songs related

peace.

Youth March For The On Time Promulgation Of A New Constitution

As the deadline for the promulgation of new constitution on 22nd

January 2015 a youth march has been

organized on 27 December 2014. The program is being organized by youth advocacy Nepal, Jagriti Child

and Youth Concern Nepal, Association of youth Organization (AYON), Eco-Social Development

Organization Nepal, and some other 20 youth led organizations since. During the program, youth

Constituent Assembly member Mr. Prakash Jawala stated about the constitution will be promulgated

with-in deadline either with consensus or with the process. Additionally, another CA member Mr.

Ramhari Khatiwada sated about a ongoing signature campaign going on with-in the Constituent assembly

for the promulgation of constitution within the deadline. Whereas another constituent assembly member

Mr. Ganesh man Pun sated about the need of consensus among the political changes hence is the only

way for the promulgation of new constitution.

The march started from BrikutiMandap and ended at Basantapur where nearly 500 youth participated. In

the meantime, the mass was addressed by JCYCN president Mr. TilottamPoudel stating that youth

constitute 40% of total population and are the major change makers of all sort of political change of

Nepal. If the political leadership keep on ignoring the need of youth the result would disastrous. Also, the

program was addressed by BhawaniKharel, Bhim Lama, Lok raj Awasti, BidhyasagarPanday,

ChetnarayanRasaiely.

While concluding the program coordinated by youth advocacy Nepal, Mr. NarenKhatiwada stated about

the need of continuous pressure from with the parliament and outside the parliament for the timely statue

of the new constitution.

Interaction Program on Youth and Mental Health

Trainees from St. Xavier’s College in coordination with AYON, JCYCN and ESDO Nepal organized an

interaction program on YOUTH AND MENTAL HEALTH on the date 1st of November, 2014 as a part of

the discussion series. The program was held within the premises of AYON with the motive of youth

awareness and involvement for mental well being.

The program was addressed by General Secretariat of AYON and president of JCYCN Mr. Tilotam

Paudel with the introduction of Youth and our role in the mental health related issues. Surendra Koirala,

trainee at AYON from St. Xavier’s College shared the actual status of youth in our society and their

mental health. He further informed us that there are still large numbers of youths who are deprived of

health facilities especially the ones with mental health problems. Likewise, we were further informed

about the malpractices in our society due to superstition and lack of awareness. Jeevan Bhatta, a

representative from JCYCN, briefly gave the actual health problems faced by youth with mental illness.

The participants then discussed about their mental health status and their learning of Youth and Mental

Health.

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The participants of the program were students from various colleges, people involved with organizations

working in the field of youth and other members from mental health related issues. The program was

summarized by Mr. Paudel at the end with the commitment of all the participants to work on the issues

discussed during the program.

Human Rights Magna Meet 2014

The National Magna meet has begun as a celebration of International Human Rights Day in Kathmandu

on Tuesday, December 9, 2014. Its slogans include “Human rights-friendly constitution for sustainable

peace and prosperity” and “Collective campaign for child rights protection.” Various national and

international organizations working in the sector of human rights have participated in the event.

Inaugurating the event, Constituent Assembly Chairperson Subash Chandra Nembang said a constitution

that would enshrine rights of everyone is in the making. Jagriti Child and Youth Concern Nepal was one

of the major organizing partner for the meet. Rights activists stressed that a human rights-friendly

constitution has to be drafted developing an understanding among all sides. President of JCYCN

Mr.Tilottam Poudel attended the program as a guest for the meet.

Workshop on Youth and Health

A one day workshop on youth and health was held on Pragati Nagar Community Library, Nawalparasi on

24th December 2014. The majority of participants were youth studying in high and higher secondary

schools. The program was organized by Jagriti Child and Youth Concern Nepal (JCYCN), Eco-Social

Development Organization- Nepal (ESDO-Nepal) and Youth Sub Committee Pragatinagar Community

Library.

The program was facilitated by Mr Jeevan Bhatta, executive member, Association of Youth organizations

Nepal (AYON), Mr. Anesh Bhatta Sharma and Mr. Kamal Prasad Kaphle, communication director, Y-

PEER. The workshop was conducted with some knowledge sharing exercises and some interactive

games. The program focused on adolescent health issues. The facilitators also gave important data given

by Nepal demographic Health Survey such as fertility among women ages 15 to 19 years is 81 per 1000,

and 187 per 1000 for women ages 20 to 24 years. The use of contraceptive among married women ages

15-19 is 17.6% and 29.5% among married women ages 20 to 24 years. The median age at first marriage

for men is 19 years and 17 years for women. 13.6% of women ages 15 to 19 years and 25.3% of women

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ages 20 to 24 have encountered physical violence. The facilitators also focused that much work remains

to adequately done to address the sexual and reproductive health and rights needs of youths The program

was chaired by Mr. Deepak Neupane. The chief guest of the event was Mr Tilottam Paudel, president of

JCYCN. The program was hosted by Ms. Jamuna Kharel.

Mr. Paudel, the chief guest of the program said that there is a need of capacity building and enhancement

of the youth so that they can help the nation to develop in one way or the other. He further added that

health is a prerequisite of development and youths are a major pillar of development. So youths should be

focused while implementing National Health Policy.

4.2. PARTICIPATION IN DIFFERENT PROGRAMS (NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL)

Towards a just and balanced global community

Global Moments of Moderates collaboration with Asian Muslim Action Network organized an

international conference among the 224 participants from 28 countries with a theme of "towards a just

balanced global community".

The program was from 5-7th June at Kuala Lumpur, capital city of Malaysia with the venue at Ministry of

Foreign Affairs Malaysia. 15 participants from Nepal along with other countries had participated in a pre

assembly session on 5th June 2015. Group discussions held in various agendas like women and justice,

youth thinking, Youth and Employment, climate change, media issues & many more. Nepali participants

had an active involvement in discussions sessions which was highly praised by the organizer as well.

Tilottam Poudel, president of JCYCN had presented the outlook & effects of earthquake in Nepal. He also

applauds the roles & responsibility of youth in relief & reconstruction for the prosperous Nepal. The

presentation on earthquake was really fascinating to the global community to think once for supporting

Nepal.Other participants from Nepal included Ram Sapkota field officer, employment fund/

HELVATAS-Nepal, Roshan Lama president of ESDO, Pradip Bhusal Member of JCYCN, Deepak

Basyal member of JCYCN presented on the issue of youth & democracy.The conference formally started

on 6th June and ended on 7

th June, 2015. The Chairman of AMAN Prof. Azyumardi Azra, inaugurated the

assembly and the introduction of AMAN presented by Mohammad Abdus Sabur, Secretary General of

AMAN. The conference ended 7 recommendations including peace will be promoted through youth.

Youth are the prime stakeholders of present and leaders of future so we should invest more on youth.

Prof. Mohammad Hashim Kamali CEO, International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies, giving the

speech in the inauguration period.

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The participants from Nepal; delegates of Nepal lead by president of JCYC Nepal(Second from Left)

A discussion program on Role of Youth in reducing violence against Women and Girl Child and

Experience sharing of participants on International Youth Peace Festival 2013

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, 8th March 2014, Jagriti Child and Youth Concern Nepal

(JCYCN) in collaboration with Eco-Social Development Organization (ESDO) Nepal, AYON female

leadership forum, Youth Coordination Centre, YES Nepal and We Together organized an interaction

program on “The Role of Youth in reducing Violence against Women and Girl Child” in AYON premises.

In the program, 43 participants basically youth from 30 organizations come together for the discussion.

The program was conducted under the presidency of Mr. Tilottam Paudel, president of JCYC Nepal, chief

guest for the program was Ms. Sindu Budathoki newly elected CA member and other guests for the

program were Mr. Krishna Subedi, president of Child Nepal and Mr. Madhav Bhandari, assistant district

education office Sindhuli. The program was facilitated by Mr. Amrit Devkota President of YES Nepal.

Before officially entering the program, a short presentation regarding the experience sharing or

participants of International youth peace festival 27thSeptember-2nd October 2013 in Chandigrah India

was presented. Former participants Ms. Smrita Shakya Executive Committee member of ESDO Nepal

and Yubraj Bangadae gave a short presentation on the pros and prospects of IYPF participation in context

of Nepalese youth in-terms of exposures and knowledge sharing in an international arena. JCYC Nepal

one of the international partner for organizing IYPF and the president Mr. Tilottam Paudel of JCYC Nepal

has been selected as an international board member for organizing IYPF.

As part of discussion, participants presented their views of prevalent violence against women in varied

context in Nepal. Mr Krishna Subedi stated that the youth is a change maker however the perpetrator

exerting the violence on women and female child is are youth. He further stated that unless and until the

attitude of youth doesn’t change the cases of violence against women and girl child won’t reduce.

According to Madhav Bhandari, another guest for the program stated the education is the only way to

reduce the violence against girl child through the incorporation of girl child rights in the curriculum of

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school education. Chief guest Ms. Bhudathoki stated about the need of joint ownership of land as a first

step in reducing violence against women. Also she nodded a yes to incorporate a chapter of girl child

rights in school curriculum as a stepping stone in reducing violence against girl child, and provided her

commitment in lobbying for these matters in the House of Constitution Assembly House.

In the mean time, Amrit Devkota stated about the need of reservation based upon class not caste, and the

need of female empowerment before reservation. Additionally, Mr. Surendra Rijal of white Dove Society

stated about the need of equality and equity while considering reservation and reservation should be for a

time being not forever. On the other hand, Mr. Nawaraj Dhakal of Shrijeenseel Samaj stated about the

existence of female violence due to the household power structure. Furthermore, Smrita Shakya stated

about the need of awareness regarding women rights as there is no concept of reducing violence against

women at household level. There is a need of attitude change among the household including parents to

reduce the violence against girl child.

It is avowed that in 2012 86% of women are unsafe in their own community; out of total women killed in

2012 91% of them were murdered by the people they know. Domestic violence in context of Nepal is

most chronic and under reported crimes. In the same year 64% of Nepalese women suffered from

domestic violence. Out of 1581 domestic violence survivors 16% are victimized due to social violence

7% have been raped and 26-35 years of women were at the greatest risk of non-fatal intimate partner

violence. On the concluding note Mr. Tilottam Paudel sated about the need of debate to reduce violence

against female and girl child. Thanking all the participants, chief guest and guests for their invaluable

time and opinions he sated about the need of change at individual level to reduce female and girl child

violence.

Free Eye Care Camp-2014 Concluded, 13 Cataract Operation Held

On 1st March 2014, Jagriti Child and Youth Concern Nepal (JCYCN) organized an eye care camp with a

technical support from Lions Club of Kathmandu, Ramechap, Nepal Eye Hospital and local support form

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Jagriti Lower Secondary School, Aashapureshwor preservation Committee, Khalchowk Youth Club, Eco -

Social Development Organization (ESDO) Nepal , Pardeshi Cargo Services Pvt. Ltd. In the camp,

medical practitioners of Nepal Eye Hospital, officials, staffs and members of ESDO Nepal, JCYC Nepal,

Lions club of Kathmandu Ramechhap, local teachers, social workers and the volunteers of Jagriti Child

Club helped to organize the camp. Members of JCYC Nepal have provided a counselling on eye care,

causes and preventive measures of eye care.

On the early hours of 1st March 2014, a team of 19 members including JCYC Nepal members, Lions Club

Volunteers interns of Volunteers Aid Nepal. During the eye care camp, 160 locals gather and queued for

hours for the check-up of their eyes. All together, 95 females and 65 males attended the eye care camp.

The major focus of the eye care camp was to provide eye care at minimum cost along with providing

operation facilities to cataract disease. Among the total patient 13 were diagnosed with cataract disease

for whom operation procedures has been managed by Nepal eye hospital, among them, 4 patients were

female and 9 were male.

All of the patients were of the age of 65 years and above. The organizers managed to keep all the patients

in observation for three days at the hospital before operation, and after successful operation the organizers

has taken them back to their home. Bal Bahadur Lama age 73 years and other patients express their

happiness of recovering eye sight after such a long time and thanked the organizers for initiating this

event. Despite the unfavourable weather condition JCYC Nepal along with other participants were able to

organize the “Eye Care Camp” successfully. In the future as well JCYC Nepal look forward to organize

these kinds of events.

Consultation Planning meeting for the UN 58th

CSW Session

Jagriti Child and Youth Concern Nepal (JCYCN) have participated (Ms. Manorama Gautam and Ms.

Devaki Acharya) in the consultation planning meeting for the UN 58th Commission on the Status of

Women. The program was organized by Sankalpa in coordination of VSO Nepal on 4th March 2014 in the

Summit Hotel. The co-organizer of this program was Beyond Beijing Committee Nepal. There were 30

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participants were in the program. The program ran under the facilitation of Shanta Laxmi Shrestha,

president of Beyond Beijing Corporation and Anjana Shakya. Chanda Shrestha Rai has welcomed all

participants and welcome speech was given by Tika Dahal, Secretary of Sankalpa.

The objectives of consultation meeting were to discuss the agendas for post Millennium Development

Goal and report analysis of Millennium Development Goal 2013, women and girl rights of Millennium

Development Goal 2015 and post Millennium Development Goal and Commission on the Status of

Women.

Anjana Shakya gave a short presentation about the Millennium Development Goal and a group work was

organized among the participants for discussing Millennium Development Goals and lobbying in post

Millennium Development Goals. To discuss the Millennium Development Goal 2015 and post

Millennium Development Goal regarding women, all participants were divided into three groups. The

three groups discussed in three Millennium Development Goals viz., Eradicate Extreme Poverty and

Hunger, Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women and Improve Maternal Health. All the groups

discussed in these goals with the challenges and achievements in the perspective of women and girls and

also about need, advantages and disadvantages of stand-alone goal for women and girls.

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The program ended at around 4:15 PM with the ending notes of Stella Tamang.. Different views and

opinions have arisen thereby many important points gathered from different persons for lobbying. The

program was so crucial but some important goals like environment sustainability which relates directly to

women on the daily basis could not discuss because of time constraints.

Blood Donation Program Held

On the occasion of International women’s day Jagriti Child and Youth Concern Nepal (JCYCN) Eco-

Social Development Organization (ESDO) Nepal, Dhading Mandali Cooperatives Limited, Nepal Red

cross, Youth Unity for Awareness, Jestha Nagarik Community Hospital come together to celebrate

womanhood and life through blood donation on 5th March 2014. The program was coordinated by Kamal

Kafe and was organized at Kalanki Kathmandu Nepal. A total of 60 participants come together to donate

blood among which Ms. Debaki Acharya from JCYC Nepal participated and donated blood. Due to the

misconception of donating blood will cause physical weakness there is always a lack of blood at

Kathmandu. This resulted in various health complications to the patients requiring blood. On the other

hand, in some cased the lack of availability of blood on time resulted even in death of patients this in

mind; these organizations choose to celebrate life and women-hood by promoting the culture of blood

donation among general people. Consequently, more than 60 youth turn out for blood donation.

In the meantime, JCYC Nepal participated and sharing of ideas and experiences regarding emerging

issues those hinders and deteriorate further the status of women in a programs organized by Women

Empowerment Nepal (WEN) and Federation of Community Forestry User Group Nepal (FECOFUN) to

celebrate International Women’s Day.

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Participation of JCYCN in World Conference of Youth 2014

The world conference on youth (WCY) 2014 has been held in Sri Lanka with a theme on ‘mainstreaming

youth participation in the post-2015 development agenda’ from 6-10 may, 2014. Around 1200 delegates

(Sri Lankan national/international) from 167 countries have participated. WCY 2014 has been able to

provide an inclusive platform for youths, youth experts, civil society organizations, ministers of youth and

other relevant stakeholders from all over the world. All the participants came together and discuss on the

theme and eventually produced a joint declaration named ‘Colombo declaration’ of commitment. The

declaration is first of its kind to be jointly produced by the youth and government representatives of

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participated countries.

Group photo of all the delegates at the opening ceremony of WCY at Hambantota, Sri Lanka

Nepal was one of the participating delegates of the WCY. Representatives of various selected youth

organizations and a team from Ministry of Youth and Sports (MoYS), including the respected Minister,

have also participated. Jagriti Child and Youth Concern (JCYC) Nepal was one of the selected

organizations to participate in WCY. JCYC Nepal has been working in the field of child and youth rights,

and peace since 2004. Likewise, JCYC Nepal has been organizing youth for peace trainings of national

and regional level since 2007. Representative of JCYC Nepal, Ms. Roseena Gautam has participated in

WCY 2014. She has actively participated in discussion in various foundations and themes. She was one of

the observers as international youth delegate of the negotiations of Colombo declaration.

JCYCN’s representative Ms. Roseena Gautam with respected Minister of Youth and Sports, Mr. Pursottam Poudel

International Youth Peace Festival Conducted Highlighting the Need Of SAARC Youth

Cooperation and Girls Right

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The 9th International Youth Peace Festival 2014 was held from September 27 to October 2 at

Chandigarh, India which was organised by YUVSATTA with the slogan "Let's Do More". The objective

of the festival was to encourage dialogue amongst the young leaders and strive to create the next

generation of non-violent peacemakers. The mission of the festival was to ignite a generation-wide

movement of young people helping to create a thriving, just and sustainable world. Over 200 youth

delegates from over 32 countries of the world including 16 delegates from Nepal participated in the event.

The banner inauguration was launched by the youth leaders of globe including Mr. Tilottam Paudel

representing Nepal.

Delegates from Nepal in IYPF 2014

The chief guest of the program was Mr. Sarbananda Sonowal, Honorable Minister of Skill Development,

Enterpernuership, Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India. Other distinguished guests included

Mrs. Kirron Kher, Member of Parliament, Chandigarh and Dr. Latha Pillai, Director , Rajiv Gandhi

National Institute of Youth and Development (RGNIYD). Some of the highly influential dignitaries from

India were presented with Peace Awards for their outstanding contribution in the field of peace promotion

and maintaining brotherhood. The chief guest of the event highlighted on the issue of peace and harmony

regardless of borders.

The major highlight of the event was “SAARC Youth Leadership Summit" which was organized by

YUVSATTA along with the technical collaboration of RGNIYD held at Golden Jubilee Hall, Punjab

University, Chandigarh in September 28 and 29. There were 54 youth delegates from the SAARC nations

along with nearly 30 observers from around the globe. Likewise, 12 youth delegates from South Asia had

their paper presentation. Representatives of Nepal Mr. Tilottam Paudel and Mr. Subash Malla presented

paper on the “Current Situation of Youth in SAARC Countries including Nepal" and Mr. Jeevan Bhatta,

Kathmandu District Cooordinator, Youth Volunteer for Change (YVC), Nepal shared a success story of

Mr. Tilottam Paudel who has been active in the field of child right and youth movement.

The delegates from Nepal were facilitated by JCYCN, the international partner of IYPF since 2012, along

with YVC Nepal, SARAATHI Nepal, AYON, ESDO Nepal, CMDRR Foum Nepal, Frienship Society

Nepal and enepalikabhar online. One of the delegates from Nepal Mr. Amir Sharma said that these kinds

of events should be held at a regular basis so that the feeling of mutual cooperation will be enhanced

among youth; and hence, will help in the regional cooperation and development. According to Mr.

Pramod Sharma, coordinator of YUVSATTA, this program is in its 9th year and he has promised to make

the event grander next year and has renamed the event to Global Youth Peace Festival (GYPF).

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Summit on world peace holds in South Korea

SOUTH Korea hosted a historical peace summit which was organised by the World Peace Delegation of

Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light (HWPL).The three-day summit, which was held in

Seoul, from 17 - 19 September 2014, had international politicians, religious leaders, women’s and youth

leaders from 534 organisations, 134 countries and more than 2000 international delegates were present for

the World Alliance of Religions’ Peace. VIP guests include former and current heads of state, prominent

religious leaders, academics, legislators, community leaders, youth, and women leaders from all around

the world were present in the event.

The vision of the program was to construct a powerful global network that integrates all groups. The

chairman of HWPL, chairwoman of IWPG, and director of IPYG had been traveling around the world

meeting with various national and community leaders to jointly draft an internationally applicable

agreement aimed at bringing all wars to an end. Many political leaders gave their whole-hearted support

to the movement, and have offered to speak at the summit. The likes of Mr Khil Raj Regmi (fromer

Prime Minister of Nepal) gave his ideas on global peace and harmony.

The key focus of the summit was to provide a meeting point for the ideologies of the world, the

unification of the ideologies and value systems of the religions of the world, and spreading the message of

peace. There was the signing of the aforementioned agreement and there was the announcement of the

Declaration of the World Alliance of Religions.The delegates of Nepal were present on special walk with

banner and nationl flag. The President of JCYCN and General Secretary of AYON Mr. Tilottam Paudel,

President of AYON Mr.Dev Raj Bhat,Executie Director of Youth Initiative Mr. Parash Acharya,

representive of AFAA Mr. Dharma Raj Pathak, Women Right Activist Mrs. Babita Basnet, Mrs Pratibha

Subedi to name many few were present in the event.

The World Peace Delegation Mr Lee, said in the conference, it " The conference wishes to define the

roles of cultural leaders, both secular and religious, in the creation and implementation of a new heavenly

culture by appointing them as the ambassadors of Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light to

each continent and country."He further added that people are still suffering from the tragedy of war today

more than ever before. During this time of conflict, a gathering of various national and community leaders

in both secular and religious fields will astonish everyone and prove that the world desires for peace."

People’s SAARC 2014

South Asian organizations gathered in Kathmandu on November 22-24, during the People’s SAARC

Regional Convergence 2014 Forum. This year’s slogan, People’s Movements Uniting South Asia for

Democracy, Social Justice and Peace, reflected the variety of thematic addressed. People’s SAARC

provides the civil society with an opportunity to seek, raise, and share common issues ahead of each

SAARC Summit, such as human rights, migration, gender, children development, environmental

sustainability, good governance, and many other pressing concerns. JCYCN is one of the organizing

partners for the People’s SAARC where Mr. Tilottam Poudel president of the organization managed to

call upon a constituent assembly member for a presentation. During the program more that 500 delegates

from around South Asian region gather at Kathmandu to discusses on above mention issues to form a

declaration which will later be presented to the Secretary General of SAARC.

4.3. LIBRARY, PUBLICATION AND EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT

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JCYCN provides three systems of educational support for children affected by armed conflict between

2005 and 2008. Firstly, a program is run in collaboration with LOMEF/ARF (Lorraine Robinsons &

Maevecoughlan Education Fund, Asian Resource Foundation) that supports approximately 150 children.

Secondly, JCYCN initiated health checks for the children in this program. Finally, through JCYCN a

group of doctors from Germany Doctor support the education of 50 children in the Rasuwa district.

Besides these, JCYC Nepal is frequently involved in providing scholarships to deserving and qualified

students. For example, JCYCN provided a half scholarship grant for a student to pursue his master degree

in Engineering. Additionally, keeping in mind of its goal of working with government to achieve

universal primary education by 2015 with education for all programme, JCYCN annually involve in

admission promotion in its working areas. In 2012-14, JCYCN in collaboration with ARF Nepal

distributed educational materials to 20 school pupil of Pragatinagar Nawalparasi. Additionally, JCYCN

has pool of books and other reading resources, JCYCN got around 2500 books in its library which are

collected at the central office in Kathmandu and are later distributed to community schools at grassroots

level. In addition, we collect books in Kathmandu and distribute them throughout rural villages, child

clubs and schools.

Education Material distribution and Interaction on Role of Stakeholders to promote the child

friendly VDC

Hoste Hainse and Jagriti Child and Youth Concern Nepal(JCYCN) jointly organize the Education

Material distribution and Interaction Program on Role of Stakeholders to promote the child friendly VDC

in Pragatinagar, Nawalparasi on 15th of May 2014. We succeed to distribute the educational materials to

70 underprivileged kids from five different government schools (Pragati Primary Schhol, Janajoyoti

Higher Secondary School, Narayani Primary School, Balmiki Primary School, and Dibajoyoti Lower

Secondary School) around the locality with the support of Hoste Hainse and Nepalhilfe Bietigheim

Harsfeld e.V Germany. Almost all the beneficiaries are from the very poor families and minorities

groups and few are orphans. All together 150 participants were participated including 70 benefited kids

their parents, teachers, local activists, political leaders, youths, government officials.

The program was conducted on the Chair of Mr. Tilottam Paudel , President of JCYCN and it was

facilitate by Mr. Dipak Sharma General Secretary of JCYCN. Most of the speaker discussed about the

role of stakeholders to promote the child friendly VDC and its opportunity and challenges. On the

program: Mr. Jiblal Shrestha, Secretary of Pragtinagar VDC, Mr. Badri Koirala, former Joint Secretary of

National Planning Commission, Ms. Krishna Kumari Shrestha Literary Person ,Mr. Khimananda Bhusal

Member of Teachers Union, Mr. Purusottam Neupane Teacher, Ms. Pratima Dhakal President of Network

of Child Club and Jagriti Child Club, Mr. KB Rana National level Journalist, Mr. Garendra Wagle

Director of Urban Development Training Center Pokahra, Ms. Radha Paudel President of Paraligal, Mr.

Jay Narayan Sapkota Leader of Nepali Congress, Mr. Hukum Subedi leader of U-Maoist, Mr. Hementa

Shrestha leader of CPN UML, Mr. Deepak Prasad Bashyal Program officer of Hoste Hainse and at last

Mr. Tilottam Paudel President of JCYCN delivered their speech with focusing how can we make the

place as a child friendly and its important. Also Speakers focused about the new challenge after

announcing the new municipality named Devchuli including three VDCs, Pragatinagar, Devchuli and

Daldale. At the past Pragatainagar it was only the VDC have to maintain the child friendly but now two

more VDCs are added on same place so all the stakeholders should care to maintain the same

environment with two other VDCs too to make the first child friendly Municipality.

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At the end Mr. Bashyal from Hoste Hainse and Mr. Paudel from JCYCN focused to utilize the support in

optimum level what they got for the education and how can we reduce the dropout rates in government

schools as well as promote the girls education and empower them. Also both of them focused their speech

on how can we solve our problems in local level without depending on donors and suggested to work on

team.

Experience sharing, Prize Distribution, facilitation and hand over of support for school

A Nepali team, who are going to participate in International Youth Peace Festival, 2014 were fare welled

at Nawalparasi. The festival starts today at Chandigarh, India, will be continue till 2nd

October. The team

consists of 15 participants from different backgrounds like media personnel, social workers, youth

politician, Students ,activists and youth activists etc.

Participants from more than 40 countries together to commit a global peace . It sends the message of

together we stand stronger and spread happiness. The Executive Head of Deuchuli Municipality, Hari

Chapagain handed over peace banner to the participants of the festival on 27th September 2014 . The

participants will exhibit the banner in the event.

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In the same program Mr. Tilottam Paudel, President of JCYCN, shared the experiences of World

Alliance of Regional’s Peace Summit, that was held on 17-19 September at Seoul, South Korea. He was

leading of Nepali Youth society. There were International delegates from 134 countries of the world.

Likewise, awards were also presented to the winners of the essay competition conducted by the Jcycn,

Esdo-Nepal and Jccn. The topics of competition were girl child- friendly city, Role of youth in

environment Conservation, and Role of student in peace-building. The competition was Organized on

the occasion of National Children Day and international peace day.

Jcycn in Coordination with Round table Nepal also heand-over Rs fifty thousand Rupees to Shree Jana

Jyoti Higher Secondary School on technical support to develop white board. The cheque was handed to

the principal Krishna Baral. The principal of the school stated that the white board will be environment

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friendly , effective in teaching as well as Improve health Condition of the teachers and student .

In the program Krishna Baral Principal , kB Rana secretary of Press Union center Committee , Ram

Krishna Dhungana,Hom Nath Jaisi, Tilottam Paudel and Subash Malla, Depak Sharma youth right

activists Gave their speech regarding the program and current youth issues. Program Was Chaired by

president of Jagriti child club Nepal pratima Dhakal .

The programmed was jointly organized by Jagriti Child and Youth Concern Nepal (JCYCN), Eco-Social

Development Organization (ESDO) Nepal and Jagriti Child Club Nepal.

4.4. HUMAN RIGHTS MONITORING AND HUMANITARIAN SUPPORT

Humanitarian work for Earthquake Victims

Nepal is suffering by big natural disaster from 25th April (7.9 rector scale) and 12th May 2015 (7.3 rector

scale) devastating earthquake till date over 8795 people lost their life, and over 22210 people were injured

and 512054 houses are totally damaged and 280730 houses were partially damaged. 10,744 government

buildings had been totally destroyed, with another 14,741 partially damaged. 6902 schools are affected

and 16457 classrooms were totally damaged, 11808 classrooms are partially damaged, 2009 toilets are

fully damaged. More than 10 million people have been affected from this devastating earthquake.

After the earthquake, many funding agencies, NGOs, INGOs, Private sectors and individuals are joining

their hands with coordinating Government of Nepal especial with DDRC. On this over-whelmly difficult

situation by the initiation of Jagriti Child and Youth Concern Nepal (JCYCN) with the joint effort of,

ESDO-Nepal, Islamic Medical Association Nepal (IMAN), and other organizations joined their hands in

rescue and relief materials collection distribution from the very beginning.

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In our coordination and collaboration 2500 households get the relief materials of Sirubari VDC of

Sindhupalchok, Sundhara Devi VDC. of Nuwakot Laharepauwa VDC of Rasuwa, Nasikasthan VDC of

Kavre, Nangedada VDC, Sindhuli, Mambu VDC and Prithivi Municiaplity Gorkha, Devchuli

Municipality, Nawalparasi, Kritipure Chandragiri, Nagarjun municipality and Kathmandu Metro Politian

City of Kathmandu, We reach 5 municipality and 40 village of different above district. We supported to

clean and take out the materials from the 10 partially damaged houses, as well as we starting the

psychosocial treat for the 6000 youth, children and women. We also provide 5 wheelchair for community

hospital of Shahid Memorial Kathmandu, 12 wheelchair and 19 big size tent for Dolakha district hospital,

in addition to free health checkup for the 1000 people in Gorkha, Kavre and Kathmandu. As well as we

provided the Educational (School Uniform, Bag, Pen, Pencil, Copy, handkerchief, geometry box, biscuits

etc) Support for the 120 children of Laharepauwa VDC, Rasuwa, to collect the broken fragments of

damaged school and make the space to make small temporary hut to run the class in school and we also

provide the some constructional materials for school. As well as we support for the Construction to build

the two Temporary Learning Centre (Namuna Bal Bikash Kendra and Jugal Bal Bikash Kendra) and

Educational materials Support for the 80 students of both above school's student of Duwachaur VDC,

Sindhupalchok. As well as in same place and time we were success to conduct the Trauma Hailing for the

80 Children and 80 women. In Ramechap district under the leadership of our volunteer Sonam Lama,

they were success to make the 10 house, to support the data collection for the governments, to support all

types of work in village area for rescue, relief collection and distribution. He was starting rescue within

20 minutes of devastative earthquake of Nepal. He was starting his work from Basantapur, Kathmandu

area. His team was success to rescue the people and other dead body too. We have sine with Ministry

authority to mobilizing the 200 youth volunteers to support the earthquake victims of Nepal.

In our relief package there has, 30 kg rice, 1 tents, 2 litter oil, 1kg salt, 1 blankets, noodles packets, beaten

rice 5kg, Shop, water bottle, cloths, mosquito net, tooth brass, tooth pest, tawal, comb, body lotion,

sanitary pad etc for per family. Finally, we are success to collect and distribute the relief materials and

other medical support around 10 million Nepali rupees. We have handover the medicine worth 10 Million

Nepali currency to the Health and Population ministry's Health department Nepal by the support of

Muslim Relief Fund USA and AI-Khair Foundation UK with coordination and collaboration of JCYCN,

Islamic Medical and ESDO-Neapal.

Youth power is more powerful team for the rescue, relief distribution and other support. Through our

coordination 50 youth are mobilizing for the relief collection, distribution, cleaning, support for the health

service etc. From 26th April 2015 we are responding and updating the information frequently and

coordination and collaboration with National government, Youth and Sport Ministry, Local DRR

committee, BBC, NGO Federation, DPNet, and other authorize agency and international NGO, INGOs,

friends group and other personal. Our volunteers are mobilizex in Nawalparasi, Ramechap, Kathmandu,

Sindhupalchok, Rasuwa, Dhading, Sindhuli, Bhaktapur, Lalitpur district. Still we are working in affected

area. It seems that many helping hands are working short-term support but long-term program is most

important. Our support is continuously going on with the joint effort of different organizations,

individuals and government of Nepal.

We are planning to make the house and school support in Gorkha (Mambu VDC), Rasuwa(Laharepauwa

VDC), Kavre (Nasikasthan VDC), Nawalparasi (Devchuli Municipality) and Sindhupalchok district. As

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well as we are also planning to do some work on the issues of Earthquake, Child Protection and

Psychosocial counselling. Present needs for the victims family's they are requesting to get the Tin for the

temporary shelter, counselling for women and children, health service, to re-establish the school

environment and temporary hot for the children to go to school and study safely. After one month rainy

season is coming so many people are worry what will be happen again so, they are eager to make small

hot for short term and secure shelter.

A discussion on the role of youth in violence against women and girl child

On 23rd

April 2015 JCYC Nepal organized in a discussion program on the role of youth in violence

against women and girl child in coordation with the Garden Hope Foundation, NGO Federation,

Partnership Nepal and Youwalaya. The program was lead by Tilottam Paudel and chief guests included

Krishna Thapa, President of NGO Federation and Agni Devkota leader of black cap campaign at

Kathmandu.

At the starting of the program, Tilottam Paudel stated about the Asian Girl Campaign along with the

scenario of girl child and female in Nepal including their vulnerability context. Chief guest Krishna Thapa

stated about child labour in Nepal including girl child labour in Kathmandu. Also, he emphasis on the role

of youth in eliminating the child labour from Nepal.

In the end, the Asian Girl Campaign with the slogan of “empower girls, empower world” seems effective

through its mini grant programs where it can reach to the grassroot level where the implementation is

needed.

Consultation Workshop of Non-Governmental Organizations for the Universal Period Review

A residential workshop has concluded here in Kathmandu analyzing the policies, regulations related to

human rights adopted by the Government of Nepal for the protection of human rights and the situation of

their implementation.

The Universal Periodic Review will be submitted as a document from civil society to the United Nations

Human Rights Commission on 23rd

March, 2015. The workshop was coordinated by Jagriti Child and

Youth Concern Nepal(JCYCN) and ESDO Nepal where eight of the civil society organizations coalition

representing 50 different organizations participated in detail discussions about their work and working

sectors. There were 45 regular and each thematic issue many other participants for the workshop which

was conducted for six days from 25th January to 30

th January 2015.

At the end of the workshop all the conclusions derived from the discussions were presented. Mr. Narahari

Acharya, Minister of Law, Justice, Constitute Assembly and Parliamentary Affairs was presented

certificates to the participants. At the same time, he also stated the Government is in the process of

forming a Commission on the Disappearance. He agreed on the sensitivity of the issue of girl child

including violence and discrimination and that the Government is always committed to work to prevent

all sorts of violence and discrimination against children. He made commitment on strengthening advocacy

on climate change and environment as a major issue at national and international arena. Additionally, he

stated that Nepal is a multi-cultural and multi-religious country hence marginalized and deprived

population will always be the priority of the Government. Other top priority of the Government,

according to him it should be eliminates violence against women along with the protection of the human

rights of the entire citizen. Based on his speech one can expect that the government be committed to

address the issues raised by the forum.

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Ms. Laurance UN representative of Geneva wished that the various regarding the protection of human

rights will be addressed. Likewise, Mr. Prakash Khadka presented his gratitude to all the coalition

organizations for their active participation. The program was formally closed with the closing remarks of

Ms. Sulochana Sharma, one of the participants of the workshop.

Demonstration For Against the Rape Crime by Peace Makers

Peace-makers, human rights activities, students and political leaders gathered for demonstration against

the rape of a minor at Basantapur in Kathmandu, in 11 March 2015. The demonstration started after a

seven-year-old girl in Kalaiya, Bara was found in unconscious after rape on February 20 and was

pronounced dead while undergoing treatment at Kanti Children Hospital in Kathmandu on Sunday. Nepal

Police had held Kanhai Gupta, 28, of Kalaiya-4, for his involvement in the rape on February 22.

The demonstration was organized by various right groups, civil society groups and organizations working

for children, JCYC Nepal being the one. This is not a first incident of rape within the month of February,

it has reported in other parts of the country as well including Lamjung, Makawanpur, Nawalparasi and

many other places. In the lack of victim protection mechanism, victim vulnerability of being mentally and

physically threatened or even tortured after police complaint is very much prevalent hence sometime

victims get out of contact from Police after filing complaint during the period and were forced for

reconciliation.

- Candles Vigils to mourn the victim of rape in front of Basantapur Durbar square in Kathmandu.

Sexual abuse and exploitation towards any one is a serious confront for a progressive society irrespective

of who the victim is. In the context of Nepal, child sexual abuse and exploitation is probably one of the

major challenges of the society. Due to lack of proper laws, strict implementation of available laws,

loopholes in the law are making Nepal one of the challenging places for children to live in. Also these are

contributing in increasing number of paedophile in Nepal. Based upon the facts available it can be stated

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that the perpetrators for these abuses are near and dear ones be it family members, teachers, and family

friends.

In the meantime, JCYC Nepal has been acting as a facilitator among the victims and the security forces

for lunching the complaint to punishing the perpetrator in collaboration with DCWB, municipality. Also,

it is being evaluated monitored and supervised by JCYC Nepal municipalities and VDC (Village

Development committee). On the other hand, JCYC Nepal along with other organizations has issues a

press release to stop on all kind violence against female and girl children.

One Day Workshop on Condition of Dalits is Organized

A one day workshop on 'Condition of Dalit and Indigenous people' is organized in Kathmandu, Nepal by

Jagriti Child and Youth Concern Nepal (JCYCN) in collaboration with Eco-Social Development

Organization (ESDO) Nepal and coordinated by Dalit NGO Federation, Mega College, Ujjyalo Nepal,

Dalit Human Rights Organization, and United Youth.

Madhu Pandey (Vice Principal, Mega College) delivered the welcome speech in the program where

Rachana Khadka (Member, CPN UML Central Committee) was the guest and Lok Darshan Lamichanne

was chairperson. TilottamPaudel (President, JCYC-Nepal) facilitated the program where more than 60

participated from different organizations including NGO workers, right activists, and journalists.

Gajadhar Sunar from Dalit NGO Federation and Sankar Shrestha, a Youth Activist have had their paper

presentation “The Issues of Dalits and Indigenous People” in the program separately, in which they

focused on the issues of the Dalit and indigenous nationalities, which have always been overlooked and

ignored and this may lead to serious conflict in the days to come.

Guest Rachana Khadka said that to change the condition of Dalits and Indigenous people priority should

be given to basic needs (food, Shelter and clothing) including awareness through education and

implementation of national and international agreements.

It included the present situation of Dalit and marginalized people, problems and responsibilities of nation

to uplift their conditions and discussed that those problems need be prioritized equally. While few

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participants said that government needs to bring change in itself rather than policies and laws. Other

added that there is the strong need of education, proper employment including livelihood support to

vulnerable population among dalits like women; skill development training to support self-employment,

income generation etc. Participants also emphasized that there shall be no discrimination at any level of

the society as all are born equal and hold equal rights in front of law.

A discussion program on the role of stakeholders in building human rights cities for Girl Child in

new constitution:

On the occasion of International Girl Child Day, 2014, ESDO Nepal in collaboration with Jagriti Child

and Youth Concern Nepal (JCYCN) organized an interaction program on “A discussion program on the

role of stakeholders in building human rights cities for Girl Child in new constitution” in Jorpati

Kathmandu on 8 November, as part of its commitment, solidarity and stakeholders responsibility

campaign for protecting the rights of girl child and building the human rights friendly cities. Girl child in

South Asia are the most vulnerable group of population in terms of equality to education, health,

nutrition, sanitation, opportunities and access to resources. The cases of female feticide, child marriage,

household helper, sexual harassment, and physical and psychological trauma are common among the

South Asian girl children and Nepal is not much different than any other South Asian countries. Hence, in

order to bring about changes in the situation of Girl child in Nepal, JCYCN has initiated this campaign

since 2010. It was organized in collaboration with the Garden of Hope Foundation, Taiwan, SEAP Nepal.

The honorary chief guest for the programme was Mr. Rameshwor Phuyal, the Constituent Assembly

member from Kathmandu constituency-3, Mr. Deepak Raj Kuikel the Constituent Assembly member

from Kathmandu constituency-2, other guests included Mr. Krishna Subedi, president, of Child Nepal and

Children as Zone of Peace Network Nepal, Ms. Namuna Bhusal, Program officer of Central Child

Welfare Board Nepal, Teacher Representatives, Mothers Group representatives. The Programme was

facilitated by Mr. Tilottam Paudel, President, ESDO Nepal and chaired by Mr. Mohan Gautam, President

of SEAP Nepal. There were 82 participants and concerned stakeholders representing more than 25

organizations where Ms. Debaki Acharay, program coordinator JCYCN presented the situation of Child

in Nepal and coordinated open floor discussion. Out of total participants, 37 were female, and 38 were

male.

On the ending note, Mr. Tilottam Paudel stated that an educated girl child is pillar of a prosperous family;

if the rights of girl child are ensured at present her future won’t be secured. The present girl children are

the future half of the population of the nation. Hence, the protection of their rights to education, health,

sanitation, nutrition will leads to the prosperity of nation in future, taking under the consideration the fact

that women’s overall mental, physical and psychological development leads to the development of any

nation. So, in the new constitution should be address the girls child issue as a major issues and making the

human rights for girl child is must necessary to develop the country

Awareness campaign in the School of Nawalparasi and Kathmandu

Jagriti Child and Youth Concern Nepal (JCYCN) successfully completed the girl rights campaign in

different district of Nepal, Central and Western part of the country with the collaboration of different

government and community base schools and child care center, district child welfare board Lalitpur. We

had organized the awareness program in 6 schools of Nawalparasi and 4 schools of Kathmandu. JCYC

Nepal was successful to explore the massage about the girl rights and human rights cities theme and how

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to protect the gild child in case of various forms of discrimination, i.e. social, cultural, mental, and

conceptual. Girls in South Asian countries suffer from different kinds of discrimination. They got equal

rights as to boys but in practice are limited up to documents. Girls in south Asia are discriminated based

upon the accessibility of basis needs such as food, shelter, education, health, clothes etc. Based upon this

context, this campaign at first tried to create awareness about the rights of a girl child and dignified

human rights cities which is also a human right considered by United Nations.

The campaign was organized on the occasion of International day of Girl Child, International Peace Day

and National Child Day of Nepal. Participants from different child clubs, school students, players from

girl football team, school teachers imparted the knowledge about the girl child rights and abuses.

Discussion program on the Role of Stakeholders in Building Human Rights Cities for Girls Child at

Nawalparasi

One day discussion program was successfully completed on the topic of "The Role of Stakeholders in

Building Human Rights Cities for Girls Child, in Devchuli Municipality of Nawalparasi on 21 October

2014. The aim of the one-day discussion program was to empower girl-children and girls and build girl

friendly cities discussion with local stakeholders.

The program was organized by JCYCN in coordination with The Garden of Hope Foundation Taiwan,

Devchuli Municipality, Devchuli Television, Female Multipurpose Cooperative Ltd., Pragatinagar

Community Library Youth Committee, Jagriti Child Club Nepal, Eco-Social Development Organization

and E-Nepali Khabar. The program was chaired by Bimala Adhikari, Female Multipurpose Cooperative

Ltd, while Jamuna Kharel hosted the program. Deepak Sharma, the General Secretary of JCYCN

delivered the welcome speech where as Tilotam Poudel, the President of JCYCN, highlighted the subjects

and goals of the program. Debaki Acharya, Program Coordinator of JCYCN, presented a comparative

study of her experiences of national and international level regarding the issue. United Nations had

declared October 11 to be celebrated as International Girl-child Day on 2012 as per which The Garden of

Hope foundation had started to celebrate the day since past three years and started to provide Asian Girl-

child Human Rights Award since past two years. Shraddha Mahat, a member of Jagriti Child Club from

Nepal, received the Asian Girl-child Rights Ambassador Award during the program. Debaki Acharya,

JCYCN's Girl-child and Women's Right Program's Coordinator who had attended the program as a

representative of JCYCN said that Shraddha presented about the present situation of girl-child in Nepal.

The Chief Guest of the program was Mr. Hari Prasad Chapagain, the office head of Devchuli

Municipality stated that everyone must be aware about their duties. He pointed out the requirements to

build a girl-friendly city, for peace process and the legal provisions related on the issue.

The political representatives of various political parties namely Ekdev Poudel from Nepali Congress, Til

Prasad Kafle from CPN UML, Gunakhar Pandey from CPN Maoist, Satyanarayan Bhusal from CPN

Maoist and Bed Prasad Kafle from Democratic Party Nepal said that, they all are committed to build the

girl child friendly human rights municipality of Devchuli. They are always ready to support social welfare

work. As well as, they were determined to build a girl friendly city and shall do anything required in order

to make Devchuli a model of a girl friendly city. Saraswati Aryal from Paralegal Committee highlighted

the harassment on girls in public and sectors, like transportation and the infrastructures designed. She then

said that women should be aware of their rights to speak against the tortures or the harassment they go

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through. Chandrakala Bhusal further discussed about girl's access to education and awareness regarding

it. She also talked about the provision of equal opportunities to both male and female for our upcoming

generation.

At the end of the program Deepak Neupane mentioned about Pragatinagar Community Library which had

been providing basic computer education, help in academic activities, and related programs to girls.

Similarly, the program ended with the thanking speech by the chairperson. During the program a

discussion among the girl child participant and School Representative ladies teachers was also organized

by the organizer.

Essay Competition on Nawalparasi

Jagriti Child and Youth Concern Nepal in collaboration with Jagriti Child Club organized a program on

25th September, 2014 to handover white board to Jana Joyiti Higher Secondary School and to distribute

prizes to the winners of district level essay competition on International Day of Peace.

The program was organized under the presidency of Ms. Pratima Dhakal President of Jagriti Child

Cluband was facilitated by Mr. Deepak Sharma, General Secretary of JCYC Nepal. Chief Guest for the

program was Mr. Hari Prashad Chapagain, and other guests included Arman Miyia, Yogmaya Bushal,

Tilottam Poudel, Krishna Prashad Baral and Ram Chandra Dhakal. The entire guests stressed the need of

extracurricular activities for the mental and physical development of any child.

On the ending note, Ms. Dhakal stressed upon the need of all stakeholders joining hands to develop

Devchuli Municipality a girl child friendly city. Also she pointed out that the change starts form an

individual, from a house n and urges all the participants to accept change to make a girl child friendly

city.

Universal Periodic Review 2015

National level consultative workshop will be held on coming January to review and analyze state policies,

legislations, programs and institutional arrangements along with their status of implementation in Nepal.

A joint stakeholder’s submission UPR Nepal -2015 will be submitted to United Nations’ Human Rights

Council in March 2015. The five day National Level Workshop will focus on issues of human rights like

peace and reconciliation, Dalit’s access to Justice and issue of Physical Segregation, Rights of Migrants

worker, Natural Resources and climate change, , Rights of Woman Reproductive Health, Girls child

rights and Freedom of Religion.

This workshop will be supported by Pax-Romana and coordinated by Jagiriti Child and Youth Concern

Nepal.UPR process is led by 33 different NGO based on their working areas. These organizations will

participate and report their respective thematic areas.

This workshop is expected to enhance the knowledge on UPR process upon the participants. At the final

day of the conference the collision shall indentify the international commitment made by Nepal, their

implementation process and recommendations for Government of Nepal in the seven different thematic

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4.5. ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE

A discussion on the role of Youth In Environmental Conservation and Peace:

On 17th April 2015, Jagriti Child and Youth Concern Nepal along with Community Managed Disaster

Risk Reduction Forum, ESDO Nepal Sajilo Ventures and Yuwalaya organized a day long discussion

program on the role of Youth in Environment Conservation and Peace. Guest speaker for the program

included Mr. Tilottam Paudel, president of JCYC Nepal and resource person include Mr. Surendra

Koirala. Participants included members of the organizations and college students.

The discussion started with a ban on plastics bags in Kathmandu from 1st Baishak 2072 BS. Speaker and

resource perso presented various effects of plastics in our health employment opportunities; along with

that, the role of youth in implementing the ban and advocating for the option for plastics including

recycle, reuse and refuse.

In the end, all the participants including the guest speaker and resource person agreed upon the need of

individual campaign relating to reducing the use fo plastics with the promotion of “go green” perspective.

JCYCN and CMDRR Forum Nepal Coordination Meet and Field Visit in the Landslide Area

The coordination meet of the CMDRR Forum Nepal was held on the 6th of August 2014. The meeting

was organized by JCYCN, HRELIC Nepal, Himwanti Nepal, WCDF and Hoste Hainse in the joint

coordination with CMDRR Forum and Concern Universal Bangladesh. The meeting was of two phase

where the first was with the founder member organizers and second was with the twenty-five selected

member organizations out of forty-five.

The first meeting was based on the further strategies of the forum and the preparation for the second one.

Meeting started with the short review of the forum’s work till the date and then deeply discussed on the

vision, mission, and objectives of the forum and the work for the upcoming days. The discussion focused

on the visibility and the sustainability of the forum in the broader level.

Second meeting with the general member organizations started with a short introduction to the forum and

the members. The meeting was intensely focused on the challenges of the forum, upcoming programs and

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strategies for the further. The meeting brought the concepts of massive use of the social networking,

updates, information collection for the effectiveness of the work of the forum. The meeting was solely

based on the recent flood in the Bhotekoshi River and the relief provided. The status of the landslidevi

ctims was presented by Surendra Koirala while Sharmila Ranabhat put forward the activities by CMDRR

in the place. The representative of the Concern Universal Bangladesh suggested that the only way to

provide immediate help to the victims is to remain updated about the situation. Moreover, Abdul Hamid

and Mashud Rana from Concern Universal Bangladesh discussed on the ideas for the smooth running of

the forum. The program concluded with more focus on advocacy and pressure on the government on the

DRR issues. The meeting ended with formal closing from President Tilotam Paudel of CMDRR forum

Nepal. JCYCN has been the secretariat of CMDRR Forum Loose Network established in 2010.

On 7th of August, a team of 15 including Sindhu Jalesa Budhathoki, member of the present Constitution

Assembly, members from CMDRR Forum's member organizations, members of Concern Universal

Bangladesh along with media personnel observed the status of the landslide affected area. The team also

interacted with the local NGOs of the area, the victims and the government personnel. The continuous

rainfall that had hit the plains and hills with floods and landslides took lives and properties and led

thousands of people to the state of homelessness. Floods and Landslides this year has caused human

damage twice as it caused in the last 30 years.

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4.6. CAPACITY BUILDING OF YOUTH

Training on Capacity Building of Children and Youths in Environment Protection, Climate Change

and Disaster Risk Reduction

A four days long training on capacity building of children and youths on Climate Change, Environment

Conservation, Disaster Risk Reduction and Sustainable Development and “The Plastic Free Campaign”

was successfully held at Nawalparasi from 15th of June to 21

st of June 2015. The training was jointly

organized by JCYCN and Eco-Social Development Organization (ESDO) Nepal in coordination with

District Development Committee, District Sport Development Committee, Youth Information Centre and

Jagriti Child Club, ARF Nepal, Sambhwana, CMDRR Forum, Swambhalamban Samaj Nepal, and

Pragarinagar and Pithauli VDC offices Nawalparasi in a support of Government of Nepal of Youth and

Sports Ministry. The training was jointly inaugurated by Mr. Aananda Shrestha, vice president of District

Sports Development Committee and Mr. Dipesh Khanal Member of District Sports Development

Committee and Loknath Aryal acting VDC secretary and chief of Pragatinagar VDC health post.

A total of seventy participants participated in the training including 10 youth clubs, 2 women groups, and

18 child clubs. The training was conducted in two shifts where games, discussions, exercises and

presentations were conducted by the trainers. The trainers included Mr. Tilottam Poudel, president of

JCYC Nepal Mr. Dipak Sharma General Secretary JCYC Nepal, Mr. Chetan Joshi Secretary ESDO

Nepal, Mr. Khimananda Bhusal, Counselor Child friendly VDC and Mr Kashav Regmi, Department

Head, District Sports Development Committee. The trainers discussed about the roles of the children and

the youths in their community and talked about the concepts of Environment, Climate Change,

sustainable development and Disaster including conservation of environment, impacts of climate change

and disasters also the measures to be taken before and after any disasters along with the peace and justice.

Along with tha,t the training included the orientation on the “No Use of Plastic” and its diverse impact on

human life and the environment. Guest for the program included Ms. Pratima Dhakal, president of Jagriti

Clubs Nepal and Pradeep Chapagain President of Swambhalamban Samaj Nepal.

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The participants actively participated in every group works and group discussions where they were highly

motivated to explore their own potentials on the topic. During the training both of the children and the

youths seemed to be keenly interested in the subject matter while they highly acknowledged the training

stating that it is inevitable for everybody to understand the concepts, conservation of environment, take

measures and get well prepared for any disasters. A cleaning program was also organized on the

surrounding of the training center. All of the children and youths including the trainers made their active

involvement in the cleaning with the thought of need of a start from within to educate the community

regarding any good work.

Besides, a door to door awareness program was also organized during the training where participants

visited 1000 households of both the VDCs and distributed 20000 flyers in scripted with awareness

regarding environmental cleanliness along with environmental protection and is still going on as a

campaign in various social media sites. Also, ten dustbin were distributed to both the VDCs.

Additionally, a hoarding board was placed near Narayani River that crosses through Chitwan National

park and the VDCs where the problem of solid waste especially plastic is creating health hazard not only

for human but for the wild animals of national park, with awareness slogan about the need of solid waste

management including management of plastic waste. In the end of the program a discussion program was

organized to discuss about the measures to be undertaken to make both the VDCs environmental friendly

VDC, as action plan was formulated and was handed over to the stakeholders. As a result the stakeholders

have nodded for providing needed assistance and support to make Pragatinagar and Pithauli VDCs

environmental friendly VDCs of Nepal.

Asia-Pacific Peace and Development Service Alliance Call for Action Endorsed by Youth in

Kathmandu Nepal: Advancing Nepal’s Youth Vision 2025

A dynamic service and peace youth alliance in the South Asian sub-region was engaged on 23 and 24

March 2015 at an event organized by the over 20 multi-stakeholder partners such as; UN Economic and

Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the Global Peace Foundation (GPF), The Ministry

of Youth and Sports of Nepal, Jagriti Child and Youth Concern Nepal (JCYCN), youth4service and so on.

All together two hundred participants of from above twenty nations gathered from inside and outside the

South Asian sub-region for the “South Asia Sub-regional Consultation on Youth Volunteerism to

Promote Participation, Development and Peace” to exchange information, create further networks and

strengthen existing partnerships, building upon a prior ESCAP hosted Bangkok Forum.

“The development of a nation primarily depends upon the quality and commitment of youth because they

are the most productive, creative, innovative and energetic segment of society,” said Nepal’s Minister of

Youth and Sports, Honorable Purushottam Paudel, who opened the convening in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Based on issue clusters of environment, health service, youth entrepreneurship, peace building and

disaster preparedness set during the Bangkok Forum, youth participants engaged in complex yet lively

discussions with panels of experts to discuss the current situation and identify action steps that youth can

take through service, focusing on the South Asian sub-region.

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A four days long training on capacity building of children and youths on Climate Change, Environment

Conservation, Disaster Risk Reduction and Sustainable Development and “The Plastic Free Campaign”

was successfully held at Nawalparasi from 10th of April to 13th of April 2014.

The training was jointly organized by JCYCN and Eco-Social Development Organization (ESDO) Nepal

in coordination with District Development Committee, District Sport Development Committee, Youth

Information Centre and Jagriti Child Club, ARF Nepal, Sambhwana, CMDRR Forum, Swambhalamban

Samaj Nepal, and Pragarinagar and Pithauli VDC offices Nawalparasi in a support of Government of

Nepal of Youth and Sports Ministry.

The training was jointly inaugurated by Mr. Aananda Shrestha, vice president of District Sports

Development Committee and Mr. Dipesh Khanal Member of District Sports Development Committee and

Loknath Aryal acting VDC secretary and chief of Pragatinagar VDC health post. A total of seventy

participants participated in the training including 10 youth clubs, 2 women groups, and 18 child clubs.

The training was conducted in two shifts where games, discussions, exercises and presentations were

conducted by the trainers. The trainers included Mr. Tilottam Poudel, president of JCYC Nepal Mr. Dipak

Sharma General Secretary JCYC Nepal, Mr. Chetan Joshi Secretary ESDO Nepal, Mr. Khimananda

Bhusal, Counselor Child friendly VDC and Mr Kashav Regmi, Department Head, District Sports

Development Committee.

The trainers discussed about the roles of the children and the youths in their community and talked about

the concepts of Environment, Climate Change, sustainable development and Disaster including

conservation of environment, impacts of climate change and disasters also the measures to be taken

before and after any disasters along with the peace and justice. Along with tha,t the training included the

orientation on the “No Use of Plastic” and its diverse impact on human life and the environment. Guest

for the program included Ms. Pratima Dhakal, president of Jagriti Clubs Nepal and Pradeep Chapagain

President of Swambhalamban Samaj Nepal.

The participants actively participated in every group works and group discussions where they were

highly motivated to explore their own potentials on the topic. During the training both of the children

and the youths seemed to be keenly interested in the subject matter while they highly acknowledged the

training stating that it is inevitable for everybody to understand the concepts, conservation of

environment, take measures and get well prepared for any disasters.

A cleaning program was also organized on the surrounding of the training center. All of the children and

youths including the trainers made their active involvement in the cleaning with the thought of need of a

start from within to educate the community regarding any good work. Besides, a door to door awareness

program was also organized during the training where participants visited 500 households of both the

VDCs and distributed 10000 flyers in scripted with awareness regarding environmental cleanliness along

with environmental protection and is still going on as a campaign in various social media sites. Also ten

dustbin were distributed to both the VDCs. Additionally, a hoarding board was placed near Narayani

River which crosses through Chitwan National park and the VDCs where the problem of solid waste

especially plastic is creating health hazard not only for human but for the wild animals of national park,

with awareness slogan about the need of solid waste management including management of plastic

waste.

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In the end of the program a discussion program was organized to discuss about the measures to be

undertaken to make both the VDCs environmental friendly VDC, as action plan was formulated and was

handed over to the stakeholders. As a result the stakeholders have nodded for providing needed assistance

and support to make Pragatinagar and Pithauli VDCs environmental friendly VDCs of Nepal.

4.7. LEADERSHIP AND CAPACITY BUILDING TRAININGS FOR CHILD CLUBS

In addition to JCYCN and its advisers there are about 20 Jagriti child clubs in Nepal with more than 1,500

members. Apart from these 20 child clubs we are also in contact with 30 other child clubs through our

contact and network team. We have at present 50 child clubs with 5,000 members in our network. JCYCN

also has 55 youth organizations in its network and we are working at present with 5 village development

committees. Overall, in Nepal there are about 17,000 child clubs with 300,000 members. The people who

established child clubs are now expanding and forming other related clubs such as mother’s groups,

community village groups, and sports groups, This helps to reduce criminal activities in the communities,

which in turn makes positive moves towards awareness of peace establishment, disaster and climate

change and at the same time provides training. In addition to that, JCYC Nepal has been providing

various leadership, capacity and empowerment building for various child clubs. For example, in Kavre

district, JCYC Nepal has provided leadership training re-shuffling the Child club with renewed objective

of playing an active role in preventing all kinds of abuses against girl child in Nasikasthan VDC.

National Level sharing program on Nepal Partnership for Children and youth in Peace-building

Nepal Partnership for Children and Youth in Peacebuilding organized National Level

SharingProgramon Jun 29, 2015 at the Royal Banquet, Tinkune. The main objective of the program was

to launch the country report, disseminate the findings and, recommendation of the participatory

evaluation on Child and Youth Role in Peacebuilding conducted in Doti, Rolpa, Nawalparasi, and

Mohattaridistricts from January to March 2015.

The program was jointly organized by the Nepal Partnership for Children and Youth in Peacebuilding

consortium partners: Alliance for Peace (AfP), Jagriti Child and Youth Concern Nepal (JCYCN), Save

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the Children (SC), Search for Common Ground (SfCG), World Vision International Nepal (WVIN), and

Youth Network for Peace and Development (YNPD)Mahottari. Mr. TilottamPoudel, members of Nepal

Partnership for Children and Youth in Peace-building was master of ceremony of the National level

sharing program.

Country Report was launched by Dr. BimalaRaiPaudel, Member of the National Planning Commission.

She not only spoke about the importance of involving youth and children in peacebuilding, but also

applauded the participatory tools, which according to her, ‘provided a holistic lens to participation of

youth and children in peacebuilding in the country.’

Other distinguished guests: Mr. Krishna Subedi,Children as Zone of Peace (CZOP), Dr. Kiran

Rupakheti, Ministry of Women Children and Social Welfare (MoWCSW), Mr. Tarak Dhital,Central

Child Welfare Board (CCWB), Mr. Gauri Pradhan, former Member, National Human Rights

Commission (NHRC) who hold specialized knowledge in the field of children and youth, also echoed the

innovation in evaluation pedestaled by the Nepal Partnership for Children and Youth in Peacebuildingby

ensuring the meaningful role of children and youth in the overall evaluation process. They also

commented on the major findings and recommendations of the Multi-agency, Multi-country, Multi-donor

(3M) evaluation. Other eminent guest included Mr. Yubakar Raj Rajkarnikar, Director of Programs,

Search for Common Ground (SFCG), Mr. DevBahadur Ale,Nepal Steering committee member, Mr.

BibhutiBista, Country Evaluator of Nepal Partnership for Children and Youth in Peacebuilding shared

striking findings of the evaluation. He also clarified on the various factors, principles, overarching

findings, and the key recommendation derived from the evaluation work. The thought that ‘peacebuilding

involving children and youth should be a cross cutting issue in the development process’ was echoed

during his presentation.

Representative of Local Evaluation Team (LET) of four districts too shared their experiences of working

in evaluation including Mr. SherBahadurThapa, LET coordinator Rolpa, Mr. Hem Raj Joshi, LET

coordinator Doti, LET member from Mahottari, Mr. Akwar Ansari. Another LET member from

Nawaparasi, Ms. Jamuna Kharel shared that the evaluation process gave them an in depth and wide

knowledge on the involvement of youth in peacebuilding which they were priory unaware about. She

expressed her happiness that her engagement in local organization led her to become the member of US

embassy, youth advisory committee. Each of them requested all key stakeholders and concerned agencies

to ‘implement the recommendations of the findings and recommended to have policies that promote youth

and children involvement in the village, district and national level.’

Mr. Deepak Sharma General Secretary of JCYCN stated that peace building is incomplete without the

meaningful involvement of youth and children in peacebuilding. The launch program was concluded with

the vote of thanks byMr.Suresh Thakur, President of Youth Network for Peace and Development (YNPD)

Mahottari and also members of Nepal Partnership for Children and Youth in Peacebuilding. He

encouraged partner organization and influential government stakeholders to address peacebuilding from a

practical lens. He also stressed on building a practice in evaluation that involved target audiences, to

ensure the practicality of the issue. (Major findings and recommendation of the program on Nepal

Partnership for Children and youth in Peace-building can be obtained from annexI.)

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Budget Planning of Village Child Club Network

Jagriti Child and Youth Concern Nepal, Village Child Club Network and Pragatinagar VDC -Nepal’s first

child- friendly VDC- have jointly organized planning conference, child club program, which evokes

children’s talent and assembled the formulation of plans for the fiscal year 2070/71 on 19th January, 2014.

The program was chaired by Pratima Dhakal, president of Village Child Club Network and Jagriti Child

Club and was facilitated by Shanti Bhusal, Secretary of child network and welcomed by Saugat Bhusal,

one of the members of the network.

Altogether 50 children of 20 child clubs in Pragatinagar VDC have participated in the program. These

child clubs have presented their plan after conducting discussion among themselves. The meeting

committed on passing propositions of child clubs from VDC to Ileka and finally to District Council.

Meanwhile, during the program children were divided into two groups. One group brought up their likes

and dislikes of their daily activities; and other group dealt with what improvements they want to see in

coming five years through thoughtful drawings. Children shared their views about budget; they articulated

that budget should be distributed for girls and boys separately in all schools. Apart from this, Mr. Tilottam

Paudel, founder of JCCN stated that rights of child should be ensured in country’s new constitution. He

added that if child rights are not ensured Pragatinagar VDC and other stakeholders’ tireless efforts of

more than two decades would not be sustainable.

At the end of the program, they thank all who have helped for making Pragtinagar as Nepal’s only child-

friendly VDC. Mr. Khimananda Bhusal, child club facilitator; Govinda Khanal, VDC Secretary; Tilottam

Paudel, President Jagriti Child and Youth Concern Nepal; Roseena Gautam of JCYCN and Parshuram

Panta of UNICEF were presented in the program.

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Consultation Workshop and Advisory Committee Formation on 3M (Multi Agency, Multi Country

and Multi Donor) regarding participation of Youth and Children in Peace Building Conducted

A two day consultation workshop on 3M (Multi Agency, Multi country and Multi Donor) regarding

Participation of Youth and Children in Peace Building was held in Devchuli Municipality, Nawalparasi

on 25 and 26 December 2015. The program was organized by Jagriti Child and Youth Concern Nepal

(JCYCN) in collaboration with Save the Children, Search for Common Ground, World Vision

International and United Network of Young Peace Builders (UNOY) and PATRIR. JCYCN is one of the

stakeholders on the project of Participation of Youth and Children in Peace Building.

LET Team after Consultation workshop

The consultation workshop was facilitated by Mr. Dev Bahadur Ale, Senior monitoring and Evaluation

Accountability and Learning Coordinator, Save the Children and Mr. Bibhuti Bista, Project Country

Evaluator, Search for Common Ground. The workshop focused on the methods to be used during the field

by the Local Evaluation Team (LET). There were a total of 11 LETs. JCYCN is working on the project in

two municipalities namely Devchuli Municipality and Kawasoti Municipality and Tamseria VDC of

Nawalparasi district.

A total of 15 stakeholders were present on the event. On the second day of the program advisory

committee was formed consisting of 11 members namely: Mr. Chetnarayan Ghimire, Chief/ Under

Secretary, District Administration Office, Kawasoti, Mr. Nawaraj Adhikari, DSP, Nepal Police, Mr. Ram

Bahadur Rana, Project Coordinator, ISK-Nepal, Mr. Mahendra Bastakoti, Employ, Kawasoti

Municipality, Ms. Shanti K.C., Supervisor, Women and Child development Office, Nawalparasi, Ms.

Sarita K.C., Representative, Paralegal committee and Tamseria VDC, Mr. Moti Rijal, Member, District

Child Welfare Board, Mr. K.B. Rana, Chairman, Devchuli Television, Mr. Jeev lal Shrestha, Officer,

Devchuli Municapility, Deepak Sharma, LET Coordinator, JCYCN and Mr. Narayan Parajuli, Member,

District Peace Committee.

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Advisory Committee discussion on 3M Evaluation

The importance of 3M Evaluation program, the participation of youth and child in peace and the role of

advisory committee to the advisory committee were facilitated by Mr. Tilottam Paudel, Mr. Dev Bahadur

Ale and Mr. Bibhuti Bista.

A member of Jagriti Child Club Nepal awarded as an Ambassador of Asian Girl-child Rights

On the occasion of third International Girl-child Day, The Garden Hope Foundation Taiwan organized

second Asian Girl-child Ambassador Award from 6th to 11th October. Shraddha Mahat, a member of

Jagriti Child Club from Nepal in the recommendation of JCYCN; Ishita Upal from Indian Jagriti Mission;

Mangui, who has been doing remarkable works for the Rights of Girl-child in Taiwanese community and

Kimling Choran, a hardworking football player from Cambodia were awarded during the program.

Ms. Shraddha Mahat a 13 years old girl, who had been involved with Jagriti Child Club, the only club

with legal rights, with the message of Girl-child empowerment through talent and rights protection,

received the Asian Girl-child Rights Ambassador Award during the program where girls from four Asian

countries and the related organizations where the girls are involved took part. She, who had been selected

by an open competition to presented about the present situation of girl-child in Nepal. Shraddha had

received the certificate of award from a Principal of one of the Taiwanese School. Similarly, Ishita from

India and Mangui from Taiwan having worked directly in the field related to girl-child's rights received

the award for Asian Girl-child Human Rights Award and the award for the role of a girl-child in the Asian

community based development respectively. On the other hand Kimling Choran a girl from a backward

tribe in Combodia was awarded for her hard work to establish herself as a football player. The award has

further inspired JCYCN to work for the rights of girl-child in Nepal. Debaki Acharya, JCYCN's Girl-child

and Women's Right Program's Coordinator had attended the program as a representative of JCYCN.

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4.8. ENCOURAGING VOLUNTEERISM

Jagriti child and youth concern Nepal is focus on promoting and encouraging volunteerism as well. In

time and again JCYC Nepal provides volunteer opportunities to national and international youth

providing platform for the aspiring youth to explore their potentials in the fields such as education,

teaching, IT for development, program development. Additionally, it also provides opportunities and

favorable environment to the youth for creating alliance with national and international organizations.

Meanwhile, in 2014 JCYCN Nepal is able to accommodate 20 interns and 10 volunteers in various tasks

organized by Jagiriti Child and Youth Concern Nepal

4.9. MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS AND JCYCN

JCYCN frequently organizes various programs, social campaigns and child related seminars with the

coordination of radio, television and different local media and social youth clubs. These modes of

communication aids JCYCN in hosting programs and campaigns successfully. JCYCN understands the

role and importance of this these forms of communication and continues to work with issues concerning

youth in coordination with the media. There are altogether 15 FM radio stations frequently working with

JCYCN.

4.10. OTHERS

JCYCN has wide working areas, beside its major core working areas, which are described above; there

are other working sectors such as human rights. Nepal has experienced many critical and unstable

periods, and from these times of unrest JCYCN has continued to monitor the Human Rights Violence

Cases, the Constitutional Assembly Election, the Second Peoples Movement, the rescued injured people

and given humanitarian support to the victims of natural disasters. JCYCN always has 10 youth

volunteers ready to monitor the Human Rights Violence Cases during times of critical unrest in the

nation. Furthermore, we have extended this work in Rasuwa, Sindhupalchok, Nawalparasi, Rolpa, Salyan,

Lalitpur, Bhaktapur and Kathmandu. JCYCN also provides humanitarian support for approximately 100

families of flood victims in the Nawalparasi district with the support of Asian Resource Foundation

Thailand. In the event of natural disasters and other disturbances we request that national and

international organizations and friends support the victims and organize blood donor program. Also

JCYCN is a strong supporter of human rights, time and again JCYCN collaborate with various other

organizations to publish awareness creating pamphlets, brochures, leaflet etc. For example in the

International Youth Day 2014 it initiated to publish 5000 posters for creating awareness of youth and

mental health. In the same way, it also publishes 2500 posters on the occasion of international day of girl

child 2014.

4th

General Assembly of Jagriti Child and Youth Concern Nepal

Jagriti Child and Youth Concern Nepal, actively working in the field of children, youth and environment

conservation since 2001, has organized its fourth general assembly. Economic and progress report of last

three years, strategic plan, profile of organization, human resources regulation, management regulation,

communication and information regulation, disaster risk reduction regulation, and child-protection

regulation of organization have passed unambiguously by committee members of general assembly.

Similarly, they agreed to promote organization further for another 3 years with 11 members of working

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committee namely Mr. Tilottam Paudel, President; Ms. Shrijana Adhikari, Vice-president; Mr. Deepak

Sharma, General Secretary; Mr. Narayan Dhakal, Secretary; Ms. Sumitra Shrestha, Treasurer; and Ms.

Devaki Acharya, Mr. Manoj Pandey, Mr. Bidhya Sagar Pandey, Ms. Shobha Rana and Ms. Manorama

Gautam as Members.

Likewise, AGM has also agreed to give continuity to the Central Office in Kathmandu. It also thanked

everyone including Concern Universal Bangladesh, UNOY Netherslands, AYON, CWIN, The Garden of

Hope Foundation, AFR Nepal and Thailand, Youva Satta India, PNCCI, Global Peace Foundation,

Ministry of Youth and Sports, and District Sports Development Board who have helped JCYCN directly

or indirectly. It also decided to work in the field of children, women, peace building, disaster risk

reduction and environment conservation. Similarly, it also thanked all stakeholders who have helped to

declare Pragatinagar as first child-friendly VDC in the country.

Mr. Paudel been honored

President of Jagriti Child and Youth Concern Nepal and General Secretary of Association of Youth

Organizations Nepal (AYON) Mr. Tilottam Paudel has been honored by National Human Development

Forum for his tremendous efforts, contributions and a decade long work in the field of Children, Youth

and Peace building in rural areas and in the time of armed conflict. He has been working in this field for

nearly one decade. He is one of the prominent pioneering people to establish first Child Clubs in Nepal

and fought legal battle to initiating for the establishment of child clubs in Nepal. Additionally, Dr. Kashim

Shah advisor of JCYC- Nepal has also been honored by NHDF for his exceptional work and contribution

in health sector as he has worked in most of the rural areas of Nepal. In the mean time another 19 other

constituent assembly members has also been honored and a discussion has been organized on various

other issues as well. Chief Guest for the program was Ms Onsari Gharti, Vice-Chair person and deputy

speaker of the Constituent Assembly and other guests included member of national women commission

along with reporters and other concerned stakeholders.

After receiving the honor, Mr. Paudel expressed that, this has certainly motivated JCYC-Nepal to work

hard in the future and certainly has recognized JCYC Nepal as a prime organizations working in the field

of child, youth and peace in Nepal.

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5. Working Areas of JCYCN

JCYCN is currently working in the following districts

Nawalparasi

Rasuwa

Kathmandu

JCYCN is looking forward to work in the following districts of Nepal

Rolpa ( Conflict affected area)

Syanja ( Hilly area )

Surkhet ( Marginalized Terai Region )

Salyan ( Mid-Western marginalized district)

Kaski

6. FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

Jagriti Child and Youth Concern Nepal (JCYCN) do not have any regular financial assistance such as

donor/s hence it frequently works in collaboration with other organizations. Its financial aspects are

covered form membership fees, personal donation including cash offerings, services such as books,

volunteers. In the year 2014, JCYCN has been able to work along with The Garden of Hope Foundation,

UNOY, Save the Children.

7. STRENGTHS AND CHALLENGES OF JCYCN:

Jagriti Child and Youth Concern Nepal is a prominent organization in Nepal working towards the

betterment of children and youth. This has provided JCYCN with wide networks and alliances both at

national and international level. Despite having enough funding, due to its wide networks it is able to

work effectively at grassroots level. Additionally, volunteer staffs are often recommended by JCYCN for

various international exposures at prestigious international arena. However, lacks of enough funding often

avert JCYCN from working at its optimum efficiency. As well as, due to lack of enough funding JCYCN

is partly dependent upon the volunteer staffs sometime few are not able to give enough time as per the

need of the organization. Overcoming this challenge and working for the past 10 years is a major strength

of Jagriti Child and Youth Concern Nepal.

8. NETWORKS AND ALLIANCE

JCYCN believes that an individual person or organization cannot create large changes in a society, but

when many like-minded organizations, both national and international, cooperate with each other much

more is possible. Therefore, JCYCN prioritizes network building with stake holders, women, youth and

child clubs on both the national and international level. Additionally JCYC Nepal is in constant

communication with United Networks of Young Peace Builder (UNOY), and in the 2013 JCYC Nepal has

organized a Girl rights advocacy program in collaboration with the Garden of Hope Foundation, Taiwan.

As well as JCYC Nepal is a partner organizer for 2013 CMDRR Forum meet in collaboration with

Concern Universal Bangladesh. On the other hand, JCYC Nepal is working in various activities in

collaboration with Asian Resource Foundation (ARF), Thailand and Nepal.

8.1. Organizations in JCYCN Network

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Asian Resource Foundation (ARF) Nepal

Asian Resource Foundation (ARF-Thailand)

Association of Rural Education and development Service (AREDS)

Association of Youth Organization Nepal (AYON)

BRAC Bangladesh

Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction (CMDRR) Forum Nepal

Concern Universal Bangladesh

Development et Civilizations Lebret-Irfed (DCIL) France

Disaster Preparedness Network (DP Net)

Eco-Social Development Organization (ESDO)

Election Monitoring Group

Human Rights Education Radio Listener Electronic Committee (HRELIC-Nepal)

Human Rights Treaty Monitoring Coordination Centre (HRTMCC)

Isis Women's International Cross Cultural Exchange (Isis-WICCE)

National Alcohol Police Alliance (Napa)

Pax Romana

Social Protection Network Nepal

The Garden of Hope Foundation, Taiwan

UNOY, Netherland

Youth Coordination Center Thailand (YCCI)

Youth for Human Rights international,

Youth For Hunger rights International

Youth Pressure Group for Constitution Making.

YUVASATTA

JCYCN also coordinates with international organizations and welcomes them in the JCYCN office to

share ideas and experience among the different organizations of different countries. JCYCN is the

coordinating with network and partners organization of National and International organization. There

have already been over 90 foreign visitors from 20 different countries.

8.2. Partner organizations

Child clubs

CWIN

CWIN Youth Forum

INSEC

Kuleswor Abash School

PNCC

PTA

SMC

The Green Foundation

VDC’s child rights forum

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Volunteer Aid Nepal

Youth Action Nepal

Youth and Sports Ministry

Youth clubs

Youth Coordination Center

YUVSATTA

9. Achievements:

There will be various parameters to measure the achievements of any organizations. While looking back

to the year 2014, JCYC Nepal have been able to create alliance with various organization, been able to

organize and participate in various national and international level programs and conferences such as Girl

Child Rights Advocacy Campaign in collaboration with the Garden of Hope Foundation, Taiwan etc.

Along with that, JCYC Nepal is able to be members of various networks and alliance such as CMDRR

forum Nepal, DP-Net. In the same year, JCYCN has been able to work multi agency, multi donor and

multi country program in partnership with Save the Children and another major achievements was to

conduct the first ever Universal Periodic Review in Nepal which will be presented at the UN human

ritghts commission on march 2015.

10. Conclusion:

In the end, it can be concluded that among the mushrooming numbers of Non-Governmental Organization

working in various ways for the development of a nation, JCYC Nepal have been standing tall with

distinct goals, objectives and achievements. The year 2013 can be considered a continuation to the

achievements, as this year JCYC Nepal have been able to organize and participate in meaningful events

along with impacting youth, children and society as a whole.

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Annex I:

Major finding of the 8 principles that determine the quality of child and youth participation in peace

building were as follows:

In some initiatives information is effectively shared among children and youth but not in others.

in general there is less transparent information sharing by adults with children, than with youth.

Some child and youth clubs and initiatives are making efforts to include males and females from

diverse caste, ethnic and religious background.

Clubs provided important opportunities for males and females to collaborate with one another.

More systematic efforts are needed to assess and address protection and security risk that may be

faced when children and youth participate in peacebuilding with particular attention to challenges

faced by girls and young women.

Increased investment in intergenerational partnerships involving youth, children and adults is

required to enhance collaboration and accountability.

In some initiatives, there is insufficient accountability to children and youth, particularly younger

children from both their peers and adults.

Children and youth emphasized the need to establish legal provisions for child and youth

participation in the local peace committees ant the VDC , district and central levels.

Based upon the above findings, a set to specific recommendations have been developed for concerned

agencies, which are:

Political authorities to develop policies and procedures to support representation and meaningful

participation of youth and children in Local Peace Committees

Community members to stop discriminations on the basis of religion, caste, gender, disability,

age and other factors and collaborate with children and youth to prevent and address different

forms of discrimination and to help build social cohesion and peace in the community

Agencies working on peacebuilding or child/youth related programs should support

intergenerational dialogue and capacity building of children and the youth in peacebuilding,

including training in conflict analysis and conflict management, peace building, non-violent

communication, child/women/human rights

Children and Youth should increase efforts to support gender sensitivity and inclusive

participation of child ad youth from Dalit, Janajati and children/youth with disabilities, in their

club and peace building activities.

Female and males form diverse backgrounds should be meaningfully involved in the planning,

budget allocation, implementation and monitoring of their peaceduilding activities.

The media should disseminate information regarding child and youth participation and

peacebuilding efforts to increase awareness and encourage positive support among children,

youth and members of the public.

Donors should mainstream peacebuilding in their programmes, they should invest in vocational

skill training, and income generation programmes for female and male youth especially the most

marginalized.