active· Education

Promoting Right to Education and Protection of the Most Vulnerable Children (PREP)

With this project, Interpedia, Loo Niva and Patan CBR wish to see that, in the long run, all children, regardless of their disability, sex, caste or religion enjoy their childhood in a safe, supportive and inclusive environment in Mahankal and Konyosome Rural Municipalities of Lalitpur District. To achieve that long term impact, the project aims, in four years (2021-2024) to ensure that: 1) Project municipalities and provincial government adopt and implement disability inclusive education and child protection policies (Outcome 1). 2) All 40 public schools (primary and secondary) of the project area are safe, supportive, accessible and inclusive for all, including girls, Dalits and Children with Disabilities (Outcome 2) 3) Local communities are safe, supportive and inclusive to all children, specifically girls, Dalit and CwDs (Outcome 3) 4) Project staff delivers high quality rights-based work performance and partners are able to lead child rights movements and networks (Outcome 4) The project takes a human rights progressive approach to development, creating a systems-level dialogue between rights holders and duty bearers, raising the capacity of local duty bearers and rights holders to ensure the sustainability of results. The project will take place in ten wards (smallest administrative unit of Nepal's governance structure), covering 40 schools and all villages. The final beneficiaries are children with disabilities and their families, Dalit children and girls. Work is done with elected members of wards, rural municipalities and provincial government, officials in rural municipality and provincial level education and social affairs offices, school teachers, principals, hired staff, students, parents, community leaders, parents of children with disabilities and out-of-school children with disabilities, Dalits and girls. Collaboration with community-based organisations and other NGOs active in the area is done to ensure synergy and avoid duplication. Communities as an entity will be reached with innovative Pidhi Kakshya- method, where awareness raising is done by community members in the community itself, thus also reaching the hard-to-reach audience.