Women Empowerment for Transformation in Churia (SAKCHAM)
Location: Mahottari, Sarlahi, Makwanpur, Chitwan
Project Period: January 1, 2007 - December 31, 2009
Major Donors: Austrian Development Agency and CARE Austria
Partners: Kalika Community Development Center, Madi (Chitwan)
Rural Women Service Center, Hetauda (Makwanpur)
Child Protection Organzation, Lalbandi (Sarlahi, Mahottari)
Total Budget: $960,000.00
Implemented by: CARE Nepal
Target Group: The direct target population of the project will be poor, vulnerable and socially excluded women, particularly those that are single (e.g. survivors' of the conflict and voilence widows; abandoned, battered or adolescent women) and women who lack access to livelihood opportunities and Natural Resources (such as Dalits women and women from marginalized ethnic groups such as Tharu, Magar, Bote, Majhi, Tamang, and Mushahar).
 

Brief Description of Project:

The Project aims is - By 2009 women in the Churia region have enhanced skills and capacities to exercise their rights by addressing the policy and socio-cultural barriers that impede their political, social and economic empowerment and the implementation of UN Resolution 1325.

The project focuses to strengthen women’s capacities to protect and claim their basic rights by inclusive management of natural resources for improved livelihoods, enhanced psychosocial wellbeing and increased participation in peace building processes.

The expected results of the project are :

  1. Women have enhanced competencies and capacities to access, control and manage natural resources for improved livelihoods; 

  2. Women claim their rights through supportive peace-building and natural-resource management policies, at local, institutional and national levels;

  3.  Women mobilize communities to enhance women’s agency and community support mechanisms, including psycho-social wellbeing;

  4.  In collaboration with partners and communities, CARE documents and disseminates lessons learned in relation to women’s rights attainment and psychosocial programming.
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Contacts in Projects

SAKCHAM Project
Pushpa Marga, Hetauda
Makwanpur
Phone: 057-521116

Radha Paudel
Team Leader
E-mail: radha@carenepal.org
Mobile: 9855067950

Contacts in Central Office

Rabin Bogati
Program Coordinator
Central Office
Phone: 977-1-5522800
E-mail: rabin@carenepal.org