About SUSTAIN

Globally, CARE seeks to increase resilience by focusing on how women, adolescent girls, children, and men can effectively plan for and manage shocks and stresses that threaten their well-being by analyzing the underlying causes of poverty and vulnerability, including gender inequality, and social exclusion.

In the year CARE Nepal continued to address governance challenges to promote pro-poor, gender equal and socially inclusive institutions and policies, protecting and promoting food and nutrition security, economic empowerment, and resilience to climate change among women and adolescent girls from poor, vulnerable socially excluded groups.

CARE Nepal also worked towards building local capacity of civil society institutions related to livelihoods, natural resources, and climate change which included improving governance and management of groups such as forestry user groups and the federation, farmer groups and networks, the Land Rights Forum and National Community Disaster Management Committees (NCDMCs).

REACH

2,21,267

Individuals were reached by CARE Nepal through this program in 2018.

PROGRAM INITIATIVES

Dignified work space

Sunita Pahari and her husband Ramesh Pahari married young. They have a daughter and live together with Ramesh’s parents in Godawari municipality, Lalitpur district. Both Sunita and Ramesh work as manual laborers for their livelihood. As work in the construction sector is seasonal, they aren’t often employed in the same site.

On March 8, 2018 (International Women’s Day), Sunita was working at the home of a middle-aged male relative in her village. At around 1 pm when she returned after delivering bricks, he was the only one present in the house. He took advantage of the isolated environment and grabbed Sunita by the wrist and molested her.  She cried for help but he had covered her mouth and continued to molest her. Her repeated attempts to escape failed until she grabbed a pot and hit him on his head. She then ran outside and cried for help. All the villagers including her husband arrived, the culprit was beaten by the crowd and then submitted to the police custody.

This incident left Sunita sleepless for many nights. She felt that women aren’t safe anywhere. She says, “A place of work should be dignified and safe. I know that most women in the construction sector have been abused and working in such an unsafe environment is a huge challenge for us.

SUSTAIN PROGRAM INITIATIVES:

Hariyo Ban: The second phase of the Program started in July 2016 and will run for another five years. It builds on the accomplishments and learning of the first phase in addressing biodiversity threats and climate vulnerability. The goal of the new phase is to increase ecological and community resilience in biodiverse landscapes – Chitwan-Annapurna Landscape (CHAL) and the Terai Arc Landscape (TAL). This goal will be achieved through two objectives (a) improving conservation and management of TAL and CHAL landscapes; and (b) reducing climate change vulnerability in the landscapes..

Right to Food: Right to Food project (2013-2017) aimed at strengthening civil societies’ capacity to mobilize and organize their constituency to effectively claim people’s rights and monitor policy implementation related to food security/right to adequate food in Siraha, Udaypur and Okhaldhunga districts.

Sabal: Sustainable Action for Resilience and Food Security (Sabal) is a five -year (2014-2019) consortium project funded by USAID. It is a multi-sector project designed to address the root causes of poverty by strengthening and diversifying livelihoods; improving health and nutritional status of women,children and adolescent girls and ; strengthening the abiity of households and communities to mitigate, adapt and recover from shocks and stresses.