Projects

GWP has been implementing Integrated FP, HIV prevention, care, treatment services for FSWs, clients of FSWs and PLHIV in Makwanpur, Bara and Rautahat districts. Beside this GWP is active in additional 5 districts they are Kathmandu, Lalitpur, Bhaktapur, Dhading, Parsa with prevention of sex trafficking, send your daughter to school, and environment improvement awareness programs.

GWP is focused in four sectors:

1. Prevention of Girls Trafficking Program,
2. Health Improvement Program,
3. Education Program,
4. Environment Improvement Awareness Program

All programs are implemented in the field through a team work of field workers and peer educators from concern target populations who are associated with the organization.

Prevention of Sex trafficking through Female Empowerment, Education and Micro-enterprise development

For the program, GWP has been implementing different activities and strategies to achieve the following goals and objectives.

• Anti-trafficking Campaign and awareness
• Capacity building of vulnerable girls/women who are potential for trafficking.
• Raising awareness to promote Sexual health seeking behaviour
• Saving & Credit & Micro-enterprise development activities for vulnerable girls/women.

GWP has been implementing Prevention of Sex trafficking through Female Empowerment, Education and Micro-enterprise development Program in collaboration with The Body-Shop, GPI  as well as collaborating with other available NGOs and INGOs who are working in the same field with same mission in Nepal.

The program activities have developed 100 SHGs groups(having 15 members in each group) from adolescents/young and marginal females of rural/peri-urban areas, targeting survivors including but not limited to ;Brothels returnees, circus returnees as well as those identified as possibly vulnerable to trafficking.

Presently out of 100 SHGs 50 are operating in a sustainable manner. In one group we do have 15 girls members and with 1 member they do have 9 family members in average. Therefore in this manner we support 13500 community people for their livelihood. These groups are running Goat Farming, Mushroom Production, Paper Products, Poultry Farming and Ginger Farming.

GWP has also developed the peer communicators and facilitators from the group members and mobilized them in their communities to raise awareness on trafficking Prevention, promoting sexual health seeking behaviour, reducing gender based violence and socio-cultural discrimination in the community. For this purpose we use Peer Communication, Outreach activities, Street Dramas, Focus group Discussions, Mass Rally, and so on.

The organization managed and conducted different training on capacity building as well as skill development. GWP has given training on hand made paper making, candle making from wax, chicken farming, and goat farming, and so on.

From the skill training program GWP managed to provide various skill trainings among more than 1500 girls.

GWP provided different training to the girls group members on skill development that includes but not limited to;

1. Felt and Paper Craft,
2. Beauty Parlor basic training
3. Beauty Parlor advance training
4. Saving and Credit Training,
5. Community Peer Education & Communication Training,
6. Saving and Credit management trainings;
7. Business Management training.
8. Reproductive health and Sanitation training.
9. Training on candle light making
10. Training on converting their CBOs into cooperative

Seed Money Distribution for small business

Girls who have completed their different skill trainings have started their own micro business. GWP distributed seed money to run small business mobilizing their group’s savings with the seed money plus some loan from their clubs as well as investment from their out of pocket. In the community 270 households are now running their own micro business total amount worth of Nrs 8017000 as mentioned below. To start their own micros business the groups mobilized Nrs 4015000 as a loan from GWP and rest resources Nrs 692000 the groups managed to mobilize their loan resources as well as their own investment equity Nrs 3310000. Through these micro businesses 436 new jobs opportunities were created for the girls and their households members. All these business do have lead role of the girls who are members of the Girls groups nurtured by GWP. Through these activities GWP is also giving message in the community that these girls from your family can also earn for your households, therefore no point to think them as a material and just sold them for less than Nrs 30, 000 which now they can earn within a year through their own business.

GWP also concentrated on providing management trainings to enhance the capacity of the girls groups to run their IGAs in a more professional and systematic way. We also concentrated on providing skill to the girls to start appropriate IGAs suitable to their respective community and to their respective households.

Description of Seed Money Distribution for small business run by Girls Groups