Project title: Social Movement for Gender Equity
Project period: July 2011- June 2014 (3 years)
Working area: 6 Village Development Committees  (Sabhung Bhagatipur, Kotdurbar, Ranipokhari, Kahun Shivapur, Ramjakot and Bhirkot) of Tanahu District and 10 Village Development Committees (Chinnebas, Malyangkot, Sekham, Sankhar, Kyakmi, Manakamana, Oraste, Kichanas, Chitrebhangyang and Magyam Chisapani) of Syangja District in the Western Development Region of Nepal.
AIM:  Gender discrimination is reduced and women and girls are better able to enjoy their rights to education, security, health, and meaningful participation in family and community decision-making processes.
OBJECTIVE 1: (Awareness) To enhance community members’ commitment
to actively protect the rights of women and girls
OBJECTIVE 2: (Education) To increase regular attendance and participation of
girl children in schools.
OBJECTIVE 3: (Income generation) To increase economic independence among
marginalized women.
OBJECTIVE 4: (Sustainability) To strengthen 16 self help groups to become
self-sustaining and to advocate for women’s rights.
OBJECTIVE 5: (Psychosocial Well-being) To improve the psychosocial well-being of vulnerable women, children,
people with disability, and people with mental illness.
OBJECTIVE 6: (Capacity Building) To increase Kopila Nepal’s
capacity to implement the project activities effectively; to monitor,
evaluate, and write reports; and to raise funding for organizational
sustainability.
Funding Agency: Methodist Relief and Development Fund, UK

Project title: Hateymalo Karyakram (Accompaniment Program)
Start date: November 2011
Working area: Lamjung, Tanahun, and Kaski
GENERAL OBJECTIVE:
3.1 KOPILA, with the support of the ICRC, will aim to strengthen the capacities of individuals and families of the missing persons (FOM) by decreasing their symptoms, and increasing their functionality at the individual, family, and community levels.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:
3.2 To activate individual resources through the support groups of the FOM, specifically wives and mothers of the Missing Persons, with the objective to improve their psychosocial wellbeing.
3.3 Assist the families of the missing to respond, obtain benefits and restart their dignified social life through community sensitization and through the established support network, consisting of social support, economic support and legal and administrative support based on their needs.
Funding Agency: The International Committee of the Red Cross

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Project title: Hamro Chautari
Project Period: January 2012-December 2016
 Aim: The successful and safe reintegration of children who had previously been placed in children’s homes into their families and the wider community
Objective 1: To provide a safe family environment for children who have not yet been reintegrated into their families and communities.
Objective 2: To develop individual plans alongside each child residing in Kopila Nepal’s care for their successful reintegration within the family and community, including opportunities, skills, aptitude and hopes for the future.
Objective 3: To support families who have been reunited so that they can support the basic needs of their child, especially through capacity building for a bright future.
Objective 4: To expand the community based family empowerment program in the wider community in and around the areas where children from Hamro Chautari are reunited.
Donor: Hope for Himalayan Kids, Australia
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Project title: Community Empowerment for Gender Equity (CEGE)

Project period: June 2009-2011

Working area: 6 VDCs in Tanahu district

Goal: To socially and economically empower women and girls

Objectives:

• Create awareness on violence against women and early girl child marriages at the community and state level

• Encouraging girl child education

• Increase awareness amongst young girls about their rights

• Economic empowerment of marginalized women, particularly women suffering regular violence

• Registering of the Self Help Groups of women as a cooperative to enhance sustainability

Funding Agency: Methodist Relief and Development Fund, UK

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Project title: Community Based Psychosocial Well-being

Project period: 2009-2011

Working area: Syangja district (10 VDCs)

Goal: The people, especially women and children, of the 10 Village Development Committees (VDCs) of Syangja District of Western Nepal have increased psycho-socio-economic well-being through access to professional community based psychological support.

OBJECTIVE 1 : Awareness and advocacy

Enhanced awareness among local authorities, NGOs, communities and community leaders of protection principles and rights, risks and appropriate psychosocial responses for children, families and at-risk groups, with a view toward creating a healthier environment for social integration.

OBJECTIVE 2 : Psychosocial support

Improved psychosocial well-being of the people of 10 VDCs of Syangja district observed by pro-social behaviour, cognitive/emotional functioning, and performance of daily tasks coping and self-esteem and self-efficacy.

OBJECTIVE 3: Training and capacity building

Increased capacity of families/households, community organizations and service providers to support community members to cope with stress/trauma

OBJECTIVE 4: Income generation

Improved income for people, who have experienced, recently recovered from or are at risk of psychosocial problem, leprosy and disability through savings and credit, vocational training and income generation support.

Funding Agency: The Leprosy Mission, New Zealand

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Project title: Community-Based Psychological Trauma Education and Treatment (Pilot)

Project period: 2007-2008

Working area: Kaski District (7 VDCs) and Tanahu District (7 VDCs)

Objectives

1. Form a Psychological Trauma Education and Treatment Team in Nepal, and equip members with relevant training.

2. Plan and implement a two year programme of psychological trauma education and treatment in 14 Village Development Committees (VDCs) in two districts of the Western Region of Nepal.

3. Create awareness in each VDC on the causes and consequences of psychological trauma through a participatory awareness approach involving children and parents.

4. Run training programmes to empower 140 local school teachers, 14 health workers, 14 traditional healers, and 14 NGO staff members to identify psychologically traumatized children and provide appropriate community-based education and counselling.

5. Run training programmes with 70 parent’s groups, empowering them to identify causes and symptoms of psychological trauma in children, and to refer for treatment when appropriate.

6. Run training programmes with 70 child groups using a child-to-child approach, empowering them to identify causes and symptoms of psychological trauma in children, and to refer for treatment when appropriate.

7. Establish a resource and counselling point in each of the 14 VDCs where referrals can be offered counselling treatment.

8. Establish Village Child Protection Committees in the 14 VDCs as a mechanism to sustain the pragramme in the long term.

9. Plan and implement a two year participatory advocacy programme at the district, regional and national level highlighting thee causes and consequences of psychological trauma, encouraging the integration of psychological trauma education and treatment as a crosscutting issue in Nepal Government policies and other NGO programmes.

10. Empower local participants and VDCs to document issues by which they are affected and to use local, regional, and national media to influence policy.

11. Reflect on, and evaluate, all aspects of the two year programme identified above, and document ‘Lessions Learned’, which can be used by Kopila Nepal to improve and sustain the programme in other areas of Nepal or other countries.

Partners/collaborators: The Leprosy Mission Ireland, Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation, Development Media Workshop

Key contributers: Regional Psychosocial Support Initiative (REPSSI), Dr. Katrina Collins

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Project Title: Education for Underprivileged Children (EUC)

Project periods: 2002-2009

Working area: Kaski (7 VDCs), Tanahu (7 VDCs)

About this project: Initially the purpose of this project was to inform children about their own rights, especially the right to education. In 2005, we included the economic empowerment of mothers to enable their children to go to school, as well as education for the wider community (including teachers and child Protection Committees) about

childrens’ rights.

Funding Agency: Methodist Relief and Development Fun, UK

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Program title: School Support and Exchange

Program Period: 2001 on-going

With the support of Love Educated Nepal Project, AFS Japan, and Let’s Construct Schools in Nepal we are working to

-Support to primary schools to improve their physical facilities, furniture, and drinking water supply and toilet construction. The project also supports partial cost towards allowances of school if government paid teachers are not enough.

-Receive a group of students and teachers come to visit our working areas from Japan for cultural learning exchange.

-Send two high school (16-18 years old) students from Nepal get the opportunity to go to Japan to study Japanese language and culture for a year

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Project title: Higher Education Support for Blind Girls

Project period: 2007 – on-going

Many organizations and the government of Nepal have provided support for the high school education of blind people, as well as limited support for higher education. However, those whose families have few resources often need additional support (room and board, stationary, etc.) in order to attend higher education. Through this program we have been able to provide scholarships to five girls in Pokhara each year.