Empowered Women Prosperous Nepal (UNJP)

Project

Project properties

NPL/22/05/EUR Asia and the Pacific Nepal European Union In progress This project is part of the Global Flagship Programme on Building Social Protection Floors for All

Description

The proposed joint programme seeks to address the formal and informal barriers women and girls are confronted with to enjoy their human rights. It strives to ensure target groups are associated not only as action targets but as key contributors and empowered agents of change. Target groups will include women and girls, men and boys, people who are non-gender conforming, households, community actors / networks, formal institutions, relevant social, economic and political actors in project intervention areas. The proposed joint programme aims to address structural gender gaps that limit Nepal’s development trajectory, while addressing specific strategic gaps most gender equality and women’s empowerment programmes do not address. It recognises the intersecting vulnerabilities, formal and informal forces which aggregate to leave behind half of Nepal’s vital forces and keep them in an intergenerational revolving cycle of deprivation, exclusion and discrimination. It will also build on the specific window of opportunity brought by the new federal system, with an unprecedented number of women in elected governmental positions. Partnerships and linkages with other ongoing initiatives will be critical in achieving results both within and across outcomes, as challenging the institutional culture of the political and social institutions will be key. The programme’s gender lens will be used as a means to shed light on key gender equality challenges affecting the performance of specific sectors, leaving behind women and girls and stifling their contributions.

SDG

Goals

End poverty in all its forms everywhere
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
Reduce inequality within and among countries
Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

Time

25.05.2023 - 31.10.2026

Budget

276,401 / 1,034,690 Development Cooperation

Timeline of linked projects

27.04.2024