Aawaaj has following International and National Partners at Present :
1. AEIN / TDH Surkhet : Facilitation of protecting mechanism and access to justice for children and women in Province 6, Surkhet district, Panchapuri Municipality - 2016 on wards
2. ECPAT Luxembourg – Elimination of Early child marriage intervention in Province 5, 6, Dailekh and Bardiya - 2017 onwards
3. FASTENOPFER – Kalikot – facilitate to access health, livelihood and education in Province , 6 at rural area- 2014 onwards
4. Karuna Shechen – Facilitate for the reproductive health issues especially for the prevention of pelvic organ prolapsed at Bardiya and Surkhet -2 Village council ( Lagan and Betan ) in Province 5 and 6 – 2014 onwards
5. Local government and central government support for child helpline, micro entrepreneurship, LGCDP and trafficking victims support in Province 6– 2010 onwards
The program is aimed targeting towards poorest of the poor which include migrants, factory workers and slum dwellers.
We started our work in a situation where the issues related to violence against children and women were some of the least explored phenomenon. It affects the whole society and cost of violence on nation was quite high. Today because of Aawaaj and Bice international’s partnership; we have been able to establish community support mechanism against violence of children and women where as the situations earlier were absolutely different as almost everyone lived in silence. Also the founder president is a member of bice since last 3 years to build network within Bice and outside of Bice. At present the works of Aawaaj has been appreciated by everyone and recognized and this credit goes to Bice for supporting to initiate this good work right from the beginning. The resilience approach while working with children and Bice is providing crucial support on breaking the silence on sexual abuse and exploitation through social Mobilization against gender based violence and child protection issues. Bice also support Education to poorest of the poor children, Conflict Mitigation and Peace Building Management Counseling, Care and Support (psychosocial, legal, medical, and economic support) Social Integration to women/children that faced violence. Following are the major achievements under the BICE partnership.
Parenting research: The Action Research has started from August 2011 and continued till 2013 July with 20 mothers who had faced various forms of violence. Through collaboration between BICE , EXIL and Aawaaj; it allows to bridge the gap between theory, research and practices. It allows to return the results of the work back to the community, in an accessible way, avoiding overly technical language that could silence the reality of the stakeholders again and impede social utility. In practice the action research is implemented by a cross cultural team of researchers and practitioners: the external researchers (IFIV) who are experienced in implementing the model of evaluation and intervention, the Nepali research team (selected University in Nepal) who has capacity to analyze data, and the Nepali practitioners team (Aawaaj NGO) who are experienced in facilitating community intervention. The model allows a classification of the basic parenting skills which focuses on 1) Attachment 2) Empathy 3) Parenting education models 4) Ability to participate in social networks and community resources. It strongly relies on the belief that the child who received care, protection and education from parents and/or caregivers, will be able, as a husband/wife, parents and member of the society, to build strong and healthy relationships based on models of good treatment towards themselves and the others. Therefore the interventions with mothers groups use participatory and experiential methodology to work on parenting capabilities. Moreover, the model, which implies that practitioners as persons should create a caring relationship with the patients based on good treatment, gives a particular importance to their need to be supported in their practice and to build for themselves a caring environment.
supported Radio Campaign on HIV and Violence against women in Surkhet district.
supported to improve livelihood through access micro credit opportunities and increase income of 100 marginalized women and girls who had various forms of gender based violence and improve the social and economic development of the poor women and girls in Surkhet, Dailkeh and Bardiya through vocational training
Radio “We Can” Campaign against violence of women once a week from Midwestern Regional Transmission of Radio Nepal and access in 20 districts and more than 316 listener’s clubs and more than 5000 become change makers against violence in mid and far western region.
Vocational Skills training for -100 young women benefited who are affected from conflict in Surkhet district.
Despite these international partnership district develo0pment committee, municipality, women and child development office, district child welfare board, local Governance project is providing crucial support to Aawaaj through prevention and access services, capacity building of community people, public-private partnership and monitoring and supervision are some of the key areas which are supported by Aawaaj
The Partnership has provided valuable technical assistance in areas of advocacy, communication, social mobilization, human resource development, actively involved in several research areas, enhancing the services to survivors for children and women and Advocacy, Communication , Social Mobilization activities. Capacity building trainings, orientations, community awareness and vocational trainings.