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>View discussions about this entry Country: Nepal
Organization: Women Skill Creation Center
Sector Focus - Civil society
Year the initative began (yyyy) - 2007
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions
What is your signature innovation, your new idea, in one sentence? - Empowering community to remove all type of human slavery by improving livelihood opportunity to servitudes
Describe your innovation. What makes your idea unique and different than others doing work in the field? - For creating ownership of the program, Women Skill Creation Center (WOSCC) formed different level groups from victim group and parents group and mobilizes them to prevention and reduces the human slavery. The program is focused on community based with need/situation assessment by mobilizing community people. The populations are trafficked young women, girls and domestic child. For reducing human slavery, Income generating activities are implementing that help to increase socio economic status as well as help the victims to retain, reintegrate and rehabilitate in their communities.
Delivery Model: How do you implement your innovation and apply it to the challenge/problem you are addressing? - WOSCC develop action plan with community participation that helps to identify the ground level need and create ownership among them. Communities also implement and monitor the program. WOSCC mobilize local facilitators for regular technical backstopping.
Regarding challenge and problem, Marketing of local production through income generating activities, time constraint due to post conflict, less address disable person and enough financial support but WOSCC coordinate with FNCCI for marketing, reschedule program, coordinate with disable welfare organization and search local seed fund. How do you plan to grow your innovation? - Lesson Learned and experience will share to project district, adjoining district stakeholders and district level stakeholder that help to encourage other stakeholder to implement program in their surrounding communities. The best practices and lesson learned will apply existing as well as new areas. For these activities, WOSCC will coordinate with government, non-government as well as private sector for creating enabling environment as well as raising fund to implement new areas and sustainability perspectives.
Do you have any existing partnerships, and if so, how do you create them? - WOSCC has received the financial and technical support from the Free The Slavery (FTS). Partnership has been created with local authority, community groups and civil society to implement, monitor and increase ownership among local stakeholders in the program.
Provide one sentence describing your impact/intended impact. - Reintegrate and rehabilitate trafficked young women and circus return girls in community
How many people have you served or plan to serve? - This field has not been completed. (166 words or less)
Please list any other measures of the impact of your innovation? - WOSCC has been developed the program indicators and monitoring tools to measures the impact. There is regular follow-up and participatory monitoring and periodic reviews of program with government, civil society and beneficiaries to ensure the benefits to the target groups.
Exactly who are the beneficiaries of your innovation? - The marginalized, trafficked young women, circus returned girls and domestic labor children and their families. Beside this, potential victims and ethnic minorities who do not have access in government resources and services
How is your initiative financed (or how do you expect your initiative will be financed)? - WOSCC has been implementing community empowerment for removing children and young women from all forms of slavery and uplifts livelihoods of the identified survivors of trafficked young women and deprived groups and create conducive environment to the domestic child labor for their safety. Currently, program is supported by Free the Slave (FTS), USA. For the sustainability WOSCC formed Vigilance Committees (VCs) in each program Village development Committees and mobilize them to create awareness, community empowerment and coordination /linkages with stakeholders to remove all kind of slavery from the communities.
If known, provide information on your finances and organization - Annual budget;
Annual revenue generated; Number of staff: Free the Slavery USA has been financed the program since April 2007. The WOSCC is also contributing locally available resources and additional human resources for achieving the objectives. The total budget for the program supported by FTS is given below. • Annual budget US $ 27,320 What is the potential demand for your innovation? - The “Empowerment against Human Slavery and Trafficking” program covered 3 Village Development Committees (VDCs) including a municipality but community people are demanding such program in neighboring VDCs in Makwanpur district. The program has been given positive impact on removing human slavery especially trafficking young women and domestic child labor in project VDCs.
What are the main barriers to financial sustainability? - WOSCC is a non-profitable organization and make investment the available grant in the development initiatives. It has not own internal resources to cover the program and administrative costs. WOSCC developed the proposal and bid for financial resources to remove the all kind of human slavery in the community. Only few staff is professional and they also coordinate and develop proposal to generate financial resources from aboard. Government of Nepal (GoN) realized civil society and NGOs also development partners but they are reluctant to mobilize NGO by providing financial resources. All most development project and activities are implemented by the government machineries and NGOs only received the fund from donor communities to implement the program in remote area where the GoN machinery is absence
What is the origin of this innovation? Tell us your story. - The trafficking young women and domestic child labors’ issues came by news as well as during other development activities implementation period by WOSCC. Low income level, less economic opportunities, lack of education in ethnic minorities poor families they did not have other options. WOSCC did a survey and found that there were many families suffered from human slavery. Based on survey, WOSCC initiated a awareness campaign against trafficking young women and child labor. The program responded good result from communities that inspired WOSCC to expand area against trafficking young women and child labors. Now a day, program is covered in 3 VDCs including a municipality in Makawanpur district. The program is implemented in community based approach. WOSCC is encouraged community people to form Vigilance Committee (VC) to create awareness against trafficking young women and child labors. VCs also involved identifying such families as encouraged to get back their trafficked young girls from India who are involved sexual workers and circus. Like wise VCs convinced and encourage child labors families and host families to send the children in schools. WOSCC supported income generating activities (IGA) for circus returned and trafficked young women.
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Contact Information:
Juneli Shrestha
Chairperson Women Skill Creation Center (NGO) Discussions about this entry |
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