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CONTENTSMessage from the National Director 2

Child Sponsorship 3

Ministries

Transformational Development 5

Humanitarian Emergency Affairs 8

Advocacy 9

Sectors

Maternal Child Health and Nutrition 11

Education 13

Livelihood 15

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene 17

Child Protection 19

Child Health Now 21

Child Well Being 24

Strategy Map 25

FY 2012 Finance Report 26

List of Acronyms 28

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world vision in nepalWorld Vision first started its development initiatives in Nepal in 1982 by donating funds to local groups for building hospitals and providing health care. In response to the 1988 earthquake, World Vision supported local non-governmental organisations in providing assistance to quake victims. Likewise, in 1993, World Vision helped flood victims through local partners. World Vision formally started its long-term development work in Nepal after signing both general and project agreement with the Social Welfare Council in 2001.

Over the past years, World Vision International Nepal (WVIN) has funded community development and currently we are operational in 14 districts namely Bhaktapur, Doti, Jumla, Kathmandu, Kaski, Kailali, Lamjung, Lalitpur, Morang, Rupandehi, Sunsari, Udayapur, Achham and Sindhuli.

Who we areWorld Vision is a Christian relief, development and advocacy organisation dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice.

Motivated by our Christian faith, World Vision is dedicated to working with the world’s most vulnerable people. World Vision serves all people regardless of religion, race, ethnicity or gender.

World Vision started out in Korea in 1950 to meet the needs of children orphaned by the war in Korea. From there, the programme expanded to other Asian nations and gradually spread to nearly a hundred countries.

Area Development Programme (ADP)ADP is our primary approach to carry out the transformational development in the community where we work. ADP is a long term development programme (10 to 15 years) in which World Vision works with the poor and its partners in specific, defined, targeted geographical locations to address micro and macro poverty issues in the sectors of Maternal Child Health and Nutrition, Education, Livelihood, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and Child Protection..

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Dear Friends

I am happy to share with you the annual review of the activities, achievements, and challenges of World Vision International Nepal (WVIN) during FY 2012.

The past year has been a year of achievement in terms of expanding Area Development Programme (ADP) coverage. During FY 2012, WVIN opened three new ADPs. One was in Sindhuli district and the other two were in Achham and Doti where WVIN already had two ADPs in both districts. With multiple ADPs in one district, greater support can be provided to that district in a cost-effective manner. We are thankful to World Vision Canada and World Vision Singapore for funding these new ADPs. We now support a total of 17 ADPs. By 2014 four ADPs – Kathmandu, Lalitpur, Bhaktapur, and Kaski – will come to the end of their lifespan. As an ADP comes to the end of its life, WVIN works with the communities and government to evaluate the sustainability of programme impact, and to try to ensure that systems are in place to maintain the achievement once the ADP closes. Development is one of WVIN’s core areas of work, along with advocacy and humanitarian emergency affairs.

A National Office Disaster Management committee was formed to provide policy support and oversee the disaster management portfolio at WVIN. WVIN responded to disasters at the community level and continued to work with government and non-government organisations to develop District Disaster-Preparedness and Response Plans, and supported District Disaster Relief Committees (DDRC) of Morang, Rupandehi, Kaski, and Jumla districts. The Child Health Now (CHN) campaign was successfully launched during the past year with events involving WVIN staff, government officials, partners, and community stakeholders spreading the key message,

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“Together we can end preventable death”. CHN is World Vision’s global campaign to end the preventable death of children under five. Through the Child Health Now campaign, World Vision is calling on the international community to meet its Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of reducing maternal and child deaths by 2015 - specifically MDG 4 and 5. Child Health Now in Nepal aims to contribute to reducing child mortality in disadvantaged areas of Nepal in line with MDG 4, particularly in the poorest and most disadvantaged communities.

During the year, over 210,000 children and their family members participated in World Vision-supported activities in community development, relief, and advocacy. These activities focused on the programme sectors of MCHN, Education, Livelihood, WASH and Child Protection. WVIN also worked to review its strategy aligning it with all our systems and processes to ensure achievement of our Child Well-being objectives.

As the country faces new sets of challenges with the second Constituent Assembly elections in the offing, WVIN strives to ensure children are healthy, educated for life, experience the love of God and their neighbours, and are cared for, protected and can participate.

Lastly, I am grateful to all staff, partners and donors who have contributed towards the work of WVIN during the past year and look forward to another year of collaboration.

Sincerely,

Michael Frank National Director

Child sponsorship in World Vision is an effective and fulfilling way to help give a child from a poor community the chance of a brighter future. The goal of sponsorship is to improve the well-being of children. In order to thrive, children need to grow up in an environment that provides the essentials that they need for today and hope and opportunities for tomorrow. We believe that children need good health and to be cared for and protected. They need to be educated for life, be welcome to participate in decisions that affect their lives and experience the love of God and of their neighbours. Sponsors’ contributions fund vital development work in a sponsored child’s community and makes a real contribution to the well-being of children. World Vision works with community groups and the children themselves to plan and carry out changes so that more children will gain opportunities to fulfil their potential in life. Sponsors witness these changes through progress reports from the community and personal communication with their sponsored children. Sponsors can encourage the child they sponsor by writing or even visiting their sponsored child and their family. World Vision’s project activities in communities benefit not just sponsored children but all children and their families.

In FY 2012, 1,500 children from Udayapur East ADP and 1,000 children from Jumla ADP were registered for child sponsorship. By the end of FY 2012, the number of sponsored children was

19, 750 from 12 districts namely Kathmandu, Lalitpur, Rupandehi, Lamjung, Kailali, Bhaktapur, Kaski, Sunsari, Morang, Jumla, Doti and Udayapur. In FY 2012, two ADPs i.e. Udayapur West and Kailali East also started the Sponsorship Project. Through Annual Progress Reports (APR) and sending season’s greetings these children can communicate with their supporters about the change and impact on themselves and the communities where they live. To better connect children with their supporters, WVIN took part in sponsorship 2.0 initiatives, a global initiative under child sponsorship operation.

In FY 2012, WVIN was also a part of the Sponsorship Tracking Enhancement Programme (STEP), a reporting tool which was launched globally by World Vision. By December FY 2012 information on all registered children was published on Support Office websites. Quick STEP, a new way of uploading data on registered children, started in three new ADPs (Morang, Kailali West, and Sunsari). National Office Child Sponsorship generated a STEP report, such as child well-being summary, presence and participation and corresponding reports, and shared them among National Office departments to ensure registered children’s participation in project activities. APR cards were designed according to the type of ADP concerned. Sponsorship Basic Training, which links the child sponsorship programme with child well-being and helps transform supporters, was held in three different regions, Central, Eastern and Western.

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Samjhana Sardar, 9, studies in the third grade and loves to go to school. She lives in a remote village in Bhaudaha Village Development Committee in Morang, an eastern district of Nepal. She is a World Vision-sponsored child whose life has been transformed after receiving a gift from her sponsor.

Samjhana’s sponsor sent her a gift few years ago, a goat. Samjhana’s family was able to build their own house after working hard to rear the goat, sell the kids and buy other farm animals. Today, they not only rear goats but also pigs and a cow in their own small backyard.

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Development is one of WVIN’s core ministries along with Advocacy and Humanitarian Emergency Affairs. World Vision uses the ‘Area Development Programme’ or ‘ADP’, as its core approach to development. An ADP covers a defined geographical area with a population of between 20,000 and 50,000 people and according to WVIN’s strategy and assessment of the needs of the area, features three to five projects. Key sectors are Maternal Child Health/Nutrition, Education, Livelihood, and Child Protection and hence these are usually the core projects. ADPs funded by sponsorship will also have a Sponsorship Management Project. Depending on the local needs, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, or Emergency Preparedness may be additional projects. In FY 2012 WVIN had 17 ADPs located in 12 districts.

For FY 2012 WVIN’s key initiatives indevelopment included:• Refining its approach to development, using World Vision’s new

Development Programme Approach• Opening three new ADPs• Measuring Change• Preparing four ADPs for closure as they come to the end of

their lifespan in 2013

Refining development approachFrom 2007 to 2009, World Vision (WV) worked globally on refining its development approach, and looking at lessons learnt in the way WV does development. This led to the publication of WV’s Development Programme Approach (DPA), which sets out some of the basic principles for success in development. Following the

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2piloting of new approaches, WVIN began to align more of its ADPs to these global principles. By the end of FY12, five ADPs were applying this new approach to their new designs.The DPA refines WVIN’s focus in a number of ways. WV sees that effective development is as a result of relationships – people and systems change based on relationships, not simply technical knowledge. WVIN therefore sees its core contribution to development as being one of relationships. WVIN staff live in the communities where it works, building effective relationships with community members, understanding the local context, identifying real issues and real capacities, and encouraging community members to become active in improving their own situations.

Partnering Following its efforts at improving its understanding of partnerships, WVIN has recognised that there are different types of partners. In an ADP, WVIN works with:

• Community Partners – existing groups such as mothers groups, water users’ groups, school management committees, and youth groups that are based in the community. WV works to engage with these groups to enable them to identify and implement activities to develop their own communities. The building of capacity in community groups helps to ensure the sustainability of impact and activities regardless of WV’s presence.

• Government Partners – local government bodies such as village and district authorities, branches of the departments of education, health etc., schools and health posts provide valuable services to communities and have a mandate to work there.

• NGO Partners – WV works with local NGOs to provide valuable technical support to communities, helping to improve knowledge, skills and understanding.

The nature of WV’s relationship varies with each type of partner, but the key to a successful programme is to have all four – community, government, NGOs, and WVIN – working together in a partnership.

AccountabilityIn addition, the DPA calls for increasing accountability, and looks at how WV provides accountability to communities, government, NGOs and donors. In this regard WVIN began piloting a community feedback mechanism in one ADP, with the hope that it might be expanded to others.

Using good practice in each sector Globally WV has looked to see what the best practice is for programming in each sector i.e. in health and education. As a result project models have been developed using best practice. WVIN has taken a selection of these models, contextualised them and is considering incorporating them in all its new programming. During FY12, WVIN started carrying out child protection assessments to help communities and staff understand child protection issues and identify how to improve local systems so as to ensure child protection is both implemented in the interests of the child.

Empowerment approach One important aspect of the DPA approach is to see communities and stakeholders as key owners and implementers of their own development. One approach that WVIN started in FY 2012 is called Citizen Voice and Action (CVA). CVA is one form of local level advocacy that transforms the dialogue between communities and government so as to improve services like health and education that affect the lives of children and their families. This empowerment approach also enabled WVIN to link the community-led approaches to improve services, with engagement at the national level with the Child Health Now Campaign.

Expanding ADP coverageDuring FY 2012, WVIN opened three new ADPs. One was in Sindhuli District and the other two were in Achham and Doti

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where WVIN already had ADPs in both districts. With multiple ADPs in one district, greater support is provided to that district so WVIN now prioritises the opening of a second ADP in one district.

Measuring ChangeIn order to see whether our programming is making the best impact on the well-being of children, it is important for WV to measure change over time. To do this, we start by doing a baseline survey so as to measure the situation at the beginning of a project. Then the same indicators will be measured on a regular basis so we can see whether there is progress. During FY 2012, six ADPs carried out baseline surveys. Key data from ADP and project baseline surveys were further analysed in the light of the country context and shared with the government’s Central Programme Advisory Committee.

Baseline surveys were also done for two projects being carried out across multiple ADPs: the Child Health Now Project and a Child Protection Project. These surveys included research which provided information on how WVIN can influence enforcing good policies on child protection and child health and maximise its resources for the benefit of vulnerable children. One ADP (Kailali West) carried out a household survey as a way of evaluating the programme after four years. Some positive changes were observed. e.g. an increase in access to drinking water, in the trend to safe deliveries, and in food security.

Preparing for ADP closureIn FY 2013 four ADPs – Kathmandu, Lalitpur, Bhaktapur, and Kaski – will come to the end of their lifespan. Planning continued during FY 2012 in order to prepare for this. As an ADP comes to the end of its life, WVIN works with the communities and government to assess the sustainability of programme impact, and to try to ensure that systems are in place to maintain that once the ADP closes.

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HEA is one of the three ministries of WVIN which seeks to ensure that children and communities can survive disasters and that the organisation is able to respond to emergencies. The implementation of those goals takes two forms. One is the integration of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) into Area Development Programmes (ADPs); the other is preparing the organisation to respond effectively to emergencies. WVIN has a strategy of integrating DRR into all ADPs and efforts have been made to integrate DRR into priority sectors. So far, one of the ADPs has integrated DRR into the Learning through Evaluation with Accountability and Planning (LEAP) process, and other ADPs are in the process of intregrating DRR into their work. A framework for integrating DRR into education has been developed and all education projects designed by WVIN have included DRR.

WVIN has experience of responding to small-scale, short-term emergencies in ADPs, emergencies such as flooding and landslides, which occur frequently in Nepal. At national level, WVIN has the National Emergency-Preparedness and Relief Fund (NEPRF) which is used for disaster preparedness and initial phase of response. This amount has been sufficient for the responses that WVIN has made over the past few years. For FY 2012, $232,837 was allocated to NEPRF.

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In FY 2012, a National Office Disaster Management committee was formed to provide policy support and oversee the disaster management portfolio at WVIN. Key national office staff including sector specialists, DME team and some ADP staff were trained in DRR. In Udayapur West ADP the DRR integration toolkit was used to ensure DRR integration into project designs. Community-Owned Vulnerability and Capacity Assessments were carried out in the communities and issues pertaining to disasters identified by the communities are now addressed in ADP project designs. The checklists developed by the DME team for conducting FGD (Focus Group Discussion) during community consultations also include risk-related questionnaires.

In FY 2012, WVIN continued to work with government and non-government organisations to develop District Disaster-Preparedness and Response Plans, and continued to support 4 District Disaster Relief Committees (DDRC) of Morang, Rupandehi, Kaski, and Jumla districts. WVIN also responded to the diarrhoea outbreak in Doti in July-August 2012. 14,603 people from 8 VDCs were helped with awareness rising activities, soaps, water guard/ aqua tab, Oral Rehydration Solutions. Additionally, across all ADPs, 15,156 people directly benefitted from WVIN’s HEA work in DRR and emergency relief.people directly benefitted from WVIN’s HEA work in DRR and relief.

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WVIN has identified advocacy as one of its core ministries, alongside transformational development and humanitarian emergency affairs. WVIN’s advocacy focuses on influencing government policy and practice to provide greater benefits and services to vulnerable children and their families. WVIN has identified increased access to government services for children and communities, promoting child-friendly local governance, and supporting the Child Health Now campaign as key areas.

Child Friendly Local Governance (CFLG)In FY 2012, WVIN’s advocacy continued towards the endorsement of the National Framework on Child Friendly Local Governance (CFLG) and its operational guidelines by the Nepal Government Cabinet. CFLG means a governance system that institutionalises child rights such as survival; development; protection; and meaningful participation in the policy, structure, system and working procedures of local bodies. Following that endorsement, WVIN and UNICEF agreed on a partnership that aims to contribute to achieving the objectives of CFLG implementation at two levels: National and sub-national level. In 2012, orientation and training in CFLG was held for district-level stakeholders, including the Association of the District Development Committee; Nepal and sectoral Ministries, Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development (MoFALD); municipalities, the Municipality Association of Nepal (MuAN); implementing agencies, government officers. Other activities conducted were: support and guidance for the development of user-friendly material for CFLG for community and frontline workers, software for VDC profile software, and child-friendly monitoring tool.

Coalitions and networksIn FY 2012, WVIN advocated for children’s rights as a member of National Coalition for Children as Zones of Peace and Child Protection (CZOPP). Established in 2003, CZOPP is a national coalition/network of organisations working in the field of child rights working collectively to coordinate and integrate advocacy for the protection and promotion of the rights of children. Achievements of this network in FY 2012, were meetings with different stakeholders to ensure children’s rights and their input into the constitution-making process, meetings on Child Rights Bill with organisations, key stakeholders and parliamentarians working exclusively for the promotion of child rights, the promotion of the Schools as Zones of Peace (SZOP) campaign in co-ordination with the Department of Education (DOE), and ensuring the coordination and support among child rights organisation for the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) monitoring and reporting.

In FY 2012, WVIN also promoted child participation as a member and partner of the Consortium of Organisations working for Children’s Participation, a loose national network of organisations working for the promotion of children’s participation at all levels, from family to state. Currently, there are 61 member organisations from 29 different districts representing all five development regions. In FY 2012, a major achievement of this network, was the endorsement of the National Policy for Children (Balbalika Sambandhi Rashtriya Neeti) by Cabinet on 16 April 2012. This policy is the culmination of four policies concerning Children of Nepal-Child Survival, Child Development, Child Protection, and Child Participation. Follow up in the past year on the Child Club

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2Strategic Review also led to the development of a common vision for child clubs to support the child club movement in Nepal.

Partnership with GovernmentIn FY 2012, and in collaboration with United Nations’ agencies and international non-governmental organisations WVIN continued to support the Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare. The

partnership aims to strengthen the child protection system, building mechanisms and structure both at national and district level. In this regard, at national level, the Central Child Welfare Board (CCWB) was supported to review and strengthen its structure so as to function more effectively as a national focal point for its work of ensuring the rights of children, as well as its launch of the National Child Protection System and National Child Policy.

Maternal Child Health and Nutrition (MCHN) is one of the key sectors in WVIN. In the areas (ADPs) that WVIN works in, it seeks to improve the health of pregnant and lactating women, the health and nutrition of children under five, reduce malnutrition in under fives, and increase the quality of household-level management of childhood illnesses, particularly diarrhoea and pneumonia.

In FY 2012, WVIN implemented maternal child health and nutrition activities in 6 of its ADPs, in Sunsari, Lamjung, Jumla, Butwal, Udayapur, Doti districts. In Kathmandu, Lalitpur, and Bhaktapur ADPs, maternal child health and nutrition activities were carried out through the ECCD project. Kailali East, Doti East and Udayapur West ADPs also designed a MCHN project.

In FY 2012, the MCHN project trained and mobilised Female Community Health Volunteer (FCHV) and mothers’ groups to provide better health services and disseminate awareness regarding safe motherhood in wards and VDCs of the areas ADPs work in. Sessions for pregnant and lactating women and their families to raise awareness of their special needs during and after pregnancy, the provision of equipment for local health institutions, the promotion of outreach clinics have all helped improve maternal and child health-care practices at the household and institutional level. With various awareness raising activities, the trend for pregnant and lactating mothers to ask health care services for ANC, PNC, TT, Albendazole, and iron tablets, along with institutional deliveries, has increased. The MCHN project has also helped to make mothers’ groups more active. These groups help women share information on different

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health issues with each other, issues such as the importance of ANC and PNC, safe delivery, consumption of nutritious food, rest and hygiene required during antenatal and postnatal period, infant and neonatal care, immunisation, breast feeding, and complementary feeding. The Project has helped strengthen Primary Health Care – Out Reach Clinics (PHC-ORC). Many of those not functioning previously, are now active and providing services. Training in home-based management on diarrhoea and pneumonia, the prevention of childhood malnutrition, monthly growth monitoring, door-to-door visits, and the preparation of sarbottam pitho (super flour) and poshilo jaulo (nutritious rice) were all given. Increased awareness of the importance of growth monitoring have increased the number of children visiting growth monitoring units. Positive Deviance (PD)–Hearth sessions conducted at the community level have helped improve the nutritional status of children under 5 identified as malnourished.

In FY 2012, FCHVs, mothers’ groups, care givers, and traditional healers were all provided with training on the prevention of childhood diseases at the household level. Hygiene and sanitation were promoted to reduce childhood illness. Health Facility Operation and Management Committees (HF-OMC) were strengthened to provide quality health services to village people. HF-OMC members received training and were involved in review meetings to reflect on the existing services provided by the local health facility. ADPs also organised events at the district level, events such as Breastfeeding Week, and World Health Day, as well as engaging with DPHO and holding campaigns in the districts they work in.

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Mothers learn to raise healthy childrenBimala Pariyar (left) is a mother of four children who has been working as a Positive Deviance (PD) Hearth volunteer mother for more than two years now in Jumla district. She has been trained to conduct classes on good nutrition, health and hygiene for young children in the community with the support of WVIN- Jumla ADP. Since she received PD Hearth training, she has been conducting early morning classes for mothers with malnourished children in her community. Her classes focus on ways to prepare nutritious food

with locally available resources, keeping children healthy and tracking their development. The classes are conducted in one of the homes of malnourished children and participants contribute locally produced resources like maize, beans, vegetables and rice for demonstration classes. After the demonstration comes to an end, children are provided the cooked nutritious meal. Since this continues for two weeks, many malnourished children get an opportunity to eat healthy food which results in weight gain and better health.

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Education

Education is one of the key sectors in WVIN. In the areas (ADPs) that WVIN works in, it seeks to improve the equal access to quality education for children. Education projects in ADPs advocate increasing the enrolment and improving the quality of education with child-friendly teaching, better facilities in primary and secondary schools, and better school management. The ECCD projects help Early Childhood Education and Development (ECED) centres which work for the emotional, mental, social, and physical development of children.

In FY 2012, WVIN implemented education programmes in ten of its ADPs in Bhaktapur, Jumla, Kathmandu, Kaski, Kailali, Lamjung, Lalitpur, Morang, Rupandehi and Sunsari districts.

In FY 2012, capacity-building and training activities were held by ADPs for SMC, PTA, teachers, and for child clubs. ADPs helped renovate and build classrooms(with standards for earthquake resistance), as well as built libraries, drinking water facilities, playgrounds, child-friendly toilets, and girl-friendly sanitation rooms.

ADPs have also provided teaching learning materials and aids to schools in programme areas. ECED centres were established and ECED centre management committees were strengthened. The hand-over of ECED centres to communities in ADPs that are phasing out in FY 2013, was also done successfully.

In FY 2012, two new ADPs (Udayapur West and Kailali East) completed their education project design. The Basic Education Improvement Plan (BEIP), a WV Global Project model, was introduced, and the model explained to ADP and partner organisation staff members. WVIN was selected as one of the first cohort national offices to implement an education project, a project entitled “Strengthening Education Capacity.”

The review of WVIN Education’s secondary strategy was carried out in FY 2012. It resulted in including non-formal education as one of the key elements. To ensure more technical support and better implementation of projects, area technical staff were also placed in the district programmes.

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ECED making children’s future brighter “I love to come to play and sing songs at school and I love to play with the toy car the most,” says Mukesh Gurung, 4 with his shy smile looking around towards his friends. Mukesh is one of the children who comes to Srijanshil Early Childhood Education and Development (ECED) centre in Baglungpani VDC, Lamjung. Like Mukesh there are children of age 3-5 who come to this ECED centre. Children get to eat nutritional food on time, learn many things in school and parents get time to finish other chores during the time. “Parents share that

children coming to this centre socialise well with others and are very confident. Students who have been to this ECED also secure good positions in other schools. Thus, the children who graduate from here have a brighter future and are competent,” says Gita Gurung, Facilitator of the ECED centre. WVIN-Lamjung ADP has supported the centre in the construction of the building, toilet, providing educational materials, wall paintings, carpeting, snacks for the children and salary and training to the facilitator. The centre will be handed over to the community in FY 2013.

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Livelihood is one of the key sectors in WVIN. In the areas (ADPs) that WVIN works in, it seeks to increase the income and asset of families by diversifying livelihood options, specifically that of agriculture. Livelihood Projects in ADPs seek to increase the agricultural production of marginal families and build the capacity of community-based cooperatives. Projects include high value/indigenous crop promotion, leasehold farming, marketing, as well as skills development with the help of different stakeholders.

In FY 2012, WVIN implemented livelihood projects in 12 ADPs, in Udayapur, Morang, Sunsari, Kathmandu, Lalitpur, Bhaktapur, Lamjung, Rupandehi, Kaski, Jumla, Kailali and Doti districts.

In FY 2012, capacity-building and technology transfer in agriculture and livestock production were carried out in different ADPs. Promoting technology at community level training and demonstrations, WVIN helped farmers grow high value crops, kitchen gardens, as well as farm livestock (poultry, goats, and cattle). In the cultivation of crops farmers were also encouraged to

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use local resources for fertilizers and pesticides. This initiative has helped increase farms’ long term productivity, to reducing dependency on external materials and production costs. The promotion of vegetable growing has increased the consumption of vegetables contributing to improved family and child nutrition. The promotion of vocational skills training has enabled households to find alternative sources of income and establish small businesses. Capacity-building initiatives carried out with community-based cooperatives helped provide improved business facilities and services to members in the communities. Efforts to strengthen the capacity of different community-based groups helped increase group savings which has helped with the provision of credit. WVIN also coordinated at the local level with different stakeholders and government agencies such as DADO, DLSO and DCO.

In FY 2012, WVIN reviewed its livelihood secondary strategy. To ensure more technical support and better implementation of projects, area technical staff were also placed in the district programmes.

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Beneficiaries 28,086 men and women

Children reap the benefit of farming‘I enjoy plucking the big red tomatoes growing on our farm.’ says eleven-year old Ranjit Karki, a World Vision-sponsored child who studies in fifth grade. Ranjit and his family are one of the beneficiaries of World Vision’s livelihood project in Kathmandu district. Ranjit lives with his family in Bhimdhunga VDC, an agricultural village on the outskirts of Kathmandu city. Though not far from the capital, the Karki family did not have a proper house or a good income to raise their children. But today, with

both parents involved in new methods of farming, their son Ranjit and older daughter Ramana go to a decent school and have a plan for their future. Almost two years ago, Ranjit’s mother, Ram Devi, enrolled herself in the agricultural training offered by WVIN-Kathmandu ADP in the village, and since then, not only has she been growing a variety of vegetables on her own land but also saving enough money to fund her children’s education and build a new house.

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WASH is a context-specific sector in WVIN. In the areas (ADPs) that WVIN works in, through Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), it seeks to address water and sanitation issues, and the hygiene of vulnerable communities. WASH projects work to provide safe drinking water to communities, promote toilets for improved sanitation, and raise awareness among communities regarding good personal hygiene practices.

In FY 2012, WVIN implemented WASH activities in ten of its ADPs in Kathmandu, Lalitpur, Bhaktapur, Morang, Sunsari, Kaski, Rupandehi, Jumla, Lamjung and Kailali districts.

In FY 2012, ADP WASH projects improved the health of village people by providing safe drinking water and sanitation. The project helped with toilet construction in communities, schools, and health posts. In coordination with community, implementing and government partners, VDCs in different working districts were declared Open Defecation-Free areas. Sanitation campaigns and rallies were organised to raise awareness. Community garbage pits were built. Training in separating bio-degradable and non bio-degradable waste were given to village people and students.

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Workshops on the importance of environmental sanitation and personal hygiene were held for SMC, PTSA, child club members, teachers, and students. The ability of peer groups to share their knowledge on personal hygiene and sanitation was strengthened.

In FY 2012, water systems were renovated and new water systems/water collection tanks/tube-wells were installed to provide easy access to safe drinking water. Water Users Committee (WUC) members were trained on roles and responsibilities, registration processes, institutional development, and conflict management. They have also started to collect operation and maintenance funds to ensure the long-term future of their water supply systems. Village people were taught the reuse of waste water. Training was given to female health volunteers to strengthen their knowledge of water-borne diseases and water purification methods. The capacity of Environment Management Groups and VDC Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Coordination Committee, were strengthened. Various water points were checked as to water quality, suction tube wells were upgraded. To create awareness in schools, activities such as art, poetry, and debating competitions on the topic of water, sanitation, and hygiene were held.

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Beneficiaries 37,210 men, women and children

Water brings good changeBibek Lamichane, lives in Sudal VDC, Bhaktapur. Before there was no water facility at their home and he had to go far to fetch water. Thus, most of his time used to go in carrying water but due to the support from the Water and Sanitation project of WVIN- Bhaktapur ADP, he has a tap at home. With water at home his family uses it for different purposes including agriculture in a land that was barren before. Now his

family gets to eat fresh vegetables and they even sell it when they can. The money his parents make from selling vegetables is used for his and his brother’s education and other expenses. “Now that we have water coming at home, I use the time used to fetch water in studies and I have been getting better results at school. We now have toilet and water facility which has made our life better and easier. I would like to thank World Vision for everything.” he says.

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Child Protection is a major cross-cutting theme for WVIN and works to promote systems and practices that contribute to children being better protected. It also ensures that WVIN staff, and the staff of NGO partners, have the ability to manage child protection issues. WVIN integrates child protection into the design and implementation of ADP projects and will work to support the Nepal government in implementing their child protection policy. The Child Protection unit was introduced at WVIN in FY 2011. Since then, work has been undertaken in the following areas:

Improving Child Protection ProjectFunded by WV Hong Kong, the Improving Child Protection Project has been implemented in Kathmandu ADP. The project started with the aim of protecting children in Nepal from exploitation, abuse, violence and neglect, and ensuring that instances of such maltreatment are more effectively dealt with. Working closely with the District Child Welfare Board (DCWB), Kathmandu ADP was able to form seven Village Child Protection Committees. Various trainings have been conducted to strengthen the local child protection systems. The project works both at the national and district levels. The national-level advocacy work promotes policies and systems that will be relevant to Nepal. The work in Kathmandu ADP will provide experience of how to build effective systems in an urban centre, which can then be replicated in other ADPs. With the aim of strengthening the Central Child Welfare Board (CCWB) in its role of co-ordination, monitoring and reporting, and recognising that CCWB cannot work alone

on issues of child protection, the project supports better co-ordination between the various stakeholders at national level, and better reporting and monitoring between the CCWB and its DCWBs.

Community-Based Child Protection (CBCP) SystemTo strengthen the Community-Based Child Protection (CBCP) System, since FY 2011 the Child Protection Project has been implemented in four ADPs; Morang, Sunsari, Udayapur East and Kathmandu and from FY 2013 a new project will start in Doti West ADP. Following the implementation of these projects, WVIN has been able to reach the objective of its child protection strategy which prioritises the strengthening of community systems. The project is being funded in Morang district by WV Korea and in Sunsari and Udayapur districts by WV UK through DFID’s Programme Partnership Agreement.

After the implementation of the project in 24 VDCs and 4 municipalities in Kathmandu, at the community level, 156 Village Child Protection and Promotion Committees (VCPPC) have been formed and are now functioning. Various trainings were conducted to enhance the capacity of the VCPPC members. Training in strengthening the Child Protection system was given to 56 police officers and 50 health personnel in four ADPs. 2,267 children in the community received training on life skills and child resilience, which has enhanced their understanding of child protection.

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Beneficiaries 18,638 children and adults

Children from Shree Bal Lower Secondary School in Jante VDC, Udayapur district have been benefitting from child protection activities being carried out by World Vision. Teachers and School Management

Committee members are orienting children and monitoring the child protection issues in their school and community. They have been working to create a safe environment for children.

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Child Health Now (CHN) is World Vision’s global campaign to end the preventable death of children under five. Through the Child Health Now campaign, World Vision is calling on the international community to meet its Millennium Development Goal (MDG) commitment to reduce maternal and child deaths by 2015 - specifically MDG 4 and 5. Child Health Now in Nepal aims to contribute to reducing child mortality in disadvantaged areas of Nepal in line with MDG 4, particularly in the poorest and most disadvantaged communities.

Child Health Now Nepal Campaign launched in 2012The CHN Campaign was launched In FY 2012 internally and externally in events involving WVIN staff, government officials, partners, and community stakeholders with a view to reaching a larger audience and spreading the key message “Together we can end preventable death”. The launch worked to help develop an understanding of the objectives of the campaign. It also sensitised government line agencies to the urgent health issues of under fives and reiterated those agencies national and international commitments to achieve MDG 4. Rajendra Mahato, Minister for Health and Population, Badri Prasad Neupane, Minister for Women Children and Social Welfare attended the launch as representatives of the Nepal Government and committed the government to ending disparities of gender, caste, ethnicity, and geographic location in maternal and child health. Though Nepal has made significant progress in child health, and is on track to achieve MDGs 4 and

5, disparities still exist. Leaders of political parties, concerned stakeholders, civil society and development community members were also present.

CHN Campaign Ambassadors In FY 2012, with the aim of mobilising civil society to sensitise policy makers, the campaign formed Maternal and Child Health Concern Groups in three VDCs in both Doti and Kailali districts. Each Concern Group nominated a campaign ambassador representing one ward of a VDC. The formation of Concern Groups and Campaign Ambassadors as pillars of the campaign will contribute to improving government health services and community maternal and child health practices. Training was given to Concern Group coordinators and Campaign Ambassadors to enable them to help people access health resources and conduct local level advocacy in their communities.

Nepal hosts Global Campaign Management Team meeting From 9 to 13 July 2012 Nepal hosted the Global Campaign Management Team meeting. The team met the Ministry of Health and Population, INGOs and NGOs working on maternal and child health, and former Constituent Assembly members to discuss the health of mothers and children in Nepal. The team also met Campaign Ambassadors in Kailali ADP, local government and NGO representatives in the district, and community representatives of Geta VDC.

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Rajendra Mahato, Minister for Health and Population (2nd from right) and Badri Prasad Neupane, Minister for Women Children and

Social Welfare (right) attending the CHN campaign launch in an event organised by WVIN in Kathmandu.

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Citizen Voice and Action In FY 2012, Training of Trainers (ToT) on Citizen Voice and Action (CVA) was organised to build the capacity of WVIN staff and its partners. This will help put into practice CVA approach at the grassroot level to conduct local level advocacy, make local government accountable, and improve the community’s access to available resources.

Citizen Voice and Action aims to increase dialogue between ordinary citizens and organisations that provide services to the public as well as to improve the accountability of the administrative and political sections of government (both national and local) in order to improve the delivery of public services.

Research on Child Marriage To mark the 1st International Day of Girl Child, and with the support of WVIN, Save the Children, and Plan Nepal, on 11 October 2012, a report on ‘Child Marriage in Nepal’, was launched after a research conducted by SOLID Nepal, an NGO. The book found that child marriage is most prevalent among the illiterate, the Janajati (indigenous ethnic groups), and Dalits (the so-called untouchables of the Hindu caste system). The main aim of the study was to understand the reasons for child marriage. The results will be used to reduce child marriage as well as inform advocacy efforts. The research was also undertaken to identify the reasons for a practice that has caused major problems in maternal and child health. Apart from the organisations that contributed to the publishing of the book, government officials from the Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare also took part in the launch.

CHN Campaign Ambassadors and Global Campaign Management Team raise their hands for child health in Kailali district

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Child Well-Being

World Vision focuses on improving the well-being of children through transformational development, disaster management. and advocacy. Our goal is ‘the sustained well-being of children within families and communities, especially the most vulnerable’.

In order to ensure that we focus on the well-being of children, during FY 2012 all of WVIN’s strategies were reviewed and where necessary adjusted so as to ensure that the well-being of children remains our focus.

However, as it is also important to see whether we are making the positive change to the well-being of children that we plan in our programming, World Vision has developed some Child Well-Being Targets:

• Children report an increased level of well-being• Increase in children who are well-nourished (ages 0-5)• Increase in children protected from infection and disease (ages 0-5)• Increase in children who can read by age 11

In FY 2012, WVIN chose contextually-appropriate indicators to measure these targets. From FY13 onwards these indicators will be included into all new project designs. WVIN also decided to look at its overall contribution to child well-being in Nepal by gathering and analysing data on child-well being from across the ADPs. A report will be produced with actionable recommendations for decision-making and prioritisation around strategy and programming. This will be carried out every year. Funding was secured for this process and the first report will be produced in FY13.

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Strategy Map

World Vision International Nepal’s Strategy Map (FY 2010-FY 2013)

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2012 Finance Report

Sectoral Funding Distribution

Programme and Project Management

Funding From WV Support Offices

Source of Funding

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WVI Nepal books of account have been audited by authorised external auditor, internal auditor and international auditor.

Fiscal Year Expense ($)

2011 5,261,644

2012 6,196,346

How we are accountableWorld Vision is accountable to private and government donors, to public agencies charged with legal oversight, to our funding offices and to those whom we serve. Internal and external audits and evaluations are conducted regularly to ensure efficient and effective use of resources.

Programme PartnershipWorld Vision believes that partnering with others is a key factor in bringing about lasting changes in communities. WVIN partners with government, community groups, NGOs and the private sector; WVIN adopts a multi-stakeholder approach to partnering, recognising that all of these different groups have an important role in creating change. The nature of the partnering relationship varies depending on the issues being addressed, and the resources and capacity of the different partners involved.

ContactWorld Vision International NepalJhamsikhel, Lalitpur-3, NepalGPO Box 21969, Kathmandu, NepalPhone no: 977 1 5548877 / 5547177Fax no: 977 1 5013570Email: info_nepal@wvi.orgwww.wvi.org/nepal

How we are fundedWe receive funding from private donors and bilateral agencies through our support partners including;

World Vision Australia Kaski ADP, Kailali West ADP, Jumla ADP

world vision CanadaBhaktapur ADP, Butwal ADP, Doti East ADP, Achham ADP

World Vision Hong KongKathmandu ADP, Sunsari ADP, Kailali East ADP

World Vision KoreaMorang ADP

World Vision SwitzerlandLalitpur ADP, Lamjung ADP

World Vision TaiwanUdayapur East ADP, Udayapur West ADP

World Vision JapanDoti West ADP

World Vision SingaporeSindhuli ADP

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List of Acronyms

ADP Area Development ProgrammeANC Ante-natal CareBEIP Basic Education Improvement PlanCBCP Community-Based Child ProtectionCCWB Central Child Welfare BoardCFLG Child Friendly Local Governance CHN Child Health NowCP Child ProtectionCVA Citizen Voice and ActionCWBO Child Well Being Outcome CWT Child Well-being TargetsCZOPP National Coalition for Children as Zones of Peace and Child ProtectionDADO District Agriculture Development OfficeDCWB District Child Welfare BoardDDC District Development CommitteeDDRC District Disaster Relief CommitteeDEO District Education OfficeDFID Department For International DevelopmentDPA Development Programme ApproachDRR Disaster Risk ReductionECED Early Childhood Education and DevelopmentFCHV Female Community Health VolunteerFGD Focus Group Discussions

FY Fiscal YearHEA Humanitarian Emergency AffairsIEC Information, Education and CommunicationINGO International Non Governmental OrganisationKMC Kathmandu Metropolitan CityLEAP Learning through Evaluation with Accountability and PlanningMDG Millennium Development GoalMCHN Maternal Child Health and NutritionNDHS Nepal Demographic Health SurveyNGOs Non Government OrganisationsPNC Post-natal CarePTSA Parents Teachers Students AssociationSMC School Management CommitteeSTEP Sponsorship Tracking Enhancement ProgrammeU5MR Under Five Mortality RateUNICEF United Nations International Children's Emergency FundVCPPC Village Child Protection and Promotion CommitteeVDC Village Development CommitteeWASH Water, Sanitation and Hygienewv world visionWVIN World Vision International Nepal

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