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WHR Founder Thapa Nominated as a Member of NHRC

Lily Thapa, Founder of Women for Human Rights, single women group (WHR) and President of Sankalpa has been nominated as a Member of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). This adds to the list of a series of awards and recognitions Thapa has received at both national and international levels for her commitment towards safeguarding the rights of single women (especially widows) …

WHR holds panel discussion on Social Security Rights of Single Women

On the occasion of the 72nd International Human Rights Day 2020 and the 12th Human Rights National Magna Meet, WHR held a panel discussion on 10 December 2020 regarding Social Security Rights of Single Women with due focus on contemporary legal and social aspects. This year’s theme for the 72nd International Human Rights Day is Recover Better: Stand Up …

WHR founder Thapa receives International Human Rights Award-2020

Lily Thapa, Founder of Women for Human Rights, single women group (WHR), has been conferred with the prestigious International Human Rights Award-2020. The award is an international felicitation to the humanitarian engagement of WHR in various sectors, especially pertaining to safeguarding the rights of single women in the country and their empowerment. The latest comes the relief …

“के आमाले आफ्नो बच्चालाई सडकमा छाडेर भाग्न सक्छिन ?”

Capacity Building Training on Visibility Part-1

On 20th October 2020, WHR got the opportunity to participate in Capacity Building Training on Visibility Part-1 under the project Towards Effective Humanitarian Volunteering (TEHV). We would like to thank ADRA Slovensko and ADRA CZ for organizing, facilitating, and making it interesting for participants. #TEHV #EUAV #EUAidVolunteers #WeCareWeAct

Established a community kitchen and distribution of cooked meals

WHR with the support of UN Women established a community kitchen in Chhahari, Hattigauda to prepare cooked meals. The community kitchen kicked off from 15th June, 2020 (Asadh 1, 2077) and ended on 9th August, 2020 (Shrawan 25, 2077). Altogether, 8 kitchen personnel were hired to serve meals in three different locations: Budhanilkantha Municipality (Budhanilkantha-6, Chapali Height-2 and Budhanilkantha-7); Chyasingdole-6 and Bansighat, Tripureshwor. …

Awareness raising campaigns

6 awareness teams (2 people in each location) were formed to conduct awareness raising campaigns in the meal distribution locations (Budhanilkantha Municipality (Budhanilkantha-6, Chapali Height-2 and Budhanilkantha-7); Chyasingdole-6 and Bansighat, Tripureshwor). In total 42 sessions (14 sessions in each location) have been conducted as of 30th July, 2020 have been conducted. The beneficiaries are sensitized on different thematic issues like: hand washing techniques; …

Monitoring visit by UN Women and UNFPA

Vallerie Juliand, UN Resident coordinator UNRCO; Wenny Kusuma, UN Women Country Representative; Representative from Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizen and team of UN Women visited WHR for monitoring purpose. The monitoring team visited the project intervention area and were briefed on the quarantine facilities. The interaction program with returnee women migrants staying at the holding center of Chhahari …

WHR Food Bank Documentary 2020 (Nepali)

WHR Food Bank Documentary 2020 (English)

Vacancy Announcement

In this context, WHR is seeking for a full time Strategic Officer in order to register the new federation, develop a strategic plan with policy and guidelines, and strengthen a provincial network in all the seven provinces of Nepal with its main office in Kathmandu.

Objective, Assignments and Deliverables:

The Strategic Officer for this task should be dedicated and directed towards development and establishment of the Women's NGO Federation, strategic support towards the Sankalpa which is Secretariat of the Women NGO Federation.

Objective/s:

Facilitate to establish Woman NGO Federation and organize a strategy process with full coordination at Sankalpa the secretariat of the federation.

Key activities under the assignment:

The Strategic Officer will, conduct the following tasks in close coordination with the executives of federation and secretariat.

Consultation and the inputs required in the registration process
Facilitate the tasks as a top level management providing proper guidance at the secretariat and represent secretariat also in different networks and the meetings
Create a liaison between the Secretariat and the Executive committee of the federation for the proper flow of information and intervention
Proper knowhow of the plans to strengthen the provincial as well as district level networks of the federation
Envision a five year plan by reviewing, analyzing, strength, and strategic opportunities with members of the federation and priorities the strategic direction of the federation
Maintain a proper communication channel and communication with the executive committee to develop and update of policies, laws, and plans related to Gender issues.

Deliverables:

The Strategic Officer is expected to deliver following deliverables to the federation

Proper documentation of the completed registration of the federation and the strategic documents for the policies, plan and complete guidelines.
The strategic document with the proper SWOC analysis and the different plan of actions for next few years in coordination and communication with the executive committee.
The resources and the technical support towards the network ahead is mapped out and well coordinated.
The organizational members are well informed and capacitated with network functioning modality to pursue the core values of federation at all level
The action plan vs. progress details are prepared quarterly for the sharing and the feedback.

Selection criteria:

Knowledge:

Masters in Social Science or relevant field
Minimum 5 years of experience on strategy development, on the women movement of Nepal

Skills:

Good interpersonal communications skills
Ability to work as a team player
Self- management skills and strong interpersonal skills
Proficiency in written and spoken English language.
Proficiency in computer skills for the tasks assigned.
Willingness to travel in the different places of country.

Attitudes:

High level of integrity
Ability to perform unsupervised
Organized and systematic approach to work

Timeline:

The Strategic Officer will be hired for a time period of one year with the possibility of extension.

Point of Contact:

The organizational email info@sankalpa.org.np/ mail@whr.org.np will be the point of contact for this Strategic Officer’s service.

Place of Assignment:

Services will be delivered at the office of Sankalpa the secretariat of the Women NGO Federation.

Applying Procedure:

Please send a motivation letter (not more than 1 page) and a recent CV including examples of previous work in related area/s with at least two references to hr_mail@whr.org.np before 1st July.