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Breakthrough in Nepal: reaching the unreached

Nepal’s looming Covid crisis poses serious threat to children

Supporting a Resilient and Sustainable Healthcare System in Nepal

Save the Children is calling on the Government of Nepal to exercise restraint amid the protests and to protect the right of children and young people to peaceful expression.

Save the Children child campaigner from Nepal and giant white bear travel from Nepal to New York

Save the Children supports launch of new web series in Nepal

‘BECOMING’: NEW WEB SERIES TO SHINE A LIGHT ON YOUNG LGBTQI+ LIVES IN NEPAL

Save the Children statement on earthquake in Nepal that has caused children to survive outside in freezing temperatures

Girls in Nepal say they are spending more time at school when they have their period after Save the Children helped set up free pad vending machines in their schools.

Nine school children have been reunited with their families after being stranded at school for two days by the devastating flash floods in Northern Nepal, as rescue efforts continue to reach other students, Save the Children said.

Save the Children Nepal launches the 'Save Podcast' on National Children's Day

Earth Day - giant white Air Bear will begin journey around Nepal to raise awareness of air pollution

Save the Children warns Nepal faces “lethal cocktail” of testing and oxygen shortages as vaccine drive stalls

Introducing Tara Chettry as the new Country Director for Save the Children - Nepal and Bhutan Country Office

Giant white bear and child activist travel from Nepal to New York to campaign for action on global goals

SOUTH ASIA FLOODS: More than three million children affected by severe flooding across India, Bangladesh and Nepal

Rescuers are racing to find survivors in the flash flood-devastated areas of Northern Nepal, as Save the Children delivers emergency aid to families, with many places still only accessible by helicopter.

It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that when the earth shook on April 25, 2015, the lives of Nepalis changed forever. The 7.8-magnitude earthquake, which had its epicentre in Gorkha, Nepal - about 110 km northwest of Kathmandu - which claimed more than 9,000 lives and displaced millions. In the decade since, we’ve rebuilt homes and restored infrastructure, but the deeper cracks in our disaster preparedness systems remain alarmingly unaddressed.

Discover all you need to know about Save the Children's work in Nepal.

Save the Children press release about children in Nepal missing festival due to earthquake

More than 80 children were killed in an earthquake in remote northwestern Nepal at the weekend

Floods and landslides caused by unprecedented rainfall in parts of Nepal have killed at least 14 children and closed schools, said Save the Children, as the changing climate further impacts children’s lives in Asia.

‘There will be no song or dance. I lost many of my friends.’ Children spend Festival of Lights in darkness after Nepal earthquake

Nepal earthquake kills more than 80 children with another 5,000 left homeless in freezing conditions

Save the Children Nepal's top priorities from 2022 to 2024 focus on empowering children and youths to tackle the climate crisis, ensuring access to social protection services for families during shocks and disasters, promoting safe and effective learning environments both in schools and at home, and equipping children and families with knowledge and resources to safeguard their mental, sexual, and reproductive health.To achieve meaningful impact for children, we leverage digital technology to engage with children and communities, fostering behavior change. We also establish strategic partnerships with the government and other stakeholders, working collaboratively to address the needs of children. We believe in sharing power with children, communities, and local partners, recognizing their essential role in shaping our initiatives. As an agile and inclusive organization, we continuously strive to maximize resources and opportunities for growth.Together we will build a better world with and for Nepali children. Save the Children in Nepal currently implements programmes in the following areas:

Every child deserves a fair chance to grow, learn and thriveIn Nepal, poverty continues to limit children’s access to essential services and opportunities. Save the Children works with children, youth and families to break the cycle of poverty and build resilient livelihoods.What we doWe strengthen livelihoods through climate-smart agriculture, income generation and market linkages. We also support adolescents and youth with life skills, career guidance and market-relevant technical and vocational training, including green and digital skills.Our child-sensitive social protection approach supports families to access services and reduces reliance on harmful coping practices.

The Child Rights Governance (CRG) theme is primarily focused on four areas: strengthening civil society to hold the government accountable, including through the use of international UN reporting mechanisms, advocacy and follow up; children’s empowerment to enable them to claim their rights; supporting the government to implement its Child Friendly Local Governance (CFLG) strategy; and advocacy for increased public investment in children. Save the Children has played a key role to form a broader coalition of civil society networks to prepare and submit supplementary reports on child rights to the Human Rights Council as part of its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process and to the Committee on the Rights of the Child. Save the Children has also facilitated the partnership between civil society and the National Human Rights Commission to follow up with the government of Nepal on the implementation of recommendations/concluding observations from the UN bodies. Save the Children has also been supporting civil society networks to analyze budget for children and to undertake budget advocacy to raise children’s issues high on political agenda.Save the Children has also been supporting civil society networks to analyze budget for children and to undertake budget advocacy to raise children’s issues high on political agenda. By forming networks of child clubs at the municipality/rural municipality and district level, Save the Children empowers children to engage in dialogues with local authorities to improve allocation of resources to children and enhance the implementation of policies. Save the Children provides the platform to children to exercise their right to participate in local level decision making processes.Save the Children has been supporting local governments for the implementation of the CFLG framework, whose ultimate goal is to declare respective local units (wards, municipalities/rural municipalities) as child friendly by meeting the pre-set programmatic and institutional indicators focused on children. Save the Children supports as well as provides critical feedback to the government in policy reform process at the national level in order for the government to meet its international obligations created through the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and other relevant human rights treaties.As an attempt to spread the knowledge and understanding of child rights and to influence the development of national child rights frameworks compatible with international standards, Save the Children promotes awareness about and effective utilization of policy documents set by the UN such as the General Comments and Concluding Observations from the Committee on the Rights of the Child; and relevant resolutions of the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly. Future directionsAs Nepal moves from unitary to federal structure where the local governments have been entrusted with an unprecedented level of power, Save the Children has started, and intends to continue, working with them to have children’s issues prioritized in local planning and budgeting processes, to ensure that any local level legislation/policy development is thought through/discussed from children’s rights perspectives based on which child focused/child sensitive provisions get appropriately included in such frameworks.Save the Children will also emphasize the capacity development of civil society and children vis-à-vis the changed context brought about by the federal structure so as to reap maximum benefit provided by the political transition of Nepal. More specifically, Save the Children will strengthen local civil society networks so that they are able to hold the local governments to account on children’s rights as per the spirit of the Constitution of Nepal 2015, the Local Government Operation Act 2017, the Children’s Act 2018 and other relevant policy frameworks.

The Child Protection (CP) theme is currently focuses on three areas: strengthening child protection system; protection of children from violence, including physical and humiliating punishment and sexual violence; and protection of children from harmful work.Save the Children strengthens the capacity of child protection stakeholders at the local level, particularly the Ward Child Protection Committees (WCPCs), teachers as well as parents so that they are able to undertake both prevention and response interventions to address abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence that affect or are likely to affect children. The WCPCs are new local structures that continue the work of the earlier Village Child Protection Committees which were proven local structures recognized by government policies as bodies solely working for child protection.Save the Children has not only built the capacity of these structures to fulfil their child protection responsibilities but also enabled them to access local resources to invest in enhancing the protection of children, and thus making their initiatives sustainable in the long run. Save the Children has initiated the concept of Para Social Workers (PSWs), who are trained to manage child protection cases, to generate evidence that social welfare workforce is an integral part of any child protection system in the world, which is conspicuously missing in Nepal’s child protection system.The child protection theme also facilitates the local processes to establish referral mechanisms so that services are linked to the children who need them. Save the Children works closely with governments and local responders to ensure that protection is mainstreamed in all sectoral interventions to address the negative impacts on the mental health and well-being of children and their caregivers in an uncertain situation arising from COVID-19.Save the Children’s work emphasizes on empowering children so that they are able to identify their protection risks as well as the measures they need to take to protect themselves. By creating reporting mechanisms at the local level, mainly in schools, and by empowering children to utilize those mechanisms, the CP theme facilitates to break the silence and establish child protection as a valid concern for the society to address. By strengthening the capacity of teachers and parents on positive discipline techniques and by sensitizing them against the use of corporal punishment, Save the Children helps create a more protective and fearless family and school environment for the children to flourish their full potential. Save the Children has taken a two-pronged approach to address the issue of child labor. It intervenes, as part of its prevention strategies, in targeted families and children in the area of origin to minimize the flow of child labor. Concurrently, it works in the destination areas where the children are actually working in order to improve their working conditions, their access to education, health and other services so as to ensure that their basic rights are not violated while at work. Save the Children uses its knowledge, experience and evidence generated from its field implementation to push for policy reform on child protection issues. This helps ensure that the field work is supported by appropriate policies and resource allocation and the policies, in turn, are informed and influenced by actual practice in the field.Future directionsAs Nepal moves from unitary to federal structure where the local governments have been entrusted with an unprecedented level of power, Save the Children has started, and intends to continue, working with them to strengthen their capacity on child protection and to influence them to set up structures, protocols, human resources and budgets necessary to undertake both prevention and response interventions on child protection within a broader framework of strengthening child protection system in Nepal.The government has, in 2018, legally banned all forms of corporal punishment of children in all settings and has also adopted a National Master Plan on Child Labour. In its strategic plan for 2022-24, Save the Children has prioritized these two issues in which the primary focus would be on supporting the local governments to implement these legal and policy provisions to enhance the protection of children from violence and exploitation, including corporal punishment and child labor.

Following a catastrophic flash flood in northern Nepal, Save the Children are on the ground in Rasuwa with emergency aid for 1,000 families. Your donations can help support children in crisis now.