Community and Rural Development Society Nepal (CARDSN), Sahayata Samajik Sanstha (SSS) and The Kakani Centre for Development of Community (KCDC) in partnership with Oxfam have started its intervention instantly after the Mega earthquake of 2015 under Emergency Food Security and Vulnerability Livelihoods (EFSVL), Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH), Shelter, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), mainstreaming gender and protection across these sectors so as to ensure gender responsive approach in all sectors including Media Advocacy and Campaign (MAC), Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning (MEAL).
Thus, Gender Equality is a core value of SSS, KCDC, CARDSN and OXFAM and views all forms of access on resources, access to decision power, violence against women/girls, including child early and forced marriage (CEFM), domestic violence, trafficking, sexual assault and harassment, a major obstacle to women’s and girls’ development, and one of the most widespread barriers to end poverty and discrimination. Through the Gender and Protection standalone project and mainstreaming program CARDSN, SSS and KCDC envisions reaching out the most vulnerable and transforming the disaster into opportunity.