Nepal

Youth from our Adolescent empowerment programme, Samvad.

Nepal is a landlocked country situated along the southern slopes of the Himalayan mountain ranges, bordered by India to the south and China to the north. It boasts stunning landscapes and high mountain peaks, including the world’s tallest mountain, Mount Everest, which rises over 8,000 meters.

As a culturally diverse nation, Nepal is known for its resilient communities and rich heritage, featuring over 125 ethnic groups and more than 120 languages. This diversity creates a vibrant mosaic of traditions and identities that enrich its social fabric.

Nepal is gradually progressing in reducing poverty and expanding access to education and basic services. However, it continues to face major challenges, including slow job creation, a high dependence on remittances, political instability, weak infrastructure, and recurring climate-related disasters.

The Stromme Foundation Nepal collaborates with local communities and government partners to tackle these issues and promote inclusive, sustainable development.

Our approach and focus areas 

To fight poverty and enhance community resilience, our programmes in Nepal provide access to quality education, improve food security, and enhance income-generating opportunities for poor and marginalised families.

We adopt a holistic, rights-based “family as a unit” approach, engaging all members, including children, women, and persons with disabilities to develop shared goals through multiple interventions.

These include Family Development Plans (FDPs), a participatory tool that helps families identify opportunities and challenges, set goals, and develop their own solutions, and Career Development Plans (CDPs), which provide adolescents and youth with a clear roadmap for their future career pathways.

Furthermore, targeted households are supported in organising themselves into Self-Help Groups (SHGs), which are then linked to larger Community-Based Organizations known as Tol Bikash Santha (TBS).

This community-led model enables groups to identify and fight the issues, advocate for their rights, lead their own development, and hold duty-bearers accountable. We focus on building community resilience in Nepal, where caste, ethnicity, and climate vulnerability perpetuate inequality. We synergise inclusive education and economic inclusion, mainstreaming food security, mental health, gender equality, and climate action through local partnerships.

For 2024-2028, we are partnering with public, local, and private sector organisations to strengthen resilience in Lumbini Province, specifically in Dang, Rupandehi, Kapilvastu, Pyuthan, and Rolpa districts.

Our Key Programmes

We have two main Programme interventions: 

  1. Inclusive Quality Education and Lifelong Learning
  2. Income Generation and Job Creation
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Inclusive Quality Education

To reduce school dropout, improve learning outcomes, and provide access to inclusive quality education, our programmes in Nepal focus on:

  • Early Childhood Development (ECD) - provides a strong foundation for children from poor and marginalised families
  • Reduce Dropout - extra-curricular support for poor-performing children in primary schools
  • School Improvement Plans - strengthening governance, management, and teaching approaches
  • Teacher training on Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM), and accelerated learning
  • Community mobilisation promotes education and inclusion for all children
  • Ensuring school infrastructure: buildings, classrooms, toilets, and playgrounds.

 

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Samvad - Adolescent empowerment

Through life skills training and issue-based discussions, adolescents aged 13 to 19 are mobilised to be change agents, address social issues, and take charge of their own lives. The program covers the these topics:

  • Poverty analysis: Its causes and consequences
  • Life skills
  • Career Development Plan (CDP)
  • Family Development Plan (FDP)
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR)
  • Issues-based Discussion (Child marriage, discrimination, and harmful practises)
  • Substance abuse and mental well-being
  • Engage in economic activities
  • Graduate forums and networks mobilise for advocacy through evidence-based advocacy
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Mental health and Psycho-social well-being

To ensure inclusive education by addressing psychosocial needs, building resilient and child-friendly schools, and strengthening the capacity of teachers and schools to support learners’ emotional well-being and learning needs effectively, the program focuses on:

  • Positive parental education through the ICDP Approach.
  • Awareness raising and promoting community-based and School-based mental Health and Psycho-Social (MHPS) services
  • Strengthening counselling services
  • Establishing a health corner at the school
  • Educating on climate change and disasters for the learners and teachers
  • Strengthening the government system in MHPS services
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Climate Smart Agriculture and Value Chain

To improve/promote livelihoods and food security through introducing climate-smart agricultural techniques, green practises, and value chains such as:

  • Climate Smart Agriculture villages
  • High-yielding and local varieties of crops
  • Fuel-efficient cooking practices
  • Waste, land, and water management
  • Home gardens
  • Commodity-based producer groups
  • Market linkages and promotion
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Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET)

To promote the economic inclusion of youth, we will implement a new Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) component combined with life skills that will focus on:

  • The TVET program applicants received the pre-training counselling
  • Focus on advanced-level TVET training and green jobs
  • Support in establishing the linkage with job providers after the training
  • Provide entrepreneurship training and/or business services after the training 
  • Support access to financial institutions
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Community Based Organisations (CBOs)

To promote a community-led development model, we enable 
community structures to advocate for their rights, lead their own development, and hold duty-bearers accountable.

  • Formation and mobilization of Self-Help Groups (SHGs), youth networks, producer groups, and Community-Based Organisations (CBOs)
  • Community-based structures create awareness of social issues, climate change adaptation strategies, and serve as social safety nets.
  • Capacity building on leadership, community finance, governance, and advocacy

 

Country Office Nepal

Stromme Foundation Nepal Office
G.P.O Box 8975, EPC 1995
Lalitpur Metropolitan City, Ward No. 2,
Sanepa, Lalitpur,
NEPAL

Phone: +977 1 5450428
E-mail: nepal@stromme.org

The Nepal Country Office is open from Monday to Friday.

Our Partnerships

Our partnerships amplify our impact - ensuring that every resource is used effectively and responsibly to drive sustainable, long‑lasting change. At the heart of our work lie the principles of transparency, accountability, and community ownership, which guide every collaboration we build.

We work in close coordination with Nepal’s three tiers of government - local, provincial, and federal - to align our initiatives with national priorities, strengthen policy implementation, and scale community-centered solutions. This multi-level collaboration helps us ensure that our programs are not only relevant but also sustainable and rooted in government systems for long-term impact.

Beyond government collaboration, we partner with civil society organisations, community groups, private sector actors, and development stakeholders to combine strengths, share expertise, and accelerate progress for those who need it most.

We warmly invite like‑minded partners to join us in this transformative journey. Whether through strategic collaborations, resource sharing, technical support, or volunteer engagement, your contribution can help build a more inclusive, resilient, and prosperous Nepal.

Our Partners