Introduction

Human Resources Centre (HRC) is a non-profit making a non-political and non-government civil society organization. The organization was officially started by the unity of youths from the Wai VDCs of Bajura district on the 2050 BS from "Jan Chetana Youth Club". Then the organization has been legally registered in district administration office, Bajura as Human Resources Center (HRC) Bajura on 23rd Mansir 2059 BS. The organization aims at reducing poverty of marginalized communities through integrated and sustainable development interventions, works with marginalized group (Haliya, Persons with Disability, youths, children, women, Dalits) for promotion and practices of their social, economic and cultural rights.

HRC is affiliated with Social Welfare Council and member of NGO Federation of Nepal, Human Right Alliance, Disaster Preparedness Network Nepal, Civil Society Alliance for Nutrition, Nepal (CSAN), National Migrant Network on HIV/AIDS & SRHR (NMNHAS), District Agriculture Network (DAN- Bajura), Women and Child Development Network Bajura (WCDN-Bajura), District Youth Committee Bajura and District Education Network Bajura.

In the past 22 years, HRC Bajura has completed more than 16 projects including small and bigger in the areas of emergency response, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), agriculture and food security, livestock, poverty alleviation, Social protection, health rehabilitation, socio-economic empowerment, DRR/Climate change adaptation, GEDSI, education, human rights, women empowerment, livelihood improvement of Dalits and pro-poor groups in partnership with USAID, Handicap International, Action Aid, TDH-Germany, ILO, RVWRMP, FAO, EU/Practical Action, Poverty Alleviation Fund, District Water Supply and Sanitation Divisional Offices, UN-Habitat, District Development Committee etc. 

Vision:

HRC-Bajura has a vision to strengthen and improved the capacity of human resources and capability of civil society organization to promote economic, social status of targeted marginalized people on safer and disaster resilience nation by using social change tools & modern innovative technology and practice challenging to poverty, injustice, promote fundamental rights of people and participate in decision making process of marginalized group living without poverty around the nation.

Mission:

The mission of HRC is the implementation of community-based solutions that aware through social change tools & modern technology and empowers community people to ensure safer future through wise use of modern technology, fundamental right and natural resources, maintaining sustainable development, practices of climate change adaptation reducing disaster risk and poverty.

Goal:

The Goal of the organization is to transform self-sufficient and sustainable communities through social, economic and political empowerment

Objectives:

- To conduct different activities for improvement in internal capacity development of people.

- To conduct program with the coordination of national and international Gov. and organizations for integrated development of community.

Values:

- Mutual Respect

- Equity and Justice

- Honesty and Transparency:

- Solidarity with the poor/ marginalized:

- Courage of Conviction:

- Independence:

- Humility:

- Quality and excellence:

Guiding Principal:

Impartiality and Equity: HRC-Bajura interventions are strongly guided by impartiality ensuring equal opportunity for everyone, irrespective of caste, ethnicity, sex, age, religion, class, political beliefs, location and disability. Respecting the value of diversity HRC-Bajura works for the marginalized community.

Link to National Program and Priorities: HRC-Bajura Program contribute to the district and national program of Government of Nepal and United Nations key objectives of sustainable development goal, economic, right to justice, climate change and related issues. And the programs are link and guided by the internal national and national, district policies, guidelines and priorities.

Innovation and Excellence: HRC -Bajura believes in continuous learning and listing new ideas, technology, approaches and methodologies and use in its activities to better achieve the mission and pays attention for excellence production and outputs.

Scientific and Indigenous Knowledge: HRC-Bajura follows latest scientific knowledge modern technology and methods but doesn’t ignore the local indigenous knowledge. It combines both scientific and local indigenous knowledge, when implementing project in the ground.

Multi Stakeholder Partnership: HRC-Bajura works through a multi-stakeholders approach involving all relevant actors (community, line agencies, and donors) in program planning and implementation. HRC-Bajura believes multi-stakeholder involvement in particular program synergies the intervention.

Mutual Coordination: HRC-Bajura works through close coordination with various district level government agencies, CSO's and other stakeholders working in areas.

Implementation Approach

a. Human-rights based approach

Considering the learning from the past experience and new context of federal governance model of Nepal, HRC will apply the human rights-based approach as its overall overarching approach to make all the concerned stakeholders accountable. During this strategic period HRC implements rights-based approach for its all interventions at program and organizational level. HRC supports to empower and access services for rights-holders (children, young people, women, farmers and people with disability), engages and mobilizes moral duty bearers (CBOs and CSOs of rights-holders, private sector actors), and influences and collaborates with legal duty bearers (local, provincial and federal governments and their development agencies, businesses and their associations) to make them accountable for community development.

b. Do-no-harm approach

HRC will apply do-no-harm approach while implementing its interventions. Through continuous monitoring, the organization will identify unintended negative impacts of its interventions on the people it serves and will prevent such harms as early as possible. While trying to bring about positive changes, negative impacts may emerge for various reasons in the community. HRC will detect the reasons of such negative impacts or harms and will apply corrective measures. 

c. Integrated approach

HRC will promote an integrated programming approach for its program for the holistic support and services to target groups (rights-holders). Problems of our beneficiaries are multi-pronged and our response to those problems also needs to be in an integrated model. HRC was not able to ensure all the support services for children, women, young people, farmers and people with disability from one intervention at the community level. This has sometimes impacted less quality and standards of our programming as planned. This learning has encouraged HRC to work in an integrated way with the inter-connected priority themes of education, health, nutrition, livelihood, and system strengthening and policy work along with the referral mechanism for support services. HRC believes that this approach will promote government’s accountability and that contributes to sustainability.

d. Community-driven approach

HRC does not design or implement its projects sitting on a desk. The designing, development, resource planning, decision making, implementation, monitoring and reporting of its interventions are guided by the community needs and interests. Five basic principles of community-driven development - participation, transparency, barrier removal, accountability, local power and enhanced capacity - will be thoroughly adhered to while developing and implementing any intervention.

e. Public-private-partnership approach

HRC will promote the role of government and private sector along with CSOs to invest resources (financial and non-financial) and support to reduce poverty and promote quality education, nutrition and other services. For this, HRC will strategically approach government and private actors for possibility of collaborations and continue dialogues until it is materialized.

f. Evidence-based strategic advocacy

HRC will promote generating evidence from the field about the situation and best practice of livelihood support, quality education, child protection and youth employment. As a responsible CSO, based on the facts and evidences, HRC will lead the advocacy in a strategic manner i.e. having longer term perspectives regardless of the project period or funding. This is the right time for Nepal to do the strategic advocacy for policy making/reform, effective implementation of existing policy and monitoring of upcoming policies related to development cooperation. HRC will also be part of the advocacy initiatives of other CSOs for overall policies of development sector e.g. social and economic and civic space so that support services for the affected children, women, young people, farmers and people with disability are delivered on time and with quality.

g. Adaptive management approach

Taking the learning from the impact of COVID-19 and global impact of Russia -Ukraine war and Israel-Haman war in the development sector as a whole especially shrinking of funding and civic space, HRC has foreseen adaptive management approach for its programming and operations. HRC will explore other strategic approaches for the future interventions including consideration of organic growth with the possibility of upscaling and downsizing the programs and operations of the HRC including organizational restructuring as appropriate. 

h. Working with multiple actors

Based on past learning and also expectations from the stakeholders, HRC has foreseen to work and engage with multi-stakeholders for quality and timely services and making other stakeholders accountable for the betterment of children, young people, women, and people with disability. This will lead HRC to work closely with government, non-government agencies, private sector actors, media, academia and CSOs/CBOs. They will complement each other based on their added values and expertise e.g. academia can do evidence based research to validate models and media can do media advocacy to promote such models.

Key working Priorities and Focusing/theme:

- Education, Child Sponsorship, Sports, Communication and Technology

- Public Health & Nutrition

- Livelihood and food security- Agriculture, Horticulture, Animal husbandry, skill development, small enterprises

- Good Governance for Social Accountability

- Green Growth, Environment, Climate Resilience and DRR

- Organizational Development