What We Do
DEPROSC Nepal has more than a decade long experience in implementing development projects in rural areas of the country. From 2002 onwards, the centre started working in western region of the country focusing in the Karnali zone. Even at the time of conflict, DEPROSC Nepal implemented projects supported by United Nations like UNICEF, WFP, DFID and UNDP in remotest parts of the Karnali zone. Similarly DEPROSC has the experience of Implementing humanitarian assistance namely Emergency Operations for the first time in Nepal with support from UN/WFP for drought affected people in mid western region in which DEPROSC mobilized almost 10000 MT of commodities immediately in remotest parts of the country. DEPROSC Nepal has also started its work in Disaster preparedness and Disaster Risk Reduction more intensively from 2007.
The center has been extensively involved in:
1. Implementing Action Programs
2. Conducting Research and Studies
Both the action programs and research & studies are conducted in partnership with INGOs, bilateral and multilateral donors. Action programs and research are mainly focused on the centers different thematic areas through four departments namely:
Institution and Social Development Department
This department is responsible for strengthening the CBOs developed by different projects implemented by this center. It cares the membership coverage economic base linkages and human capacity of local institutions for sustainability. Later on these CBOs are becoming forums for discussion on issues like: Natural Resources, Community Assets/infrastructure and social responsibility. DEPROSC aims to use these forums to talk on issues like child education, child rights, gender equity, sanitation, child immunization and so on. DEPROSC is inviting for concerted efforts of multiple donors for the community development of its program area. Community development as such at present has been focused on the hardware part e.g: construction and rehabilitation of school and health post buildings, micro irrigation, track trails, drinking water schemes, micro hydro generation, disaster risk reduction and disaster preparedness. This department also looks after GIS and database management.
Economic Promotion and Livelihood Department
This department is responsible for designing and implementing various programs that aim to scale up local economy, increase production and linkage with markets and skill transfer so as the people within the vicious cycle of poverty can come out of it. However, it also designs and involves in relief packages to the communities who are affected by natural calamities including drought and who are in greater risks and are adopting unsustainable coping strategies for livelihood. It encourages commercialized farming, leaseland and riverbed farming, appropriate technologies, linkage building for producers and skill-training for landless and small-farmers.
Capacity of producers and their organizations/groups and small infrastructures that can help economic promotion are other concerns of this department. The department for disseminates improved technology in agriculture, livestock farming, forestry and off-farm activities and encourage them to undertake feasible and appropriate enterprises.
Micro-Finance Department
This department is related to designing and implementing activities related to micro-finance. The center has taken a number of measures to enhance its capacity to develop into a pioneering institute mainly on economic development and micro-finance. The centre has already disbursed NRs. 900,785,500 to its clients. DEPROSC has initiated financing irrigation loan to shallow tube-wells irrigation with its own resources.
It has also instituted "DEPROSC Development Bank DD Bank" with equity participation by major commercial banks and individual promoters. It also attempts to ensure credit access to rural people for income generation.
Finance and Administration Department
The department is responsible for overall financial and administration management of DEPROSC-Nepal including all programs and activities of the centre. It enforces Financial and administrative regulations of DEPROSC. The detail financial statement of the centre from its establishment can be downloaded from here.