Funding Partners

1. Kirtipur Municipality, Kathmandu: Kirtipur Municipality, Kathmandu has been providing funding from 2019 to right now for the economic empowerment of Dalits and marginalized women, education support to Dalit and marginalized children, reproductive health awareness, musical training to youths, legal empowerment, and capacity building to Dalit women.

2. Urgent Action Fund – Asia Pacific: Urgent Action Fund has been provided funds to support the families of Dalit and marginalized women through the distribution of food, health and hygiene kits, shoe-making and tailoring machines for Dalit women to engage them with their occupation in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

3. TEWA: TEWA has provided grants to build the capacity of Dalit women activists in leadership development, legal aid and self-care, and institutional development through office operations and the development of a five-year strategic plan.

4. Women’s Fund Asia (WFA): Women’s Fund Asia (WFA) has provided grants to strengthen the feminist movement at the grassroots level. A total of 10 Dalit women from Ward No. 4 of Kirtipur Municipality have completed a two-month shoe-making training program in collaboration with the Tusal Youth Club. The women are now working together to produce and market shoes.

5. UN Women: UN Women has supported us in implementing the Hamro Sahas Project, which focuses on engaging citizens and local government to prevent gender-based violence through social norms change from March 2025 to September 2028 in Kapilbastu district.