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Director General of We Social Movement (WSM) Bart Verstraeten Met with Dr. Ram Kumar Phuyal, a member of National Planning Commission on 6 March, 2024.

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Policy Dialogue on Social Protection and Child Grant

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Meeting with Ms. Nicole Klingen, Regional Director, Human Development, South Asia World Bank on 12 Feb, 2024, to share the opportunities and challenges in implementation of policies and programs in health, education and social protection, particularly in a federal context; and understand opportunities and constraints for integrated service delivery at the local level.

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Three days Good Governance Training organized by SPCSN and supported by Save the Children on 21-23 March, 2024 at Kathmandu

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Policy Dialogue on Contributory Social Protection organized by SPCSN and supported by ILO on 23&24 June, 2023.

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Assembly Towards Universal Social Protection during World Social Forum on 17 Feb, 2024.

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Meeting with Honorable Sunita Baral, Member of the House of Representatives of Nepal and Whip of CPN UML and Honorable prabhu Hajra, the member of the house of representatives on 22 March 2024 and handed over the appeal letter to expand and increase the Child Nutrition Grant (Bal Poshan Bhatta).

About us

Social Protection Civil Society Network (SPCSN) is a dynamic and influential coalition established in Nepal in 2012. Comprising 19 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and 2 international NGOs, SPCSN is dedicated to advocating for the rights of the most vulnerable groups in Nepalese society, including children (child grants, child rights), the elderly, people with disabilities, trafficking survivors, those with HIV/AIDS, single women, Dalit and the landless. Our mission is to promote access to sustainable and targeted social security, ensuring affordable, transparent, and accountable programs for universally accepted benefit. SPCSN operates on a foundation of values such as networking, transparency, and mutual respect, and our activities are grounded in a real bottom-up process led by marginalized groups and women's organizations. SPCSN highly promote shock responsive social protection and formulate policies for the same with Nepal government for its proper implementation. SPCSN has been working and advocating for the rights of vulnerable groups including women, children,elderly people and people with disabilities by providing emergency assistance during shock as well as building shock responsive systems, plans in advance of a shock to better prepare for emergency response.

Our Statistics

70+

Districts Coverage

30000+

Female Reached

20000+

Male Reached

18

Member Organizations

Timeline

Facilitated Social Protection Workshop in WSF 2024

17 February, 2024

Coordinated and Facilitated Social Protection Workshop in WSF 2024 with collaboration with more than 15 development agencies.

National Dialogue on Social Protection

1 December, 2023

Organized National Dialogue on Social Protection with the engagement of more than 100 participants

Submission of suggestions on National framework on SP

23 July, 2020

90% suggestions incorporated On-going discussion among stakeholders

Published handbook on Social Protection

January, 2020

2,750 copied published and submitted to 17 members

Review and reflection meeting

22-23 December, 2019

Endorsed working guidelines of SPCSN Chair and Joint chair elected; Advocacy document prepared

Submitted recommendations on Social Protection Operating guideline 2015 to Department of National ID and Civil Registration CWISH as a secretariat

2017

Incorporated many suggestions

Formation of Social Protection Civil Society Network

16 Feb, 2012

SPCSN formed comprising 14 organizations: Collective Campaign for Peace (COCAP) – Coordinator (providing Secretariat also) Save the children – Member Secretary

National Social Protection Framework (Draft) Stakeholders' Consultations with I/NGOs

24 Aug, 2011

The consultation workshop realized a civil societies’ forum on social protection to raise of voice of right holders

Current Initiatives

Recent News

Commitment Towards Disaster Preparedness: SPCSN Concluded Successful DRRM Training linking with Social Protection

"Commitment to invest in Child-Friendly Local Governance (CFLG)"

2024-06-21

CSOs and Trade Unions Unite to Expand Social Protection Rights.

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गुनासो सुनुवाई संयन्त्र
(सामाजिक सुरक्षा एवं बालबालिका सम्बन्धि केहि गुनासो, सल्लाह वा सुझाव भएमा सामाजिक सुरक्षा नागरिक समाज सञ्जालका सम्र्पक व्यक्तिहरुसँग परामर्श वा गुनासो राख्न सक्नुहुन्छ )

श्री कुन्दा शर्मा

संस्थागत पदः कोषाध्यक्ष

सम्पर्क नं.: ९८४१७०४१२५

ईमेलः kunda@whr.org.np

श्री ज्ञानेन्द्र प्रसाद पौडेल

संस्थागत पदः सदस्य

सम्पर्क नं.: ९८५११०२३४४

ईमेलः gyanendra.tuki@gmail.com

श्री राजेन्द्र चौलागाईं

सचिवालय कर्मचारी

सम्पर्क नं.: ९८५१२३६२२३

ईमेलः pc.spcsnnepal@gmail.com

श्री गोपाल थापा मगर

सम्पर्क नं.: ९८४१३५४७२३

ईमेल: gopal.thapa59@gmail.com