Nepal
We began our work in Nepal in 2015 as a direct response to the earthquake that devastated the country that year. In the immediate aftermath, we focussed on delivering life-saving humanitarian relief, providing displaced families with emergency shelter, food, hygiene essentials, and crucial psychosocial support. As the initial crisis stabilised, we transitioned into long-term recovery, helping communities rebuild safer homes with earthquake-resistant designs, restoring rural infrastructure, and offering local income opportunities to help families recover their livelihoods.
Building on our experience in emergency response and recovery, early warning, early action, disaster risk reduction, and climate resilience have become core pillars of our work. To protect vulnerable populations from recurrent hazards like landslides, heat, drought, and floods, we promote early warning systems, early action, and community-led adaptation strategies.
We work alongside local authorities to strengthen emergency planning, improve slope and water management, and promote sustainable urban resilience—including eco-friendly waste management and circular economy initiatives that support marginalised informal workers. Our teams draw on this same emergency-response capacity, today, as they respond to flash floods that have severely affected communities in Rasuwa, Nuwakot, and neighbouring districts.
Our Emergency Response Team (ERT) is working with district and local government authorities and the community directly in affected areas. Our response ranges from direct humanitarian relief to data gathering and managing information, to efficient, prioritised distribution of aid to those most in need.
Protection, Gender Equality, Disability, and Social Inclusion (ProGEDSI) is central to our humanitarian action and development initiatives. Working in close coordination with the Government of Nepal and as an active member of the Protection Cluster and its sub-clusters, we help ensure that crisis-affected women, children, persons with disabilities, older citizens, and other marginalised groups are protected, reached, and heard during emergencies.
Through protection mainstreaming, community-based protection, mental health and psychosocial support, and inclusive humanitarian programming, we address risks of violence, exploitation, trafficking, and exclusion while strengthening local systems and capacities. By placing protection and inclusion at the centre of disaster preparedness, response, and recovery, we help ensure that humanitarian assistance reaches those most at risk and upholds their dignity, safety, and human rights.
At PIN Nepal, we advance a ProGEDSI-focused development agenda that promotes gender-transformative approaches, engages men and boys as allies for positive change to social norms, and strengthens gender-based violence (GBV) prevention at community and institutional levels. Through a twin-track approach, we mainstream ProGEDSI across programmes while implementing targeted interventions that strengthen the leadership, participation, and rights of women, persons with disabilities, and other marginalised groups, ensuring that no one is left behind across all of our programmatic pillars.
We work to address the structural, social, economic and gender related barriers that prevent adolescent girls, children with disabilities, out-of-school children and other marginalised groups from accessing quality education. Through flexible learning pathways, gender responsive and disability inclusive approaches, and stronger engagement of communities, civil society and government, we promote safe, accessible and supportive learning environments. We also strengthen education systems through advocacy, accountability and initiatives such as the Girls and Inclusive Education Network (GIEN), helping ensure that marginalised children can access, participate in and benefit from quality education.
Economic empowerment and gender justice are embedded across all our initiatives. We equip women and marginalised community members with practical skills, business development training, and financial literacy to foster sustainable self-reliance. At the same time, we work to eliminate gender-based violence, challenge harmful social norms, and strengthen local protection services, ensuring women have both the voice and agency to lead within their households and communities.
To ensure long-term sustainability, our approach emphasises civil society strengthening and inclusive governance. We partner closely with local governments, community organizations, and advocacy networks to build local capacity, improve public service delivery, and enhance policy monitoring. By placing local leadership at the centre of development and aligning with national frameworks, we ensure that the systems designed to protect, educate, and empower communities are driven and sustained by the people of Nepal themselves.
