Summary of key updates, facts and figures, initiatives, progress, challenges, needs and opportunities related to gender equality and women’s empowerment in the post-earthquake recovery and reconstruction process in Nepal.
Governance and accountability: Establishment of a GESI Unit in the NRA to ensure integration of GESI measures for all recovery and reconstruction processes and ensure women’s leadership and participation during planning, implementation and monitoring of recovery and reconstruction efforts at national, regional and district levels;
Integrated protection and support for women and girls, children, PLWD, people living with HIV, and senior citizens and issues around human trafficking and support to preventing sexual and genderbased violence: special conditional cash support for individual household reconstruction to be used for hiring labour; community-based psychosocial counselling, and anti-trafficking for women’s leadership, participation and awareness programmes, and for skill development and livelihood enhancement support;
Support to PLWDs: establishment of rehabilitation centres, provision of accessory devices and support for skill development and livelihood enhancement and the provision of PLWD identity documents;
Construction and rehabilitation; and child protection: construction of Women and Children Office (WCO) buildings, children’s homes, safe houses for GBV survivors, rehabilitation centres for trafficking survivors, women’s cooperative centres, and adolescent information and counselling centres;
Support to senior citizens: establishment of old age houses, day care centres, and provision of training with start-up support resources.