Building Resilient Communities through Bottom up Approach: Case Study of a Rural Education Centred NGO from Nepal

Kanchan Prasad Kharel; Venkat Pulla

doi:10.13189/ijrh.2014.020302

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Building Resilient Communities through Bottom up Approach: Case Study of a Rural Education Centred NGO from Nepal

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Building Resilient Communities through Bottom up Approach: Case Study of a Rural Education Centred NGO from Nepal

Kanchan Prasad Kharel and Venkat Pulla

International Journal of Social Work and Human Services Practice, Vol.2(3), pp.58-65

2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.13189/ijrh.2014.020302

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Abstract

Social Work

NGOs

strengths approach

coping and resilience

regional development

social work in remote communities

sustainability

There are a number of Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) working in the third world's field of educating children in rural areas. In this paper, we review an experience of a purely children's education centered NGO that works in western Nepal, the facilitator of which received the Ramon Magsaysay award in 2007. This NGO uniquely demonstrates the variety of entrepreneurship through self-help groups that generate profits to run and support education for the children. At the conceptual level, the paper begins with the relationship between aid and development in the third world, its impact on poverty reduction; thus presenting a framework for resilience and also reviewing the development of the 'bottom up approach' favorably considered as programme strategy in this NGO. As part of this qualitative paper, the authors have also provided a brief biographical details of the founder of the NGO and his mission to make his community self-reliant ad resilient.

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Title: Building Resilient Communities through Bottom up Approach: Case Study of a Rural Education Centred NGO from Nepal
Authors: Kanchan Prasad Kharel (Author) - Kathmandu University, Nepal
Venkat Pulla (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Business
Publication details: International Journal of Social Work and Human Services Practice, Vol.2(3), pp.58-65
Publisher: Horizon Research Publishing
Date published: 2014
DOI: 10.13189/ijrh.2014.020302
ISSN: 2332-6832
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99448768002621
Output Type: Journal article

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