Mercy Corps Nepal

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About Us

Mercy Corps is an international, non-governmental humanitarian relief and development agency that exists to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people to build secure, productive and just communities. Mercy Corps was established in 1979, and has headquarters in the USA and UK. Since 1979, Mercy Corps has worked in over 100 countries. Mercy Corps currently works in 41 countries around the world and improving the lives of 19 million people.

The agency focuses on countries in transition, where countries are in the midst of – or recovering from – conflict, economic collapse, or disaster; Mercy Corps sees these crisis situations as moments of opportunity to go beyond traditional boundaries of relief and catalyze lasting change. Globally, Mercy Corps implements programs in a range of sectors, including: agriculture & food security; market development; emergency response; disaster risk reduction; climate change; health; conflict management; youth engagement; and, community mobilization/ governance.

We are Mercy Corps

Mercy Corps Nepal’s three-year country strategy is built upon our vision of inclusive and empowered
communities where Nepalese is able to thrive through equitable economic and social opportunities.

Program & Stories

BHAKARI
Mercy Corps Nepal is managing the BHAKARI program, supported by USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA). BHAKARI is a unique model as a Multi-Year Emergency program, focusing on both increasing long-term food security while also responding to short-term emergency shocks, via an integrated, multi- sectoral approach with a strong emphasis on gender and social inclusion. Key sectors include disaster risk reduction, integrated agriculture, watershed management, and emergency assistance, and will be implemented in partnership with six district-level implementing partners, three national-level technical partners, and one international social enterprise partner, taking careful advantage to leverage work with other USAID implementers, donor programs, and key initiatives from the Government of Nepal.

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RESILIENCE PLUS
Resilience Plus was a programme funded via the UK Government’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) Nepal Emergency Response Framework (NERF) to ensure that COVID-19-related resilience of vulnerable households is strengthened and maintained into the monsoon season through coordinated cash and voucher assistance with integrated access to improved nutrition and protection services and linkages to safety nets.

Programme activities were undertaken by 7 consortium members, including 2 International NGOs, Mercy Corps (Consortium leader) and Plan International, and 5 district-based partner NGOs, namely Banke UNESCO Club, Rural Society Development Centre, Rural Development Centre Nepal, NEEDS Nepal, and Mandwi. The programme worked in partnership with 171 local merchants as well as a financial service provider (FSP), Prabhu Bank. The programme covered 6 districts (Sunsari, Dhanusha, Rautahat, Bardiya, Kailali and Kanchanpur) and local partners coordinated programme activities with palika and ward level officials, in collaboration with the protection committees in each of the 14 palikas.

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STEM II

Supporting the Education of Marginalized Girls in Kailali (STEM II) is a DFID funded program focused on marginalized girls in Kailali district. The project aims to improve the life changes of marginalized girls in Kailali through a series of proven interventions centred on the Theory of Change (ToC). Programme activities include: campaigning to promote girls’ education; training school teachers, school management personnel and parents; upgrading school infrastructure; offering vocational training and business start-up loans; delivering critical academic support through after school classes in English, Maths, Science and project tailored life skills and sexual and reproductive health to girls; and providing financial literacy, vocational training and employment opportunities to help girls transition from school into employment.

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PAHAL

The Promoting Agriculture, Health and Alternative Livelihoods (PAHAL) program is a multi-million, five-year United States Agency for International Development (USAID) initiative designed to achieve food security among vulnerable populations in 14 districts in the middle and high hills of far west and mid-west Nepal. PAHAL is a Development Food Assistance Project under the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA)/Office of FFP) that takes a multi-dimensional, systems-based approach to address underlying socio-political, economic and ecological constraints, and the related shock and stress exposures that drive food insecurity in Nepal.

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MRED II

Mercy Corps Nepal has been implementing Managing Risk through Economic Development (MRED) II project to develop a more sustainable disaster risk reduction (DRR) approach directly linked to economic security in Kailali, Kanchanpur, Dadeldhura and Baitadi district of Nepal. It has targeted to reach 4358 vulnerable households from 52 communities from 11 Palikas (Parshuram and Aaalital in Dadeldhura district, Dilasaini and Dogada Kedar in Baitadi district, Shuklaphanta, Krishnapur and Laljhadi in Kanchanpur district and Bhajani, Kailari and Dhangadhi Sub-Metropolitian in Kailali district).

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COVID-19
Short Stories

Mercy Corps Nepal COVID-19 Second Wave – Emergency Response

As Nepal braces for the second wave of Covid 19. Mercy Corps Nepal team have launched an immediate response in its working districts od Sudurpaschim and Karnali Province. MCN has provided masks, face shields, sanitizers, PPE, and bottled water to provincial health clusters and local governments.

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Stitching her way through life

Rajani Chaudhary stands tall donning her traditional Tharu attire confidently addressing a Girls Education Challenge seminar full of government officials and donor agencies. It is difficult to believe she was working as a Kamlari (bonded laborer) not so long ago in Bardgodiya Municipality of Kailali.

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Innovation at our core

Our global mission to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure,
productive and just communities.

OUR ANNUAL PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS

156276

TOTAL PARTICIPANTS

57090

MALE PARTICIPANTS

99186

FEMALE PARTICIPANTS

530866

TOTAL INDIRECT PARTICIPANTS

WELCOME TO MERCY CORPS

Where our team of nearly 6,000 humanitarians takes on the world’s
toughest challenges to help people build better, stronger lives. We mobilize communities, collaborate
with companies and activate across agencies to deliver breakthrough ideas that make a better world
possible.