Plan International Nepal

Plan International has been working in Nepal since 1978 to help marginalised children, families and communities access their rights to survival, protection and participation. 

At present, we run programmes in 23 districts, working with partners to strive for a just world where we are all equal.

Nepal remains a highly patriarchal society and minority groups are especially vulnerable. Girls’ and women’s access to social, economic and political power is limited and they are subject to harmful social norms and practices. 

We tackle the root causes of the challenges and inequalities that children and young girls face. We won’t stop until we are all equal.

Our priorities include:

  • Providing equal opportunities for girls and boys in their communities.
  • Reducing violence against girls and women and tackling discriminatory attitudes and practices to make communities free of child marriage, child trafficking and child labour. 
  • Promoting girls’ sexual and reproductive health and rights. 
  • Strengthening the resilience of communities to natural disasters.

Girls Takeover 2024

Each year, on International Day of the Girl, girls across Nepal take on leadership roles, occupying spaces where they are often underrepresented, making a powerful statement that they have the right to be seen, heard, and respected.

This year, as they stepped into the positions of decision-makers, young women from across Nepal called on governments, organisations, and communities to listen to their voices and perspectives and support them.

Focusing on a crucial issue, girls in crisis, they developed the Girls’ Manifesto, laying out exactly what needs to happen to protect girls like them during crises.

What we do

Families receive relief aid from Plan International in Nepal

Emergency response

Working with children and communities to reduce the risks caused by disasters.

Kreetisha, 18, has her COVID-19 vaccination

COVID-19 response

Supporting the government response to contain the COVID-19 pandemic in 9 districts across Nepal.

Young people taking part in an anti-trafficking project

Preventing trafficking

Preventing child and human trafficking, improving repatriation and supporting survivors.

Girls looking at a laptop in Nepal

Learn

We support girls to learn skills required to follow their ambitions and achieve a positive future.

Girls campaigning against child marriage in Nepal

Lead and decide

We’re working alongside children and communities to end harmful norms and practices so girls can make key decisions about their bodies and futures.

Person, Human, Female

Thrive

We’re promoting children’s full and healthy early development and are protecting them from all forms of violence and exploitation so they can fulfill their potential.

Girl campaigners from Nepal

Ending child marriage

We’re working to end child marriage alongside girls, their communities and power holders at all levels.

Girls taking part in the Girls Get Equal campaign

Girls Get Equal

Girls Get Equal is a campaign for girl’s power, voice and leadership.

Girls at school in Nepal

Quality education

We are changing the way schooling is delivered so it meets children’s needs in a fast-changing world, and in a way that reduces the widening inequalities in access to education.

Sushma working as an excavator operator

Promoting young women’s employment

We provide market-driven skills training for young women aged 18-24 to create job or entrepreneurship opportunities.

Where we work

Our address

P.O. Box 8980,

Maitri Marg,

Bakhundole,

Lalitpur

+977 1 543 5580 

nepal.co@plan-international.org

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Map showing where Plan International works in Nepal.

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