Adventists Development and Relief Agency Nepal (ADRA)

Adventists Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) Nepal

The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is the global humanitarian organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Through international network, ADRA delivers relief and development assistance to individuals in more than 130 countries-regardless of their ethnicity, political affiliation, or religious association.

ADRA Purpose Statement:

• To serve  humanity so that all may live as God intended

Function of ADRA

Health

• The strategy of ADRA Nepal's Health and Nutrition Department is to enable the country's most vulnerable citizens to secure greater equity in, and access to, good health services.

Strategic Goal

ADRA Nepal aspires to be one of the government's most active and dependable partners for promoting wellbeing for people of all ages and ensuring healthy lives. as well as for attaining food and nutrition security and ending hunger (SDG 2

Sector Capacity).

• Family Planning
• Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
• Health System and Infrastructure Strengthening
• Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

Livelihood

With a focus on women and underprivileged communities, ADRA Nepal works to advance economic growth and food security among economically disadvantaged demographic groups. Smallholder farmers' livelihoods are helped through agricultural extension services, production/processing techniques, communal marketing systems, and value chain integration. Commercial vegetable farming, livestock raising, the production of essential oils, and related microenterprise development are some of the tools that are encouraged.

By educating community business facilitators, agrovets, and animal health workers, as well as by developing local capacity and mobilizing local resources through leadership and management training, it enhances the input service markets. All of this is done in close cooperation with the local government and community.

Sector Capacity

• Creating and Producing High Value Commodities:
• Productivity
• Strengthening Entrepreneur and Enterprise Development via Marketing and the Market System
• Building Local Service Providers' Capacity to Address Food and Nutrition Security
• Obtaining Finance
• Infrastructures in the community that support higher output and productivity

Disaster Risk Management

ADRA Nepal is recognized as; a lead support agency in assisting district level Disaster Preparedness and Response Planning (DPRP) initiatives. Our emergency response to the Nepal earthquake of 2015; involved providing direct assistance to over 150,000 families in close co-ordination with the Nepal government.

Sector Capacity

• Urban/Rural Community- based Disaster Risk Management:
  • Risk reduction mitigation, emergency , preparedness, early recovery, full fledged recovery
• School-based Disaster Risk Management:
  • Awareness and sensitization, retrofitting (structural and non-structural), DRM in education, community outreach through school children
• DRM Governance
• Policy Research and Development on DRM
• Capacity Building of Concerned stakeholders in DRM

Education

For the establishment of libraries and the construction/repair of school facilities, the education program collaborates closely with ADRA Connections. Its non-formal education component includes business management training for women and educating smallholder farmers about contemporary farming techniques. Adults, especially older women, may now get formal literacy instruction to help them realize their full potential. Additionally, ADRA Nepal has expertise working with children affected by violence, ex-child soldiers, and school dropouts to provide education, vocational training, and psychological assistance. The promotion of child- and adolescent-friendly schools, the upkeep of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) facilities, and the improvement of SMC and PTAS capabilities are prioritized in its approach to education.

Sector Capacity

• Formal Education Support to Deprived Children
• Facilitation in Policy Implementation
• Public School Infrastructure Development
• Promotion of Child Education Rights
• Non-Formal Education to Women
• Vocational and Skill Enhancement  Training for Youth.

Project in Nepal

• Health

  • Health Infrastructure Reconstruction After Quake (HIRA)
  • Livemore Asia NCD Partnership Project
  • Adolescent and Sexual Reproductive Health Project

• Livelihood

  • Enhancing Livelihoods if Smallholder Farmers (ELIVES)
  • Helping Earthquake Communities Rebuild their Livelihoods (HELP)
  • GOAT BANK NEPAL: Supporting Earthquake Victims to restock Goat
  • Disaster Resilience Education and Safe School (DRESS)
  • Helping Earthquake affected communities rebuild their Livelihood Project (HELP)
• Disaster Risk Management
• Nepal Urban Resilience Project  (NURP) Scoping Study
• Creating Community Climate Change Capacity
• Braced/Anukulan-X
• Prime/Surakshit Sahar-Urban  Disaster Risk Reduction Project
• Promoting Resilient and Sustainable Urban Growth by Augmenting DRR Capacity of Local Authorities through Active private Sector Involvement (PRAGATI)