“The National Forum for Advocacy Nepal (NAFAN), founded in June 2004, is an NGO dedicated to improving socio-economic conditions, gender equality, and natural resource access for marginalized communities in Nepal. It influences policies to benefit these groups through advocacy, governance, and equitable resource sharing. NAFAN’s key activities include community resource management, capacity building, environmental justice, and human rights, supported by a resource center.”
Objectives
- Protection, Promotion, and realization of Human Rights of socially and economically marginalized people and community.
- Protection, Promotion and realization of the cultural and economic rights of different class and community.
- Access of marginalized class to environment, natural resources, climate change and biodiversity.
- Provide proportionate share to the disadvantaged community, and local groups of the benefits arising from commercial and other utilization of natural or biological resources.
- Conduct different activities to ensure rights of Women and mainstreaming Gender.
- Decentralization of natural resource management, and conservation, sustainable use and management of biodiversity to the lowest level of the society and local government.
- Establish and promote good environmental governance.
- Ensure the rights of forest workers’ as per the ILO conventions and provisions.
- Act as a resource Centre, and
- Undertake different activities, which are ancillary to the above, mentioned objectives