Antenna Foundation Nepal (AFN)

Parenting Education: Antenna Foundation Nepal (AFN) in collaboration with UNICEF is working for Parenting Education. Under this project AFN will produce and broadcast radio drama series on parenting education in three different languages i.e Nepali, Maithili and Bhojpuri. 52 episodes of drama series in each language will be produced and aired. The drama produced under this project will focus on parenting practices, care-giving behavior and the provision of stimulating and enriching learning opportunities to young children. Also local radio producers from targeted province number 2, Karnali and Sudurpachhim province will be trained about content production on different parenting skills. This training will help them build capacity to produce weekly radio talk show under AFN's mentorship on issues relating to parenting education. 7 radio stations from 3 province will produce 26 weekly radio talk show (each radio). Parents, caretakers and key family members having children up to the age of 59 months are primary target groups and direct beneficiaries of this project. This project started in August 2019 and will end in July 2020.
Strengthening Access to Holistic, Gender Responsive and Accountable Justice in Nepal (SAHAJ): Antenna Foundation Nepal (AFN) as a consortium partner of Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) Nepal is working as a media partner of Strengthening Access to Holistic, Gender Responsive and Accountable Justice in Nepal (SAHAJ) project. This project aims to combine different social norms change models with community-police relationship strengthening interventions to tackle root causes of Gender Based Violence and improve the capacity of the security and justice system to provide protection and services to the most-risk women and girls in Nepal. Bara, Sarlahi, Mahottari, Dhanusa, Siraha and Saptari from Province 2, Banke, Dang, Rolpa, Pyuthan, Kapilvastu, Rupandehi, Parasi and Nawal from Province 5 and Kailali, Doti, Achham, Bajhang and Bajura from Sudurpachhim province are the target locations of this project. And Antenna Foundation Nepal as a media consortium partner will mentor 3 radio station(province wise) to produce and broadcast 16 radio programs from each radio. Also 50 radio dramas related to different issues of GBV will be produced from AFN and will be disseminated for broadcast and narrowcast from partner radios. Training radio producers about gender and survivor sensitive reporting and one video talk show production are the other activities under this project. This project started in October 2019 and will end in September 2020.
Sakriya : Antenna Foundation Nepal (AFN) as a technical partner of World Education Nepal is working against child labor under Sakriya project. This project is funded by USDOL and AFN will be working from March 2019 to July 2021 for this project. This project will focus on child labor and exploitative labor in three of the four goods-producing industries cited by USDOL as using children in the WFCL: brick production, embroidery (zari) and carpets. Under this project Antenna Foundation Nepal (AFN) will support the NGOs and CBOs addressing child labor to identify advocacy and awareness priorities; design advocacy plan to reach different target populations, particularly families and communities, local level policy makers and employers; and assess the impact of awareness and advocacy activities and improve their strategies for subsequent campaigns. This project is implemented in Province 2, 3 and 5 and aims to improve capacity of 15 civil society to identify and document, independent, and objective information on the nature and scope of child labor and/or forced labor, and violations of acceptable conditions of work in a sector and/or supply chain. Also improving capacity of civil society to raise awareness for the protection of workers from child labor and violations of acceptable conditions of work is also aim of this project.

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