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 | Farewell and Best Wishes
On Tuesday, the 2011 batch of interns will have completed their year with UMN. They have been a great group of young people... |
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WHAT WE DO
UMN works in four technical areas.
Health
UMN seeks to improve the health of people living in Nepal primarily through community health programmes, and working with the Government health system to strengthen community health services. 
Education
UMN focuses on ensuring that poor and marginalized communities get access to quality, relevant teaching and resources in formal and non-formal education for children, young people and adults.
Sustainable Livelihoods
UMN aims to improve the overall well-being of the poorest and most vulnerable people by enhancing their ability to make a living in an economically, socially and environmentally sustainable manner.
Peacebuilding
Peacebuilding is a long-term process of building peaceful, stable and just communities, healing divisions and reducing discrimination and marginalisation.
UMN also continues to operate two hospitals in regional Nepal: Tansen Mission Hospital and Okhaldhunga Community Hospital
HOW WE DO IT
UMN approaches its work in three ways.
Capacity Building
UMN helps individuals, groups, communities and organizations to better achieve their goals in a sustainable way.
Advocacy
Advocacy involves speaking out in order to influence policy, decisions, attitudes and behaviour of those in power on behalf of, and with, poor and marginalized people in order to achieve lasting change.
Integral Mission
UMN strives for holistic transformation of individuals and communities to fulfill their potential. For us, this means developing right relationships with other people, oneself, the environment, and God.
HealthUMN seeks to improve the health of people living in Nepal primarily through community health programmes, and working with the Government health system to strengthen community health services. Our particular areas of involvement are:
- Maternal and newborn health
- Sexual and reproductive health
- Prevention, care and treatment of HIV and AIDS
- Good nutrition
- Sanitation and hygiene
- Community health
- National health policy
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EducationUMN focuses on ensuring that poor and marginalized communities get access to quality, relevant teaching and resources in formal and non-formal education for children, young people and adults. We do this through:
- Supporting Early Childhood Centres
- Strengthening formal education systems
- Contributing to literacy campaigns
- Promoting youth employability
- Improving children's learning environments
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Sustainable LivelihoodsUMN aimes to improve the overall well-being of the poorest and most vulnerable people by enhancing their ability to make a living in an economically, socially and environmentally sustainable manner. This includes:
- Building access to micro-finance services
- Promoting small animal raising
- Creating small infrastructure development, including market services
- Enhancing employment skills
- Reducing vulnerability to disasters
- Working on climate change adaption
- Improving production of food crops.
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PeacebuildingPeacebuilding is a long-term process of building peaceful, stable and just communities, healing divisions and reducing discrimination and marginalisation. In Nepal, UMN is active in:
- Trauma healing
- Preventing, reducing and mediating conflict
- Improving child safety and upholding child rights
- Addressing gender-based discrimination and violence
- Encouraging participation of marginalised groups
- Contributing to peacebuilding at a national level.
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Capacity BuildingUMN helps individuals, groups, communities and organizations to better achieve their goals in a sustainable way. To do this, we:
- Focus on good governance and accountability
- Model sound practices by working alongside our partners
- Build knowledge, skills and attitudes at partner and community level
- Practise servant leadership.
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AdvocacyAdvocacy involves speaking out in order to influence policy, decisions, attitudes and behaviour of those in power on behalf of, and with, poor and marginalized people in order to achieve lasting change. Our work focuses on:
- Building accountable and effective governance
- Enhancing community voice for justice
- Enhancing the policy impact of UMN’s technical work
- Analysing budgets, monitoring and influencing budget-holders
- Developing advocacy champions
- Advocating for justice nationally and internationally.
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Integral MissionUMN strives for holistic transformation of individuals and communities to fulfill their potential. For us, this means developing right relationships with other people, oneself, the environment, and God. We do this by:
- Deepening and growing our own understanding of holistic transformation
- Working with the Christian community to strengthen integral mission through social action
- Building capacity in Christian organizations committed to integral mission
- Promoting integral mission through national and international networks.
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