To work to improve the lives of the people through health, education, participation, capacity building and opportunity enlargement program and facilitate the excluded and disadvantaged peoples for their empowerment and overall development.
LONG TERM GOALS
To run project chapters and offices in all 75 districts, all three geographies (Mountain, Hill and Terai) and contribute significantly to the development of Nepal.
GOALS:
The goals of SDA will be as follows:
HEALTH
- Carry out the survey, researching public health issues
- Implement the public health activities based on research findings
- Run health projects and activities
EDUCATION
- Enable people to gain skills; knowledge, and thoughts
- Advocate and practice their rights and responsibilities as individuals and as members of groups/clubs and communities locally, nationally and internationally.
- Encourage equality of opportunities such as ethnic/social discrimination and difference in culture, caste, language, sexual identity, gender, and disability.
PARTICIPATION
- Enhance people’s lives and the environment through a voluntary/professional relationship with NGOs, CBOs, local clubs, like-minded institutions and other civil society organisations in which the organisation are a partner in the decision making structures
EMPOWERMENT
- Capacitate people with knowledge and skills to enlarge their capabilities and life opportunity
- Support people to understand and act on the personal, social and political issues which affect their lives, the lives of others, the communities and the nation of which they are part.
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL WELL BEING
- Work for the economic and social well being of excluded ethnic, Chepangs, Dalits, women, children and youths and elderly persons.
- Work in the sector of community development
- Work for the human rights, good governance, inclusion, mainstreaming, and consolidation of democracy
PRINCIPLES OF SDA
- Committed to freedom, human dignity and self-reliance
- Research, learning and skills, acquisition and knowledge
- The partnership with the objectives of self-sustenance