The project entitled as “Land Rights Campaign” has been designed with an aim to contribute promoting the socio-economic status of Dalits through increasing their access in rights to land. The project will be intensively implemented at 18 palikas of 9 districts (2 in each district-1 rural municipality and 1 municipality) in Sudurpaschim province of Nepal. The duration of the project will be from 1 August, 2021 to 31 July, 2023 with the financial support of Open Society Foundation. Rationale of the Project: The article of new constitution (40 of (5) and (6) has provisioned the land to landless Dalits community. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) has pointed-out the housing rights as fundamental human rights. Although, there are legal and constitutional provisions, but still it is not being implemented after 5 years of promulgation of the constitution. In addition, the government of Nepal has revised its land policy (8th revision) that has prioritized Dalit community. The major challenges are as to; the political parties and duty bears do not have willing power to implement the land policy in practice and they do not have also proper monitoring mechanism..Dalits communities who are discriminated for a long time are poorly aware of their rights and claiming procedure and mechanisms, lack information and not well organized, and isolated.
Goal: Contribute promoting the socio-economic status of Dalits through increasing their access in rights to land.
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