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Grant-Making Programme

Tewa’s grant-making programme supports mostly rural, grassroots women’s groups in Nepal, with three grant cycles per year. These grants empower women by supporting them and helping them to remain organized and allowing them to fulfill their goals. Tewa grants primarily provide support for income generating activities, as resources for rural women are scarce. Grants have also supported skill development training, physical structures, and human resource development. Since 2004, 20% of the annual grant-making budget has been designated for peace building initiatives. To date, 316 grants have been disbursed in 60 districts (out of 75 districts).
Quick facts: (May 2009)
Grants Disbursed: Rs. 14,205,604.17
Number of Grants Disbursed: 316
Number of grantee women’s organization: 296
Number of District: 60 (out of 75)

Grant awarded for the year 2007/ 2008 and 2008/2009

2007/2008:
39 grants were awarded in 23 District, among these 3 were new districts. Most of our grants funds were for income generating projects.

2008/2009( till 2nd cycle 2009):
In the fiscal year 2008/2009 19 grants were awarded in 13 District, among these 3 were new district. Most of these grants were for micro projects.

 

Grants Awarded

Year	No, of grants awarded
1996	08
1997	24
1998	24
1999-00	32
2000-01	31
2001-02	17
2002-03	15
2003-04	35
2004-05	22
2005-06	21
2006-07	30
2007-08	39
2008-09	19 (till 2nd cycle 2009)

 

Grant Making Activities

Grantee Interaction Programme
Interaction program with grantees from eastern development region was held in Biratnagar from 27th till 30th December 2006. 7 organisation from eastern region participated in the program due to political tension in the country not all organizations were able to travel to program venue.

Organization development training
Based on the need identified during various interaction program wih Tewa grantees, an organizational development training was conducted for grantee organizations.these trainings are expected to help improve the functioningmof the grantee organizations. Trainers for these trainings were arrangd from Social work Institute,lalitpur,Nepal.

• 1st training program was held in Gaidakot, Nawal Parasi from -30th October till 2nd November 2007 to Tewa Grantee organization.. There were 30 participants from 11 districts who attended this training.
• 2nd training program was held in Birendranagar, Surkhet from 6th till 9th February 2009. 28 participants from 13 organization participated from 7 districts took this training.

Grantee exposure visit
In collaboration with Nirnaya, women fund in India, an exposure visit was organized for Tewa grantee women from 3 organization from Darchula, Bardiya & Siraha districts to state of Orissa, India. The objective of this visit was to interact & peer learning and sharing experience between grantees of sister fund Nirnaya and Tewa. It was vey educative both for the host and the visitors. Many new learning were shared between the grantee organizations.Tewa also believes that these kind of activities will give exposure to Nepali grantee and it will enhance their work in development. This visit was made possible from the grant received from Mamacash, Holland