KATHMANDU, JUNE 8
The Government of Nepal has decided to provide grants to various non-governmental organisations working for the welfare of differently-abled persons in a bid to bring about positive changes in their lives.
According to the Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizens, the government will fund the not-for-profit organisations to run various programmes that exclusively focus on differently-abled persons. In a recently release report, the MoWCSC said the government grants should be utilised for increasing the access of differently-abled persons to employment opportunities by providing them with skills, training and necessary social security. The grants will be distributed to eligible organisations through the local levels concerned.
The grant amount will be based on the programmes developed by the organisations and approved by the government.
The grants cover the programmes of the NGOs for the benefit of differently-abled persons. The government will initiate the process of sanctioning the budget once the interested NGOs submit an application with a proposal of activities and programmes to the concerned local level.
The MoWCSC said the grants should be spent only for the purpose for which it was provided by the government. The NGOs receiving the grants will be required to operate programmes that deliver services to the target groups. The grant amount will be provided through banking channel.
The local levels concerned have been mandated to carry out monitoring and evaluation to ascertain whether the NGOs have utlised the grants. If the NGOs are found to have misused the grant, the MoWCSC may blacklist it, prohibit the sale or transfer of its tangible and intangible assets and freeze the bank account for further action.
A version of this article appears in the print on June 9, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.
