Established in 2000, CHETANA is dedicated to fostering sustainable development in both rural and urban communities of Nepal. It works to envision, implement, and support community-driven initiatives. The organization prioritizes areas such as democracy, governance, child and women’s rights, human and Dalit rights, peacebuilding, disaster management, sustainable livelihoods, and environmental conservation.

CHETANA was initiated by a group of well-qualified and experienced professionals with extensive expertise in natural resource management and integrated community development. The organization conducts socio-economic and environmental activities, research, and advocacy campaigns to address community constraints and meet their needs and aspirations. CHETANA emphasizes participatory processes, engaging its team members, volunteers, and specialists in developing strategic development plans.

Vision

"A prosperous, equitable, and harmonious society where children, women, individuals with disabilities, and disadvantaged groups advance systematically, overcoming challenges today and tomorrow."

Mission

"To implement integrated actions and systematic approaches that create an enabling environment for capacity building among development actors, children, women, and marginalized groups, empowering them socially, economically, politically, culturally, and environmentally."

Goal

CHETANA aims to empower poor, historically marginalized communities and underprivileged societies—particularly in poverty-stricken, disaster-affected, and conflict-hit areas—by alleviating poverty and mitigating disaster-induced physical threats. This will be achieved through integrated community development interventions, humanitarian assistance, capacity building, policy research, and development. The organization mobilizes local resources, fosters partnerships, and strengthens local capacities to achieve these goals.

Objectives

1. Advocacy and Campaigns

   • Advocate for youth and adolescent governance, child-friendly environments, and universal education.
   • Campaign for children's rights and support the adoption of child protection policies to ensure survival, development, protection, and participation.
     
     

2. Institutional Development

   • Advocate for making schools, service delivery points, and state mechanisms child, youth, adolescent, differently-abled, and elderly-friendly.
     
     

3. Health Promotion

   • Promote preventive, curative, rehabilitative, and health-promotive approaches to foster a healthy environment.
     
     

4. Capacity Building

   • Build local capacities through education, sustainable livelihood programs, disaster management, water and sanitation, agriculture, livestock, climate change adaptation, and environmental conservation.
     
     

5. Community-Based Organizations (CBOs)

   • Enhance CBO capacities through training and involvement as partners in the development process. Strengthen their linkages with local government agencies.
     
     

6. Inclusion and Gender Equality

   • Ensure women, children, Dalits, and excluded groups are involved in decision-making processes.
   • Advocate for gender-sensitive policies and practices in development programs.
     
     

7. Research and Natural Resource Management

   • Conduct studies and action research to mobilize local resources effectively.
   • Implement soil conservation, watershed management, and natural resource safeguarding programs.
     
     

8. Conflict-Affected Communities

• Support peacebuilding efforts through advocacy and livelihood opportunities for conflict-affected communities.
  
  

Objective and Programmes: As mentioned in the Preamble, the main objective of the Organization is to serve the country and people through voluntary service by arising awareness comprehensively about the importance of successful family by involving the Nepalese People and community directly for the sustainable development of the future generations who are making their livelihood in the rural communities of Nepal. In order to achieve the above mentioned main objective, following programmes shall be conducted:

A) To encourage to be united in the construction and development of the rural area by removing the existing social evils, inequality and untouchability,

B) To develop social, intellectual and economic aspect of the community by optimum and rationale mobilization of local resources and means, and assistance that may be obtained from foreign sources,

C) To seek maximum participation of women in each activities of the community,

D) To collect assistance to conduct social and economic activities to uplift the living standard of women and children,

E) To assist to conduct any utilizable training, establish small cottage industry and produce agro-based production and manage market for such production, and to assist to mobilize internal resources to conduct skill development programmes through adult literacy programme,

F) To make effort to obtain assistance from the government and central level non-governmental agencies to mobilize participation of people in the construction and improvement of small irrigation, clean drinking water, quality health service, formal and informal education, housing, small bridges, roads, etc. and to be effortful for the execution of the same,

G) To create public awareness for the development of environment, decentralization, rural energy, agriculture and foresty technologies, protection of animal husbandry, protection of horticulture and collect necessary equipments, technology and monies in order to increase production,

H) To create awareness about reproductive health, aids and education on sexually transmitted disease in the community required for the healthy society and to conduct programmes in wide-spread manner to discourage the evil activities like trafficking of women, sexual exploitation of children.

I) To enhance health standard of the community and develop health services through women empowerment and youth activism, increment of income and people's participation,

J) To conduct programmes in coordination with the different governmental, non-governmental and international organizations for the income generation of women in the community,

k) To exchange views and experiences with different governmental and non-governmental organizations.