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Country: Nepal
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Award Date: 1999
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Award Amount: $99,971.00
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Cost Share: $101,241.00
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Other Partners: Nepal country office of the United Nations Development Program; Stree Shakti; Nepal Forum for Women, Law and Development; Nepal Water for Health; Center for Legal Research and Development; Forum for Protection of Human Rights; Center for Women/Children and Community Development; Human Rights Organization of Nepal Institute of Human Rights; Environmental and Development International
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This partnership broadened legal training in Nepal to include a focus on social policy. The partners designed a new social policy analysis course, which introduces law students to social policy tools critical for sound advocacy. They also launched a partnership web site to give faculty and students access to a comprehensive bibliography of published legal materials and sustainable development topics related to Nepal, and they established Tribhuvan University (TU) Law School’s first computer lab. The partnership placed 13 U.S. social work students in internships at organizations in Nepal, working in areas such as human rights, environment, and the empowerment of women. The partnership also played a large role in the development of the TU’s Centre for Human Rights in 2001, the first institution of its kind in Nepal. The focus of the Centre is to strengthen and promote teaching, training, and research on human rights and international humanitarian law.
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