Partnership with UNICEF (RCCE)

Mask Campaign In Community Schools

The Covid-19 pandemic left an unprecedented impact in the schools and children were greatly impacted due to the closure of the schools. Even when all the other areas were re-opened, schools were in the risk zone. In a close collaboration between Nepal Scouts and UNICEF Nepal to mitigate the risk in the schools and continue the learning process “Back to Schools” campaign was lunched where 7 million masks were part of the mask bank establishment in all 7 provinces. Across the country, 10 community schools were part of the mask bank concept along with the intervention in the border area and densely populated area.

S.N.Item

Total Unit

1Adult Mask4100000

2Child Mask4025000

Total8125000

Gender Transformation

Through High Level Training Courses for Women’s Leader at Nepal Scouts

Nepal Scouts, a non-formal education movement contributes to the gender transformation through the youth programme that focuses on development of an individual in five dimensions. Nepal Scouts with the close coordination with UNICEF Nepal believes that young people become agents of change and contribute to their growth as active citizens. For the movement to be successful and efficient, developing trainers and enhancing their capacity are of utmost important. Thus, adult in scouting is a systematic approach for supporting adults to improve the effectiveness, commitment and motivation of the adult leadership for better delivery of the youth activities where both the organizations intervene.

Adolescent Psychosocial Advocacy

The Covid-19 outbreak back in 2019 created world of no mobility, interaction was online, socio-economic crisis, stigma in some communities and discrimination. Covid-19 have high levels of mental distress along with economic losses. Through the involvement of the scouts and through human centric design the different facets of story are collected and thus a story is developed that represents general mass. The theme of prevention mechanism is followed throughout the video based story-telling. The five videos were entitled as: 1. Comparision 2. Pressure 3. Chakkar 4. Dhusi 5.

Social Media

The five video as part of the human-centric design have a huge traction and many of the comments from the social media point to that direction. The email where some have shared the story also tells the thought process of the people. Alongside the video, an activity pack is also developed based on the five thematic areas that the video is worked on. The activity pack will be the guidelines for the young child to express themselves or to advocate the issues related to psychosocial health. This is a new collaboration between UNICEF Nepal and Nepal Scouts in the domain of young children. To advocate the messages across the social media platform, influencers such as Rekha Thapa, Reecha Sharma, Keki Adhikari, Ellena Chauhan and Kabita Nepali shared the messages across their social media. In addition to this, the media popularly known as “Routine of Nepal Banda” also advocate by sharing the videos. The social media platform is the go-to outlet for most of the young people.