Panchtara Yuwa Samrakshak Manch (PTYSM) is a development and humanitarian non-governmental organization (NGO) based in Bheri Municipality-3, Jajarkot District, Karnali Province. Established in 1997 and officially registered with the District Administration Office (DAO), Jajarkot, PTYSM became affiliated with the Social Welfare Council (SWC) in 1998. The organization was founded by a group of committed young development professionals and social workers with extensive experience in rural development, united by the shared vision of promoting social justice through the empowerment of vulnerable communities. Since its inception, PTYSM has been dedicated to serving economically disadvantaged and socially marginalized groups particularly Dalits, indigenous communities, Person with Disabilities and other underrepresented ethnicities as well as children and youth. The organization works to ensure equitable access to resources, opportunities, and participation in decision-making processes.

PTYSM operates its central office in Bheri Municipality-3, Khalanga, Jajarkot, with field offices in both the eastern and western regions of Jajarkot District. Additionally, it maintains a liaison office in Subidhanagar-35, Kathmandu, to support development initiatives and facilitate coordination and networking at both the local. provincial and national levels. The organization has a strong track record of project development and implementation in partnership with the Government of Nepal (including District Coordination Committees, municipalities, and local authorities), as well as with international and national NGOs, UN agencies and bilateral and multilateral development agencies. PTYSM’s areas of expertise span a wide range of development sectors, including:

• Community mobilization and institutional development
• Livelihood promotion and entrepreneurship development
• Quality Education and capacity-building training
• Child rights and protection
• Awareness-raising advocacy campaigns
• Agriculture, livestock, and forestry
• Climate change adaptation and mitigation
• Community health, water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) and BCC
• Maternal, neonatal health and Nutrition
• Renewable energy solutions
• Good Governance and Accountability
• Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion
• Human rights and peacebuilding
• Humanitarian Response, DRR and Resilience Building

Through these multifaceted initiatives, PTYSM remains committed to fostering inclusive, sustainable development and humanitarian support across Karnali Province and beyond.

Vision, Mission and Goal:

Vision:

Building a child-friendly, uplifting and advanced society based on social justice.

Mission:

Building accountability by empowering, advocating and creating opportunities for a safe, virtuous, sustainable, and respectful society.

Goal:

Ensuring the rights of children, women, at-risk and marginalized groups and contributing to increased accountability for environmental risk reduction.

Objectives

1. To conduct capacity building, awareness, training, seminars, and programs in coordination and collaboration with children and stakeholders by formation and mobilization of children to ensure the physical, mental, and intellectual development, growth, and participation of children and to protect children’s rights
2. Advocating for the effective implementation of the constitution and fundamental rights, localization of national and international treaties, agreements, and policy practice, awareness, effective implementation, and promotion by ensuring the promotion and protection of human rights.
3. In order to eliminate harmful traditional practices and values, conduct activities to raise public awareness about superstitions, stereotypes, untouchability, child marriage, and other social evils.
4. To maintain gender equality and social inclusion, conduct capacity building, awareness, advocacy, training, seminars, and programs by ensuring inclusiveness in the development, decision-making process, and benefits of all genders, castes, classes, physical conditions, regions, etc.
5. To implement fundamental rights of deprived groups and marginalize committees to maintain
6. Gender equality and social inclusion, increase access to decision-making processes by maintaining good governance coordinating and cooperating by enhancing the capacity of government, non-government organizations, and target groups.
7. Technical and skill training, group expansion, promotion of small enterprises, and support in income generation by increasing public awareness in agricultural and non-agricultural sectors for livelihood and poverty alleviation.
8. To increase the capacity of youth and children, open a Youth/children’s information center and library, and protect, and rehabilitate children who are victims of trafficking and at risk.
9. Conducting infrastructure construction, training, capacity development, advocacy, and awareness programs for reduction of natural and man-made risk and management and mitigation of climate change effects and promotion of commercial agriculture for economic, social and environmentally sustainable development, access to food security, and promotion of alternative energy and advocacy.
10. Conducting infrastructure construction, training, capacity building, lobbying, and awareness programs to ensure inclusive and quality education and access to education for all.
11. In order to solve the problems of health, nutrition, and sanitation, building infrastructure and ensuring access to health at the level of ordinary citizens, conducting activities to assist the Nepal government and in matters such as maternal-child health, nutrition, vaccination, prevention and treatment of chronic diseases such as HIV-sexually transmitted, and sanitation to increase public awareness.
12. In order to support the vision, mission, goal, and objective of the organization, establish and operate electronic media in a way that does not contradict the organization’s purpose and does not harm the organization’s reputation.
13. Establishing, Managing, and promoting cooperative organizations to manage the capital in the community.
14. To conduct the program by partnering, coordinating, and collaborating with the relevant agencies for the growth, management, and proper deployment of the necessary resources for the promotion of human rights, peace, good governance, and accountability to increase the effectiveness of the organization and programs.

Core Values and Principles:

Participatory and collaborative:

PTYSM value is participatory and collaboration with local communities, stakeholders and institutions for knowledge sharing, resources mobilization for the benefits of impact groups in all aspects of its development works.

Transparency and accountability:

It believes to make the development initiatives transparent and accountable towards beneficiaries and stakeholders for developing the ownership and trust in the development intervention for their long-term impact.

Youth mobilization:

PTYSM value is make the rural youth skillful through education support and capacity development training for self-employment generation and mobilize them for overall community development and their own economic growth.

Sustainability:

PTYSM believes to make the development initiatives sustainable through investment on human and financial resources

Marginalized, children and gender sensitive:

PTYSM values to give high priority with followed positive discrimination principle to weaker section of community such as marginalized, deprived ethnic groups, Children, poor men and women, conflict affected people and children by its program/plan, development initiatives, and representation in decision-making forum and staff recruitment to make equitable society.

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