Programmes of LACC

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LEGAL AID AND CONSULTANCY CENTER (LACC)

PROGRAMMES

LACC has been undertaking the following major programmes.

Leadership skill development training program for elected women leaders at the local level.
Legislative Reform and Legal Aid Under the ILO/IPEC Time Bound Progrmme
Women of Nepal: Laws and Policies Affecting Their Reproductive Lives – A research project
Women’s Equal Property and Inheritance Rights
Campaign through electronic media to combat Violence Against Women, with special focus on Trafficking in Women and Children.

1. Leadership skill development training program for elected

women leaders

LACC has been implementing a Leadership skill development training program for the elected women leaders of the Village Development Committees VDCs and Municipalities to enhance their skill and competence in handling women’s problem and work for securing gender justice at the VDC an local level. The programme was started in 2001 and will end in December, 2004. this project is being sponsored by the NOVIB, the Netherlands.

Leadership Development Training

2. Legal Aid programme to Child victims of abuses and

worst form of child labour ( ILO/IPEC )

Under the sponsorship of the International Labour Organization/International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC), LACC is implementing this project. This project envisages to provide legal aid, counselling, mediation services and court representation to the victims of the worst forms of child labour.

A Child labour at work

3. Legal Aid to the Women Victims of Violence, Domestic

Violence, Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking ( The

Women's Rights Helpline Project)

Thir project envisage to provide legal aid, counselling, conciliation, mediation services and court representation to the woman victims of violence, rape, sexual exploitation, abuses, polygamy, battering, forced divorce and trafficking in the districts of Kathmandu, Lalitpur, Bhaktapur, Jhapa, Doti, Surkhet, Dhanusha and Baglung. This programme is supported by the Netherlands Development Agency ( NEDA), the Royal Danish Embassy/DANIDA and Canadian Cooperation Office under different phases.

A woman registering at Helpline project

4. Women of Nepal: Laws and Policies Affecting Their

Reproductive Lives – A research project

LACC is carrying out the above research project on women’s reproductive health. This project is sponsored by the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy (CLRP) , New York, USA

5. Campaign through electronic media to combat Violence

Against Women, with special focus on Trafficking in

Women and Children.

LACC is conducting a campaign through electronic media to combat Violence Against Women, with special focus on Trafficking in Women and Children., with the support of the Joint Initiative in the Millennium against Trafficking in Women and Girls (JIT), UNDP

6. Women’s Equal Property and Inheritance Rights

LACC completed the Women’s Equal Property and Inheritance Rights, an advocacy and training project on women’s property rights in December, 2002. The project goal was to get the Women’s Property Bill enacted. For this purpose LACC undertook advocacy and lobbying at two levels - policy level at the Cenre and Grassroots level at the districts It undertake lobbying with the policy influencing individuals, institutions, government departments and ministries including the members of cabinet, Ministers, Parliamentarians, Judges, Judicial, Legal, Administrative officials, political parties for speedy enactment of Women’s Equal Property and Inheritance Act at the central level. Similarly, it organised advocacy and lobbying with the District Judges, Police, Administrative, Judicial and Legal officials, leaders of political parties, members of Bar, Distirct and Village Development Committees, Mayors, women activists, representatives of NGOs and INGOs in ten districts of Chitwan, Syanjha, Makwanpur, Jhapa, Iilam, Saptari, Lalutpur, Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and Sunsari. This project was sponsored by the Development Alternatives, Inc. with financing from the U.S. Agency for International Development, Washington. USA.

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