CWRD is an initiative of a group of visionary people working together for women empowerment through various ways. Registered as an NGO in GON, CWRD has recently expanded to extending its services to micro-credit banking. With collaboration between various persons and organizations, CWRD is exploring and initiating women empowerment for both; socio-cultural as well as economic independency of women.

Emergence and Background
The idea of CWRD establishment emerged during 1993 when the political move was recently calmed down democratic restoration (the constitutional monarchy) after 30 years. Among other, women inequalities were one of the major hindrances for social justice and development in the democratic society. In an inspiring atmosphere, from closed to open society (monarchy to democracy), a group of visionary leaders who were working on women rights since long concluded to form an organization to work intensively in the women sector. The original idea of the organization was to work for women rights awareness at the start and then gradually move to the holistic development of women.
Initially started with the objective of working for the civil, socio-cultural and other fundamental rights of women, CWRD realized that the root of discrimination went very deep in patriarchal society of Nepal. Only advocating about women rights was not being effective enough to change this scenario. Women had to be taught the ways and means to free themselves from the grip of society and the major factor to help them do that is economic independence.
Identifying this, CWRD has additionally initiated a micro-financing platform for encouraging and funding small businesses and industries. With establishment of CWRD Bank, its micro-credit program will help women secure and utilize loans for various purposes. Saving habits, health insurance policies will help women learn the ways to be economically independent and secure.
 
Vision
We want to ensure women representation, financial and social independence of women and most important of all, women leadership, in every nook and corner of Nepal.

Goal
The goal of CWRD is to deliver service, through action and in a cost effective manner, that helps accelerate the process of women’s development and poverty alleviation for women empowerment through micro-financing activities.
 
Objectives

• • To raise consciousness of women about socio-cultural and socio-economic discrimination against women.
  • To facilitate the process of unity amongst women, saving-credit banking, agricultural and other entrepreneurial trainings to women of even remotest part of country.
  • To provide non-mortgaged micro-credit facilities to women below the line of poverty by grouping them together, group liabilities being financial intermediaries.
  • To work on women empowerment and for infrastructure development through poverty alleviation.
  • To provide the training services (on saving credit, Gender, entrepreneurship, PRA, Community management, Leadership, Skill development) as per the demand of GOs, NGOs, and other private stakeholders.
  • To promote and develop sustainable micro-financing systems to meet the financial needs of the poor.
  • To collaborate with other organizations working for similar causes and implements programs with focus on improvement of women’s socio-economic condition.

 
Approach
CWRD is an institution committed to the new paradigm of sustainable empowerment of women and is centered around the socioeconomic needs and priorities of women that the other similar projects have bypassed so far, the major one being economic independence of women. Our principle elements of approach includes the following points:

• • • Promoting self-help groups as base for starting development activities and institution building at grassroots level.
    • Empowering women through the adoption of a dialogical process advocacy of people-centered-paradigm of development program.
    • Improving income, employment and productivity through the adoption of new alternatives and improved technologies.
    • Providing access to micro-financing activities to the locals directly on their doorsteps and promote local savings and credit institutions such as Aama Samuha, Buba Samuha.

     
    Registration
    i. Office: District Administration Office, Kathmandu
    ii. Date: 20th August 1993 (B.S. 2050/05/04)
    iii. Registration no.: 49/050/51.
    
    Social Welfare Council (SWC), Kathmandu affiliation
    i. Date: 16th Sept.1993 (B.S. 2050/05/31).
    ii. Registration number: 1283.
    
    PAN registration
    i. Office: Inland Revenue Office (IRO), Kathmandu
    ii. Date: 21st August 2003 (B.S. 04/05/2060)
    iii. Registration Number: 301445908