Advocacy

DHRPS works to promote the equal realization of human rights for persons with disabilities, with a strong emphasis on children with disabilities and youth with disabilities. We conduct evidence-based advocacy with local duty bearers, provincial governments, and federal agencies to ensure the effective implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), and Nepal’s disability-related legal frameworks.

Our advocacy focuses on:

• Disability-inclusive policies, programs, and public budgets
• Deinstitutionalization and the development of family-based and community-based care systems for children with disabilities
• Access to justice, legal aid, and participation of persons with disabilities in decision-making processes
• Reducing social, structural, and legal discrimination faced by children and adults with disabilities

We amplify the voices of persons with disabilities—especially those who are often unheard, including children, women, Indigenous persons, and persons with multiple disabilities and support them to engage directly with policymakers and institutions.

    

Awareness

Although Nepal has ratified the CRPD and adopted progressive constitutional, legal, and policy frameworks, traditional and charity-based perceptions of disability still dominate society. Awareness of rights, inclusion, and state obligations remains limited among communities, institutions, and even among persons with disabilities themselves.

DHRPS works to raise awareness on:

• Disability as a human rights and social justice issue
• Rights of children with disabilities under national and international law
• Accessibility standards, reasonable accommodation, and inclusive services
• Deinstitutionalization and the harms of long-term residential care

Through community dialogues, media engagement, campaigns, and child-friendly and youth-friendly tools, we aim to transform attitudes, behaviours, and practices at household, community, and institutional levels.

Capacity Building

DHRPS designs and delivers training, orientation, and mentoring programs to strengthen the capacity of:

• Children and youth with disabilities
• Parents and caregivers
• Organizations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs)
• Local governments and service providers
• Schools, health facilities, and community institutions

Our capacity-building work covers disability rights, child rights, Disability-Inclusive Development (DID), CRPD, CRC, SDGs, safeguarding, and inclusive governance. We emphasize leadership development for young persons with disabilities, enabling them to advocate for their rights and contribute meaningfully to community and policy processes.

Fund Raising

Organizations led by persons with disabilities often face serious challenges in sustaining their work due to limited and short-term funding. DHRPS adopts a mixed and ethical fundraising model to ensure long-term sustainability.

Our approach includes:

• Partnerships with international donors and development partners
• Engagement with corporate sector and local supporters
• Mobilization of Disability Rights Promotion Grants to support grassroots initiatives

All fundraising and resource mobilization efforts are guided by transparency, accountability, and community ownership, ensuring funds directly support the rights and empowerment of persons with disabilities, especially children and youth.

Networking and Collaboration

A single person or institution could not meet any achievements rather teamwork and joint effort foster efficiency. Disability is a multilayer concern issue in which every sector has to contribute to the promotion of rights of persons with disabilities as per need. In this great task networking and collaboration need to make more effective. To speed up organizational work, expand its contribution to the wider area, and increase wider support, partnership, and cooperation on disability issues DHRPS builds institutional networking and collaboration with diverse national and international stakeholders.

Disability inclusion and child rights cannot be achieved in isolation. DHRPS actively builds networks and alliances with:

• OPDs and child-focused organizations
• Civil society and human rights groups
• Government institutions at all levels
• Academic institutions, media, and development partners

Through collaboration, we strengthen collective advocacy, avoid duplication, and expand the reach and impact of disability-inclusive and child-centred initiatives at local, national, and international levels.     

Study & Research

Study and Research always determine the destination of targeted activities. In each field of society, it is a core for planning the implementation of any action. By following this basic necessity of study and research, DHRPS has set its goal to conduct research, study, assessment and monitoring on human rights and disability rights. In the base of such in-depth study and research, it produces useful knowledge and information not only for the organization but also for state, disability rights organizations and other relevant stakeholders. So that promotion of the rights of persons with disabilities will kiss/peck the height of dignity.

DHRPS conducts research, studies, assessments, and monitoring on disability and child rights to inform advocacy, programming, and policy reform. Our research focuses on:

• Deinstitutionalization and alternative care systems
• Access to education, health, justice, and social protection for children with disabilities
• Barriers faced by youth with disabilities, especially those from marginalized communities

By generating credible evidence and lived-experience-based knowledge, DHRPS supports informed decision-making by the state, donors, and civil society actors.

Youth Empowerment

DHRPS believes in the power of the youth. It empowers youth with disabilities by investing in nurturing their skills and knowledge through training, orientation, youth engagement, mentoring, exposure opportunities, creating learning sharing platforms and engaging them in leadership roles.

DHRPS firmly believes that youth with disabilities are not beneficiaries they are leaders. We invest in young people by:

• Providing leadership training and mentoring
• Creating platforms for youth participation and learning exchange
• Supporting youth-led advocacy, research, and campaigns
• Connecting young leaders with national and global spaces

Our youth-centred approach prioritizes young women, Indigenous youth, and youth with multiple disabilities, enabling them to challenge exclusion and shape inclusive futures.