{"id":25,"date":"2025-06-10T10:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T10:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/needsnepal.test\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2025-07-17T16:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T11:08:08","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/waveplus.com.np\/needsnepal\/introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>National Environment and Equity Development Society<\/strong> (NEEDS Nepal) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that has been actively working in the development and humanitarian sector for the past 26 years. Ever since its inception in 1999 as a youth group, NEEDS Nepal has been engaging in various social transformation, good governance, and development initiatives. The organization is registered with the Government of Nepal. It has partnered with numerous government and non-government agencies to implement programs that focus on disaster risk reduction, climate resilience, empowerment, and social transformation of the marginalized and vulnerable communities like children, women, persons with disabilities, Dalit, and Indigenous people.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The organization primarily operates in Sudurpaschim Province, expanding to Banke and Bardiya districts in Lumbini province, Jajarkot district of Karnali, Jhapa, and Panchatar District of Koshi Province. It implements programs that address various social and economic issues, including the harmful impacts of climate change and disasters, with a focus on marginalized and vulnerable groups. The activities include social awareness, good governance, safe migration, climate resilient livelihood, disaster risk reduction, WASH, and entrepreneurship initiatives that align with the policies and programs of the Government of Nepal and NEEDS Nepal\u2019s strategic plan of 2019-22. Through its partnerships and programs, NEEDS Nepal aims to contribute to the overall development of Nepal and improve the quality of life for marginalized and disaster-affected vulnerable communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Environment and Equity Development Society (NEEDS Nepal) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that has been actively working in the development and humanitarian sector for the past 26 years. Ever since its inception in 1999 as a youth group, NEEDS Nepal has been engaging in various social transformation, good governance, and development initiatives. The organization [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":656,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/waveplus.com.np\/needsnepal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/waveplus.com.np\/needsnepal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/waveplus.com.np\/needsnepal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waveplus.com.np\/needsnepal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waveplus.com.np\/needsnepal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":44,"href":"https:\/\/waveplus.com.np\/needsnepal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1519,"href":"https:\/\/waveplus.com.np\/needsnepal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/1519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waveplus.com.np\/needsnepal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/waveplus.com.np\/needsnepal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}