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In the long history of development, Nepalese society has experienced and learned several good practices and lessons in the local development context. Along with this, due to lack of participation, transparency and accountability, many cases of corruption, irregularity and misuse of resources have been noted which further deteriorated the country's development culture and practices and destroyed social harmony too. In the changing political and socio-economic context of Nepal, improved governance system has become the fundamental requirement in addressing number of socio-cultural, economic, environmental and political issues of the country. In the process of building new Nepal, a new model of governance must be established so that civil society is given a larger role in the decision-making process. The practice of Social Accounting and Audit (SAA) is growing globally these days. It is the frame-work which allows an organization to build-on through its mission, values, objective and activity. The process of SAA ensures continuous improvement in performance through the chain of accountability with stakeholders. SAA fosters the principle of participation, transparency and accountability, which ensures the programmed as well as organizational effectiveness. It is linked with sustainable development which explores social, economic and environmental performance and impact. SAF-Nepal, as the pioneer NGO in SAA in Nepal, is established by a group of young professional to work collectively for good governance. Realizing the national obligation in one hand and anticipating peaceful and bright Nepal on the other are the fundamental thoughts to come up with establishing the organization 'Social Audit Forum, Nepal (SAF-Nepal)'. Having a team of diverse academic and professional background with more than a decade long experiences in different sectors in Nepal, the forum aims to appropriately utilized experiences of its valued members for good governance and sustainable development of the country. SAF–Nepal is not-for-profit making organization registered at District Administration Office (DAO), Kathmandu and duly affiliated with Social Welfare Council and NGO Federation–Nepal. It has also obtained Permanent Account Number (PAN) under Inland Revenue Office, Kathmandu.
SAF-Nepal is established in Kathmandu with its central office at Kathmandu Metropolitan City, Ward no- 9, Ratopul. The agency is however open to work throughout the country with due coordination with local government. The agency believes on cross learning and sharing so that the understanding and procedures on Social Accounting and Audit would be uniformed, consistent and wider across the country.
· A pioneer NGO in social auditing field in Nepal. · A professionally organized forum with diverse field of experience. · Young leadership. · A culturally diverse team with appropriate gender mix. · A group of committed professionals with long history of working with different agencies. · A forum technically backstopped by high level academic and research based advisory team.
The vision of SAF-Nepal is a world of communities living together in peace and equitable sharing of resources with social harmony.
To work with communities and other stakeholders to mitigate corruption, fraud, exclusion and unfair practices through the promotion of good governance and sustainable development.
SAF-Nepal aims mainly to facilitate and roll-out the principle and practices of social auditing through empowerment of poor, women, dalit, disables and excluded community to create self-reliant society.
· To promote good governance and sustainable development through the practice of social audit. · To mobilize youths in advocacy to ensure participation, accountability, transparency and financial discipline and recognize the fundamental rights to information. · To share learning, good practices and experience to scale up the application of social audit at large trough training and seminars. · To raise and mobilize funds for the organizational development and self- reliance. · To conduct study and research related activity.
Participation Participation is the fundamental values of SAF-Nepal. SAF-Nepal believes that the physical and psychological participation of the concerned stakeholder in the process of decision making, implementation, monitoring & evaluation and benefit sharing can ensure the meaningful participation in the real sense. Transparency SAF-Nepal in itself is a 'open society' where any kind of public action or behavior is not hidden. SAF-Nepal ensures transparency in decision making, implementations and benefits sharing amongst the beneficiaries to the maximum extent. However, individual rights will also be recognized in maintaining transparency. Accountability One of the important values of SAF-Nepal is to make a person or institution accountable towards its own action or decision. The organization thus assumes that duty bearers are entirely responsible for any kind of work under their preview. Every activity performed should be accountable towards its stakeholders. The chain of accountability at all level ultimately contributes for good governance. Cost Effectiveness SAF-Nepal promotes the cost effectiveness in each and every activity/interventions. The values of cost effectiveness tries to maximize the result that of planned. SAF-Nepal promotes that the local resources are maximum utilized to ensure cost effectiveness. Inclusive and Equity SAF-Nepal promotes diversity and inclusiveness in each and every activity carried out by the agency. Particular attention will be made to bring the excluded into the mainstream so that it reduces the feeling of exclusion. SAF-Nepal equally encourages equity in bringing up the status of poor and excluded who were traditionally been oppressed by unjust state policy and society.
Excellence in Work An important value of SAF-Nepal is to start with analysis of strengths, rather than needs. With positive attitude, the agency recognizes everyone’s inherent potentials. In achieving the objective of SAF-Nepal, its members are capacitated and assisted to become more competent, committed and courageous to better able to achieve their result for the excellence in work.
· Participatory · Rights based approach to development · Youth mobilization and leadership for massive awareness · Partnership and cooperation with like-minded agencies · Promotion of positivism and learning from good practices
· Membership fees · Financial co-operation received from other agencies and individuals · Earnings through fund raising activities and programmers |
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