Fifteen years of youth-led, community-owned development.
Registered under the Organization Act of Nepal, 2035, and affiliated with the Social Welfare Council, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Who we are
Frontline Nepal, The Entrepreneurship and Development Foundation (FEDF) is a “Youth Centered, Youth Led, Non-Profitable, Non-Governmental Organization” established on 26 November 2011 (2068 Mangsir 10 B.S.). This institution was registered under the Organization Act of Nepal 2035, and is affiliated with the Social Welfare Council, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Frontline Nepal is a social organization specially committed to social entrepreneurship, youth self-employment, and sustainable development. Our main working sectors are youth issues, social entrepreneurship, self-employment and environment conservation.
Among youth issues, education, employment, drug-addiction prevention, good governance, and youth participation in policy-making are our majors. In social entrepreneurship and self-employment, skill-based training, mobilization of local resources, and establishment of micro-enterprises are central. In environment conservation, we raise awareness of how human activity drives global warming, pollution and deforestation.
Since establishment, Frontline Nepal has worked to flourish youth potential toward a positive, creative entrepreneurial attitude.
Our working areas
- Youth
- Social Entrepreneurship & Self-Employment
- Environment Conservation
Our target groups
- Dalit, indigenous, madhesi, marginalized and differently-abled communities (priority groups)
- Youth
- Women
Vision
Frontline Nepal, The Entrepreneurship & Development Foundation envisions a prosperous society without poverty, where every person has equal opportunity and a dignified life.
Mission
- Empower youth — on education, employment, drug-addiction reduction, good governance and participation in policy-making — to build sustainable, self-dependent, productive entrepreneurship.
- Empower local communities to transform skills and ideas into entrepreneurship.
- Identify and optimally use local resources — human, financial and physical — for poverty reduction.
Our goals
Create a social-entrepreneurship- and sustainable-development-friendly environment at community level.
Empower and transform the skills of youth and women at community level, prioritising marginalized and indigenous groups, Dalits, people with disabilities, and Madhesi and discriminated communities.
Create employment opportunities through sustainable, environment-friendly Productive Agro-Enterprise (PAE) and Non-Timber Forest Product (NTFP) enterprise projects.
Establish a Youth Entrepreneurship Resource Center (YERC) and a Social Network to Promote Entrepreneurship (SNPE).
Promote a culture of volunteerism for social development.
Assist livelihood and economic development of marginalized people through microfinance programmes.
Our objectives
Run educational-development campaigns and media publications on social entrepreneurship, self-employment, and environment-friendly sustainable development.
Identify entrepreneurship and self-employment potential and empower youth through vocational training and modern-technology exposure.
Educate, train and empower youth in leadership, active citizenship, democratic values, and their role in good governance and policy-making.
Directly observe, supervise and guide productive and developmental agro-, industrial-, tourism- and volunteer-based enterprise programmes.
Run productive micro-enterprise and micro-finance programmes that lift up poor, marginalized, indigenous, Dalit, differently-abled, Madhesi and discriminated communities.
Develop a comprehensive resource centre for young entrepreneurs, students and policymakers focused on socio-economic development.
Values, beliefs & working strategy
Norms & values
- Youth empowerment and national empowerment
- Respect for social norms, values, justice and unity
- Equal distribution of opportunity
- Positive discrimination to uplift deprived and marginalized communities
- Organizational transparency and a democratic system
- Community participation in policy- and decision-making
- Priority to local resources and technology
Beliefs & commitment
- Youth are the foundation pillar for the development of society.
- Productive entrepreneurship is the key to socio-economic progress.
- Social equity and unity are the most important values in meeting our vision for society.
- A community-centred perspective and the chance for self-decision-making create ownership of development.
- Self-reliance and optimal use of natural resources give the everlasting pursuit of happiness for sustainable development.
Working strategy
- Multi-stakeholder collaboration
- Priority on a participatory approach
- Priority to socially deprived groups, with a focus on youth and women
- Promotion and empowerment of local innovation and technology
- A culture of volunteerism for development
