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After the restoration of democracy in 1990, people  began to realize that government development initiatives could not be  successful to a desired  extent to bring positive  measurable impact on the  lives of poor. The main reason  behind it was that the people  were not made participatory in their  development  works and no  attention was  given to help them realize the importance of self-help  development. This   led   the   community   people
towards apathy in selp-help development initiatives.

Subsequently the critical mass of local resources were not harnessed on the one side and on the other whatever development programs initiated in their communities were not sustainable.

Considering this development scenario, a small group of development practitioners and policy makers established a non-governmental organization (NGO) based on their shared vision of "self-help development". Their goal was to work with the poor rural masses to begin a process of self-help development by changing the dependency mind-set of the community people.

This shared vision of helping people to help themselves gave birth to "Centre for Self-help Development (CSD)" - a non-governmental organization (NGO) in August 1991. Since then, CSD has been effortful to raise awareness of the rural poor so as to help them to initiate their own institution building and carry out various programs generating both financial and social capital.

Rationale:
  • Mass poverty and rural backwardness
  • "Failures" of earlier development initiatives
  • Lack of self-help development initiatives
  • Government intervention necessary but not sufficient to address the socio-economic empowerment of the rural poor.
  • Weak service delivery mechanism to outreach the difficult-to-reach segment of the country


Goal:

Promote awareness and develop consciousness for the "new paradigm" of self-help development



Objectives
  • To enhance awareness among the donors, government and community people on critical issues that face microfinance and community development sectors in Nepal
  • To strengthen the commitment of support organizations including donors and the INGO and NGO sectors to support programs and projects that are moving towards sustainability
  • To enhance capacity among grassroot organizations/ community based organizations to identify, plan, implement and monitor & evaluate community development activities and build up the indigenous as well as induced self-help groups and organizations.
  • To build improved understanding among development practitioners of gender dimensions of community development with particular reference related to improving access to savings & credit services mainly to low - income women
  • To work as a development catalyst/ facilitator in institution building of local communities.