Tearfund has been working in Nepal since the 1970s and is currently partnering with seven organizations across the country.

Following the earthquakes in 2015, Tearfund launched an initial emergency aid operation, and was among the first agencies to rebuild permanent, earthquake-resilient homes. The National Reconstruction Authority of Nepal had then used Tearfund’s shelter approach as a model for all the earthquake-affected areas in the country.

Tearfund’s long-term development work is increasingly focused in the mid and far-west regions of the country, where there is a high incidence of poverty, prioritizing marginalized people such as women and traditionally so called ‘lower caste’ groups. Our programs primarily aim at building environmental and economic sustainability in the most underserved communities, with sexual and gender based violence, disaster risk reduction and emergency response actions as cross-cutting themes embedded into them.

We were also involved in responding to the COVID-19 crisis in the years of 2020, 2021 and 2022 through all of our local partner organizations.

Tearfund’s partners are also working with grassroots self-help groups on anti-human trafficking and community development initiatives and are continuing to build disaster resilience in communities.