Women Rights and Resource Network (WRRN) is an independent, non-governmental, non-political, and non-profitable organization committed to securing the rights of women over natural resources. Founded with a mission to empower women and build their capacity through policy development, WRRN actively engages in policy advocacy and economic transformation initiatives aimed at fostering self-dependence among women. Since its establishment, WRRN has collaborated with various stakeholders to conduct programs focused on equitable distribution and management of natural resources, gender justice, and economic empowerment of women.
Nepal’s economic and Local communities and rural women have been making significant contributions to the consolidation, integration and utilization of natural resources, which have been playing an important role in social progress and overall development. Although the rural women’s participation in conservation of natural resources in different parts of Nepal has made significant contributions, women in rural areas have not been able to access the resources in a productive way. To ensure that women in different parts of Nepal, specifically the women in rural terrains, have a decisive and active role in management, as well as in the conservation and utilization of natural resources, it is absolutely necessary to aware and empower them. It is necessary to bring together and organize women and women groups of various areas who have spent a long time amidst the natural resources to establish their rights. With due respect for traditional knowledge regarding local natural resources and rural women’s role in management of these resources, WRRN strives to promote their rights in access and management decisions of these resources.
