Vision

To create equity among the male and female and Equity rights among the indigenous community, Trans*/LGBTI Marginalize community, society in the nation.

Mission

Facilitate the Female Indigenous Youth Nationalities, marginalized, Trans*/LGBTI in their empowerment and Strengthen Human Resource, Peaceful and Prosperous Nation.

Goal

Indigenous women youth are inspired wisdom for self-reliant and dignified life developing in own leadership.

Values

  • Mutual respect and understanding
  • Accountability & transparency
  • Nonviolence
  • Equitability and impartiality
  • Meaningful participation
  • Partnership and cooperation
  • Sincerity and Self-confession (self-criticism, self-evaluation)

Target Peoples

  • Indigenous Nationalities (Female Youth, Women, Children, Marginalize, Trans*/LGBTI, Disabled and backward communities), Female Youth, Youth and issue related stakeholders.

Objectives

  • To organize all the indigenous women youth for integrated nationality, human rights and democracy.
  • To facilitate indigenous women youth, Trans*/LGBTI for building their leadership for their meaningful participation proportionately at all level of State mechanism.
  • To intervene on all kinds of discrimination for establishing social justice.
  • To advocate the rights of collective identity of marginalized, excluded, deprived, backward and endangered communities.
  • To engage female IPs youths in generating legal and innovative ways of economic, social and cultural freedom.
  • To prevent youths facing all kinds of inhuman behaviours and illegal treatments through knowledge sharing and management.
  • To extend relationship with government, CSOs and related stakeholders at local, national, sub-national, regional and international.
  • To ensure inclusive and equitable quality rights, education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for female IPs youth and IPs community.
  • To promote gender equality and social inclusion.
  • To promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all youth.
  • To represent Indigenous women youth in local, national, international policy/decision making bodies, associations, conferences and various forums.
  • To combat the Environment and Bio-Diversity its impacts.
  • To organize various indigenous women youth-based programs having national, regional and international significance.
  • To serve as a consulting and advisory body to the government agencies and relevant stakeholders regarding indigenous women youth issues nationwide.
  • To advocate, lobby and facilitate mainstreaming of indigenous women youth issues in the National Agenda.
  • To bring together nationwide spread indigenous women youth organizations and movements to foster cooperation, dialogue, network and collaboration for indigenous women youth empowerment and development.
  • To develop capacity on feminist movements and women’s rights organizations to conduct evidence-based advocacy for the monitoring and review of the Sustainable Development Goals.
  • To strengthen insulation development of organisation through leadership empowerment and movement building for Development Justice.

Working Strategies

To ensure rights of the Women Youth indigenous peoples, IPs Communities and bring them into the mainstream of development, the INWYN will take the following strategies:

  • The INWYN will make collective efforts by establishing network with organisations concerned for the development of indigenous women youth, IPs, ascertaining their rights and their participation in their own development process.
  • Institutional strengthening, Networking, coordination & collaboration.
  • Enhance capacity of the women youth of IPs community
  • Support indigenous communities to get their knowledge and skills developed, their thoughts and behaviour changed so as to improve their living standard.
  • Promotion and protection of bio-diversity, agro-biodiversity, bio-cultural knowledge, climate change, sacred places and natural resources related to the development of indigenous people.
  • Advocacy, alliances and lobbing to government and related stakeholders
  • Carry out situational studies/analysis and develop appropriate strategies and get them implemented Research, documentation and publication

Working Priority Area

  • Issues of Indigenous Female Youth/IPs Community
  • Issues of basic rights of indigenous peoples and human rights
  • Issues of Gender Equity, Social Inclusion and Justice
  • Issues of Traditional Knowledge, System, Practices and Customary laws
  • Issues of Environmental Protection, Climate Change and Adaptation/ Disaster Management
  • Issues of Economic Empowerment, Employment and Entrepreneurship
  • Issues of Land Resources, Conservation of Natural Resources and Bio-diversity
  • Issues of Strengthening Capacity, Sustainable livelihood and Food Sovereignty
  • Issues of Education and Youth Development
  • Advocacy for influencing policy makers for developing policies on their own (IPs) development process.

Working Approach:

The INWYN believes that bringing the women youth of IPs, IPs Communities in the development process is possible only through their meaningful participatory. So the program activities for the target groups must be implemented by themselves. For this, the Network will play the role of facilitator to create an appropriate environment and opportunities for such communities. In this period the Network strives for collective efforts by maintaining mutual understanding and coordination with organisations having similar objectives. The INWYN facilitates the target communities/group for their involvement in the situation study, analysis and planning process. Similarly, the Network makes efforts to support strengthen to IPs female youth, youth and target groups. and welfare by closely working together with the responsible authorities, NGOs, and Donor Agencies.    

Working Modality

The INWYN mainly do coordinate with Indigenous Peoples Organization and secondly coordinate with the like-minded peoples/experts and organizations, who has common issues. Such as it can be consortium, alliance, Network in the program and district and community level program, which is in practices.

A consortium creates to tackle a common issue (s) through a basket funding or to facilitate different funding agencies to work together on the same issue or results. An alliance creates among like-minded peoples’ organizations/individuals to tackle a common issue collectively and covering a wider area or more effective results. And the network creates to take a common issue upward and downward multiplying the effects of the issue to wider area at the same time.

Membership

  • Open membership to all the indigenous women youth (for NGO registered organization leading by IPOs youth)
  • Nepali citizenship of 16 years to forty years old. The youth definition is as per Nepal Government Ministry of Youth and Sports.
  • Types of Members: 1. Founder Members 2. General Individual Members 3. Life Members 4. Honorable Members and 5. Institutional Members.