Development Project Service Organization (DEPROSC) Nepal is a non-profit making organization established in September 1993 under "Association Registration act 1978" as a non-governmental organization (NGO). It is affiliated to Social Welfare Council (SWC) and has got approval from SWC for foreign aid mobilization. DEPROSC-Nepal has its Central Office in Kathmandu, Nepal and two Regional offices, one each in Biratnagar (Eastern region) and Nepalgunj (Mid- and Far western region). The Central Office is located at Thapathali, Kathmandu with necessary space and equipment to run as a national NGO.
For the past two decades, the organization has been working in several thematic areas including livelihood improvement, social development (education, health hygiene, nutrition, and child development), community micro assets, natural resource management disaster risk management, and microfinance. The organization has been involved in implementing different humanitarian assistance programs during national crisis such as in Koshi flood, diarohea outbreak in Jajarkot in 2008, insurgency (2003-2006), food crisis in the hills and mountains of mid and far west, earthquake response in Nuwakot, Kathmandu and Lalitpur. Currently, DEPROSC is working in 33 districts of 4 development regions, launching eight different development projects.
DEPROSC has strongly contributed in microfinance’s sector development of the country by providing directly lending services and promoting microfinance/cooperatives in the hills for past two decades. It has promoted two national level microfinance financial institutions, namely: DEPROSC Microfinance Financial Institution and NADEP Microfinance Financial Institution. The two institutions have serving around 140,000 families at present.
Vision
DEPROSC wants to see a peaceful, prosperous and empowered Nepal.
Mission
DEPROSC-Nepal is committed to enhance the participation of rural people in general and poorest of the poor, children, women and marginalized ethnic groups in particular in their development process through:
Objectives
DEPROSC-Nepal aims at empowering rural people for attaining self-sustaining socio-economic uplift through a package of policy research, action research and training. Its specific objectives are to: