Opportunity Nepal & Catalyst Action Training (CAT)

Empowering local resilience 

Since the wake of Nepal's massive 8.0 earthquake in April 2015, Empowerment WORKS has supported local  agents of change    to build sustainable, economically robust futures.

April 2017,   Catalyst Action Training  (CAT)  launched with 22 young women equipped with skills to lead micro-enterprises and regenerative strategies.

CAT was preceded by EW's inaugural    Opportunity Nepal  (ON)  Collaboration  Forum,  which  united  local  youth leaders with leading social entrepreneurs to prioritize community needs, and identify gaps around key topics: 
– Investing in Women
– Agricultural Value Chain
– Data Transparency
– Social Inclusion

Dedicated to the promotion of economic opportunities through investment in women’s enterprises, outcomes and insights from ON topics contributed  to the first CAT  program the following week, and throughout the year.

Catalyst Action Training (CAT) Youth Leadership  Platform
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Thanks to our extraordinary local trainers, volunteers, and supporter from around the world, we’re thrilled to announce the successful  launch of our first Catalyst Action Training in 2017, with 22 young  women (ages 18-25) leading the way.

Building on Empowerment WORKS' flagship   7 Stages to Sustainability (7SS)    basic training, CAT  accelerates change by building a movement of empowered, inspired and connected leaders.

Throughout the course,  guest change agents inspired catalysts with achievements    in women's  rights (abolishment of   Chhaupadi    which banishes women to cowsheds and is responsible missing school),  the banning of plastic bags (a major pollution  issue for Kathmandu), entrepreneurship, cultivation of   livelihoods and careers through  art, and more.

See articles by  ON & CAT participants in Glocal Khabar   journal:

•  CAT inspires young women through enterprises
• Nepal needs to keep its most talented people in the country itself to prosper, says Mahabir Pun  

KEY OUTCOMES - INSPIRED young people who are:
~ INFORMED about local and global challenges
~ COMMITTED to positive change in their communities
~ EMPOWERED creative change agents
~ CONNECTED to change-makers around the globe.

Uniting  young leaders and extraordinary change-makers, EW CAT ignites the combined energy  and passion of youth in creative collaboration to:
~ Inspire, facilitate, and accelerate  locally-led social change
~ Use 7SS   to put creative ideas into action
~ Learn to be stewards of one planet
~  Learn how to replicate this process in their communities.

Help empower Nepal to build  her thriving future!
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