Jagaran Publications
As a means of advocacy and awareness tool to amplify the voice on women/human rights, peace and governance, Jagaran Nepal has regularly been publishing different publications. Some publications are being published regularly in certain time interval whereas other publications are published as per our programs’ need. These are not your typical commercial women's magazines which publish about cosmetics or info on aberdeen hotels, Jagaran publications deal with more serious social matters/issues.
Jagaran Abhiyan (Quarterly Nepali Bulletin):
Jagaran Abhiyan is a quarterly bulletin being published by Jagaran Nepal. Basically it aims to disseminate information about Jagaran Nepal's activities carried out within a span of three months. It includes the activities of different programs carried out by Jagaran Nepal in 23 districts from five development regions along with experiences and articles written by the experts working in different fields. Though the publication covers all women rights, human rights, and current issues of the country, its intended focus group is district and rural level people, especially women. This publication has been helpful in building the confidence of the rural community women about the things they have learnt and it has become a resource material for them to understand the women/human rights issues along with other rights based concepts. Till date, we have published a total of eight issues and the recent ones topics have been rounded up to "Sambidhan Sava Ma Mahila Sahavagita" Rajnitima Mahila" and Sanchar Chhetra Ra Mahila" 6th , 7th and 8th issues respectively. WE (Quarterly English Bulletin):
'WE’ is a quarterly bulletin being published by Jagaran Nepal. It is a bulletin for women empowerment. It advocates for women’s human rights, women respectful self identity and integrity in the society, women leadership, women in politics, women in power and policies, women self reliance, youth women, women in partnership with men, women in development goals, women in decision making process, women in equitable society, and above all ‘WE’ is dedicated to all women who are voiceless. The voice of the voiceless women is ‘WE’. The bulletin’s intended focus group is district and central level people, especially the policy level ones. Thus, the policy level issues, recent top issues and the analysis of the same are incorporated in the publication. This publication has been started in the Year 2007 and throughout the year we have published two issues with the thematic topics of "Women in Politics" and "Media and Women Issues". E- Bulletin (Fortnightly E- Newspaper):
It is a fortnightly electronic newsletter produced by Jagaran Nepal. In each issue, there will be a special coverage on a thematic topic. Besides, it carries out the events done by Jagaran Nepal within the period. Till date, we have published and disseminated a total of 21 issues and among them entitled "Benazir Bhutto Assassination and Challenges of South Asian Women Leaders", Badi Women's Movement "and "An Analysis on Violence against Women" have got handful of positive responses.
Baal Awaz (Half Yearly Bulletin):
‘Baal Awaz’ is a Half Yearly magazine for child rights in incorporating the creativity and creation of community children. The magazine advocates ensuring child rights. Till date, we have published two issues of the bulletin.
Netritwadai Mahilaharu (Book on Women Leadership): Natrityodahi Mahilaharu, a book on Women Leadership has been published in joint coordination of Jagaran Nepal and UNIFEM. The book is all about women leadership from 14 districts comprising Morang, Sunsari, Khotang, Kaski, Tanahun, Surkhet, Dailekh, Doti, Dadelhura, Kavre, Sindhupalkchok, Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur. The collection of 2007 names of women leaders from political parties, their sister organizations, and the other women from social sectors, human/ women rights sectors have been incorporated in the book. We believe that this book will be helpful to political parties, researchers, students and other general citizens for their study as well as other meaningful purposes.
Awareness Handbook on Constituent Assembly Polls: An awareness handbook on Constituent Assembly polls has been published at the initiation of Jagaran Nepal. For the first time we are going to practice the Constituent Assembly and we still might not know, what it is, how it works and what are the preliminary procedures for having the rights on voting? So, the book is there to provide all the details of voters and voting rights and the proportional electoral system. Jagaran Nepal believes that the book will be helpful to all the people of Nepal who are going to witness our first ever Constituent Assembly polls.
Advocacy Poster:
Jagaran Nepal has an advocacy poster based on Women in Politics. The slogan of the poster is "Rajnitima Mahilako Samanupatic Sahavagita Niti Nirnayama Sunischitata" directly translated as "Proportional Participation of Women in Politics Ensures Well Policy and Decision". The poster is an advocacy tool for ensuring women's proportional participation of women in politics.
Training Manuals:For making the training more effective and result oriented, Jagaran Nepal has been publishing different training manuals based on women rights, peace and governance.
The training manuals help to facilitate the trainers as well as the trainees to understand the subject matters easily and it eventually contributes to any of the trainings as a whole. Here are some of the training manuals;
- Reference Book on Human Rights, Women Rights, Gender and Advocacy
- Leadership Training Manual
- Human Rights, Social Inclusion, Inclusive Democracy, Governance, Peace Building and Gender based Training Manual