About Us

This year marks a significant milestone as we celebrate 31 years of RRN – As we enter our 31st year, we reaffirm our commitment to our mission of fostering a just, equitable, inclusive, peaceful, and prosperous society, and our vision of improving the lives of the poorest rural people by providing them with opportunities for socio-economic empowerment.

Rural Reconstruction Nepal (RRN) is a Nepali non-governmental, not-for-profit, social development organization, committed to driving positive change and empowerment in Nepal’s rural communities. It was initially set up as a small organization in 1989 by a group of graduates from the Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science (IAAS), with its preceding name as ‘Grassroots Institute for Training and Services-Nepal’ (GRITS-Nepal). By subscribing to the basic principles of the International Rural Reconstruction, GRITS-Nepal was renamed and officially registered as Rural Reconstruction Nepal (RRN) in 1993. Since then, RRN has grown to become one of the largest development NGOs in Nepal, executing various development programs and serving wide geographical areas and populations.

Since its inception, RRN has been working with the poor and marginalised people in rural Nepal to empower them in fulfilling their basic needs, improving livelihoods and building their own institutions. RRN substantially contributes to rural people’s empowerment and socio-economic reconstruction process, by embracing the rights-based approaches to development. RRN is also committed to creating an enabling environment for building a just, equitable, peaceful and prosperous society through social, economic and political empowerment of the rural poor, particularly the poor rural women, peasants, landless people and other disadvantaged and socially oppressed strata of Nepalese society. Therefore, besides implementing integrated community development programmes at grassroots, RRN is also extensively engaged in policy research, advocacy, lobbying, networking and campaign at local, national and international levels

In Nepal’s post-conflict context, RRN positioned itself as an advocate for conflict transformation initiatives by focusing on institutionalizing democracy and peacebuilding through reconstruction, rehabilitation, and reconciliation – the RRR process. RRN considers the following key aspects as its strategy to ensure success throughout this process:

People's genuine participation

Gender equality and social inclusion

Transparency

Accountability

Social justice

Coordination and collaboration

Community demand

Community ownership over the interventions and sustainability

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