In order to involve and empower women through cooperatives for the gender balanced socio economic development, the leadership development , Cooperative Management, Financial Management Training, skill development and other gender sensitization activities and so on is being carried out through the program at national, regional and local levels. It also conducts interaction program for women empowerment with the participation of the representatives of cooperatives and its stakeholders. It also organizes World Rural Women's Day on 15th October every year with a large gathering of rural women.

Basically, MUKTA KAMAIYAS and landless people are the main target people for the program. Now, MUKTA KAMAIYA families have been organized in a agriculture group and they have begun farming collectively in their 5 KATTHA land given by GoN along with the mobilization the savings for the income generation activities. Community Biogas installation, commercial collective farming and other skill development activities have to be provided to them. Some activities have been carried out and we also need external support to scale up the program and to provide integrated services i.e. shelter, awareness, skill, income generation, land for collective farming cooperatives) for the further enhancement of their livelihood.

NCF/N has adopted the policy of promoting Alternative Energy Technology (RETs) such as Biogas, Rural Solar Home System, Improved Water mill, Improved Cooked Stove, Micro Hydro and so on in order to promote the use of RETs to increase the quality of life of rural people. To attain this objective, after signing in MOU with them, NCF/N has been working with the Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC) and Biogas Sector Support Program (BSP) of Nepal, a focal point of the government of Nepal for promoting renewable energy and Biogas respectively specially focusing on the low penetrated districts of Nepal.

In order to empower and enhance the capabilities of member cooperatives, NCF/N has been conducting the Diploma in cooperative Management & Development Training and External Exposure Visits and study program in joint collaboration with International Cooperative Alliance(ICA), National cooperative Union of India (NCUI) and Indian Farmers Fertilizer Cooperatives (IFFCO) since a couple of year.

Likewise, it has also started to organize the similar program in Sri Lanka form the last year. With the growing demand of Nepalese Cooperators for these study visit programs, NCF/N has also planned to expand the similar program in different countries like Thailand, Bangladesh and China etc.

ICA-NCF Project is conducted on pilot basis to the wood carvers & Carpet weavers working in Bhaktapur district under the technical & financial support from the International cooperative Alliance, Asia & the pacific (ICA-AP), New Delhi, from 2005 to 2006. Now, there are two self help women groups, mobilizing their savings within the members. The main objective of the project was to unite the craft community on the basis of cooperative with the technical, technological & marketing intervention in order to generate their income through building linkage in the national & international level. An intrigrated project on socio economic enhancement of marginalized craft community has been developed for second phase. NCF/N is exploring the donor for funding to the proposed second phase.

NCF/N has formulated the Cooperative Code of Conduct for committee members, general members and employees of cooperatives to maintain ethical and financial discipline of their cooperatives. Each cooperative has responsibility to follow the code of conduct into practice. In order to create awareness for cooperatives code of conduct, NCF/N also launches awareness program for cooperative in different districts regularly.

Beside these, National Cooperative Development for sustainable institutional development, Establishment of Agro Marketing for quality production and marketing the products internally and externally to realize the better price to the farmers, Natural Disaster Fund and are other activities also initiated by NCF/N. You are requested to kindly go through our website www.ncfnepal.com.np and shortlist some of the potential activities to run as project. Instead of this, you can also select any other project which you see or feel as viable to implement through cooperatives

Promotion of National Cooperative Bank, Operation of Cooperatives Exhibition, Distribution of fertilizers, Supply of construction Materials, Promotion of district Cooperative Unions through logistic support, Development of Data Bank, Supervision & Monitoring activities are some of the major programs of NCF/N being implemented from the last couple of years.

NCF/N has initiated some programs – i) Women Empowerment Program, ii) Remote Area Development Program, iii) The landless labourer's upliftment Program, iv) Renewable Energy promotion Program v) Foreign Employment Promotion program.

The programs have emphased how to mobilize the micro credit on the productive and income generating activities alongwith the other empowerment programs focusing on the women, Schedule cast, Indigenous people and remote area in order to improve the living standard & mitigate the poverty of the deprived people through cooperatives in the community level.

Exhibition of Cooperatives products, Distribution of fertilizers to the farmers, Supply of construction Materials, Operation of Health Club, Research on Cooperative consumer store, Promotion of district Cooperative Unions, External Exposure Visits, Development of Data Bank, Supervision & Monitoring activities, Money Transfer& Insurance promotion are some of the Major programs of NCF/N to be implemented in the current fiscal year 2006/07.