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About Us
Introduction
Media Initiative for Rights, Equity and Social Transformation (MIREST/Nepal) is a non-profit-making, non-partisan, non-governmental organisation. It was recently established to implement people-centred media initiatives by professionals affiliated with well-established media entities, in association with independent media professionals and social scientists having a long standing within their respective profession. MIREST/Nepal is functioning independently from both NMPL and TNN. Registered at the CDO office Lalitpur, the Head Office of MIREST/Nepal is located in Lalitpur. It has already established working relations with numerous social and media-related organisations/individuals also outside the capital.
The professionals associated with MIREST/Nepal have brought their previous legacy of experience, professionalism and dedication to enrich the organisation. Although MIREST/Nepal has not previously undertaken large projects under its own banner, many of the individuals associated with the new organisation are specialists in their respective fields. The founders of MIREST/Nepal have extensive involvement in several social and media-related activities such as research and evaluation, promotions, workshops and seminars, production and presentation of television and radio programmes, all types of publications, web hosting and managing, online newsmagazine, newspapers and media houses, multimedia products, CDs, DVDs, audio-visuals, still/video shootings and editing, event management, networking and TV and radio anchoring.
MIREST/Nepal is dedicated to contribute to the creation of a vibrant and inclusive democratic Nepal through participatory communication interventions. MIREST/Nepal's motto is to work 'with the people, by the people and for the people' through a more democratic, innovative, inclusive and systematic approach to evolve new socio-political-economic dynamics following the successful People's Movement II. Since strong professionals have joined hands in MIREST/Nepal, the organisation has the capability to dig out social maladies, and ultimately contribute to the democratisation and constitution-making processes in the country by enhancing the participation of marginalised groups.
Nepal is in transition. The unfolding political developments, and constitutional and democratisation processes are rapid. In this scenario, the professionals affiliated with MIREST/Nepal felt that there is a crushing need for enhancing public opinion on inclusive democracy and the democratisation process. Marginalised people's participation in the political process is equally important to build a new Nepal. Without utilising all people's strengths and capacities in state building, the emergence of an inclusive and democratic Nepal is a far distance dream.
With these things in mind MIREST/Nepal started the project "Grass root intervention for Dialogue and Participation in the Democratic processes". The underlying goal of this initiative is to create space in inclusive democratic and constitutional processes for people living in rural areas, in particular members of marginalised communities (women, Dalits, Janajatis, geographically marginalised and other disadvantaged groups), in the Far-West and Western development regions. MIREST/Nepal believes that the people themselves, and not just urban-biased policy-makers and elites, should play a central role in defining what their own groups' problems are and that they are the ones to debate how best to respond to these problems. The project will therefore generate awareness amongst the marginalised populace, expose old and new forms of feudal practices and help build confidence in the democratic system among the marginalised communities.
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