Civil Society’s effort on ensuring access to justice through social enterprises

This is a research project which aims to find out the status of social enterprises in Nepal and its contribution to access to justice.  The focus of this research will involve civil society organisation involved in income generation work and also working on access to justice. Research will be based in Kathmandu and Kavrepalanchowk districts. Both primary and secondary data will be used for this study. For this study both descriptive and exploratory research design will be adopted. Firstly, different activities conducted by CSO’s will be described and next it will explore efforts and strategies that CSOs are engaged in and will examine the effort and effectiveness and sustainability of such efforts. Focus group discussion, key informant interviews, in-depth interview and semi-structured interview and checklist will be used to collect the data. The outcome will include CSO’s practices on social enterprises, their income generation work, its contribution towards justice, its gaps, challenges and recommendations.