Prisons in Nepal are infested with major problems like lack of financial resources, high turnovers of prisoners, illiteracy, poor health and sanitation facilities, and shortage of clean and safe drinking water and the prisoners are vulnerable towards HIV/AIDS, TB and even unaware of their rights,  environment change and global warming etc.  In addition, there is a severe lack of services to the dependent children of inmates and lack of awareness in the community. Moreover, the prisoner’s faces added discrimination from the community and are socially excluded. Prison Foundation was established and registered in 2011 to provide much needed service...

Women’s empowerment is the way or a social action in which women elaborate and recreate what it is to be in a circumstance that they previously were denied.Empowerment can be defined in many ways, however, when talking about women’s empowerment, empowerment means accepting and allowing people (women) who are on the outside of the decision-making process into it. “This puts a strong emphasis on participation in political structures and formal decision-making and, in the economic sphere, on the ability to obtain an income that enables participation in economic decision-making.”Empowerment is the process that creates power in individuals over their own...

Leader development is defined as the “expansion of a person’s capacity to be effective in leadership roles and processes” (McCauley, Van Veslor, & Rudeman, 2010, p. 2). These roles and processes are ones that aid in setting direction, creating alignment and maintaining commitment in groups of people sharing common work. Most organizational leadership research and educational programs have focused on developing individual-based knowledge, skills, and abilities associated with formal leadership roles (human capital) of individuals (Day, 2000). Leader development therefore results by investing in human capital.