Kapilvastu the ancient Kingdom of Suddodhana – father of Siddhartha Gautama who later enlightened to become Lord Buddha – has been the lowest-ranking district in development index in Nepal. Of late, it has increasingly become a hotbed of social conflict and a violence as well as disaster-prone district, blamed at greed of certain people, poverty, and lack of distributive justice, inequality, intolerance, and social & economic exclusion.

Local youth wanted to change the situation and make a difference in lives of people living in ancient holy land where Gautama spent his childhood and adulthood, by engaging in social development works, mobilizing society for the same and taking the lead in the process of change. 

This is how the seed of SSDC was sown. It has now grown into a robust and vibrant organization in the span of 2 decade above.

Since of its establishment SSDC, Kapilvastu has been a pioneer organization and having of experiences on advocacy and influencing on the specific sector most likely the movement of landless rights when the organization had implementing the programme in support of Action Aid Nepal. The movement was nation wise and the meeting was done in Kapilvastu. The government of recently, the advocacy on adolescent rights under the programme of SEEDS supported by Stromme Foundation Nepal has also brought the changes in the policies of local government. SSDC has supported to inbuilt the topics of Career Development Plan (CDP) and Family Development Plan (FDP) in the policy of local government.

SSDC Kapilvastu has a clear organizational policy on Human resource and administrative management which clearly mentioned the role, responsibilities, and specific provisions of staffs recruitment, annual evaluation of staffs and the promotion of the capacity and enhancement in terms of GESI aspects. The board has the provision of placing 40% of women participation. Likewise, the staffing pattern is more than 70% of women in their respective programmes. All the programme has focused on the aspects of GESI where all the caste, color, race and other backwards castes are participated. The human resource and administrative management policy has been attached herewith the EOI.