Interdependent Society Surkhet is a not-for-profit, non-government organisation inaugurated in District Administration Office on Sept. 26, 1999 with representatives of 138 groups and 10 main committees of 10 V.D.Cs., formed in V.D.C. level from community group and representatives of the group started by United Mission to Nepal, Surkhet Project with concept of process oriented development. It is based on concept of one home one member and now ISS has 2196 members where 1388 are women members.Have a long-term, local presence in throughout municipalities and rural municipalities of surkhet district, capital of Karnali Pradesh. ISS provides practical know-how to make a sustainable difference in the lives of people living in poverty by helping them in education, gender equality and social inclusion, climate change and resilience, raise incomes and access basic services with regard to health and overall prosperity. We actively maintain strong collaboration, networking and coordination with community people and entire concerned stakeholders.

ISS is the community based network organization and committed for the empowerment of poor and marginalized people to achieve the prosperous status of community of underprivileged people by following the principle of leaving no one behind. With strong and meaningful participation of the people, we are moving forward to establish equitable and dignified status of poor people. The executive committee develops and manages to implement different policies and procedures, establish good co-ordination among different stakeholders.

Vision

ISS envisions is to enhance and establishment of equitable society by eliminating the chain of poverty and solitariness for the better future to developed just and interdependent society.

Objectives

• To implement activities of income generation, education, climate change support program, infrastructural development, skill oriented training for the improvement of the livelihood of marginalized people that are excluded from the opportunities through promoting the knowledge, skill and technologies and individual identities of the marginalized people.
•  To conduct activities for the reproductive health of women, HIV and Aids as well as basic health
  care and prevention.
• To run different activities for the holistic development of youths and children.
• To conduct different activities of the human rights, good governance, social inclusion, just and peace.
• To run the right-based activities for the economic, social, cultural and political development of
  community women, Dalits, ethnic groups, marginalized and minorities.