Training and capacity building; SN has specific expertise in training and capacity building dimension. Designing training packages especially in the area of orientation, training, workshops, and facilitating those trainings. More importantly, SN has its experiences in the areas of community empowerment with more focus on disasters, advocacy and awareness related education, health and sanitation, Likewise, developing the capacity of teachers, community leaders, on child-friendly education, child friendly governance, gender and social inclusion, right based approach to development are some of the areas where SN has its strength and capacities. SN has supported international non-governmental organization such as Save The Children on life skills based education in developing materials both advocacy, ICT and reference materials.
Material development: SN has its expertise especially in the field of material development related to text, reference, ICE and advocacy. It has its good expertise in developing school children's materials related to financial literacy, non-formal literacy, disaster related reference materials for children and teachers, peace and human rights related materials, child friendly school related materials. More importantly, SN has significant strength in developing non-formal education related materials for youth, adults and women. More importantly, SN has also provided expertise in developing materials to the International non-governmental organizations in developing knowledge and understanding among the stakeholders in the areas of life skills based education, life skill based health education and financial literacy.
Gender and social inclusion (GESI) SN have been working in the field of gender and social inclusion. GESI is one of the core approaches of SN. SN has its capacity in terms of expertise, and experiences with regards to GESI, SN has contributed significantly in the process of mainstreaming gender in to the education system teacher training and non-formal education training and other learning materials. As SN has supported technically and professionally to the different central level organizations within the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. Additionally, SN has its strength in comprehensive sexuality education (CSE), SN has been providing its technical expertise to the UNESCO and other organization on CSE.
Child protection and safeguarding: SN has been working basically in education, social empowerment, disasters and promoting child and human rights. SN has been working in the marginalized community as well. Thus, SN has developed its child protection and safeguarding policy and implemented in every activity. SN analyze the children's vulnerability at the community level, assess risk and analyze the do not harm and implement its activities. SN is very sensitive to protect children’s rights, its motto is to protect girls and boys against their exploitation, violence, discrimination. SN has its capacity and experiences and has been supporting other non-governmental organization in child protection dimension.
Disaster resilience: SN has been carrying out numerous assignments with UNICEF, World Vision, Plan International to support school based disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation by capacitating the school stakeholders to develop SBDRM plans and support to build a disaster resilient community. SN has also developed training packages and manuals that support in integrating SBDRR in the local curriculum. With an expertise on child friendly teaching and learning methodology, the package has been instrumental for teachers in supporting their job of using interactive methods that help build the skills required to mitigate potential impacts of disasters such as floods, landslides, earthquakes, storms etc.