Independent Living Center Kathmandu has been engaged in advocacy and awareness to promote and protect the rights and dignity of PWDs. Its work is to assure the principles and strategies underlined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, national and international legal instruments that protect and promote the rights of PWDs. IL Center is fighting for the right and dignity of PWDs through advocacy, capacity building, attendant services, IL skills, Peer counseling, barrier free campaigns from the grassroots level to central level. Besides this, there were the major programs holds by the IL Center Kathmandu.

Information and Referral
The Information and Referral program is the key component of Independent Living Center. Information is power, and the more we know the better we act and more informed choices that can be made. We live in an information age, where the exchange of information is becoming increasingly necessary but it must occur without barriers. IL maintains data bank and resources so that the stakeholders may develop unique and self-orienting ways to exchange information.

Peer Support
IL develops a strong commitment to find unique and effective strategies to provide real human support, and to share live experience. IL knows that the rich and varied experiences of their member base hold a vast knowledge and resources and solutions that others can benefit from. Volunteers have an important role to play in this. Encouragement from peers builds knowledge and leadership to face new and possibly intimidating challenges. Also practical knowledge of community resources can be shared. Issues such as access to health care, the transition to a healthy life style, crime and abuse prevention support, adjustment to a new disability and strategies to self-directed attendant care are just of few of the important outcomes of Peer Support.

Individual Advocacy
IL indicates that individual advocacy and skill development support is provided, not group advocacy. The provision of individual assistance and opportunities for skill development is often necessary to help people with disabilities to remove barriers. Support to learn, manage, coordinate and negotiate with a wide range of community resources is critical in making independent living a reality. People with disabilities frequently have to struggle to attain services and support to which they are rightfully entitled. A number of issues can be addressed within the mandate of this program including housing, employment, education, accessibility, personal development, transportation, human rights, abuse intervention and recreation.

Service Development Capacity
Part of the mandate of IL is to respond rapidly and effectively to the needs of its stakeholders in local communities. Research is done into the best solutions to the questions that they have. Solutions are discovered when stakeholders and the community comes together.
IL often works for support to conduct research and to test new approaches to remove barriers. A very important issue that many Centers have worked on is the development and promotion of models which enable Direct Funding options for users of attendant care services. IL principles are fully reflected in this approach to attendant services. Decisions are made by the stakeholders themselves and they dictate how and when support is provided and most importantly by whom. It is no longer agencies and government that decide which services a consumer can use or not use when direct funding to them is available.
An important aspect of the delivery of core programs is the role that volunteers play in all program deliveries. They bring their experiences and gifts to the delivery of programs and enrich what the IL can offer the community.

Other Programs and services of IL Center are:
Consumer Services
CIL’s consumer services give people with disabilities the tools and resources they need to achieve independence. All of these services are free and feature advocacy, counseling, education and referrals.

Systems Change Advocacy strives to change policies to make government, transportation, and housing systems more accessible to people with disabilities.

Individual Advocacy is a tool used to navigate the intricacies of systems such as Social Security in order to meet our consumers’ individual needs.

Assistive Technology Services help consumers obtain, repair and understand how to use assistive devices such as ramps, slopes, wheelchairs, computers, software's and other low-tech and high-tech to the consumers' individual needs.

Persons with Severe Disabilities Services provide one-to-one counseling, group support, independent living skills training, reader referrals, sign language interpreters, and others consumers needed things.

Employment Services counsels job seekers in how to set goals, enhance skills, and develop resume writing and interviewing techniques. We also work with local businesses to obtain job referrals.

Financial Benefits Counseling guides consumers through benefit services, such as public cash assistance, health insurance, Banking and Accounting services, encourage PWDs to open and save the money and work incentive programs.

Independent Living Skills (ILS) Training provides individualized instruction in life skills and setting and achieving goals such as using public transportation, money management, social skills, attendant management, nutrition, self advocacy, etc.