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Impact work in Kanchanpur
Westernmost Tarai district of Nepal bordering India. Headquarters: Bhimdatta (Mahendranagar).
Kanchanpur District · Sudurpashchim Province
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Development projects in Kanchanpur
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Promoting gender-equitable and inclusive socio-economic living conditions for disadvantaged families in the districts of Dhading and Kanchapur, Nepal.
The project aims to strengthen 800 families - especially women and children from 27 villages in the districts of Kanchanpur and Dhading - socio-economically through inclusive and gender-equitable integration, pre-vention and employment measures, to be more effectively protected against poverty and marginalization and to be better pre-pared for natural disasters through inclusive disaster risk reduction management. The project perursues an gender-inclusive approach in the components of womens business start-ups, employment and labor market integration, capacity building at village, school and farmers association level by means of equal self-empowerment and networking, as well as water - sanitation and hygiene (WASH), child protection/ education, disaster risk reduction and advocacy.
GIZ Nepal
active
RP TROSA 2.0 - IWMI
Mahakali Basin in general, and select local governments situating in Darchula, Baitadi, Dadeldhura and Kanchanpur districts of Sudurpashim province will be the main geographical areas for the research activities to be implemented by IWMI Nepal. Agriculture —growing wheat, paddy rice, barley, maize, vegetables, potato and garlic in small scale, rearing livestock, collecting and crushing sandsand mines from the Mahakali river and its tributaries, seasonal migration, mostly India, small-scale enterprises,and salaried jobs are the main sources of livelihoods of communities in the areas. Men are involved as fishers; men and women also gather sand and stones from the river and crush them to produce construction materials (Oxfam Nepal). Most of the trade forthe marginalized communities is from Nepal to neighboring country India, where they sell sand and gravel, fish and vegetables to the larger markets. o Historical background, Impact, outcomes up to now and their limits (brief about TROSA previous phase work- if applicable). o Existing capacities (Oxfam and partners) Data from a scoping study conducted in May 2022 at Federal level through the NEXUS Gains Initiative of CGIAR, suggests that conceptual understandings to address challenges posed by climatechange in the Water-Energy-Food and Environment (WEFE) are currently limited among WEFE sector actors in Nepal (Buchy et al 2022). Hence, the starting point to develop awareness andthe tools to encourage WEFE actors to work together at the basin scale butalso at Federal, Provincial and Local levels will be to strengthen the capacity of actors. In addition to knowledge gaps, key informant indicated organisational, attitudinal, and human resource-related challenges. These challenges vary in levels of acuteness across types of actors and issues. To develop and implement aWEFE nexus approach in the Mahakali, capacity building efforts must address each of these key challenges as they pertain to diversegroups and contexts. Interviews with women professionals in WEFE sectors in Nepal at federal level also show that women working for the GoN continue to be side-lined and overlooked. Although the women interviewed were confident about their own knowledge and skill sets, irrespective of their age and level of seniority, they felt that they needed to constantly prove themselves. Women across all stakeholder groups feel they need confidence building to navigate patriarchal work environments as much as they need to further their knowledge and skills in nexus sciences. They also expressed the need to develop a reflexive understanding of how social norms impede men and women in their work, and how these norms are (often subconsciously) perpetuated. In addition to capacity issues, respondents at federal level also pointed out the institutional and policy bottlenecks accentuated by the implementation of federalism. Provinces and local governments are responsible for developing some natural resource management policies, but they can’t take leadership in transboundaryissues. Building on the community mobilization done during TROSA 1 we propose to strengthen the capacity of elected representatives and local administrative staff in understanding the challenges posed by the climate crisis especially for women. It is therefore important to map out in parallel to mapping the upstream/downstream conditions within the basin the institutional context along the riparian municipalities of the Mahakali River to assess knowledge, skills, and policy gaps. We propose for year 1and2 to implement our activity on the Nepal side of the basin but could explore if additional funding was secured and the work in Nepal proved useful to undertake work on the India side with the help of IWMI India in subsequent years. The insights generatedfrom the institutional analysis, and knowledge generated during TROSA 1, will support the curriculum development of leadership training in line with TROSA’s interest in developing women and youth leadership. IWMI will roll out a leadership trainingcycle at the federal level in 2023 and lessons from this pilot will also be integrated within this proposed training cycle at Municipality level starting most likely towards the end of 2023.
Oxfam Novib
completed
Local peace initiatives in the districts of Kanchanpur, Siraha and Nawalpur in Nepal
In the project region of Kanchanpur, Nawalpur and Siraha districts, the project aims to strengthen social justice and peace through established local peace initiatives.
GIZ Nepal
completed
Shakti Phase 2 - Empowering Civil Society in
The project aims to contribute to a sustainable and empowered civil society by mobilising marginalised people in three districts in rural Nepal - Kanchanpur, Kailali and Bajura. The project focuses on education and empowerment in the areas of Gender Equality and Social Inclusion; Youth; Climate Resilience and Food Security. It will also seek to strengthen the capacity of local and provincial governments to make and implement policies that reflect the needs of constituents relating to these areas.
DFAT / Irish Aid
completed
CSF 13-22 YEAR 3 PAYMENT SHAKTI NEPAL PROJECT' PROJECT
SHEP - The project aims to contribute to a sustainable and empowered civil society by mobilising marginalised people in three districts in rural Nepal - Kanchanpur, Kailali and Bajura. The project focuses on education and empowerment in the areas of Gender Equality and Social Inclusion; Youth; Climate Resilience and Food Security. It will also seek to strengthen the capacity of local and provincial governments to make and implement policies that reflect the needs of constituents relating to these areas.
DFAT / Irish Aid
active
South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation Highway Improvement Project
The project will support capacity, quality, and safety improvements of the East-West Highway (EWH), which is the main domestic and international trade corridor of Nepal, and which forms part of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) corridor 4 linking Kathmandu to Dhaka and Chittagong through India. The project will (i) rehabilitate and widen about 87 kilometers (km) of the EWH between Kanchanpur and Kamala in southeastern Nepal; (ii) improve road safety, asset management, and gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) on the 1,027 km EWH; and (iii) strengthen the road safety and GESI capacity of road sector agencies. The project will promote economic growth and contribute to improving the competitiveness of Nepal's exporting industries by enhancing the efficiency of the transport system, strengthening national and regional connectivity, and improving the safety of the road network.
Asian Development Bank
active
F.a: Partnering for promoting social and economic rights of ex bonded laborer
1. Project: 12262 Partnering for promoting social and economic rights of ex bonded laborer 2. Project area and Country: Kailali and Kanchanpur Districts, Sudurpaschim Province, Nepal 3. Project justification: Sudurpaschim province is hot spots of modern bonded labourers under the so-called Haliya, Kamaiya and Kamlari systems. The system promotes extreme gender-based violence consisting of several social taboos and other harmful practices. Kamaiyas and Kamlaris are two major groups of ex-bonded labourers living in Kailali and Kanchanpur districts. They were enslaved within a system of bonded labour and were forced by landlords to execute various hard labour in agriculture with a nominal amount. Exorbitant debts were charged, and whole families were forced to be slave. After several hard struggles and advocacy efforts by civil society and human rights activists, the Government of Nepal abolished the system on July 17, 2000, for Kamaiya and 2013 for Kamlari. Although most Kamaiya families were freed, the system has persisted. But a decade after being liberated, the freed Kamaiyas are forced to live a very difficult life due to lack of its effective implementation of proper rehabilitation and relief package. The project is primarily designed to promote economic and social empowerment of ex-bonded labourers. 4. The main objective and the expected results: The main objective is to contribute to poverty reduction and equity in Sudurpaschim province through socio-economic empowerment of ex-bonded labourers. Socio-economic condition of the ex-bonded labourers is improved through income diversification, education and advocacy. As a result, vulnerable households are engaged in income generating activities and have access to the market, cooperatives are strengthened and are able to advocate for social transformation, children of ex-bonded labourer attain quality education and vulnerable groups are more resilient and are able to advocate for their rights and access to services. 5. Right-holders/beneficiaries: 3,230 individuals ( 2735 are ex-bonded labours, 24 PWD, 301 Dalit, 170 others) Duty bearers: Municipalities and Rural Municipalities, Agriculture Knowledge Centre and Veterinary Hospital. 6. Implementing partner: Freed Kamaiya Women Development Forum (FKWDF) 7. Budget 2022: EUR 82,264
Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
completed
Amplifying local peace building initiatives in the Kanchanpur and Siraha district, Nepal
Amplifying local peace building initiatives in the Kanchanpur and Siraha district, Nepal
GIZ Nepal
Organizations represented in Kanchanpur
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ZSL Nepal
UK conservation INGO working in Nepal on tiger conservation, anti-poaching, and Tarai Arc landscape protection.
NGO
Maiti Nepal
Anti-trafficking NGO founded by Anuradha Koirala. Operates border interception teams, transit homes, prevention awareness and survivor rehabilitation across Nepal's India border.
INGO
WWF Nepal
World Wide Fund for Nature country programme — conservation of tigers, rhinos, snow leopards and habitats; climate, freshwater and sustainable livelihoods.
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A record is included when its source explicitly associates it with Kanchanpur. Counts describe Nepal Impact's dataset, not all activity in the district. Multi-location projects can appear on more than one place page.