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Responding to the food security impact of Covid-19 in Nepal Year 2

In the light of food shortages and loss of local incomes arising from the continuation of Covid-19 outbreaks in Nepal, mountain communities in areas like the Tsum Nubri are highly vulnerable, given that it is deemed to be a highly food insecure area. With external support from funding bodies like CAFOD scheduled to taper off in October 2020, local communities in the Tsum Valley have asked CAN to consolidate these agricultural and livelihoods interventions for a further year. Subject to continued funding the extended project will work 15 CBOs/mothers’ groups across the Chumchet and Chekamparo wards in the Tsum Nubri Rural Municipality and will seek to target local subsistence farmers, mother’s groups, vulnerable groups and local monks. There will be 277 direct beneficiaries including 227 female householders, 10 subsistence farmers and 40 monks with indirect beneficiaries in the region of 1,600+ villagers. To extend the project, funding is requested from CAFOD to maintain the deployment of two JTAs to help 15 target communities improve the sustainability of locally produced food in the face of the Covid-19 outbreak and to minimise food shortages.