Development projects in Nepal

The project development objective is to prevent, detect and respond to the threat posed by COVID-19 and to strengthen national systems for public health preparedness in Nepal. It will achieve this objective by supporting the Government of Nepal, and specifically the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), to (i) provide emergency COVID-19 response for better case detection, confirmation, contact tracing, recording, and reporting as well for strengthening health system for enhanced case diagnosis and treatment, focusing on critical hospital and laboratory infrastructure needed for COVID-19 and other public health emergencies; (ii) support community engagement and risk communication; (iii) strengthen the MoHP and its emergency coordination and implementation structures to improve the coordination of the response, monitor and learn from the response, and as well as to support project implementation including procurement, financial management, undertaking of the Stakeholder Engagement Plan (SEP) and compliance with the Environment and Social Commitment Plan (ECSP); and (iv) enable the government, following an eligible crisis or event, to request the Bank to re-allocate project funds to support additional emergency response through Contingency Emergency Response Component.

Organization

World Bank Nepal

Budget

USD 81.0M

Timeline

Apr 3, 2020 → Jul 15, 2024

Coverage

Nepal

The Project Development Objectives are to improve equitable access to market relevant training programs and to strengthen the technical and vocational education and training (TVET) sector service delivery in Nepal.

Organization

World Bank Nepal

Budget

USD 55.3M

Timeline

Sep 29, 2017 → Jul 16, 2023

Coverage

Nepal

1) Ensuring fiscal prudence with sustainable debt level while increasing public investment in view of infrastructure deficit challenges. 2) Improving sectorial composition of spending and budget execution. 3) Increase administration efficiency; harmonize tax codes and increase revenue potential while laying down fiscal devolution framework.

Organization

World Bank Nepal

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Mar 20, 2018 → Feb 28, 2019

Coverage

Nepal

The Program Development Objective is to improve efficiency in the Federal-level public resource management systems of the health sector in Nepal.

Organization

World Bank Nepal

Budget

USD 199.6M

Timeline

Jan 13, 2017 → Jul 16, 2022

Coverage

Nepal

The objective of the credit is to support the financial sector medium-term reform program initiated by the Nepalese authorities to reduce the vulnerability of the banking sector and increase its transparency.

Organization

World Bank Nepal

Budget

USD 100.0M

Timeline

Aug 7, 2018 → Jun 30, 2019

Coverage

Nepal

The Project Development Objective (PDO) is to restore affected houses with multi-hazard resistant core housing units in target areas and to enhance the government's ability to improve long-term disaster resilience.

Organization

World Bank Nepal

Budget

USD 694.9M

Timeline

Jun 29, 2015 → Jun 30, 2023

Coverage

Nepal

Project Development Objective (Note: will be disclosed in the MOS)Project Development Objectiveis to improve institutional and regulatory capacity of the energy sector.Board Schedule Comments

Organization

World Bank Nepal

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Sep 18, 2018 → Mar 31, 2019

Coverage

Nepal

The development objective of the Strengthening Systems for Social Protection and Civil Registration Project for Nepal is to improve the coverage of social security allowances and civil registration, and the delivery of social security allowances. The project supports the DOCR's Civil Registration and Social Security Strengthening Program consists of four components. The first component, improving coverage of civil registration (CR) and social security allowances (SSA) will support the expansion of coverage of CR and SSA by establishing a National Population Register of individuals and household/family folders. The register will be updated through regular CRs and targeted outreach and communications campaigns.The goal is to establish a CR system that will allow all individuals/residents easy access to CR, enable regular monitoring of registrations, generate timely vital statistics from a central database, and establish linkage with programs such as SSA. This component has two sub-components. (i) data collection to establish a population register; and (ii) communication and outreach campaign; The second component, modernizing social Security delivery systems suffers from ineffective control and accountability, low operational efficiency, and poor services. Specific sources of the weaknesses include the absence of a reliable, modern information technology (IT) system to record and manage beneficiary enrollments and payment transactions and the lack of sufficiently trained personnel to manage these processes at the local level. This component has two sub-components. (i) rolling out electronic payments; and (ii) improving accountability and citizen engagement in the social security delivery process; The third component, institutional strengthening is to achieve the project objectives of increased coverage of social security beneficiaries and CR and improved delivery of SSA, the institutional framework regulating these two functions as well as the organizational capacity of the implementing bodies need to be enhanced. This component is designed to support a range of crosscutting activities for sustainable institutionalization of the improvements supported under Components 1 and 2 by building the Government's organizational and institutional capacities for managing CR and SSA functions at both the central and local levels. The activities supported under this component will be divided into the following subcomponents: (i) strengthening systems at the central level; (ii) strengthening systems at the local level; The fourth component,will support project implementation and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) by establishing and maintaining an effective Project Management Unit (PMU) and district-level project implementation units (DL-PIUs), building capacity of the project management staff, and financing specific project evaluation studies (for example, spot checks, base/mid/end-line surveys).

Organization

World Bank Nepal

Budget

USD 109.4M

Timeline

Dec 2, 2016 → Jun 30, 2024

Coverage

Nepal

​Development and promotion of sports structures

Organization

Germany - Federal Foreign Office

Budget

USD 17K

Timeline

Jun 1, 2018 → Jul 31, 2019

Coverage

Nepal

Nepal Agricultural Markets Development Programme (NAM-DP) will sustainably increase the real income poor and disadvantaged women and men derive from participation in agricultural and interconnected goods, service and labour markets by addressing key constraints in market systems where the poor are present as entrepreneurs, workers and/or consumers. Interventions will focus on improving access to information, access to inputs, access to high-value output markets, and the enabling environment.

Organization

Swiss Development Cooperation

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 1, 2014 → Dec 31, 2019

Coverage

Nepal

Past SDC interventions have focussed on making rural road construction work for the poor and disadvantaged through labour-intensive construction methods. This project now takes proven approaches further by ensuring even more all-weather accessibility to markets and services by emphasising the importance of maintenance and preservation of built roads through promotion of labour-based roads maintenance methods and by fostering an institutional process in the districts, which should pave the way for the highly successful concepts of road construction and maintenance to be adopted as national standards.

Organization

Swiss Development Cooperation

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Timeline not reported

Coverage

Nepal

The project empowers communities to claim their developmental rights by capacitating local civil society organisations (CSOs) to hold their local governments accountable. This is achieved by applying various social accountability (SA) tools. A protracted phase of political transition, a lack of structural accountability and transparency, rising corruption at all levels of government, and an absence of elected representatives makes the intervention highly relevant for target communities in SDC project areas.

Organization

Swiss Development Cooperation

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Apr 1, 2012 → Jul 15, 2017

Coverage

Nepal

Training of staff of the National Archives Kathmandu (NAK) in manuscript cleaning and digitization, conservation of 1.500 palm leaf manuscripts of NAK, digitization of the cleaned and conserved manuscripts, cataloguing of the manuscripts

Organization

Germany - Federal Foreign Office

Budget

USD 144K

Timeline

Jan 1, 2019 → Dec 31, 2019

Coverage

Kathmandu, Bagmati

The Project Development Objectives are to: (a) strengthen the capacity of the power sector agencies to plan and prepare hydropowerand transmission line projects following international standards and best practices; and (b) improve the readiness of the powersector agencies for regulatory and institutional reforms.

Organization

World Bank Nepal

Budget

USD 10.2M

Timeline

Sep 25, 2015 → Dec 30, 2022

Coverage

Nepal

Improving forecast-based Emergency Preparedness for climate risks in Bangladesh, Philippines, Nepal, Haiti, Dominican Republic

Organization

Germany - Federal Foreign Office

Budget

USD 862K

Timeline

Jul 1, 2017 → Dec 31, 2020

Coverage

Nepal

The development objectives of the proposed credit are to support the financial sector medium-term reform program initiated by the Nepalese authorities to reduce the vulnerability of the banking sector and increase its transparency Although this operation was designed prior to the April 2015 earthquake, the magnitude of the devastation that ensued, as well as the heightened vulnerabilities of the financial sector as a result of the disaster, have resulted in an additional objective which is to provide the GoN with much needed short term financial support to expedite and scale up relief and recovery efforts while mitigating new emerging financial sector weaknesses and allowing it to play its role in the broader post-disaster recovery effort

Organization

World Bank Nepal

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jun 29, 2015 → Dec 31, 2015

Coverage

Nepal

The objective of the Project for Strengthening the National Rural Transport Program (SNRTP) for Nepal is to enhance the availability and reliability of transport connectivity for rural communities in participating districts. There are two components to the project, the first component being institutional strengthening and technical assistance. Component A of SNRTP will fund three categories of activities, including: (i) institutional strengthening and technical assistance; (ii) beneficiary monitoring of physical works under component B of the project; and (iii) an impact study of selected project interventions. The second component is the civil works. This component will support districts to implement physical works needed for: (i) upgrading or rehabilitating rural transport infrastructure; and (ii) maintaining rural transport infrastructure. There will be two funding windows within component B as follows: window one will support routine and periodic maintenance of roads and crossing structures using a simplified output-based disbursement approach that ties release of International Development Association (IDA) and donor funds to the completion of works. Window two will support road upgrading (or rehabilitation) and new crossing structure construction as needed to provide all-weather connectivity.

Organization

World Bank Nepal

Budget

USD 91.5M

Timeline

Dec 23, 2013 → Jan 15, 2020

Coverage

Nepal

The objective of the credit is to support the implementation of the financial sector reform program initiated by the Nepalese authorities to reduce the vulnerability of the banking sector and increase its transparency.

Organization

World Bank Nepal

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jun 27, 2013 → Dec 31, 2013

Coverage

Nepal

MLRBP III will contribute directly to improved livelihoods of 1.2 million rural people through technical assistance in bridge building and facilitating improved access. Lack of access to services, markets and opportunities remains one of the reasons for high poverty. Bridges on local roads are critical for an all year round access for the rural poor, creating economic and social development opportunities for them, and reducing the huge economic costs they incur for travel, trade, health and farm inputs.

Organization

Swiss Development Cooperation

Budget

USD 9.7M

Timeline

Timeline not reported

Coverage

Nepal

Lack of access to services, markets and opportunities is one of the reasons for high incidence of poverty in Nepal. The Government of Nepal (GoN) has accorded a high priority to the construction of bridges to improve accessibility of remote areas in Nepal and increased the budget 5-fold in the last four years. The proposed phase will build on GoN’s confidence in the Swiss technical support, while preparing to accelerate the construction of bridges to facilitate improved access.

Organization

Swiss Development Cooperation

Budget

USD 3.4M

Timeline

Timeline not reported

Coverage

Nepal

The Goal is to contribute for ‘improved livelihoods and resilience of poor men, women and children in Nepal’. The Purpose is ‘maximise the contribution of Nepal’s forestry sector to inclusive economic growth, poverty reduction and tackling climate change‘. Coverage will increase from 4 districts (current Swiss coverage) to 61 districts (out of 75 nationally) with full-fledged focused activities in 35 over the next 10 years. Focus is to expand poverty reduction and environmental outcomes of community forestry nationally through wider reach and deeper engagement at different levels.

Organization

Swiss Development Cooperation

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Apr 1, 2010 → Jun 30, 2017

Coverage

Nepal

This initiative is in line with SDC’s priorities both at a global level, regarding the UN coherence and improved response in post-conflict transition, and at Nepal level as the country is still in a critical phase of the peace process. The Transition support strategy (TSS) supports the strengthening of relevant actors in the peace process and the stronger coordination and harmonisation of development partners.

Organization

Swiss Development Cooperation

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Timeline not reported

Coverage

Nepal

SaMi addresses the needs of Nepali men and women who migrate to the Middle East and Southeast Asia on short term labour contracts. To reduce the financial and social costs of migration and to increase its financial benefits, the project facilitates access to relevant information, pre-departure skills trainings, legal and psychosocial support. SaMI also strengthens government’s capacity to effectively implement the labour migration policy and protect migrants. Some 170’000 people will benefit from the project over four years.

Organization

Swiss Development Cooperation

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jul 16, 2013 → Jul 15, 2018

Coverage

Nepal

As a result of this project, the demand side of local governance will be strengthened through the empowerment of right holders. Social mobilization interventions will enable beneficiaries to more effectively demand public services and hold national and local governments accountable. Simultaneously, the supply side will be strengthened. As a result, local bodies with strengthened institutional capacity and resources will provide services more effectively to the people, esp. to disadvantaged groups. In addition, an enabling policy environment will be promoted. Inter alia, this will help to prepare Nepal for a future federal system, as and when this system is defined in the new constitution.

Organization

Swiss Development Cooperation

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Timeline not reported

Coverage

Nepal

Through the single funding channel of the NPTF, donors strengthen the role and capacity of the state in Nepal’s peace process. This enables suporting elements of this process that are either pivotal, such as the Constitutional Assembly, the national and local elections, the rehabilitation of ex-combatants and the establishment of transitional justice mechanisms or peripheral like reconstruction of police posts destroyed during the war, establishment of medical centres for disabled victims of the war, strengthening of local peace committees. All this support globally contributes to increasing security for the population.

Organization

Swiss Development Cooperation

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Timeline not reported

Coverage

Nepal

​In 7 regional meetings consultations with the victims will be held and the TRC (Truth and Reconciliation Commission) Act will be better explained and possibly improved to be more widely accepted.

Organization

Germany - Federal Foreign Office

Budget

USD 7K

Timeline

Jun 26, 2018 → Aug 10, 2018

Coverage

Nepal

​Two empowerment trainings for former child soldiers to better advocate for their rights. Strategic litigation and legal assistance shall increase their access to justice and contribute to their official recognition as conflict victims and their entitlement to compensation

Organization

Germany - Federal Foreign Office

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jun 1, 2018 → Jan 31, 2019

Coverage

Nepal

Counselling talks between Nepalese responsibles for the implementation of the constitution and German experts

Organization

Germany - Federal Foreign Office

Budget

USD 203K

Timeline

Apr 1, 2016 → Mar 31, 2018

Coverage

Nepal

Areas of poor accessibility are strongly correlated with the incidence of poverty. Walking is still a major mode of mobility in remote places of Nepal. Moreover, in areas of new road construction, there is a growing demand for river crossings from populations alongside the road corridor. Swiss supported technical assistance for trail bridges construction will help enhance access to basic public services and economic opportunities by providing safe river crossings.

Organization

Swiss Development Cooperation

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Timeline not reported

Coverage

Nepal

People in Nepal still suffer from lack of effective human rights protection, weak public accountability, and prevailing impunity. Switzerland and Denmark continue to support the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) aiming at systematically developing its internal capacity. The third phase will enable the NHRC to better fulfil its mandate and increase its legitimacy and leverage to advocate more effectively for the protection and promotion of human rights for the people of Nepal.

Organization

Swiss Development Cooperation

Budget

USD 687K

Timeline

Timeline not reported

Coverage

Nepal