Development projects in Nepal

to provide technical support for molecular diagnostic approaches for shigella detection across multiple settings

Organization

Gates Foundation

Budget

USD 240K

Timeline

Mar 8, 2022 → Sep 3, 2025

Coverage

Nepal

Nepal Agricultural Cooperative Central Federation Limited (NACCFL) is a central level umbrella organization of Small Farmer Agricultural Cooperatives (SFACLs) and Agricultural Cooperatives. Besides its regular activities, it has also been supporting technically and through lobby for its member cooperatives for accessing grants from different stakeholders. In 2017, the collaboration of Agriterra and NACCFL focus on roll out, coaching and effective use of FACT methodology in the policy lobbying and advocacy. Furthermore, Agriterra introduced the concept of youth council and governance training to NACCFL . As an output NACCFL and member organizations developed the lobby and advocacy skills, and have access to more government and donor grants. And has formalized electronic database which has supported in formalizing policy and lobby. NACCFL has been taking lead role in implementing FACT tools in Nepal and was able to realize NPR 42.5 million from ministry in 2017. This project aims further strengthen the lobby and advocacy capacity of NACCFL through developing a self-sustaining service unit within NACCFL, that particularly provides support to its members on lobby and advocacy through proposal writing and policy advocacy based on the FACT methodology. NACCFL has planned to establish Advocacy and Lobby Unit (ALU), the unit will support SFACLs to develop grant proposals in response to different calls and also lobby for the grants, and lobby with governement/development authorities to create enabling environment by changing policies in favour of agriculture cooperative. This unit will constitute of 4 experts and also work in close collaboration with government agencies and development organizations. From the service, this unit will charge nominal fees which will ultimately help it to be self-sustained. Through this unit and project, at least proposals worth NRS 200 million will be applied to different donors/stakeholders. Out of which at least 40 percent (or proposals worth NRS 80 million) will be successful till July, 2020. The goal of this project is :Generate income for NACCFL by providing proposal writing service to member cooperatives through its Advocacy and Lobby Unit (ALU)Create favorable environment for cooperatives by submitting advocacy/policy paper to the government authority.

Organization

Stichting Agriterra

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Feb 19, 2018 → Dec 31, 2018

Coverage

Nepal

The Dumarwana Small Farmer Agriculture Cooperative Limited (DSFACL) is located at the central region of Nepal, in Bara district. In 1997 the cooperative was registered with 454 members and grown to 9.572 members in April 2017. Out of total members, about 8.000 are rice farmers. The livelihood of members largely depends upon the income of paddy. There is demand from members to invest in a rice processing plant and market rice on behalf of the members. DSFACL already purchased the land and constructed a building for the rice processing plant. DSFACL is currently exploring options to finance the investment. DSFACL could gain regular source of income from agri-business other than financial services. During the company assessment in April 2017, it was realized that Agriterra can add value in their envisioned plan of running rice processing plant which gives more marketing opportunities and better prices for all their members. The cooperative should focus on organizational development and development of rice processing business. This is expected to results in the realization of the paddy processing factory and a yearly processed volume of 15.000 ton paddy by end of 2019. The project plan focused on the business, finance, and organisational of the cooperative. DSFACL will take lead and Agriterra will support in implementing the action plan.Business development: conducting a workshop about the new business plan with representatives of the five service centres, government and financial institutions. Thereby DSAFCL will get to know about possibilities and commitment of the stakeholders and members. The overall goal is the sustainable establishment and growth of cooperatives’ businesses in the Quang Nam around the Green Annamites area; leading to profitable and solvent farmer-led business.

Organization

Stichting Agriterra

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jun 14, 2018 → Dec 31, 2018

Coverage

Bara, Madhesh

Agriterra and CTCF have been cooperating on different fields since 2012. From its inception in 2010, CTCF has developed into a cooperation with 99 member coops (representing 6000 tea farmers) with a combined market share of 25% in the orthodox tea in Nepal. CTCF has become a strong and well known federation both internally as well as in the field of lobby and advocacy and service provision to its members. The cooperation between Agriterra and CTCF in 2017 had an evaluative character. Since many new tea processing factory has been estalbished ,CTCF realized that marketing is one of the major challange of cooperative and it is high demand by members. Most of the tea produced has been in the hand of middleman paying low price to the farmers, the farmers are not getting fair share of price. To tackle with this condition it was realized by CTCF to develop market so as to minimize the monopoly of the middleman. null 1. Attain optimal operational efficiency for MCCMCU to break-even 2. Professionalize further the governance and financial management to support the goal to break-evening 3. Deepen the marketing knowledge within MCCMCU to be able compete for the global export market. 4. Re-align the strategic objectives of MCCMCU for the next three years for them to be able to deliver value to its members.

Organization

Stichting Agriterra

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Feb 20, 2018 → Dec 31, 2018

Coverage

Nepal

Prithvinagar Small Farmer Agriculture Cooperative (PSFAC) is located approximately 10 km South of Bhadrapur close to the border with India. It focuses on tea production, processing and marketing. and it was established in 1995 in response to promote the production of tea by smallholder farmers, as the land in the area is very suitable for tea production. The cooperative started with only 25 members and 1250 NPR shared capital. Now the cooperative has 1987 members and shared capital of 17 million NPR. Besides promoting tea growing the cooperative was initially mainly involved in the business of savings and credit services to its members. Until 1999 the cooperative also collected tea leaves from its members and sold it to a private tea factory. However, the prices offered by this factory where relatively low and there was no timely payment. Therefore the cooperative created in 2009 the ambition to invest in its own processing factory. The large tea factory was built with government funding support. Total investment was 80 million NPR, of which 30 million government grant, 20 million loan SKBB (5% interest) and 30 million share capital of the members. The factory started production in July 2014. The tea factory started producing and making profits, but there are lots of opportunities to increase the profit within the processing factory if they improve their efficiency and increase marketing activities. The partnership will work on constraints that were limiting Prithivinagar to scale bigger and provide maximum returns to their members. On this basis, one of the main activities will be to develop production plan and integrate it with marketing plan. The activities will also include strengthening their supply and establishing linkages with different marketing channels to ensure maximum sales. Provide better returns to members by increasing efficiency of tea factory and improving marketing channels.

Organization

Stichting Agriterra

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jun 1, 2017 → Dec 31, 2017

Coverage

Nepal

The company assessment team in February 2016 concluded that LDMPCUL fulfils the criteria that Agriterra requires in order to start a client relationship with LDMPCUL. The cooperation shall focus on support in professionalising LDMPCUL and its member cooperatives (organisational strengthening); and improving the milk production and quality. In 2016, Agriterra supported LDMPCUL in developing strategic plan, improving financial management and increase members commitment in cooperative. LDMPCUL has implemented most of the planned activities and shows an active attitude towards follow up of action plans. In 2017, Agriterra will focus on developing bankable business plan for ongoing construction of the dairy processing facilities. The cooperation will focus on developing capacity of increasing internal capital, follow up financial management and role out of managing your agricultural cooperative training. The expected output of 2017 will be developed bankable business plan and took initiation to increase internal capital and access from external loan. The planned activities for 2017 are given below: Finalize the strategic plan of LDMPCUL including approval by BoD and AGM Develop three years business plan including product diversifications, marketing strategies, investment need and financial projection plan for dairy processing plant Conduct workshop to share the business plan with financial institutions, concerned government organizations and support organization Submit proposal to financial institutions and concerned government organizations Improve financial management based on action plan made in FM training Role out of My.coop to 10 active primary cooperatives Provide smaller version of the basic FMT to top 5 PCs actively doing business with union Participation on Agriterra Internal Capitalization Workshop The goal of this cooperation is to support LDMPCUL in developing their organization capacity so that LDMPCUL will increase members commitment and attract more internal capital from members, and an external loan and/or grants for constructing the processing factory.This will leads to to operationalize the processing plant having processing capacity of 10.000 ltrs milk per day in a profitable manner.

Organization

Stichting Agriterra

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 28, 2017 → Dec 31, 2017

Coverage

Nepal

to provide urgent assistance to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal of Emergency Response to COVID-19 in Nepal from 2021-05-11 to 2022-05-31. Grantee name: United States Fund for UNICEF.

Organization

Gates Foundation

Budget

USD 650K

Timeline

May 11, 2021 → May 25, 2023

Coverage

Nepal

to support UNICEF's focus on accelerating reductions on MMR, NMR and stillbirths in 25 ENAP high-burden countries, including deeper engagement and TA in Ethiopia, Nigeria

Organization

Gates Foundation

Budget

USD 1.7M

Timeline

Oct 13, 2021 → Jun 5, 2025

Coverage

Nepal

to accelerate introduction of typhoid conjugate vaccine into Gavi-eligible countries and reduce the global burden of typhoid fever

Organization

Gates Foundation

Budget

USD 1.2M

Timeline

Nov 1, 2021 → Mar 31, 2027

Coverage

Nepal

to support pilot municipalities in Nepal and Bangladesh to strengthen urban sanitation service delivery, and test innovations to fill SDG 6.2 data gaps

Organization

Gates Foundation

Budget

USD 870K

Timeline

Sep 1, 2021 → Nov 14, 2025

Coverage

Nepal

Agriterra has the ambition to expand its activities and client portfolio in Nepal. In order to realize this ambition, continuous scoping assignments are being enrolled in various parts of Nepal in order to identify ambitious and entrepreneurial farmer organizations with a reasonable business track record and good management potential. In its expansion activities Agriterra has identified potential for support of farmer cooperatives in three main sectors, which are 1) Dairy, 2) Tea, and 3) Vegetables. Currently Agriterra has a portfolio of 4 dairy clients (Annapurna Dairy Cooperative, Lalitpur Dairy Union, Kamdhenu Dairy Union, Dumarwana Dairy Cooperative) and it is expected that this portfolio will grow in the future. To provide specific support to these organizations, Agriterra decided to contract a Nepali Dairy Expert (Raju Sharma) as a consultant for various assignments specified in this ToR. Raju Sharma is a professional and advanced dairy farmer that owns a farm with 40 cows in Nepal. Raju worked for Agriterra before. He conducted 2 company assessments and joined a young farmers study tour to the Netherlands. Through his previous contract he also joined agripoolers and local business advisors for feed feasibility study, record keeping training and so on. null The objectives of the learning trajectory would be threefold: Identify, assess and understand key challenges faced by agri-businesses in providing effective and sustainable agricultural advisory services; Generate concrete areas and operational strategies for the improvement of such agricultural advisory services. Make main insights and general findings available for the wider agricultural development community; Agriterra can specifically use this learning trajectory to : - share best practises of farmer cooperatives - improve its advisory services to support clients in making their extension services more effective and efficient, by developing one or several models and sharing the best practises (for example by improving its current product: workshop sustainable services ) -

Organization

Stichting Agriterra

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

May 25, 2017 → Oct 31, 2017

Coverage

Lalitpur, Bagmati

SFACFL Makwanpur (federation of Agricultural cooperatives) promotes commercial farming among its members, focusing on the innovators and lead farmers of the district. Building the entrepreneurial skills of these farmers will set an example for other farmers, showing them practicaly how to produce in a sustainable way for the market. Focus will be on record keeping at the farm level, bench marking through study groups and collective or cooperative marketing. Focus will be on 8 member cooperatives, those having better access to markets. At the same time, the federation will improve its financial position: if farmers realise and feel the benefits of the services provided by the federation, they will start contributing to pay for certain services. The federation aims to improve its internal income generation with at least 20% (compared to last year) this year. Proposed activities for 2016: 1. Improved Financial sustainability of the federation by offering quality services and developing a business case on seeds- Prepare a businessplan/operational plan on services by the Federation, with earning models related to services- basic financial management training- Propagation and distribution of of improved seed (maize, rice) following a sustainable business plan 2. Services to members to improve commercial farming and cooperative marketing (focus on 8 primary coopertiaves)- Record keeping introduced to 1600 farmers- benchmarking ToT for lead farmers/ field staff- Farmer Field Schools for 320 farmers- Marketing sub committees trained and making marketing plans.- My.coop training on coop marketing and input supply- Local seed improvement of hot pepper and broad leaf mustard 3. Improved lobby/ advocacy for access to finance- participate in FACT trajectory (organised by NACCFL)- improved proposals --> resulting in approved funding/cooperation 1. Improved Financial sustainability of the federation by offering quality services and developing a business case on seeds 2. Services to members to improve commercial farming and cooperative marketing (focus on 8 primary cooperatives) 3. Improved lobby/ advocacy for access to finance

Organization

Stichting Agriterra

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Dec 5, 2015 → Feb 8, 2018

Coverage

makawanpur, Bagmati

to develop indicators for measuring the resilience to climate change of water and sanitation services in urban and rural communities in Bangladesh, Nepal, Ethiopia, Senegal and Uganda

Organization

Gates Foundation

Budget

USD 601K

Timeline

Sep 30, 2020 → Aug 19, 2025

Coverage

Nepal

On April 25, 2015 at 11: 56 AM, Nepal was shocked by powerful earthquake with magnitude of 7.9 Richter scale, affecting the central part of the country mostly. The impact is huge in 14 districts of te country as well as in the capital city. Agriterra and its constituency decided that such a natural disaster can not be neglected as it is has a major impact upon the people's lifes. In total almost 9000 people were killed, over 17,000 peeple were injured, and at least 500,000 houses were destroyed. Makwanpur district is one of the 14 most hit districts. The District Agricultural Federation, having 25 Small farmers Agricultural cooperatives as member made an inventory of the damage among the members. Details of 10 cooperatives that Agriterra has been supporting over the last two years shows that out of 4141 member households - 8 people died and 12 got injured - 957 families completely lost their house/livestock sheds - 680 families partially lost their house/lvestock shed - loss of food stock in 5 cooperatives - loss of livestock 7 cooperatives. After receiving the first relief support, the first priority for people is to rebuild their houses. After that it is important that people pick up/continue their agricultural business as this is their main income and food source. Makwanpur is one of the 14 severely affected districts in Nepal. Agriterra works since 2013 with the District Agricultural Federation of Makwanpur. District Agriculture co-operative Federation was established in 2010 to work as an umbrella organization for the primary Agricultural cooperatives. Vision of the federation is to have a capable and transparent district level umbrella organization providing services to small scale agriculture co-operatives and related co-operatives in helping them economically, socially, culturally, and with technology based agricultural production, purification and marketing. Project 6016 (contracted through NACCFL but implemented by DAF makwanpur) describes how Agriterra has been working with 10 primary cooperatives in Makwapur district. The earthquake has severly damaged Makwanpur district including the 10 Village Development Commities in which Agriterra has been working actively. For these 10 VDC a relief and Agricultural reconstruction programme has been prepared. The support includes the following: - blankets and kitchen utensils - roofing matrials for house/animal shed reconstruction - knapsack sprayer for vegetables - vegetable seeds - beehives in one VDC - young animals in few VDC Financial support will be channelled through the District Federation. The Federation has created a disaster risk response team (responsible for selection of recipients and distribution of the goods) and a procurement team (collective purchase of goods). The primary cooperatives and the district federation will be responsible for the selection of the right beneficiaries, keep the records of the distribution of goods and provide technical support. Monitoring and evaluation of the support porgramme will be done by DAF, NACCFL and Agriterra. The period for the project is 3 months; june-July and August 2015. Beneficiaries: 4141 members, of which 470 members (Women only) receive support for reconstruction. Most families will receive seeds. Update September 2015: After the succesful distribution of different Agricultural inputs, and with the assage of time, farmers pick up their routine in farming again. Most families have foudn a temporarily housinga nd cultivate crops again. In ordre to furher support the farmesr in rebuidling their economic activities, this project will be extended till the end of 2015 to further strengteh the Agricultural reconstruction. DAF Makwanpur proposes several training activities, as well as s tronger focus on coopertaive marketing for those coopertiaves that have a fouvorable locationtowards the market. DAF Makwapnrur is very consious about teh sustainability of its activities and realises the importance of having farmer led advisory service sto teh memebrs. In this activity plan, lead farmers are the key persons in making a change and focusing really on commercial farming, bringing in a more entrepreneurial spirit and attitude. Budget: 59,500 Euro (June-AUgust 2015 Phase 1) 15,000 Euro (September-December 2015, Phase 2) Monitoring will be done by DAF and also by NACCFL and Agriterra. DAF will also receive donated high quality vegetable seeds and they will be distributed to selected farmers. The major objective of this project is “Access of immediate relief support for the reform of the Agricultural Sector to earthquake victim in Makawanpur district”.

Organization

Stichting Agriterra

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

May 28, 2015 → Feb 8, 2018

Coverage

makawanpur, Bagmati

On April 25, 2015 at 11: 56 AM, Nepal was shocked by a powerful earthquake with magnitude of 7.9 Richter scale, affecting the central part of the country mostly. The impact is huge in 14 districts of te country as well as in the capital city. Agriterra and its constituency decided that such a natural disaster can not be necklecked as it is has a major impact upon the people's lifes. In Dhading district, 728 persons died and 3383 are injured; 59% of all houses are fully destroyed; and 39% of all houses are partly destroyed. Families lost their livestock, animal sheds, seeds etc. After receiving the first relief support, the first priority for people is to rebuild their houses. After that it is important that people pick up/continue their agricultural business as this is their main income and food source. Agriterra knows that the farmers organisation are in a very good position to provide relief/reconstruction support, having an extensive network reaching out to the most remote areas of the country. Agriterra has a cooperation with the District Agricultural Federation of Dhading since 2012 focussing on promoting farmer entreprenuership and strengthening of the primary agricultural cooperatives in 8 Village Development Committees (VDC) . This project aims to support the most affected farmer families in those 8 VDCs in the (partial) reconstruction of their homes and agricultural activities. The offices of the primary cooperatives (SFACFL), their central meeting point for the saving and cerdit, meetings etc are also severely damage and most important maintenance will be done. The reconstruction supports includes the following activities for the members of the Agricultural cooperatives in 8 VDCs: Gumdi, Marpak, Semjong, Katunje, Budhathum, Phulkharka, Sangkosh and Jogimara. • 500 HH of SFACLs members will be benefited for reconstruction of houses and cattle sheds (Roof material (JASTA) will be provided under this project, other cost will be covered by themselves) • 350 HH of SFACLs members will be provided Cattle (Goat, Pig lets, chicken) support • 2600 HH of SFACLs member will be provided seeds of different vegetables • 8 SFACLs offices will be repaired and well (furniture and utensil will be provided to the SFACLS) Total Budget in EURO: 68.855 Agriterra contribution in EURO 66414 SFACL contribution in Euro 2.441 Own contribution by the farmers (in labour, local construction materials etc: Euro 97.272 Total outreach: 2600 members of SFACL and their family members families Total budget: The major objective of this project is “Access of immediate relief support for the reform of the Agricultural Sector to earthquake victim in Makawanpur district”.

Organization

Stichting Agriterra

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

May 29, 2015 → Feb 2, 2017

Coverage

Dhading, makawanpur

On April 25, 2015 at 11: 56 AM, Nepal was shocked by powerful earthquake with magnitude of 7.9 Richter scale, affecting the central part of the country mostly. The impact is huge in 14 districts of te country as well as in the capital city. Agriterra and its constituency decided that such a natural disaster can not be neglected as it is has a major impact upon the people's lifes. Among the NACCFL members, about 700 persons died; 87% of all rural families lost their house, or have serious damaged houses; several lost their livestock, animal sheds, seeds etc. After receiving the first relief support, the first priority for people is to rebuild their houses. After that it is important that people pick up/continue their agricultural business as this is their main income and food source. NACCFL is receiving huge demand on for the emergency response from its member’s cooperative for earthquake victims. The need is shelter, primary health services and income generating activities. Agriterra knows that the farmers organisation are in a very good position to provide relief/reconstruction support, having an extensive network reaching out to the most remote areas of the country. The Nepal Agriculture Co-operative Central Federation Ltd. (NACCF) is the umbrella organization of Small Farmer Agro Cooperative Limited (SFACL) . SFACL are agricultural micro-finance cooperatives, which are fully owned and managed by the local community. They have their origin in the Small Farmers Development Program (SFDP), which has been implemented by the Agricultural Development Bank Ltd. (ADBL) since 1975. It is specifically designed for small and marginal farmers. AT present 611 SFACL in 68 districts are member of NACCFL, representing 615.000 individual members. SFACLs face different problems, such as gaining access to markets, acquiring new technical and management skills, obtaining loan and credit services, etc. Subsequently, they decided to fight poverty by federating their cooperatives into a strong network. NACCFL mission is to provide appropriate non-financial services to the member organization for their institutional development and for the socio-economic development of the small farmers. NACCFL was requested by Agriterra to submit a proposal focusing on reconstruction of agricultural activities in few of the most affected areas where they trust the capacity of the District Agricultural Federation. Strongly affected districts Dhading and Makwanpur will receive relief and reconstruction support directly from Agriterra for those SFACL that Agriterra has been working with the last 2-3 years (see also projects 6362 and 6363) . The other SFACL in these two districts will receive relief and reconstruction support through NACCFL, as the capacity of the District Agricultural Federation is not enough to support all SFACL. In addition, NACCFl proposes to support 3 SFACL in Rasuwa district and two SFACL in Nuwakot district, not far from each other (cluster) at about two hours drive from Kathmandu. In total 21 SFACL (primary cooperatives) will benefit from the support. 95 percent member SFACLs in the highly affected districts lost their house and now they are residing in either tent or temporary shelter. In addition to that, domestic animal also died as the communities were fully depended to livestock and its product for their livelihood. The program will be implemented through members SFACL of NACCFL. 95 % of member is earthquake affected members among them 82 % are female members. In this program, 8186 members that is 52% of the affected members of proposed district will be benefited. In one hand they lost their house, in another hand they do not have alternatives for income generating activities. To carry out the agricultural activities as per agro calendar in some of the farmers nether they have Ox for plough the land as Ox were also died nor they have seeds. In the five proposed VDCs of Nuwakot and Rasuwa districts, the earthquake has destroyed/hampered all the sources of livelihood and other economic activities. Members were engaged in agriculture, poultry and livestock activities. These were primary sources of income for them to contribute to family expenses. The SFACL is selected on the basis of following criteria: a. Highly affected SFACL b. VDCs mentioned in Dhading and Makwanpur districts are not included in the relief program of District Agricultural Cooperative Federation (DAF ) of Dhading and Makwanpur. c. Remote SFACL d. Majority of people are disadvantage group e. Highly depended on agriculture sector f. Lost both cattle and house g. Majority of the members are female. Proposed activities are: -Distribution of rice and wheat seeds -Distribution of plants and seedlings for horticulture -Distribution of goats and piglets -Construction of livestock sheds The support will be equaly distributed among teh 21 coopertiaves. NACCFL is the final responisible organisation for the administration and monitoring of the support program. As much responsibility as possible will be delegated to the district Federation and the primary coops. Total budget requested to Agriterra is 40,000 Euro. Own contribution of NACCFL is: 14.587 Euro Total budget: 54.587 Euro Total number of beneficiaries: 780 members of NACCFL benefitting an estimated 11.580 people. to provide immediate/emergency response for the earthquake effected members of 21 Small Farmer Agriculture Cooperative Limited (SFACL) of 4 districts within NACCFL network.".

Organization

Stichting Agriterra

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

May 27, 2015 → Feb 2, 2017

Coverage

Dhading, Kathmandu

NACCFL has its roots in the Small Farmers Development Program which was implemented by the Agricultural Development Bank in 1975 for the development of the small and marginal destitute in rural areas. The sub project office became a Small Agriculture Cooperative Ltd (SFCL) in 1993, the moment in which the ownership of the project was handed over to the farmers. In 2008 the farmers felt that they were facing different problems which could be better addressed by a federation and formed the NACCFL in January 2008. NACCFL is an umbrella organization of various Small Farmer Agro Cooperative Limited (SFACL). At the moment 615 SFACL are member of NACCFL in 64 different districts across the country covering 530,000 individual farmer members. NACCF provide services to SFACL and the SFACL is responsible to provide the services to the groups and cooperatives. The mission of NACCFL is to provide appropriate non-financial services to the member organizations for their institutional development and for the socio-economic development of the small farmers and deprived people. The three objectives aim to (1) to improve the efficiency and autonomy of the members cooperatives through capacity building; (2) to advocate for the inclusion of deprived sector in the national budget and (3) to increase its membership through the establishment of new cooperatives. In addition to the projects focussing on farmer-led economic development, Agriterra and NACCFL took the initiative mid-2014 to collaborate in a separate project to strengthen and improve the NACCFL-PMEL system and tools. This trajectory starts with and is supported by the expertise of an external local PMEL-expert. Based on the M&E health check, a M&E SWOT analysis and the M&E workshop held in Manila in March 2014, the following can be concluded about the M&E capacity of NACCFL: - There is a will to do M&E but a lack of human resources to conduct systematic M&E at all levels of NACCFL. - There is a membership database software system designed but not yet operational. NACCFL is keen to make this membership data base operation as registration of members and their characteristics is crucial to further improve service provision to members. - In general, NACCFL prepares plans and budget but M&E is not systematically addressed, good indicators are missing and there is a lack of information of te members at the individual level or group level. From the above analyses and taking into account the context described and the development stage and mission of NACCFL, both NACCFL and Agriterra agreed upon the following priorities related to strengthening the M&E capacities and system of NACCFL for the period August 2014 to December 31, 2014 --> A. Database: development of a membership registration database maintained by, owned and supported at both the local, district and national level. B. M&E on Agricultural activities: the developed membership registration database should include agricultural details/characteristics of the members. These data should be directly linked with the member registration for as such it allows for a comprehensive M&E system focusing on agriculture. NACCFL has requested the support of Agriterra to make their current ACCESS-system operational. This requires two approaches: 1. Datacollection at grass root level be done (what data must be collected, how, how often and by whom). 2. What data are need at the national level, for what purpose and how to make the database operational (design, responsibility and consolidation of data). Concerning the process To ensure data collection and absorption, it is important to have the commitment of members/groups at all levels. Commitment is linked to social, economic and intrinsic factors. The intrinsic factor can be stimulated by asking only the relevant data, and make it clear and understandable why the data are needed and what they mean (the feedback). The social factor is about trust and loyalty among the members. A transparent way of working, involving the local people can ensure openness and commitment to provide the data and to collect the data. With economic factors we refer to economic incentives that motivate people to collect the data. Not necessarily salaries, but a small remuneration for the SFACFL staff that compile the data. Agriterra is willing to support NACCFL to make the membership database system operation and ensure feeding the system with relevant agricultural information important for the members and the organisations itself. In the detailed action plan and budget, the most important steps (actions) are described. A local advisor with expertise and experience in the field of M&E and membership registration will support NACCFL for the period of August to December. NACCFL has the capacity and committment available to adhere to this M&E trajectory. From the above analyses and taking into account the context described in paragraph 1 and the development stage and mission of NACCFL we (NACCFL and Agriterra) agree upon the following priorities related to strengthening the M&E capacities and system of NACCFL: I. Membership registration: further development of a membership registration database maintained by, owned and supported at both the local, district and national level. II. M&E on Agricultural activities: the developed membership registration database should include agricultural details/characteristics of the members. These data should be directly linked with the member registration for as such it allows for a comprehensive M&E system focusing on agriculture. The trajectory entails the remaining of 2014, August 2014 to December 31, 2014. The details of the priority areas are worked out into the action plan, see paragraph 6. NACCFL has requested the support of Agriterra to make their current ACCESS-system operational. This requires two approaches: 1. Data collection at grass root level be done (what data must be collected, how, how often and by whom). 2. What data are need at the national level, for what purpose and how to make the database operational (design, responsibility and consolidation of data).

Organization

Stichting Agriterra

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Oct 2, 2015 → Mar 19, 2018

Coverage

Nepal

The Small Farmer Agriculture Cooperative Federation (SFACF) in Dhading district was established in 1993. I, it is an umbrella organization affiliating 37 Small Farmer Agricultural Cooperatives Limited (SFACL), one per Villa Development Committee (VDC). The cooperative has 20748 shareholders (11.535 women). Dhading district covers 50 VDC from which until now 37 are covered by SFACF. SFACF Dhading is a member of the Nepal Agricultural Cooperatives Central Federation (NACCFL). Main aim of NACCFL is to support small farmers to improve their livelihood. Through the formation of cooperatives, initially focussing on saving and credit, small farmers get access to the small farmers agricultural development bank (SKBB). The cooperative members can take loans under fair conditions to invest in agriculture. The SFACL are shaerholder of SKB Bank. NACCFL has developed a replication strategy that aims to involve those VDC where small farmers cooperatives do not exist yet . Under this strategy, groups, intergroups and finally a VDC level cooperative will be formed. Once the cooperative is meeting the criteria to be handed over to the bank, members have access to Agricultural loans. Main objective is to increase the income of the farmers by improving the production, increasing the skills of the farmers in entrepreneurship management and getting access to the markets. SFACF Dhading aims to reach 12 VDCs in Dhading district in particular: 6 VDCs in which the replication process of group, intergroup and cooperative establishment started last year (project 5905) and 2 VDC in which the replication will start this year; and 4 VDC in which the cooperatives are already functioning but where specific support will be provided to stimulate commercial farming. Focus of this project is to improve the agricultural productivity and support small farmers producing for the market by providing additional capacity building and technical support through local social mobilisers. At the end of the project it is expected that 6 cooperatives are formally registered cooperatives and handed over to the small farmers development bank (SKKB), and thus have access to finance. The total number of new groups formed will be 100 and 250 groups continue to receive technical support from SFACF Dading with an exclusive focus on improved productivity and access to markets for four selected Agricultural commodities: dairy(milk), goat (meat), coffee and vegetables. Several training and extension programmes will be implemented related to these four commodities, such as Farmer Field schools, technical trainings, marketing trainings etc. Attention is paid to further strengthening the primary cooperatives and the groups. This involves trainings reated to leadership, financial management, cooperative management etc. The establishment of the groups will directly increase the membership of SFACF with 6 new cooperatives and at least 1750 women farmers. This project is a continuation of project 5905, the first year of cooperation between SFACF Dhading and Agriterra. Main results of the first year projects is that in 6 new VDC the process of establishing Agricultural cooperatives has been initiated and alot of capacity building took place focusing on improving the productivity and income generating capacities of the members . Focus was especially on youth and women, providing opportunities to have accesto loans and skill improvemnet related to several income generating activities. Location of the Project Activities Dhading district of Nepal Goal The overall goal of the proposed project is to "improve the economic status of farmers through improved agricultural practices, access to the market and finance." The objectives of the project are as follows: 1. Strengthen new and existing cooperatives 2. Increase the agricultural production of cooperative members 3. Youth community and cooperatives members serve SF members with technical and entrepreneurial skills and knowledge. 4. Facilitate access to the market. 5. Strengthen the capacity of SFACF Dhading. Project Outputs 1. Two new SFACL, will be formed and 6 replication VDCs further strengthened and handed over to Small farmers development bank. 2. Cooperative members will have improved managerial skills so that newly formed and existing cooperatives will be managed effectively. 3. Improved production (quality and quantity) of four selected commodities by commercial/lead farmers of groups, resulting in better income 4. Commercial farmers sell their products in the market either individualy or through the cooperatives. 5. Board and staff of SFACF Dhading have improved their management skills and SFACF is able to provide better quality services to its members. Budget Total Budget:€ 110,162 Agriterra Contribution: € 96,587 SFACF and Community contribution: €13,574 Selected value chains are : dairy /milk; goat; vegetables and coffee. Activities: see project proposal for detailed description of all activities. Goal The overall goal of the proposed project is to "improve the economic status of farmers through improved agricultural practices, access to the market and finance." The objectives of the project are as follows: 1. Strengthen new and existing cooperatives 2. Increase the agricultural production of cooperative members 3. Youth community and cooperatives members serve SF members with technical and entrepreneurial skills and knowledge. 4. Facilitate access to the market. 5. Strengthen the capacity of SFACF Dhading.

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Stichting Agriterra

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— · not reported

Timeline

Aug 27, 2013 → Mar 19, 2018

Coverage

Dhading, Bagmati

Project proposal received on 21 May 2013: NACCFL has its roots in the Small Farmers Development Program which was implemented by the Agricultural Development Bank in 1975 for the development of the small and marginal destitute in rural areas. The sub project office became a Small Agriculture Cooperative Ltd (SFCL) in 1993 moment in which the ownership of the project was handed over to the farmers. In 2008 the farmers felt that they were facing different problems which could be better addressed by a federation and formed the NACCFL in January 2008. Eight district federations triggered its establishment. This is a umbrella organization of Small Farmer Agro Cooperative Limited (SFACL). SFACL are the agriculture microfinance cooperatives (credit for entrepreneurship, i.e investment in agricultural production, transformation and commercialization) which are fully owned and managed by the local community. At the moment 467 SFACL are member of NACCFL. NACCF provide services to SFACL and the SFACL is responsible to provide the services to the groups and cooperatives. The Central Federation is focused on the provision of non-financial services to their members, the services are provided through programs, focusing on capacity building, policy advocacy and co-operative network expansion. The mission of the organisation is: To provide appropriate non-financial services to the member organization for their institutional development and for the socio-economic development of the small farmer and deprived class people. Three objectives aims to achieve: • To improve the efficiency and autonomy of the members cooperatives through capacity building. • To advocate for the inclusion of deprived sector in the national budget • To increase its membership through the establishment of new cooperatives. Agriterra came into contact with NACCFL through the SFACL Dhading (cooperation since mid 2012) in December 2012. The organisation passed the quick scan and was invited to submit a proposal. In April 2013, the LO visited NACCFL and Makawanpur district, to better understand how NACCFL works and interacts with the district and local level.). The way of working is very similar to the PFEIP approach promoted by team 2: individual farmers are organised into into small producer groups, and focus on one particular value chain to improve production and marketing of the product. The producer groups become member of the VDC level cooperative (vertical linkages and through this enhance the opportunities for collective access to finance, services and marketing. The SFACL are members of the District level SFACL. The national level federation is supporting all the districts that are members and is being steered by the small scale farmer. Main target group are women farmers, as they have proven to be more reliable and serious implementers of the activities as individuals but also in groups. What are the goals, expected output and impact? Membership increase: yes Increase of number of organized local groups: yes, with 370 new groups Economic initiatives aimed at market access or production enhancement:yes Clustering (horizontal) (collaboration between producer groups): yes, through FFS and by creating SFACL at VDC level Clustering (vertical) (collaboration with other chain actors): yes, the SFACL become member of the Dhading SFACL. Establishing primary co-operatives (business planning): yes APPLICATIE - STEP 2 Which is the most relevant FFP work area & deliverable WA 4 supported by WA 1 Estimated outreach? Direct beneficiaries (add individual no): 4297 at local level - Men: 250 - Women: 4047 - Vulnerable groups : Y (94% are women) Local and sub national level outreach (tick mark only): Local:X Sub national: X National: only monitoring role Number of local groups involved: (add no)It is expected that 399 existing groups will be further strengthened in their economic activities, and 330 new groups will be established. The groups comprise 6-7 persons on average. So total 729 Groups can be reached Indicate relevant sectors: dairy, seeds (vegetables), goat, bee products Nepal Agriculture Cooperative Central Federation Ltd. (NACCFL) is the umbrella organization of Small Farmer Cooperative Limited (SFCL) and similar other agriculture cooperatives. SFCLs are agricultural microfinance cooperatives which are fully owned and managed by the local community. They have their origin in the Small Farmers Develop¬ment Program (SFDP) which had been implemented by the Agricultural Development Bank Ltd. (ADBL) in1975. As of Aug 2012, local communities in 404 VDCs have formed their own SFCLs spread in 60 districts throughout the country. Among these SFCLs, 11 SFCLs have been performing limited banking operations with the permission of Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB). The formation of the NACCFL was based on the felt need of all local federations to have a national representation and followed a bottom-up approach. Vision: We want to emerge as a leading and capable federation for the self-sufficiency and sustainable development of small farmer run small farmer Agriculture co-operatives and other co-operatives of similar nature so as to reduce existing poverty. Mission: We want to provide appropriate non-financial services to the member organizations for their institutional development and for the socio-economic development of the small farmers and deprived class people. 3. Problem Statement and Objectives: Small farmer’s cooperatives also face challenges in producing above subsistence levels as well as accessing markets for commercialization. With the inability to access markets, many of the cooperative members are forced to sell through middlemen around the country and receive less than adequate prices for the surplus produce. Given that the majority of the producers in Nepal are subsistence oriented, there is a need to support agriculture commercialization where possible. Support is needed for enhancing the scale of production, post-harvest operations, processing and trade. There is a need to link farmers to markets and develop each step in the value chain for various commodities that will eventually connect with domestic, the Indian market, and with other international (niche) markets. Cooperative development completed five decades in Nepal. There are more than 2700 cooperatives societies are in existence in different forms. Despite the existence of cooperatives for more than five decades, these organizations could not meet the objective of cooperatives to promote agriculture activities such as avail seed, agriculture equipment, seed money and appropriate technology and commercialize the agro product. Regular profit and proper utilization of the profit is assurance of sustainability. But unfortunately, most of cooperatives in rural areas fail to adopt this modern concept. They still depend upon grants rather than self dependency. Although the farmers are involved in vegetable, dairy, meat , honey and spices production they are not getting good price compared to the real market price due to low access to proper market and its knowledge Similarly there were abundant bio resources such as butter tree and sugar free potato nearby forest, these are not in use. If farmers get appropriate technology for processing the same, there income generating activities will be increased. Proposed project will be helpful to address the problem by achieving its objectives that is increased income and capabilities of SFACLs engaged in production, processing and marketing on a sustainable way. Objectives: The main objective of the project is to improve the living condition of rural population through smallholder value chain development in order to provide solutions that increase the income and capabilities of Small Farmers Agricultural Cooperatives (SFACL) engaged in production, processing and marketing on a sustainable basis. Sub objectives are: 1. Agriculture Market Development – The aim of this component i

Organization

Stichting Agriterra

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Timeline

May 28, 2013 → Mar 19, 2018

Coverage

Dhading, makawanpur

CTCF is a client of Agriterra since 2012. Initially supported by the team advocacy, but realising the contribution towards the results of the team grass root entrepreneurship, it was decided to make CTCF a client of the team grass root entrpreneurship from 2013 onwards. The vision of CTCF is towards economic development through tea cooperative promotion and building the capacity of the memebrs of the cooperatives. CTCF works on a central level to improve the situation of the cooperatives. At the grassroots level, CTCF conducts various trainings programmes and provided continously coaching and support through its facilitators to the primary cooperatives and its members. CTCF has currently 66 member tea cooperatives from Ilam, Panchthar, Dhankuta, Therathum, Jhapa, Udayapur, Bhojpur and Lalitpur districts including four district cooperative federations, with more than 3,972 tea farmers associated through their cooperatives. The tea farmers as members of cooperatives are gradually increasing and the number of cooperatives is expected to be more than 72, with more than 4,300 farmers as members, by the end of 2013. Update at the beginning of 2014: CTCF has currently 73 member tea cooperatives from Ilam, Panchthar, Dhankuta, Therathum, Jhapa, Udayapur, Bhojpur and Lalitpur districts including five district cooperative federations, with more than 4699 tea farmers associated through their cooperatives. The tea farmers as members of cooperatives are gradually increasing and the number of cooperatives is expected to be grow gradually. Overall goal is to contribute in sustained rural poverty reduction of smallholder tea farmers of Eastern districts of Nepal by increasing their income, and equally empower small farmer based organisations to provide better technical and management services. Objectives: Key objectives of the project: 1. Capacity building Entrepreneurship skills development and marketing support services to the tea entrepreneurs 2. Support tea cooperatives and farmers for Access to Finance and capacity building support services on financials 3. Lobby and advocacy on various tea issues (favourable tea policy, celebration of 16th National Tea Day , organic inputs, certification, collateral free loan etc.) 4. To establish effective supervision and monitoring system in tea sub sector for regular dissemination of information. Objectives for 2014 are more or less same as in 2013, but slightly more focused: 1. Capacity building of tea cooperatives and farmers in their institutional building, resource mobilization, business planning etc. 2. Enhance entrepreneurship and business skills of STPUs operated by cooperatives. 3. Lobby and advocacy works on various tea related issues faced by the tea farmers. 4. Regular monitoring and supervision support to all tea stakeholders. Expected results: 1. Minimum of ten (10) cooperatives will be able to start Mini Tea Processing (MTP) units after receiving technical inputs, entrepreneurship trainings and other business support services including marketing. 2. MTP units will produce and sell 9.000 kg quality tea in the competitive markets. 3. 3 Cooperatives and individual tea farmers will be able to avail minimum 10 million loan amount easily at minimum interest rates. 4. 12 cooperatives will prepare business plan and start to business activities like saving credit, nurseling, tea planting, green leaf tea collection etc. 5. 7 cooperatives will review their business plan and prepare further plan. 6. Organic inputs such as fertilizers and pesticides will be made available to the tea farmers with organic tea garden at subsidized rates. 7. Financial monitoring system (PEARL, Software, etc.,) will be set-up in 9 cooperatives 8. FACT concept will be widely disseminated to a larger number of cooperatives and will internalize in their regular system. 9. 6 new cooperatives will take memebrship of CTCF 10. 10 young/weak coopertiaves willreceive coop leadership and management training Period: From January 2013 until December 2013, but the project will in case of smooth implementation be extended for the year 2014, Activities and logframe are only for 2013. in the logframe, long term objectives are mentioned which can only be achieved in multiple years. Total Budget: Nrs. 6,142,100 Expected results 2014: a. 50% of cooperatives will be able to generate resources on their own and sustain in a long run. b. 30% of STPUs will be capable to produce quality tea as per the tea standard and managed to sell in the competitive market. c. There will be improvements in quality of green leaves produced by tea farmers. 5% of the tea farmers will adopt IPM or organic tea farming technology. d. Government and other stakeholders will be positive towards tea sector and there will be more investments to promote this sector. Some level changes will be visibly seen in 3 key areas. e. Updated database on key tea indicators (production, sales, exports, number of farmers/cooperatives, etc.) Coverage and target beneficiary: Program will be implemented mainly in nine districts: Ilam, Panchthar, Dhankuta, Therathum, Lalitpur, and Bojpur targeting 5 district federations, 72 tea cooperatives, and about 4,500 tea farmers. This year, services will be extended in additional two districts (Lalitpur, Bojpur, Udayapur, Sankuwasava, Jhapa). In Lalitpur district, there are 8 tea cooperatives, District Tea Cooperative Federation (DTCF), and more than 225 members. Similarly, in Bojpur, Sankuwasava, Udayapur and Jhapa districts there are 7 cooperatives and more than 325 tea farmers. Overall goal is to contribute in sustained rural poverty reduction of smallholder tea farmers of Eastern districts of Nepal by increasing their income, and equally empower small farmer based organisations to provide better technical and management services. Objectives: Key objectives of the project: 1. Entrepreneurship skills development and marketing support services to the tea entrepreneurs 2. Support tea cooperatives and farmers for Access to Finance and capacity building support services on financials 3. Lobby and advocacy on various tea issues (favourable tea policy, celebration of 16th National Tea Day , organic inputs, certification, collateral free loan etc.,) 4. Advisory services on cooperative management and administration, and seeking experts from Agripool for support in developing marketing strategies for the members 5. To establish effective supervision and monitoring system in tea sub sector for regular dissemination of information.

Organization

Stichting Agriterra

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Timeline

Mar 28, 2013 → Mar 19, 2018

Coverage

Bhojpur, Dhankuta

The Small Farmer Agriculture Cooperative Federation (SFACF) in Dhading district was established in 1993, it is an umbrella organization affiliating 37 Small Farmer Agricultural Cooperatives Limited (SFACL), one per Villa Development Committee (VDC). The cooperative has 20748 shareholders (11.535 women). In Dhading district there exist 50 VDC from which until now 37 are covered by SFACF, and within this project SFACF aims to reach 5 VDC of the 13 remaining. In the 5 VDC will be established 250 new groups and 5 new cooperatives, one per VDC. The establishment of the groups will directly increase the membership of SFACF with 5 new cooperatives and at least 1750 women farmers. Another objective of the project is to increase the income of the farmers by improving the production, increasing the skill of the farmers in entrepreneurship management and getting access to the markets. Youth and women farmers will be central in the project, creating opportunities for them through the different trainings planned and the establisment of cooperatives. Expected results 1. Small farmer communities are organized and are capable making informed choices and actively participate to optimize their livelihood. 2. 80% of the participants trained will be employed by their cooperatives 3. farmers increase their incomes by 33% from Rs 1500 to Rs 2000 per month. 4. increase in the production and farmers fulfill market demands. 4. increase in the access of farmers to micro credit 4. farmers products are sold through the collection center property of the cooperative at a favorable price 5. Improved relationship between farmer and buyer. 6. Both newly formed and existing cooperatives are well managed In order to achieve these results the following activities will be performed: a. For the new cooperatives the following trainings will be performed: account keeping, leadership, cooperative education and registration training, management of savings and credit training. 13 support staff will be enrolled, one per new cooperative b. In order to improve entrepreneurship skills of youth farmers: training on wiring, animal heath, technical aspects of agriculture, goat raising c. to improve the production of vegetables and goats: acquisition of equipment for agro vet services (microscope will be purchased and given to 10 cooperatives), a buck , improved seeds, micro-irrigation, d. To improve the access to market: three collection centers will be set up. The direct participants of the project will be 1920 farmers from which 95% will be women (1832) at the local level. At least 250 groups will participate in the activities of the project , and representatives of 19 cooperatives. The total budget for this project amounts to €65.440, €5.049 will be contribution of SFACF, €5.975 contribution of the community and €54.416 is requested to Agriterra. to optimize performance of Ndumberi dairy in order to increase its business in terms of supplying farmers, volumens of milk and market outlets and to set the stage for a successful merger between Kiambaa and Ndumberi.

Organization

Stichting Agriterra

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— · not reported

Timeline

Jul 1, 2012 → Mar 19, 2018

Coverage

Dhading, Bagmati

This is a description of the two main activities/programmes that will be supported by Agriterra in 2012: Mutual Aid Services (micro-insurance) NEFSCUN Mutual Aid is a co-operative based financial security system. It is aimed at pooling resources among members those are excluded from formal social protection mechanism under co-operative principles & values. In 2012 we plan to expand services reaching bigger SACCOS, and having sold over 5000 policies reaching breakeven point. CSP policies, in 2013 this will be 7700and in 2014 this must be 9700 policies. We will do this by providing active follow-up by visiting those SACCOS that have received orientation, expressed interest in providing CSP to their members, and focusing the programme in the bigger saccos who have larger number of members to this date already 88 SACCOS signed the MoC (memorandum of Cooperation) and 66 SACCO started selling and/or sales promotion. CSP will be promoted as complementary service to traditional savings and credit services and part of the financial solutions SACCOS can provide to their members. Microfinance NEFSCUN’s microfinance is based upon Credit Union Microfinance Innovation (CUMI) method. Which aims to provide sustainable financial services to the poor by promotion of savings, provision of affordable terms of loans, entrepreneurship development training and providing general credit union financial solutions to the poor. Focused on the long-term well-being CUMI offers many advantages to the low-income poor, integrating low-income members into the mainstream of the society by contribution to their wealth building capacity. CUMI is the component in Micro finance services focusing on Women Entrepreneurs within the CUMI/microfinance groups. By the end of 2012 we want to enroll a cumulative 100,000 low income members, mainly women. This means an additional 24.380 (90% Female) new members for 2012. Our core services are: 1. Central Finance Facility Interlending (CFFI), 2. Training and Education 3. NEFSCUN Mutual Aid (‘micro-insurance’), 4. Stationery services. 5. Cooperative Banking Software Solutions 6. Microfinance services CFFI was initiated in 1996 and its objective is to provide share, savings and loan facilities to member SACCOS. Through Training and education services NEFSCUN aims to strengthen the capacity of SACCO's staff and leaders which must lead to improvement of performance of the SACCOS operations. NEFSCUN Mutual Aid is a co-operative based financial security system. It is aimed at pooling resources among low-income members, who are excluded from formal social protection mechanism, under co-operative principles & values. Through our stationary services we provide all required materials for registration of SACCOS data as well as educational publications and posters, by ordering stationary centralize we can provide materials at reduced rate to our members. Cooperative Banking Software Solutions aims to assist SACCOS in digitalizing their operations and increasing efficiency in serving their members with up-to date account data, software also serves to provide fast and up-to date statements and management reports. Since most of the individual members are low-income people there is a big demand for microfinance services, we promote and capacitate the SACCOS to provide these services to existing and new members on the basis of the CUMI methodology. In September 2009 NEFSCUN committed itself, in front of the annual Forum of the Association of Asian Confederation of Credit Unions (ACCU), to reach, in the period from 2010-2012, 100,000 low income people (of which 80% women) with our microfinance services and contribute to building their wealth. We plan to do this by providing microfinance services applying the Credit Union Microfinance Innovations (CUMI) methodology (for more about CUMI methodology, see box under chapter 3, Objective 1). In 2012 we plan to provide CUMI based microfinance services to 25000 new members. Apart from our core business NEFSCUN is working in the following fields: advocacy & networking, policy support, Microfinance and business development services, ACCESS branding, financial intermediation, alternative energy promotion and organizing its resources to become a recognized information center for savings and Credit Cooperatives in Nepal. We are putting our utmost efforts to Credit Union development in Nepal. We realize that there remains much work to be done. We have ambitious objectives for ourselves and our members. These include: providing additional services, capacity strengthening, diversifying our existing products & services, strengthening monitoring & supervision, implement computerized grading system and increasing our membership base. Our goals are ambitious but with the help of our members & development partners we know we can achieve them. Agriterra is requested to support especially the mutual aid and CUMI programme in 2012 (as in previous years) Expanding Mutual Aid services and reaching break even point in this business and expanding microfinance services to a total of 100.000 women.

Organization

Stichting Agriterra

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— · not reported

Timeline

Feb 17, 2012 → Mar 19, 2018

Coverage

Nepal

CTCF is a new client for Agriterra. This recently established organization is working in close coordination with TEASEC (same office) but both organizations have their own objectives. Agriterra decided at the end of 2011 to stop the cooperation with TEASEC and start supporting CTCF, being a truly membership base organization. The main objective of CTCF is lobby and advocacy, followed by organisational strengthening service provision to its member Cooperatives. Cooperative movement is positively supported by the government of Nepal, but there is a lack of financial and training support. CTCF will further build the management/ entrepreneurial capacities of primary tea cooperatives and support through effective lobby and advocacy for conducive policies and access to subisdies/loans of the government / other donors. Maintaining in a systematic way the tea database and membership database will further support/strengthen their lobby and advocacy as they can show facts. The lobby and advocacy should contribute to some concrete results such as access to subisdies and loans; agreement to change the national tea policy in favour of small holders; establishing a branch office of National Cooperative bank in Ilam etc. The PGPP training will support CTCF to prepare good policy propositions and do effective lobby. Organisational strengthening of CTCF as well as district and primary level coops, will result in increased membership (56 -> 65 primary cooperatives); better functioning coops with higher sales of green leaves; primary coops will get access to government loans and subsidies to build collection centres; vermin-compost units and mini processing units. null The main objective of CTCF is lobby and advocacy, followed by organisational strengthening service provision to its member Cooperatives. The project has 3 main objectives 1. Capacity building of Central Tea Cooperative Federation(CTCF), District Cooperative Federations and groups or Cooperatives on lobby and advocacy 2. Entrepreneurship and marketing support targeting especially for young tea farmers 3. To establish effective supervision and monitoring system in tea sector for regular dissemination of information.

Organization

Stichting Agriterra

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Mar 16, 2012 → Mar 19, 2018

Coverage

Ilam, Koshi

Project background Nepal has a long history of Tea cultivation, initiated with the establishment of Ilam Tea Estate in the Hills of Ilam District in 1863 and Soktim Tea Estate. Tea is widely cultivated in the eastern hilly regions. Major tea producing districts are Jhapa, Ilam, Panchthar, Dhankuta and Terathum. Tea is one of the main cash crops in the hilly districts in Mechi zone contributing to rural and national economics and to alleviating poverty through income and employment generation. Orthodox tea, which is produced at altitudes between 3000 - 7000 ft are famous for its aroma, bright liquor and subtle, slight fruity flavor, which are mostly sought attributes by the consumers of overseas countries. Orthodox Tea is a high value, flavor intensive perennial crop with a potential for generating foreign exchange, reducing rural poverty, promoting economic growth and improving ecology and environment. The total land area under orthodox tea plantation is around 14,000 hectares; this industry consists of more than 35 tea states, around 18,000 small orthodox tea farmers and about 17 tea-processing factories (source: HOTPA). Currently Nepal is producing more than 1.7 million kg of Orthodox tea of which small farmers' contribution amounts to 67.8% (Baseline GTZ, 1997). 2.2 million kg of Orthodox tea is produced in a year 2010(source: HOTPA, 2010). Now Farmer's contribution is more than 85% in production and more than 95% is being exported. More than 90% of orthodox tea is exported to India and overseas countries and the rest is partially used for consumption and partially for blending purpose in black tea to impart good flavor. There are 14 mini processing factories operated by individual tea farmers and cooperatives which produce very nominal quantity but in the future its scope of operation will be increased due to interest of all cooperatives to establish such small factory so that they can produce tea by themselves without depending on factory. Due to the growing demand of Organic tea in the international market there is a realization of converting factories and garden of individual farmers into organic by certifying in a group and there are 3 factories and 7 groups already certified by NASA. As the international certification is expensive Code of Conduct for tea produced in Nepal is envisioned in a year 2003, which is owned by Himalayan Orthodox Tea Procedures’ Association (HOTPA) and jointly implemented by HOTPA and TEASEC with support from Tea Alliance, which regulates the production, processing and marketing of tea in Nepal with due consideration for ecological, social and economic dimensions. CoC implementation is at the primitive stage especially at the tea farmer’s level and need more promotion, education, and ultimately economic benefit to them. Now more farmers are attracted towards CoC tea due to the reason that the Internal Control System adopted in CoC has helped the farmers to also get Organic certification within very less time frame. Rationale In the previous phase program intervention with support from Agriterra and SNV, TEASEC has facilitate in establishing 49 cooperatives with 2,859 members and provided them with the services to build their capacity to manage their business. They were provided trainings on cooperative management and accounting. Business plans of all 48 cooperatives have been prepared. Now there are four district level cooperative federations in all program districts and Central Tea Cooperative Federation (CTCF) which is an umbrella organisation representing four district cooperative federations and is recently established. All cooperatives are now actively operating with regular savings and credit from their members, they are maintaining four ledger accounting system and few cooperatives have involved in selling green leaf to the factory with regular collection from their members. Cooperative federation in the district is now supporting cooperatives in delivering services with support by TEASEC Social Mobilizers. 15 cooperatives have submitted proposal to the Commercial Agricultural Alliance (CAA), a project implemented by the World Bank and 7 have received funds which has been utilized to invest in developing infrastructure in the tea sector. There are 1,200 tea farmers who are still not associated with the cooperatives or farmer’s groups. So the number of cooperatives is likely to increase in the future. These tea farmer’s will be further counselled and provided with services from the TEASEC. Very few female members (2%) are in the cooperatives and in the decision making positions. District cooperative federations do not have sufficient human resources to work in a full time basis. Social Mobilizers will thus be stained at District Federation office to maintain database of tea sector and by 2013 they will be permanently stationed there. There are existing 15 mini processing units which operate in areas where there is difficulty in transporting green leaf to the big tea factory. There are many such remote places where tea is grown in scattered pocket areas and so need to expand with more mini processing factories in the future. There is a growing demand and every tea farmer’s choice to certify their tea garden into organic certification. For certifying with organic it requires minimum of 3 years after complying with ICS. But Himilayan Sangrila has certified with organic by NASA within 2 years along with 2 cooperatives and 1 farmer’s group as a sub licensee. This has been possible due to the reason that they were previously certified with CoC and complying ICS. This means CoC standard is a stepping stone towards organic certification. Similarly, this trend is going to continue as Gorkha factory which is already complying CoC is going for certifying with Organic along with Eco and Sundarpani cooperatives. Monitoring of regular tea sector indicators is another aspect which is completely missing. TEASEC will have to take a lead in facilitating to regularly keeping the database of all major tea indicators as there is now a permanent reporting structure from individual farmers to Central Tea Cooperative Federation. Capacity of Social Mobilizers will be enhanced to keep tracking of information. The key points are summarized below to justify the need of program: - Government of Nepal, Ministry of Agriculture, and Cooperative has published “organic guideline” for certification of organic agriculture products. - HOTPA, an association of tea factory has a vision of converting all orthodox tea garden of Nepal into organic by the year 2012. Tea being exportable product to EU, Japan and those countries has regulation and pesticides band. - Major buyers from German (Mr. Thomas Holz) and America have already requested to provide them organic tea due to the reason that if any consignment is detected with pesticides than the whole industry may be collapsed. - Almost all chemical fertilizer used in Nepal is imported from India and other third country. Going into organic will stop importing fertilizer and save from losing foreign exchange. - In neighboring country India at Darjeeling are already in the process of converting their tea garden into organic. Darjeeling tea is looked as a competitor. - Organic market of orthodox tea is increasing in the positive trend. - European buyers are demanding tea that complies with the CSR standard and CoC covers those aspects of standard. - Approximately 95 % of orthodox tea is exported to Europe, Japan, America and India that reveals that market of organic orthodox tea is increasing in the positive trend. - Farmer cooperatives and its federations are instrumental to lobby and advocacy with the government and other donors that will ultimately increase bargaining power of the smallholder farmers. - 14 mini processing has already been established by the Individual farmers and cooperatives and this will continue to grow in the future. TEASEC will provide necessary services to

Organization

Stichting Agriterra

Budget

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Timeline

Apr 7, 2011 → Mar 19, 2018

Coverage

Dhankuta, Ilam

Objectives of this project: 1.To reach out to 65.000 poor individuals members and provide them ACCES to affordable micro finance in order to be able to improve their wealth. 2. To expand the mutal aid services (micro insurance) to 150 SACCOS (reaching 5.800 individual memebrs) and achive operation break even of this service 3. Interlending fund increased for provision of loans 4. Membership growth of 250 additional SACCOS (from 650 to 900 SACCOS) Proposed Activities: Micro finance: In the period from 2010-2012, NEFSCUN wants to expand it services to 100,000 low income people (of which 80% women). NEFSCUN member SACCOS will provide them with microfinance services and contribute to building their wealth. Microfinance services will be provided by applying the Credit Union Microfinance Innovations (CUMI) methodology, which includes a ful fledged orientation and training programme especially designed for poor segments of the society. After the orientation and training period and 6 months saving, the new members are entitled to take their first loan. In 2010 we plan to provide CUMI based microfinance services to 30,000 and in 2011 to 35,000 new members reaching 65,000 in 2 years. This programme will be supported by Business Development Services, supporting entrepreneurial poor women in accessing the market. Mutual Aid services: NEFSCUN provides funds, builds capacities, provides financial risk protection with its Mutual Aid services (micro-insurance) and provides all kinds of materials and administrative tools to professionalize the services of the SACCOS. Nepal Federation of Savings and Credit Cooperative Unions Limited (NEFSCUN) is the national apex body for Savings and Credit Cooperatives (SACCOS) and their District Unions in Nepal. This member based organization provides financial and non-financial services to its members, guided by International Credit Union Principles and Values. NESFCUN promotes, strengthens and provides a forum for SACCOS to become viable community based financial institutions by providing value-added services such as education, training and financial services. NEFSCUN’s core services support SACCOS in providing financial solutions to their individual members. NEFSCUN has 842 SACCOS as member including 31 District Unions representing over 500,000 individual members at the end of 2010: 45% female and 55% male. Over 70% of SACCOS members are living in rural areas, depending for their income on the agricultural sector. In the urban areas SACCOS provide their services mainly to members active in small business and cottage industries but also agricultural related jobs such horticulture. NESFCUNs core services are: 1. Central Finance Facility Inter-lending (CFFI), 2. Microfinance services 3. NEFSCUN Mutual Aid (‘micro-insurance’), 4. Stationery services. 5. Cooperative Banking Software Solutions 6. Training and Education CFFI was initiated in 1996 and its objective is to provide share, savings and loan facilities to member SACCOS. Through training and education services NEFSCUN aims to strengthen the capacity of SACCOS staff and leaders which must lead to improvement of performance of the SACCOS operations. Since most of the individual members are low-income people there is a big demand for microfinance services. NESFCUN promotes and capacitates the SACCOS to provide these services to existing and new members on the basis of the CUMI methodology (developed by ACCU). NEFSCUN Mutual Aid is a co-operative based financial security system. It is aimed at pooling resources among low-income members, who are excluded from formal social protection mechanism, under co-operative principles & values. Through stationary services we provide all required materials for registration of SACCOS data as well as educational publications and posters, by ordering stationary centralize we can provide materials at reduced rate to our members. Cooperative Banking Software Solutions aims to assist SACCOS in digitalizing their operations and increasing efficiency in serving their members with up-to date account data, software also serves to provide fast and up-to date statements and management reports. Objectives of this project (2010-2011) 1.To reach out to 65.000 poor individuals members and provide themn ACCES to affordable micro finance in order to be able to improve their wealth. 2. To expand the mutal aid services (micro insurance) to 150 SACCOS (reaching 5.800 individual memebrs) and achive operation break even of this service 3. Interlending fund increased for provision of loans 4. Membership growth of 250 additional SACCOS (from 650 to 900 SACCOS) Proposed Activities: Micro finance: In the period from 2010-2012, NEFSCUN wants to expand it services to 100,000 low income people (of which 80% women). NEFSCUN member SACCOS will provide them with microfinance services and contribute to building their wealth. Microfinance services will be provided by applying the Credit Union Microfinance Innovations (CUMI) methodology, which includes a ful fledged orientation and training programme especially designed for poor segments of the society. After the orientation and training period and 6 ,month saving, the new members are entitled to take their first loan. In 2010 we plan to provide CUMI based microfinance services to 30,000 and in 2011 to 35,000 new members reaching 65,000 in 2 years. This programme will be supported by Business Development Services, supporting entrepreneurial poor women in accessing the market. Mutual Aid services: NEFSCUN provides funds, builds capacities, provides financial risk protection with its Mutual Aid services (micro-insurance) and provides all kinds of materials and administrative tools to professionalize the services of the SACCOS. Apart from our core business NEFSCUN is working in the following fields: advocacy & networking, policy support, Microfinance and business development services, financial intermediation, alternative energy promotion and organizing its resources to become a recognized information center for savings and Credit Cooperatives in Nepal. NEFSCUN runs a few pilot services; recently introduced ACCESS branding as a pilot service; this branding system helps SACCOS to identify the strength and weaknesses improve performance on basis of benchmarking and effective monitor an identify member needs. Another pilot service is the youth and women inclusion program which aims to attract youth and women in SACCOS by promoting their inclusion and developing new attractive products for them. Expected results/outcomes: - Represent and provide services to 900 SACCOS and their members by the end of 2011 - Increased Interlending fund for provision of loans to SACCOS, reaching Rs. 100,000,000 CFFI fund assets. - Training and education service will be provided on demand (e.g. Credit Union Directors Competence Course) and PEARLS, Policy, Plan training (PPP) and implementation will be a must for all members. - Mutual Aid Services, the Cooperative security Policy will be provided to over 5,800 members in 150 SACCOS by the end of 2011, with this operational break even will be reached. - Stationary services will increase in volume as the amount of member SACCOS is increasing, for the Nepali fiscal year 2066/2067 we plan a revenue of Rs. 400,000 and 2011 Rs. 500,000. - By the end of 2011 more than 150 SACCOS apply NEFSCUN Cooperative Banking Software - With microfinance CUMI provision the wealth situation of 65,000 individual members, mostly women, will improve, for that purpose 300 SACCOS staff and leaders will be trained to reach out and provide services to the poor. - 100 SACCOS without women and youth specific policies implement the sample policy on women and youth integration and service provision. Budget request 2010 Total budget: € 213.889 NEFSCUN: € 111.111 Agriterra: € 55.556 (26%) CCA:€ 29.630 ACCU€ 4.630 others € 12.963 Budget request 2011 Total budget: € 246.296 NEFSCUN: € 138.889 Agriterra: €

Organization

Stichting Agriterra

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Mar 3, 2011 → Mar 19, 2018

Coverage

Nepal

Oxfam together with Community Self Reliance Centre (CSRC), and with research by Dr. Navin Rai, examined the International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) and FMO’s (Dutch Development Bank) implementation of its Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) commitment at the Upper Trishuli-1 hydroelectric project at Rasuwa Nepal. IFC is the lead arranger of the debt package for the UT-1 hydroelectric project involving eight other lenders among them the Dutch Development Bank, FMO. The financing is provided to the privately-owned Nepal Water and Energy Development Company (NWEDC) that is majority owned by the Korean Southeast Power Corporation. The research assessed and compared the extent to which the NWEDC’s interpretation of FPIC aligns with best practice andthe Oxfam definition of FPIC,and whether NWEDC behavior and process aligns with FPIC requirements as defined in IFC’s performance standards 7 on indigenous peoples. IFC’s performance standards 7 on indigenous peoples will be the primary standard againstwhich FPIC implementation will be evaluated, since FMO has adopted IFC’s performance standards. This research provided communities with the opportunity to express their views on how agreement-making with communities has taken place, how consent has beenreached, and how FPIC has been implemented. Documenting and sharing lessons learned with stakeholders nationally and globally is key in improving the situation for the affected communities of the Trishuli dam, as well as FPIC practices in Nepal, and around the world. This report follows and builds on research, carried out by LAHURNIP in 2017, in Rasuwa District. This research highlighted key concerns from communities related to inadequate consultation and engagement in decision making. In 2018 in a three-month period, an FPIC process took place, even though we can challenge the fact that the Free and Prior components were already violated, as land was acquired already back in 2011 and 2012. The need for Phase IV of the Advocacy Program (April 2025 –March 2026) stems from the notable progress achieved during Phases I, II, and III. These phases led to significant outcomes, including the inclusion of three additional villages in the IPP, raising the total number of beneficiary villages to 13. They alsoresulted in the development and endorsement of comprehensive IPP guidelines and the establishment of strong, cooperative relationships between the company, project team, and community members. Additionally, each village demonstrated their commitment by designing their own IPP programs and budgets based on their real needs, and the implementation of IPPs began in real field settings in 2024. Despite these accomplishments, there remain critical areas that require further intervention and strengthening. Onepressing issue is the need to increase the overall IPP budget to align with the specific needs of each of the 13 villages, ensuring it effectively reflects the priorities of the communities. Another crucial area is the expansion of the IPP's scope and budget to address the communities' requirements for additional land purchase for relocation support to seven vulnerable communities. Phase IV of the advocacy program will focus on tackling these challenges, further fortifying the program to meet the evolvingneeds of the communities and ensure its continued success.

Organization

Oxfam Novib

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Oct 1, 2025 → Jul 31, 2026

Coverage

Rasuwa, Bagmati

Nepal will utilize two pronged approaches: (i) Deepening and diversifying the ongoing work of SDHS in two districts of SudurpaschimProvince as a core impact site; and (ii) Expanding in a new district in Karnali Province as a scaling out/up site. The project will benefit a total of 15,000 beneficiaries (2,500 direct and an additional 12,500 indirect beneficiaries) through partnerships with governments (local to national), CSOs and networks, and development partners with similar priorities active in the regions. In 2024, the project will establish partnerships with government, National Federation of Farmers Group (NFGF), Community Seed Bank Association of Nepal (CSBAN), Land Rights and Right to Food Networks, and value chain actors and private sectors. Global Partners and Allies will include (1) Agroecology Coalition: The program partner (LI-BIRD) will join the Agroecology coalition and contribute to the Agroecology Campaign by sharing the ground evidence and documentation and forge collaboration to strengthen the Agroecology movement in Nepal. (2) Farmer Managed Systems Group led by Oxfam Novib and CRS: The program will actively contribute on issues related to farmer-managed seed systems by sharing Nepal learnings in Farmer's Variety Registration and Source Maintenance Forum. The program will actively participate and engage in organising workshops and side events in relevant international forums such as CBD and ITPGRFA. (3) International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD): IFAD is supporting Nepalgovernment in developing a project based on agroecology entitled ‘Resilient High-Value Agriculture Project (R-HVAP)’ to be implemented in Sudurpaschim, Karnali and Lumbini Provinces. LI-BIRD contributed significantly to the design of this project, and expects to collaborate during the implementation phase.

Organization

Oxfam Novib

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Apr 1, 2024 → Jul 31, 2026

Coverage

Lumbini, Karnali

Guttmacher Institute (GI) has been a solid and trusted partner of Sida. The last agreement between Sida and GI ended in 2018 and was highly successful resulting in the Guttmacher Lancet Commission (GLC) and its expanded SRHR-definition and identification of a comprehensive package of services and interventions, which has become widely recognised and appreciated. The main intention and objectives of this contribution is to continue the work that was started with the GLC, i.e. advocating for a comprehensive approach to SRHR. However, with a specific focus on 'neglected areas' of SRHR such as safe abortion, infertility/ fertility, reproductive cancers and GBV. Advocacy will target global processes including declarations and statements at the UN, but also advocacy at the regional and national level for the adoption of the GLC definition and intervention package into national plans and strategies, particularly in the framework of UHC. The contribution supports the institute's work on Global Advocacy with the primary focus on furthering the advocacy work of the GLC and to more efficiently translate research findings into advocacy and policy at global, regional and national levels in close partnership with organizations active in the respective countries and regions. The Sida contribution to Guttmacher is therefore called the Global Policy Project and has the following project goal, outcomes and objectives: Consistent with the GLC, this projects ultimate goal is broad and inclusive and based in human rights principles. Through this project GI will seek to advance the Commissions vision of a world in which all people are able to achieve sexual and reproductive health and realize their sexual and reproductive rights. GI will do so by advocating for the GLC's comprehensive and inclusive vision for SRHR that recognizes the human rights of all individuals, including those from vulnerable or stigmatized populations and communities, as well as by promoting progressive inclusion of the GLCs holistic vision for SRHR in UHC. Objective 1: Advocate globally for the adoption of the GLC comprehensive definition of SRHR and essential package of interventions by producing evidence-based advocacy materials and providing technical support and expertise to Member States and multilateral institutions; and Objective 2: Promote progressive inclusion of the GLC essential package of interventions with particular attention to UHC planning, adoption and implementation in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America focusing on selected chronically neglected interventions. Across both objectives, GI will work with global and regional organizations and several focus countries to seize policy opportunities for the advancement of SRHR. To inform this work, GI will use evidence from a range of sources including findings and recommendations in the Commissions report, Guttmacher-published research, as well as other relevant evidence such as WHO guidelines and standards, related studies in peer-reviewed journals and data published by global and regional agencies. The project will also serve as an opportunity to identify research gaps and bring them to the attention of others at the GI and in the field more broadly. Furthermore, the country case studies (under Objective 2) that will be completed in collaboration with country partners will provide a mechanism for learnings among partners across countries and regions: they will offer summaries of experiences covering the joint work towards policy change, including what evidence was found to be influential and in what circumstances, what did not appear to work and reasons why not; what approaches for communicating evidence and for obtaining attention and action of relevant policymakers worked well and which did not, and the particular circumstances and reasons. Collectively, these resources gathered and generated in collaboration with GI's partners in LMICs will result in a wealth of knowledge for the wider SRHR community and a critical opportunity for South-South learning and cooperation. The Program is fully in line with the Strategy for Swedens Global Development Cooperation in Sustainable Social Development 20182022. The Program especially relates to the strategic goal 'Increased Access to SRHR, including freedom from GBV' with a dedicated focus on often neglected areas of the SRHR definition such as safe abortion care, prevention and treatment of GBV, infertility/ fertility and reproductive cancers. It also relates to the strategic goals of 'Strengthened and Sustainable Systems of Good Quality for Health' through its work on SRHR in UHC, and Strenghtened Capacity for Living Healthy Lives through its focus on advocacy related to reproductive cancers and infertility/ fertility. In line with priorities as set out in the operationalisation GI focus on normative policy development and advocacy within the area of SRHR, honing on in abortion, gender based violence, fertility/ infertility and reproductive cancers. These are areas, except for abortion, that have been identified as weak in the portfolio, and therefore offers a unique added value to the existing contributions. Furthermore it complements the current efforts on safe abortion care and Sida's work on Achieving Universal Health Coverage for all, which of course must include SRHR.

Organization

Sida / Sweden

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Aug 1, 2021 → Oct 31, 2024

Coverage

Nepal

As per ILO regional report, women in Nepal carried out 85 per cent of daily unpaid care work, spending a total of 29 million hours a day to 5 million hours spent by men. The amount of time Nepali women spend on unpaid care work is six times higher than that of men. The National Planning Commission (NPC) of Nepal, with technical support from the International Labour Organization (ILO) and UN Women, commissioned a report titled Public Investments in Nepal’s Care Economy, An Estimation of Care Deficit, Investment Costs and Economic Returns in the Education and Health Sectors (2024). The study highlights that an investment of US$ 2 billion to address care coverage gaps in Nepal’s education and health sectors could generate approximately 1,386,000 jobs (both direct and indirect), with at least 60% of these jobs expected to be filled by women. Such an investment would not only strengthen aggregate demand across the economy but also enhance long-term societal well-being, gender equality, and inclusive economic growth. Recognizing both the challenges and the transformative potential of the care economy, the Government of Nepal is working towards developing a care policy that strengthens care economy and safeguard the rights of care workers. Led by the NPC, a care working group has been established, comprising representatives from multiple stakeholders. Building on existing evidence, the ILO, continues to promote the care economy as a critical component of its transformative agenda for gender equality and the protection of labour rights. Specifically, the ILO supports to: - Increase the capacity of constituents to design, promote, and implement transformative care policies and programmatic investments. - Assess and improve the working conditions and representation of care workers - Support the government and social partners in defining policies and investments to create jobs in the care sector and improve social dialogue and representatiion.

Organization

ILO Nepal

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 1, 2026 → Dec 31, 2027

Coverage

Nepal

The Government of Nepal became a Pathfinder Country in 2018 and implemented a number of measures stipulated in the Second National Master Plan for the Elimination of Child Labour (2028–2028), submitting its progress report on time to the Alliance 8.7 Global Coordinating Group. In 2024, through the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security (MoLESS), the Government of Nepal endorsed a revised list of hazardous occupations for child labour, aligning with international labour standards. The updated list identifies brick production, the adult entertainment industry, domestic work for children, and debt bondage as hazardous sectors for children under the age of 18. In 2025, a study on Decent Work Deficits in the Adult Entertainment Sector in Nepal was conducted, and its dissemination is planned for 2026. The ILO collaborated with two municipalities to declare them child labour-free and worked closely with the National Child Rights Council (NCRC), the government body responsible for child rights and protection, to support the effective implementation of the National Plan of Action on the Elimination of Child Labour in Nepal. The ILO will continue to support its constituents in Nepal by: Supporting the implementation of the National Plan of Action for the Elimination of Child Labour, including the promotion of child labour-free municipalities. -Assisting the National Statistics Office in incorporating a child labour module into the National Labour Force Survey, which is currently underway. -Providing recommendations and guidance to address decent work deficits in the adult entertainment sector in Nepal. -Validating a legal gap analysis of the Convention C189 and prepare an action plan to advance decent work for domestic workers.

Organization

ILO Nepal

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 1, 2026 → Dec 31, 2027

Coverage

Nepal