Development projects in Nepal

This program empowers local actors to identify and solve their own development challenges. Nepali organizations will conduct activities that enable local actors to achieve and sustain demonstrable results for Nepal's marginalized populations. There is not a requirement to focus on a specific sector, but to ensure that the activity is defined and led by Nepal's marginalized and vulnerable groups in areas identified. The primary objective of this initiative are to: Objective 1: Co-create a locally led development plan that empowers marginalized communities in target areas that meet their needs. Objective 2: Collaboratively execute the locally led development plan to sustainably improve the lives of targeted populations. Objective 3: Contribute to the pool of development practitioner learning.

Organization

USAID Nepal

Budget

USD 127K

Timeline

Dec 23, 2024 → Dec 22, 2027

Coverage

Nepal

Increase availability and use of proven nutrition interventions to reduce mortality, morbidity, and food insecurity, including nutrition education to improve maternal diets, nutrition during pregnancy, exclusive breastfeeding, and infant and young child feeding practices; fortified or biofortified staple foods, specialized food products, and community gardens to improve consumption of quality food; and delivery of nutrition services including micronutrient supplementation and community management of acute malnutrition. Strengthen host country capacity by advancing supportive nutrition and food security policies and improving nutrition information systems.

Organization

USAID Nepal

Budget

USD 134K

Timeline

Oct 1, 2024 → Sep 30, 2025

Coverage

Nepal

Supports the following illustrative program-funded costs: salaries of US, FSN, and TCN and other staff such as PSCs, RSSAs, PASAs, CASUs working for the US Government managing, administering, and supporting programs and their program-funded benefits such as housing, travel, transportation, education allowances etc; institutional contractors that provide such staff, rent, IT services, the program-funded share of utilities, staff training costs and the cost of developing and administering training programs, equipment and supplies, ICASS, vehicle fuel and maintenance, maintenance contracts, janitorial services, operational unit web page development and maintenance, outreach such as publications and the cost of their preparation (including staff costs), and technical assistance to ensure USG compliance with regulations.

Organization

USAID Nepal

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Oct 1, 2023 → Sep 30, 2024

Coverage

Nepal

The purpose of the GID learning series 2024 - 2025 is to help USAID implementing partners to improve programming to the most marginalized groups in Nepal and increase local participation during design, implementation, and monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL).

Organization

USAID Nepal

Budget

USD 8K

Timeline

Sep 25, 2024 → Sep 24, 2025

Coverage

Nepal

Develop and conduct needs assessments, baseline studies, targeted evaluations, special studies or other information-gathering efforts specifically for the design, monitoring and evaluation of USG-funded programs. This sub-element may also include developing and disseminating best practices and lessons learned, testing demonstration and/or pilot models, or the preparation of strategic plans and other short-term programming tasks. Note: All such activities that are carried out by partners as an integral part of their monitoring and evaluation efforts for programs funded under other sub-elements should be included within those sub-elements.

Organization

USAID Nepal

Budget

USD 62K

Timeline

Oct 1, 2024 → Sep 30, 2025

Coverage

Nepal

The purpose of this activity would be to provide support to USAID/Nepal and our local implementing partners that include Nepali organizations, non-government organizations (NGOs), government entities, and businesses as we adjust internal systems and operations.

Organization

USAID Nepal

Budget

USD 6.6M

Timeline

Jun 13, 2024 → Jun 12, 2029

Coverage

Nepal

The USAID Hamro Samman II activity is designed to provide appropriate, sustainable, and scalable solutions to the federal, provincial and local Government of Nepal (GON) efforts to combat human trafficking.

Organization

USAID Nepal

Budget

USD 3.0M

Timeline

Mar 11, 2024 → Mar 10, 2026

Coverage

Nepal

UN-Habitat PIO Agreement

Organization

USAID Nepal

Budget

USD 1.0M

Timeline

Feb 20, 2024 → Jan 31, 2028

Coverage

Nepal

Through USAID sustainable HIV epidemic control, the implementing partner will continue providing HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) prevention, care, and treatment services to key populations (men having sex with men, transgender people, sex workers and their clients and sexual networks) at high-risk for HIV infection and people living with HIV in Nepal.

Organization

USAID Nepal

Budget

USD 191K

Timeline

Sep 30, 2024 → Oct 31, 2026

Coverage

Nepal

The purpose of this awards is to save lives, prevent HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) infections, and accelerate progress toward achieving sustainable HIV/AIDS epidemic control in Nepal.

Organization

USAID Nepal

Budget

USD 1.9M

Timeline

Sep 30, 2024 → Oct 31, 2026

Coverage

Nepal

The Feed the Future Nepal USAID Digital Agriculture will work to enhance climate-smart farming through digital tools and multi-sector partnerships. It will improve crop productivity, mitigate the risk of crop failure, and minimize post-harvest losses. Overall, it will strengthen Nepals digital ecosystem, specifically in the agriculture sector.

Organization

USAID Nepal

Budget

USD 175K

Timeline

Nov 12, 2024 → Nov 11, 2027

Coverage

Nepal

The goal of the Feed the Future USAID Nepali tea partnership is to improve the quality and competitiveness of Nepali tea.

Organization

USAID Nepal

Budget

USD 413K

Timeline

Jun 15, 2024 → Jun 14, 2027

Coverage

Nepal

The purpose of Feed the Future Nepal USAID partnership for poultry is to strengthen the poultry market system and sustainably increase incomes for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) farmers. This activity will support Shreenagar Agritech Industries Private Limited's (Shreenagar's) efforts in Nepal to engage more effectively within the poultry market system and reduce constraints for inclusive, broad-based economic growth within the egg, meat and other poultry product value chains (E. G. maize) important to Nepalis in rural areas.

Organization

USAID Nepal

Budget

USD 1.3M

Timeline

Nov 21, 2023 → Nov 20, 2026

Coverage

Nepal

The activity will improve equitable justice sector service delivery for women, youth, and marginalized groups in targeted communities. The activity is intended to contribute to USAID/Nepals country development cooperation strategy (CDCS) goal of a more self-reliant, prosperous and inclusive Nepal that delivers improved democratic governance, health, and education outcomes. In order to achieve this goal, USAID/Nepals CDCS emphasizes the need to address federalism, inclusion, and resilience. The USAID community justice activitys objectives are: strengthen local judicial institutional capacity and justice sector coordination and oversight to improve access to justice and justice delivery for women, youth, and marginalized groups. Strengthen civil society capacity to improve community legal literacy, local justice sector accountability, and access to legal aid for women, youth, and marginalized groups.

Organization

USAID Nepal

Budget

USD 276K

Timeline

Sep 12, 2024 → Sep 11, 2029

Coverage

Nepal

Selection of a local organization in Nepal to implement the activities in earthquake affected districts in western Nepal. The purpose of this activity is to build resilience of the school communities, including preparation of the human resource for the recovery phase and continuation of schooling of affected students.

Organization

USAID Nepal

Budget

USD 245K

Timeline

Sep 30, 2024 → Sep 29, 2027

Coverage

Nepal

The purpose of this activity is to improve the nutrition status of women, adolescents, and children in Nepal's underserved and marginalized communities.

Organization

USAID Nepal

Budget

USD 13.0M

Timeline

Jun 27, 2024 → Jun 26, 2029

Coverage

Nepal

USAID health learning is to assist health office (HO) and its implementing partners (IPS) to adopt uniform and systematic monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning (MERL) activities to advance broader organizational learning and development effo

Organization

USAID Nepal

Budget

USD 506K

Timeline

Aug 19, 2024 → Aug 18, 2029

Coverage

Nepal

To analyze the genetic and geographic patterns of Salmonella Typhi in Nepal to strengthen research capacity and improve disease surveillance and outbreak response in low-income communities.

Organization

Gates Foundation

Budget

USD 97K

Timeline

Nov 23, 2025 → Oct 31, 2026

Coverage

Nepal

None

Organization

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Budget

USD 375K

Timeline

Oct 2, 2017 → Oct 2, 2020

Coverage

Nepal

The purpose of the USAID agriculture transformation activity is to catalyze Nepal inclusive agricultural transformation through improved productivity, competitiveness, women's economic advancement, and climate resilience. The activity will fo

Organization

USAID Nepal

Budget

USD 9.7M

Timeline

Sep 30, 2024 → Sep 29, 2029

Coverage

Nepal

Improve the capacity of businesses to integrate into domestic and international markets through increases in productivity and improvements in corporate governance and the development and application of modern technology and marketing practices. Enhance the capacity of businesses and business associations in terms of their corporate governance capabilities and their application of best practices and technologies to achieve increased production and marketing of products and services. It includes adoption of efficient production processes, improved labor productivity, environmentally-sound management of natural resources and the development of accounting and management systems that can help the company and industry group implement business, labor, product and process standards that enhance business competitiveness. Business capacity development programs may include activities that help men- and women-owned firms and associations respond to these international markets and create regional alliances.

Organization

USAID Nepal

Budget

USD 270K

Timeline

Oct 1, 2024 → Sep 30, 2025

Coverage

Nepal

The purpose of the five-year Learning for Development contract is to provide USAID/Nepal with technical and advisory services in planning, designing, conducting, and learning from the required monitoring.

Organization

USAID Nepal

Budget

USD 11.5M

Timeline

Mar 24, 2023 → Mar 23, 2028

Coverage

Nepal

The purpose of this activity is to build the organizational and technical capacity of a local Nepali organization to produce high quality research and analysis of sub-national level socio-political issues, and to develop skills and knowledge needed.

Organization

USAID Nepal

Budget

USD 326K

Timeline

Jul 14, 2023 → Jul 13, 2026

Coverage

Nepal

Agriculture is the science and practice of food, feed, and fiber production (including forestry, wildlife, fisheries, aquaculture and floraculture) and its relationships to natural resources, processing, marketing, distribution, utilization (including nutrition), and trade.

Organization

USAID Nepal

Budget

USD 131K

Timeline

Oct 1, 2023 → Sep 30, 2024

Coverage

Nepal

Aims to achieve the goal of a more environmentally friendly, affordable and technologically competitive building materials industry in Nepal that also integrates the marginalized and vulnerable communities into its market system. Provides private sector support co-financial Build Up Nepal's growth efforts and eco-brick enterprises with the aim of replacing fired bricks. The partnership also includes research and development towards developing carbon-neutral bricks.

Organization

USAID Nepal

Budget

USD 259K

Timeline

Jan 26, 2023 → Jul 25, 2025

Coverage

Nepal

USAID Nepal engineering services serves to support USAID/Nepal technical offices in the provision of engineering services, providing oversight on other construction awards.

Organization

USAID Nepal

Budget

USD 4.2M

Timeline

Jul 15, 2021 → Jul 14, 2028

Coverage

Nepal

Inclusive Education

Organization

USAID Nepal

Budget

USD 8.3M

Timeline

Sep 22, 2023 → Sep 21, 2028

Coverage

Nepal

the purpose of this activity is to strengthen afu's capacity to contribute to nepal's agricultural development by improving the quality of agricultural higher education, increasing agricultural graduates' employability, and contributing to research and extension activities that play a central role in nepal's agricultural and economic transformation. it is anticipated that direct work with afu will in turn also create system-level change in the overall higher education system in nepal.

Organization

USAID Nepal

Budget

USD 4.0M

Timeline

Dec 19, 2022 → Dec 18, 2027

Coverage

Nepal

USAID Agricultural Inputs - the overall goal of this activity is to improve the productivity, competitiveness, inclusivity, and resilience of the agriculture sector in Nepal.

Organization

USAID Nepal

Budget

USD 12.4M

Timeline

Jun 15, 2023 → Jun 14, 2028

Coverage

Nepal

USAID/Nepal Early Grade Learning (EGL) activity aim to strengthen the capacity of federal, provincial, and municipal governments to improve learning outcomes in grades 1-3.

Organization

USAID Nepal

Budget

USD 12.9M

Timeline

Sep 30, 2023 → Sep 29, 2028

Coverage

Nepal