Development projects in Nepal

Innovative Financial Solutions for Local Food Systems Transformation in Nepal

Organization

FAO Nepal

Budget

USD 400K

Timeline

Sep 7, 2025 → Mar 7, 2027

Coverage

Nepal

To maintain biosafety along with minimizing threats, and increasing benefits through the effective management of IAS in the transboundary Trishuli River Corridor.

Organization

FAO Nepal

Budget

USD 1.0M

Timeline

Jun 7, 2026 → Jun 7, 2028

Coverage

Nepal

To account for GEF fee transactions

Organization

FAO Nepal

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Apr 2, 2025 → Dec 31, 2030

Coverage

Nepal

The Singapore Regional Training Institute (STI), a joint venture between the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Government of Singapore, is the IMF’s flagship venue for addressing the training needs of the Asia-Pacific region in the area of macroeconomic management. The STI program aims to build the capacity of countries in the Asia-Pacific region to implement sound and effective macroeconomic and financial policies. The objective of the Australian Government's contribution is to improve the effectiveness of STI training by further tailoring the material to individual countries or groups of countries - in line with evolving demand from participants. To achieve this objective, the contribution would help to fund (i) short-term consultants to tailor course material and help deliver training; and (ii) staff and participant costs. The total value of the initiative is $0.75 million, delivered in three annual tranches of $0.25 million starting May 2016.

Organization

DFAT Australian Aid

Budget

USD 25K

Timeline

May 1, 2016 → Jun 30, 2019

Coverage

Nepal

The Public Financial Management Multi Donor Trust Fund (PFM MDTF) Phase II aims to strengthen the performance, transparency and accountability in public financial management in Nepal. In five years, the Nepal PFM MDTF envisions a country where solid foundation for credible and performing PFM systems at central, regional and local levels support economic development and service delivery of citizens. This will be achieved through the pursuit of five strategic objectives, which are convergent and support each other and underpin Government of Nepal's strategy in this regard: aA credible and efficient budget process for central government that allows for strong fiscal discipline, an allocation of resources that reflects policy priorities, a solid internal control framework (including the creation of an internal audit function), an increased performance orientation and adequate accountability, notably through monitoring, supervision and external audit mechanisms; enhanced internal and exter

Organization

DFAT Australian Aid

Budget

USD 3.9M

Timeline

May 4, 2016 → Jun 30, 2020

Coverage

Nepal

Funding under this investment provides consultancy services to support the Scoping Review of Australia Awards Short Term Awards (including Short Course Awards and Fellowships). The purpose of the Scoping Review is to inform strategic decisions about the future of the Australia Awards Short Course Awards and Australia Awards Fellowships. The Scoping Review will assess the relevance, efficiency and effectiveness of the current Short Course Awards and Fellowships, identify lessons learned, and explore other financing and governance models. It will provide a set of recommendations to management on the shape and implementation of awards in future years. The total value of this investment is $0.1 million to be expensed during the 2016-17 financial year.

Organization

DFAT Australian Aid

Budget

USD 2K

Timeline

Apr 18, 2016 → Apr 17, 2017

Coverage

Nepal

The Asian Sports Partnerships (ASP) program provides a new opportunity for sports cooperation through the Government’s Australian Sports Diplomacy Strategy 2015-18. The Sports Diplomacy Strategy aims to: connect people and institutions; enhance sport for development; showcase Australian capability; and support innovation and integrity in Sport. The ASP will provide a flexible and responsive mechanism to encourage sports collaboration between Australian and foreign organisations, focusing on innovation, and building linkages between all elements of Australia’s development and sports programs in Asia. The ASP provides a practical means to advance key priorities for the region including supporting emerging leaders, youth, women and girls. It will look to provide funding to support new programs, expand National Sporting Organisations’ geographic focus, trial new approaches, and develop new partnerships. The total value of this program is $4.9 million over 4 years, starting 2015-16.

Organization

DFAT Australian Aid

Budget

USD 132K

Timeline

Jul 1, 2015 → Dec 31, 2019

Coverage

Nepal

Funding under this investment aims to strengthen the accessibility, affordability and provision of assistive devices, technologies, prosthetics and orthoses. Australia recognises that people with disabilities cannot be participants, beneficiaries and leaders of our development efforts if they are unable to access basic rehabilitation services and to have their needs met firstly through assistive devices and technologies. The total value of this investment is $2.7 million over 2 years, starting April 2016.

Organization

DFAT Australian Aid

Budget

USD 1K

Timeline

Apr 12, 2016 → Jun 30, 2018

Coverage

Nepal

The Australia Awards Scholarships Review Project supports the engagement of an external consultant to assist in a situational analysis and scoping study to determine value for money outcomes on the management and delivery of Australia's long-term Australia Awards Scholarships. Deliverables include a work plan; stakeholder map; situational analysis with recommendations; cost benefit analysis; risk assessment; and innovative opportunities paper. The total value of this investment is $0.1 million over 2 years, starting 2015-16.

Organization

DFAT Australian Aid

Budget

USD 2K

Timeline

Dec 1, 2015 → Jan 27, 2017

Coverage

Nepal

Funding under this investments supports the World Food Programme's Strategic Partnership Framework 2015-2021. The United Nations' World Food Programme is the largest global provider of food assistance, and works to meet the food and nutrition needs of vulnerable populations in developing countries and emergency situations. The total value of this investments is $247.5 million over 6 years, starting 2015-16.

Organization

DFAT Australian Aid

Budget

USD 1.7M

Timeline

Sep 26, 2015 → Jun 30, 2020

Coverage

Nepal

TBD

Organization

World Bank Trust Funds

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Oct 13, 1999 → Jan 8, 2004

Coverage

Nepal

SUPPORTING (A) BETTER PUBLIC/PRIVATE SECTOR DIALOGUE (B) ACCELERA- TION OF THE PRIVATIZATION PROGRAM IN NEPAL (C) ENHANCEMENT IN THE BUSINESS ENVRIRONMENT(D) A BETTER INFORMATION OF PRIVATE SECTOR ACTIVITIES AND (E) SUPPORT FOR THE FOREIGN INVESTMENT PROMOTION OFFICE

Organization

World Bank Trust Funds

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Sep 20, 1999 → May 9, 2002

Coverage

Nepal

On 25 April 2015, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal with the epicentre located 81 km northwest of the capital city of Kathmandu. The earthquake impacted 39 out of the 75 districts in the country with 14 districts most affected, left over 8,000 people dead and destroyed over 500,000 houses. With the severe humanitarian impact of the disaster, the Government of Nepal requested for international humanitarian support on 26 April 2015 . The World Food Program (WFP) has been providing logistic operations which includes the Humanitarian Staging Area at the international airport, communication facilities, storage space and office buildings. Additionally, WFP is providing common services for the entire humanitarian community, including storage facilities, and is supporting the transportation of relief items that go beyond just food. WFP is also coordinating the logistics needs of all United Nations (UN) agencies and Non-Government Organisations, through the Logistics Cluster, so that the

Organization

DFAT Australian Aid

Budget

USD 564K

Timeline

Jun 5, 2015 → Dec 30, 2016

Coverage

Kathmandu, Bagmati

The Building Back Safer Schools for All program supports Nepal’s long term recovery after the devastation earthquake on 25 April 2015. The early recovery package of support will focus on three key themes: meeting the education needs of vulnerable children, with a focus on girls and children with disability as they transition back to school, and “building back better”; rebuilding livelihoods of women and other vulnerable populations; and rebuilding social cohesion, by ensuring there is access to alternative dispute resolution for addressing disaster-related conflict, violence and exploitation of women. The program will address education needs following the April 26 earthquake through two key complementary approaches: increase urgent access to protective quality education and early stimulation for 17,700 boys and girls from birth to 18 years, 400 teachers and 1,200 parents affected by the earthquake; and support the Government of Nepal to institutionalise safer schools building for reco

Organization

DFAT Australian Aid

Budget

USD 3.9M

Timeline

Jun 3, 2015 → Jun 30, 2017

Coverage

Nepal

The Rapid Enterprise and Livelihoods Recovery Project support Nepal’s long term recovery. The early recovery package of support will focus on three key themes: meeting the education needs of vulnerable children, with a focus on girls and children with disability as they transition back to school, and “building back better”; rebuilding livelihoods of women and other vulnerable populations; and rebuilding social cohesion, by ensuring there is access to alternative dispute resolution for addressing disaster-related conflict, violence and exploitation of women. Funding is provided to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) for the Rapid Enterprise and Livelihoods Recovery Project (RELRP) . RELRP will help people recover their livelihoods. Through quick reactivation of local enterprises and establishment of new enterprises the project will also rebuild local economies. The project, which will be implemented in cooperation with the Nepal Ministry of Industry, targets a total of 12,000

Organization

DFAT Australian Aid

Budget

USD 6.2M

Timeline

Jun 1, 2015 → Apr 30, 2017

Coverage

Nepal

The Conflict Mediation in Post Earthquake Recovery supports Nepal's long term recovery following the devastating earthquake on 25 April 2015. The early recovery package of support will focus on three key themes: meeting the educational needs of vulnerable children, with a focus on girls and children with disabilities, as they transition back to school and “building back better” ; rebuilding livelihoods of women and other vulnerable populations; and rebuilding social cohesion, by ensuring there is access to alternative dispute resolution for addressing disaster-related conflict, violence and exploitation of women. Within the early recovery package, Australia provided funds to the Asia Foundation (TAF) in Nepal for a program to address conflicts and vulnerabilities related to earthquake recovery and assistance in Nepal. The program will address, in particular, disputes related to identity, resettlement, land and resource use, and gender-based violence (GBV). The program will support faci

Organization

DFAT Australian Aid

Budget

USD 2.4M

Timeline

May 25, 2015 → Jun 30, 2018

Coverage

Nepal

The World Food Program (WFP) School Feeding Program has been operating in Nepal since 2013 in partnership with the Ministry of Education; Food for Education Project; World Education; Open Learning Exchange and the Nepal Red Cross Society. The project complements the Government of Nepal's school feeding program. The project operates in the mid and far west regions of the country and will provide school meals for 190,000 vulnerable students every school day of the year, learning materials for children in rural areas and support for water, sanitation and hygiene activities. The total value of this investment is $0.8 million expensed in the 2014-15 financial year.

Organization

DFAT Australian Aid

Budget

USD 647K

Timeline

May 25, 2015 → Dec 30, 2016

Coverage

Nepal

Funding under this investment supports the deployment of up to three Australian Civilian Corps infrastructure specialists to Nepal to support earthquake recovery efforts, and the provision of logistics. The deployees will work within the Nepal Department of Education, providing advisory and capacity building support focused on the reconstruction of school buildings, to ensure that infrastructure design enables children to return to safe, accessible and resilient schools. The total value of this investment is $0.7 million over 2 years, starting May 2015.

Organization

DFAT Australian Aid

Budget

USD 645K

Timeline

May 21, 2015 → Dec 30, 2017

Coverage

Nepal

On 25 April, an earthquake measuring 7.8 struck Nepal near Lamjung north-west of Kathmandu, followed by a 7.3 earthquake on 12 May between Sindhupalchowk and Dolakha districts north-east of Kathmandu. Both earthquakes were followed by multiple aftershocks and landslides with Kathmandu, Gorkha, Lamjung, Sinhupalchowk, Langtang and Everest Base Camp amongst the worst affected areas. In total, 8,219 people were killed and 20,063 injured by the two earthquakes and resulting landslides. Critical infrastructure was damaged and destroyed, including schools, hospitals and roads with around 409,000 homes destroyed and 265,000 damaged. This investment provided $10 million dollars to provide lifesaving humanitarian relief. It provided $1 million to the Australian Red Cross, $500,000 to RedR Australia, $4.5 million to the Nepal Flash Appeals, $4 million to Australian NGOs, and $50,000 to the SPRINT initiative (maternal and child health).

Organization

DFAT Australian Aid

Budget

USD 7.8M

Timeline

Apr 25, 2015 → Dec 31, 2017

Coverage

Dolakha, Kathmandu

Preparation of Project Document

Organization

FAO Nepal

Budget

USD 50K

Timeline

Jan 1, 2025 → Dec 31, 2025

Coverage

Nepal

The Project aims to provide irrigation and agricultural machinery, high-quality seeds, clean water systems, and solar-powered shower facilities, and to train farmers and promote agricultural technologies and practices, thereby increasing agricultural productivity, improving access to safe drinking water, and enhancing the livelihoods and well-being of smallholders and vulnerable groups.

Organization

FAO Nepal

Budget

USD 2.5M

Timeline

May 15, 2026 → May 15, 2028

Coverage

Nepal

Restore and strengthen agricultural livelihoods of target households with improved risk management capacities

Organization

FAO Nepal

Budget

USD 400K

Timeline

Dec 3, 2024 → Dec 2, 2025

Coverage

Nepal

Protect the livelihood assets of 5,000 vulnerable households (25,000 individuals) in the five municipalities of two districts and reach above 10,000 households (50,000 individuals) with Early Warning Risk Messages (EWRM) in Agriculture, livestock, fisheries and other livelihoods means

Organization

FAO Nepal

Budget

USD 350K

Timeline

Oct 2, 2024 → Apr 1, 2025

Coverage

Nepal

To empower women parliamentarians of federal, provincial and local level to advocate for effective policies on climate change and biodiversity conservation

Organization

FAO Nepal

Budget

USD 99K

Timeline

May 10, 2025 → Jun 30, 2026

Coverage

Nepal

To enhance the livelihoods of mountain communities by leveraging their natural advantages and overcoming financial and market access barriers through the development of value chains for two of the most promising high-value mountain products, establishing effective market linkages to connect producers with buyers, ensuring products reach markets efficiently, fetch fair prices, and implementing a payback mechanism and benefit-sharing among local producers through their farmers' institutions

Organization

FAO Nepal

Budget

USD 99K

Timeline

Aug 21, 2024 → Jan 31, 2026

Coverage

Nepal

The proposed project aims to pilot the Four Betters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Nepal - Better Production, Better Nutrition, Better Environment, and a Better Life through an integrated interventions in the selected local level to develop a Four Better Model Villages

Organization

FAO Nepal

Budget

USD 250K

Timeline

Jul 1, 2024 → Dec 31, 2026

Coverage

Nepal

Promote inclusive growth and job creation by strengthening the capacity of producers, government institutions and private enterprises to effectively link to domestic and international markets through the development and promotion of a Geographical indication (GI) for the country?s two commodities namely: Sichuan pepper (Timur) and the Butter Tree (Chiuri).

Organization

FAO Nepal

Budget

USD 352K

Timeline

Dec 1, 2025 → May 31, 2027

Coverage

Nepal

The Business Partnerships Platform enables businesses to partner with Australia's Aid program on investments that deliver a combined social and financial return on investment. The platform enables Australia to increase the number of its private sector partners working in developing countries, leveraging the experience and ability of business to address intractable development challenges. Partnerships target the achievement of the key objective to "Create scalable shared value partnerships that advance economic and social conditions in developing countries". This investment commenced in 2014-15.

Organization

DFAT Australian Aid

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Feb 15, 2015 → Jun 30, 2020

Coverage

Nepal

Water for Sustainable Growth supports activities to deliver upon the aid program priority of 'Agriculture, Fish and Water'. The principal actibvity supported form 2018/19 is Phase 2 of the Australian Water Partnership (AWP) which is for inclusive economic development; improving water security for all; reducing environmental and social impacts and regional tensions. The total value of this investment in Phase 2 is $26 million over 4 years, starting 2018-19. Phase 1 of AWP started in 2015/16 with a grant of $20 million over 4 years.

Organization

DFAT Australian Aid

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Feb 1, 2015 → Jun 30, 2020

Coverage

Nepal

Australia Awards Fellowships assist to build skills that contribute to economic and human development and foster links between Australia and partner countries. Australia Awards Fellowships contribute to this aim by providing grant funding to Australian organisations to host Fellows from developing countries for short-term study and professional development. Funding under this investment (Round 15) supports 111 applicants from 46 Australian organisations and is valued at $24.9 million to be expensed during the 2014-15 financial year.

Organization

DFAT Australian Aid

Budget

USD 718K

Timeline

Jul 1, 2014 → Jun 30, 2015

Coverage

Nepal