Development projects in Nepal

Earthquakes, storms, floods, and conflict cause untold damage to infrastructure, services, agriculture and livelihoods. The destruction of housing is often most visible, and the most devastating to the families, with often hundreds of thousands of homes destroyed. Householders themselves are invariably the first to respond; they are never passive, and signs of shelter recovery are very apparent from the first days after a disaster. The majority - as many as 80 or 90% - receive little or no assistance from the international community and are the main drivers of their own recovery process. This process has been termed 'self-recovery'. Previous GCRF awards supported interdisciplinary teams led by ODI in collaboration with CARE International UK, BGS, UCL and Loughborough University. They developed the understanding of the self-recovery process and advanced the theoretical basis for humanitarian assistance to the process of supporting self-recovery in practice. In large part as a result of this work, self-recovery is now a strategic element of the humanitarian shelter sector discourse with many disaster responses purporting to support this inevitable process. In recognition of the value of a people-centred approach that moves away from the convention product-based modalities, the CARE Philippines post-cyclone self-recovery project won the 2018 World Habitat Award in acknowledgment of its self-recovery focus. Sixteen thousand houses were built, each one unique and reflecting the priorities and means of each family. https://www.world-habitat.org/world-habitat-awards/winners-and-finalists/post-haiyan-self-recovery-housing-programme/ The self-recovery approach that respects the primacy of agency and choice aligns well with current humanitarian and development concerns such as the 'humanitarian development nexus', the Grand Bargain's emphasis on localisation, participation and cash-based responses, the Sendai Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction, the Sustainable Development Goals and the Global Shelter Cluster strategy. This is further explained in the Business Case. However, very little has been done to develop guidance for practice. With the exception of the protocol 'Informing Choice for Better Shelter' that delivers a guide for the development of technical educational material, there are no published tools nor guidelines that provide an implementation framework for self-recovery in shelter projects. This project addresses this gap. CARE International has over 70 country offices across the world, all of them in ODA eligible  countries. All of the proposed activities will take place two hazard prone countries where there is a CARE presence and/or an activated coordination system in the form of a country level shelter cluster. The potential regions to be selected include South Pacific islands, East Africa, Central America, Philippines and SE Asia the precise locations to be dependent on ongoing and new disaster responses. In all instances the research team will be working with the Global Shelter Cluster, country level clusters and/or CARE International country teams. These will all be ODA eligible countries. The protocol developed will be adapted to become a preparedness tool for the specific ODA eligible country context. All outputs will be thoroughly scrutinised by the humanitarian sector and incorporated directly into practice.

Organization

Department For Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

Budget

USD 6K

Timeline

Oct 1, 2019 → Nov 30, 2021

Coverage

Nepal

By the end of this project, by conducting school screening camps and systematic follow-up, we intend to have reduced visual impairment (particularly due to uncorrected refractive error) as a barrier to education for over 308,000 school-going children aged between 6-18 years in Siraha District and Parsa District in Nepal. Teachers, schoolchildren, parents and Community Health Volunteers will have increased knowledge of eye health. Hospital eye care teams will have increased knowledge and the capacity to sustain the methodology once the project ends.

Organization

Orbis Charitable Trust

Budget

USD 1.1M

Timeline

Oct 1, 2019 → Sep 30, 2022

Coverage

Parsa, Siraha

Tackling the challenge of achieving sustainable peace and preventing violence requires a consideration of local cultures, practices, histories and societal norms, and an understanding of how such norms are complex and contextually differentiated and intersectionally experienced. It is often the case that these considerations are not well or fully brought into policy and practice that tend to ignore aesthetic, representational, and reflective practices. New approaches that cross sectoral and disciplinary boundaries are vital in achieving a step change in this area. The projects funded under this programme demonstrate an innovative and interdisciplinary approach yielding new conceptual understandings, developing ground-breaking research and energising innovative collaborations in the humanities and social sciences.

Organization

Department For Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

Budget

USD 248K

Timeline

Oct 1, 2020 → Mar 31, 2023

Coverage

Nepal

Aims to support partner organisations and maintain national and international research community partnerships and capacity in the transition from Newton Fund and the Global Challenges Research Fund to the new International Science Partnerships fund.

Organization

Department For Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

Budget

USD 27K

Timeline

Apr 1, 2022 → Mar 31, 2023

Coverage

Nepal

The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.

Organization

Department For Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

Budget

USD 1.8M

Timeline

Feb 1, 2018 → Jan 31, 2021

Coverage

Nepal

The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.

Organization

Department For Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

Budget

USD 629K

Timeline

May 1, 2017 → Aug 31, 2020

Coverage

Nepal

The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.

Organization

Department For Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

Budget

USD 2.1M

Timeline

May 1, 2017 → Apr 30, 2021

Coverage

Nepal

SPA HUM-lot implementation in Nepal

Organization

Danish Red Cross

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 1, 2022 → End not reported

Coverage

Nepal

SPA DEV-lot implementation in Nepal

Organization

Danish Red Cross

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 1, 2022 → End not reported

Coverage

Nepal

Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.

Organization

Department For Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Oct 1, 2014 → Sep 30, 2017

Coverage

Nepal

Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.

Organization

Department For Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Apr 1, 2020 → Dec 4, 2020

Coverage

Nepal

An intensive resilience policy-making process is currently underway in Nepal, a country with a recent history of conflict and disaster that also faces future risks resulting from environmental change. This ground-breaking project will utilise a participatory video (PV) approach to create new and potentially challenging interventions in that process, whilst simultaneously developing methods and approaches that could have broader applicability.

Organization

Department For Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Sep 11, 2017 → Sep 10, 2018

Coverage

Nepal

Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.

Organization

Department For Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Oct 1, 2017 → Sep 30, 2021

Coverage

Nepal

Nepal is endemic for several vector-borne diseases, such as malaria, dengue, and visceral leishmaniasis. Vector-borne diseases (VBD) are diseases caused by a pathogen that is transmitted to humans through the bite of an infected blood-feeding insect (so-called ‘vectors’), such as mosquitoes or sand flies. In recent years, several of these diseases have spread from the lowlands to the mountainous (Himalayan) regions in Nepal, most likely due to climatic changes which facilitate the survival of the vectors at higher altitudes. The current public health system, however, is not equipped for this, with surveillance systems not covering newly endemic areas, and resources for disease control measures mostly lacking. This is specifically also a challenge for visceral leishmaniasis, which is on the verge of being eliminated in Nepal but is now progressively advancing into new areas. We will strengthen capacity in Nepal to collect baseline information on the geographical spread of vectors and pathogens in different ecological settings. This will allow the development of risk maps and predictions for vector-borne diseases in Nepal, both under current and future climate scenarios. In addition, we will address some of the most important knowledge gaps currently hampering successful and sustainable elimination of visceral leishmaniasis in the country. We will facilitate translation of these newly gathered insights into updated and context-specific policies, by piloting new surveillance strategies, formulating mitigation measures, and strengthening collaboration between the academic and the policy level. In addition, we will enhance capacity of policy makers to analyse routinely collected data, in order to maximize the impact of the policy changes expected through this programme.

Organization

ITM Institute of Tropical Medicine ANTWERPEN - ANVERS

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 1, 2022 → Dec 31, 2026

Coverage

Nepal

Context Nearly 1 bn people live in mountain landscapes within developing countries. Living with the impacts of multiple hazards in mountainous regions, such as monsoon rainfall, earthquakes and landsliding, is for many a day-to-day reality. Both the short- and long-term impacts of hazards are often exaggerated by their concurrent or sequential timing, and by the socio-political context in which they occur. This context results from fragmented government, rapid population change, and the very localized impacts of global (geo)political interests. As a result, hazards have recurring and disproportionate impacts on some of the most vulnerable members of society. While much research has been conducted on both the socio-political context and the individual hazards and risks that people face, this work is rarely used for disaster risk management. Aims & objectives To tackle this, we build on our existing long-standing collaborations with the aim of examining how best to develop and use new interdisciplinary science to help inform better decision making and reduce the impacts of multi-hazards in mountain countries. We focus on Nepal, which has many similarities to other lower-income countries that endure complex multi-hazards resulting from earthquakes and monsoon rainfall as well as emerging systemic risks. Nepal is also undergoing complex social, political and economic transformation associated with a change to a federal system of government and changing geopolitical pressures, all within a hazardous yet densely populated landscape. The objectives of our research are each designed to make a significant difference to the ways in which residents, government, and the international community take decisions to manage multi-hazards and systemic risks. They include: (1) Thinking critically about our current understanding of the social, political, economic and environmental context within which disasters occur in Nepal, and the data that we use to assess that context; (2) Establishing a new approach to national-scale strategic-planning for complex multi-hazard events, which includes the consequences of linked earthquakes, monsoons and landslides; (3) Developing interdisciplinary science to anticipate, plan for, and communicate the range of hazards that occur during the monsoon; and (4) Finding the best ways to utilise local knowledge and interdisciplinary science to inform how to prepare for and respond to multi-hazard disasters. Potential applications and benefit To achieve our objectives, we bring together a team of Nepali and international researchers from a range of disciplines, including geoscience, social science and the humanities, who have track records in various facets of this issue. Together, we aim to: (1) develop new fundamental data and evidence to underpin decision-making, (2) establish pathways for getting the best possible information to those who need it, in a format and timeframe that are useful and usable, (3) think critically about how multi-hazards and risks can be effectively managed, and (4) nurture an environment that supports the young researchers and practitioners who will be the future of disaster risk management in Nepal. We ground our proposal within the context of our long-term community-based work with rural residents in Nepal, and reflect upon their articulations of the need to make better decisions to reduce the risks that they face. We also build upon our work on managing risks with the Government of Nepal and the United Nations, who coordinate disaster planning in the country. The Government, UN, and major development and humanitarian organisations have been involved from the outset in developing this proposal to ensure an agile, joined-up, evidence-based approach to multi-hazard and risk management.

Organization

Department For Science, Innovation And Technology

Budget

USD 2.7M

Timeline

Jan 1, 2021 → Aug 6, 2025

Coverage

Nepal

The aims of this programme are: supporting innovative research projects and collaborations; building our understanding of human and cultural contexts and how this can help inform practices and policies aimed at contributing to sustainable development outcomes; expanding the research base in countries and populations with high unmet need and low research capacity.

Organization

Department For Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

Budget

USD 208K

Timeline

Dec 31, 2016 → Mar 31, 2023

Coverage

Nepal

BRACED - implementation phase. The Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters (BRACED) programme aims to explore approaches for building resilience in vulnerable communities within some of the most fragile states in the world. Funded by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), BRACED aims to improve the well being of vulnerable people in developing countries by building their resilience to climate extremes and disasters. BRACED started in 2014 and the original contract was set to close by December 2017. Fifteen projects working in thirteen countries were approved under the first round of funding. BRACED was extended for another eighteen months, to end on 30 September 2019. The extension comprises of eight implementation projects, five policy projects and six country dialogues. KPMG is the Fund Manager.

Organization

KPMG Advisory Limited Tanzania

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Apr 1, 2018 → Sep 30, 2019

Coverage

Nepal

On Saturday 25 April 2015 a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal. It severely shook the lives of at least 8m people and left many homeless. DEC member agencies and their partners worked urgently to provide emergency shelter, food, clean water and blankets. Once immediate, life-saving needs were met they began to work with individuals, families and communities to support them to rebuild their lives. Donations from the UK public for the appeal raised £85 million and have helped hundreds of thousands of people. DEC fundraising for this appeal is now closed but the money raised will continue to be spent over a three year period ending in April 2018.

Organization

Disasters Emergency Committee

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Apr 25, 2015 → Apr 30, 2018

Coverage

Nepal

Which civil service management practices are effective in reducing bureaucratic corruption? The "Civil Service Reform and Anti-Corruption" Project has shed light on this question through a survey of 23,000 civil servants in ten countries. Its findings show, among others, that one common management practice “ethics training“ does not correlate with lower corruption or more ethical behaviour of civil servants. In response, several governments have asked for guidance on how to design effective ethics training, and evidence on its effects. The extension will provide such evidence. It will survey corruption and (un)ethical behaviour of 1,200 civil servants in Nepal and Bangladesh over time, while providing them with a semester-long state-of-the-art ethics training in a field experiment (RCT). The extension will thus build on the project's survey findings on ethics training to provide more rigorous and detailed evidence on whether such training works and how to design it.

Organization

Global Integrity

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 1, 2019 → Dec 31, 2021

Coverage

Nepal

Projects must demonstrate an innovative and interdisciplinary approach (two or more disciplines), yielding new conceptual understanding on one or more of the following four sub-themes: a) Planning: In the context of the large, dispersed and unplanned cities of the global south, planning for resilience becomes a matter of collaborative initiative involving a host of actors and sentient infrastructures. This requires mobilising plural and interdisciplinary knowledges, both for understanding and for acting in intelligent ways. b) People: Human vulnerability and resilience go hand in hand. The poor are deprived in plural ways, but also forced to become resilient subjects, making use of the city and their know-how in imaginative ways. c) Infrastructure: Cities are held together by infrastructures, which also instantiate and regulate social life in quite strong ways. In the global south the infrastructures are broken, incomplete, badly regulated, underfunded and often reliant on vernacular improvisations. Technical solutions alone will go only so far, and are expensive. d) Habitat: The urban habitat is central to resilience, in the form of lived experience, the consequences of emissions and heating, the formation of symbolic and public culture, the consequences of urban architecture and design. This is an obvious terrain for interdisciplinary work on jointly making sense of how habitats can be managed as a silent form of 'atmospheric' regulation.

Organization

Department For Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

Budget

USD 317K

Timeline

Sep 1, 2017 → Oct 30, 2019

Coverage

Nepal

Assistance in line with UK objectives on Chevening Scholarships which enables students to pursue postgraduate study at UK higher education institutions, returning to contribute to the development of their home country

Organization

FCDO Nepal

Budget

USD 809K

Timeline

Apr 1, 2018 → Mar 31, 2022

Coverage

Nepal

The Sakriya project (Sakriya means active) works to build the capacity of Nepalese civil society to more effectively detect and combat forced child labor and other labor abuses in Nepal's brick, embroidery, and carpet weaving sectors. It leverages partnerships across Nepal's child protection networks to facilitate access to services for survivors of labor abuses and to reduce the risk that adults and children will be forced into harmful work in these sectors.

Organization

Department of Labor

Budget

USD 2.9M

Timeline

Oct 1, 2017 → Jul 31, 2022

Coverage

Nepal

Impact Evaluations: Randomized control trial impact evaluations examining the effects of UNICEF-implemented interventions aimed at combating child labor in Nepal.

Organization

Department of Labor

Budget

USD 883K

Timeline

Dec 15, 2014 → Mar 30, 2020

Coverage

Nepal

Cost increase to existing project to combat the worst forms of child labor in Nepal.

Organization

Department of Labor

Budget

USD 425K

Timeline

Sep 30, 2009 → Apr 30, 2013

Coverage

Nepal

TheTatpartaa(the Nepali word for commitment and ability to respond) project in Nepal will build the capacity of local communities to address child labor and forced labor, with a specific focus on confronting new challenges resulting from the impact of climate change.

Organization

Department of Labor

Budget

USD 260K

Timeline

Oct 1, 2023 → Mar 27, 2025

Coverage

Nepal

UNFPA Nepal Adolescents and youth activities

Organization

UNFPA Nepal

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 1, 2024 → Dec 31, 2024

Coverage

Nepal

UNFPA Nepal Humanitarian action activities

Organization

UNFPA Nepal

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 1, 2024 → Dec 31, 2024

Coverage

Nepal

UNFPA Nepal Population change and data activities

Organization

UNFPA Nepal

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 1, 2024 → Dec 31, 2024

Coverage

Nepal

UNFPA Nepal Gender and social norms activities

Organization

UNFPA Nepal

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 1, 2024 → Dec 31, 2024

Coverage

Nepal

UNFPA Nepal Quality of care and services activities

Organization

UNFPA Nepal

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 1, 2024 → Dec 31, 2024

Coverage

Nepal