Development projects in Nepal

All costs associated with the medical support of volunteers in Nepal. Includes costs of medical staff and care, staff and Volunteer medical-related travel, Volunteer medevac accompaniment travel, medical supplies, and distinct medical unit costs.

Organization

Peace Corps

Budget

USD 31K

Timeline

Oct 1, 2022 → Sep 30, 2023

Coverage

Nepal

All costs incurred for in-service training of volunteers in Nepal during their service, including language tutoring, workshops, and conferences.

Organization

Peace Corps

Budget

USD 811

Timeline

Oct 1, 2022 → Sep 30, 2023

Coverage

Nepal

All costs incurred for in-service training of volunteers in Nepal. Includes overseas staff salaries and benefit costs, leases, staff travel, communications, conferences, supplies, equipment and International Cooperative Administrative Support Services (ICASS). Excludes costs for training, medical and security.

Organization

Peace Corps

Budget

USD 601

Timeline

Oct 1, 2021 → Sep 30, 2022

Coverage

Nepal

Volunteer safety and security costs in Nepal directly associated with Volunteer and staff safety (preparedness and training), and the physical security of Peace Corps-leased properties. Includes guard services, security staff, security-related travel, supplies, equipment, physical property upgrades, and the Office of Safety and Security.

Organization

Peace Corps

Budget

USD 78K

Timeline

Oct 1, 2024 → Sep 30, 2025

Coverage

Nepal

Overseas program support costs in Nepal. Includes costs related to HQ salaries and benefits for direct overseas support, travel, rent, communications, printing, supplies, equipment, and computer/technical support.

Organization

Peace Corps

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Oct 1, 2021 → Sep 30, 2022

Coverage

Nepal

Support costs incurred for direct support of volunteers in Nepal. Includes overseas staff salaries and benefit costs, leases, staff travel, communications, conferences, supplies, equipment and International Cooperative Administrative Support Services (ICASS). Excludes costs for training, medical and security.

Organization

Peace Corps

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Oct 1, 2021 → Sep 30, 2022

Coverage

Nepal

Overseas program support costs in Nepal. Includes overseas staff salaries and benefit costs, leases, staff travel, communications, conferences, supplies, equipment and International Cooperative Administrative Support Services (ICASS). Excludes costs for training, medical and security.

Organization

Peace Corps

Budget

USD 344K

Timeline

Oct 1, 2020 → Sep 30, 2021

Coverage

Nepal

NCE request received on 11 Dec 2012- rejection letter from ERC sent out on 19 Dec 2012

Organization

UNOCHA - Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF)

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Apr 16, 2012 → Dec 31, 2012

Coverage

Nepal

Urgent Assistance to Severely Food Insecure Rural Households in Karnali-Bheri-Rapti Regions of Nepal

Organization

UNOCHA - Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF)

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

May 8, 2012 → Dec 31, 2012

Coverage

Karnali, Nepal

Support costs incurred for direct support of volunteers in Nepal, including allowances, travel, supplies and equipment. Excludes costs for training or medical support costs.

Organization

Peace Corps

Budget

USD 42K

Timeline

Oct 1, 2020 → Sep 30, 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 1.1M

Timeline

Mar 1, 2020 → Mar 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

— · not reported

Timeline

Jul 1, 2017 → Dec 31, 2019

Coverage

Nepal

Develop data and info ecosystems local and provincial level in Nepal (DIPR)

Organization

Development Initiatives Poverty Research

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Mar 24, 2020 → Mar 29, 2024

Coverage

Nepal

Nepal E4D (Evidence for Development)

Organization

Development Initiatives Poverty Research

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 1, 2018 → Oct 31, 2019

Coverage

Nepal

Work with Open Contracting Partnership in Nepal on public procurement data

Organization

Development Initiatives Poverty Research

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Feb 19, 2018 → Dec 31, 2018

Coverage

Nepal

Access to Information master project

Organization

Development Initiatives Poverty Research

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Mar 1, 2014 → Dec 31, 2016

Coverage

Nepal

Layperson summary The context for the Emilia proposal is the 'mental health treatment gap'. This is the difference between the number of people with mental illness needing treatment and care, and the number who actually receive help. At present this gap is huge. Over 80% of people with severe mental disorders in low and middle income countries (LMICs) receive no treatment at all. The aim of the Emilia project is to assess if it is possible to produce a version of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Mental Health Global Action Programme Intervention Guide that is easily usable on smart phones and tablet devices, for use in this project by primary care staff in Nepal and Nigeria. We intend to assess if this electronic form of guidance is suitable for use in other LMICs, where over 85% of the world's population live. We will compare the training, support and supervision given to primary health care using the paper version and the electronic version of the WHO Mental Health Global Action Programme Intervention Guide (mhGAP IG). We will assess if the electronic version is more practical to use (ie more feasible) by answering the following questions. Is the electronic version more feasible to use in terms of: 1. greater staff acceptability 2. more often leading to an evidence-based intervention 3. a greater proportion of patients with depression are identified by primary care staff 4. being affordable and cost-effective 5. delivering better clinical support and supervision to primary care staff 6. leading to less stigma related to people with mental illness among primary care staff

Organization

Department For Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

Budget

USD 716K

Timeline

Oct 1, 2018 → Mar 31, 2021

Coverage

Nepal

For the majority of cancers, early detection results in better survival. Oral cancer is one of the few cancers that is visible and many of these cancers are preceded by a potentially malignant lesion where medical intervention can prevent the development of cancer. Taken together, oral cancer presents an opportunity for early detection. However, identifying which oral lesion has a propensity to become oral cancer is not straightforward without specialised training and this problem is confounded by the lack of specialists who are trained in this expertise particularly in low- and middle-income countries, where the majority of oral cancers are diagnosed. One innovative approach to overcome this is to develop an artificial intelligence algorithm to classify oral lesions into those that are benign and those that are potentially malignant or are occult cancer so that patients can be triaged accordingly to receive appropriate clinical management. In this project, we propose to work within a multi-disciplinary, international team to collate a library of images from existing and prospective collections that will facilitate the development of an artificial intelligence algorithm that will be tested and validated. The outcome of this project will pave the way for further rigorous testing, development of an App incorporating this automated tool and clinical validation for the early detection of oral cancer. The development of an automated tool for the classification of oral lesions will facilitate the identification of patients most at risk to develop oral cancer so that these individuals can be managed appropriately. This project is particularly impactful in the low- and middle-income countries as the majority of the global burden of oral cancer is found in these countries.

Organization

Department For Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

Budget

USD 63K

Timeline

Nov 15, 2018 → Nov 14, 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 87K

Timeline

Jan 1, 2018 → Dec 31, 2018

Coverage

Nepal

Depression is a common mental disorder that will affect up to one out of five people around the world during their lifetimes and tends to start in adolescence. Depression is an especially debilitating mental illness because it often begins early in life and has a chronic course with many depressive episodes occurring throughout one's lifetime. Many people lack access to depression care and this is especially true in the world's poorest countries. Our proposed collaboration aims to bring a high-income country's expertise in research, where most of the scientific knowledge about depression and other mental health problems has been produced, to developing countries, where 9 out of 10 children and adolescents live. This collaboration between King's College London in the UK and researchers from Brazil, Nepal and Nigeria intends to find new ways to identify which adolescents are at risk of depression, what protects young people from developing depression, and are these factors the same or different in these contrasting contexts. Such information is crucial to help us understand how to intervene early in a range of settings to prevent a lifetime of suffering. In order to achieve this, we propose to do the following: First, we will bring together researchers with different types of expertise from high (UK), middle (Brazil and Nigeria) and low (Nepal) income countries to reach a consensus about how to measure risk and protective factors for depression in comparable ways among adolescents in these different countries. We will then draw upon existing datasets of youth who have participated in research at multiple time points during their childhood and adolescence to run initial tests to see whether similar or different factors predict the development of depression in each country. This collaborative network will then apply for funding to conduct a new research project to assess much larger numbers of adolescents in each country with the consensus measures to identify the biological, social, psychological, and environmental factors that predict which adolescents will develop depression and which will not in each of these settings. Finally, we will scope out potential gaps in equipment, expertise, and policies in each country so that we know what needs to be put in place before such a large-scale research project can be successfully conducted. In order to begin the process of rectifying these gaps, we will deliver online training and offer hands-on apprenticeships to increase the skills of researchers in Brazil, Nepal and Nigeria to enable them to effectively conduct the research themselves. Ultimately, this research will generate new knowledge on how to identify and prevent depression among youth, which would substantially decrease the personal, social and economic costs associated with the disorder in these countries and around the globe.

Organization

Department For Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

Budget

USD 66K

Timeline

Feb 1, 2018 → Jan 31, 2019

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 4K

Timeline

Sep 1, 2017 → Aug 31, 2022

Coverage

Nepal

Non-communicable diseases (NCD) are a major public health issue in South Asia (S Asia), accounting for 60% of deaths. Urbanisation is a key driver, increasing mental stress and injuries and risk factors such as tobacco use, poor diet and inadequate physical activity. Public health decision-makers in LMICs need unbiased, precise and accessibly-presented data to inform equitable urban development. Nationally representative surveys are the main data source used to inform decision-making in LMICs, e.g. Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and STEPS NCD Risk Factor Surveillance are used in over 90 LMICs. This approach has many problems: it excludes unofficial poor settlements and peri-urban areas beyond administrative boundaries; definitions of a 'household' overlook multiple occupancy by poor urbanites; current methods for ranking wealth are not sensitive to urban poverty; and NCDs currently assessed in these surveys do not include injuries and mental ill-health, conditions that disproportionately affect the urban poor. These methodological constraints leave policy makers with no way of understanding or responding to the NCD burden and inequities found within urban areas in LMICs. Furthermore, the way data is currently presented - in long wordy reports - undermines decision-makers' ability to find and interpret data for planning and managing health programmes. We will capitalise on existing partnerships and develop new ones, to i) identify and test questions on mental health and injuries, ii) test cheap and efficient novel methods to reduce bias in urban surveys iii) explore alternative approaches to defining households, measuring and ranking wealth iv) develop data visualisation tools to support decision-makers' use of survey data. We will conduct this foundation work in Nepal, Bangladesh and Vietnam as their different urban characteristics increase our works applicability to other LMICs and we have existing strong partnerships. We will hold two meetings and facilitate ongoing interaction with international and national bodies to share expertise and build capabilities on the novel survey methods, measures of wealth and NCDs, data visualisation and use of data to address urban inequities. We will conduct a systematic search of questionnaires and draw on our own work assessing injuries and mental health to identify the best questions for LMIC urban areas. We will finalise the questionnaire in collaboration with government stakeholders after checking its comprehensibility in urban slums. We will pilot our novel survey sampling and mapping methods in Kathmandu, where our initial pilot of these methods was curtailed by the 2015 earthquake. Our novel methods use satellite imagery, mobile phone and census data, to identify the entire urban population including those not captured by the census. Once sampled, we will use a web-based app to accurately map communities. Smaller feasibility studies of the methods and developed questionnaire will be conducted in Hanoi and Dhaka. We will explore household types and identify wealth indicators in urban slums. Using our pilot data, we will explore associations between household consumption, assets and income to develop an appropriate measure of urban wealth. In each country, we will assess the extent to which data is used in urban planning and management through interviews with decision-makers. Through the establishment of communities of practice within municipalities, we will co-produce appropriate data visualisation tools to support planning and management. This foundation grant has the potential to i) transform survey methods used in all LMICs, enabling more accurate assessment of health inequities in urban areas ii) provide questions on mental health and injuries for use in other surveys in LMICs, and iii) ensure data informs the health-sector response to NCDs in LMICs.

Organization

Department For Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

Budget

USD 374K

Timeline

Mar 1, 2017 → Mar 31, 2019

Coverage

Kathmandu, Bagmati

The NDC Partnership (the Partnership) is a global coalition of countries and institutions collaborating to drive transformational climate action while enhancing sustainable development. The Partnership is working directly with developing country governments, mobilizing resources and expertise to support and accelerate their Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) implementation and increased ambition in updated NDC around the worlds. The Partnership is recognized as a neutral broker among stakeholders and a trusted partner, evidencing a strong governance structure, clear theory of change, and transparent strategy. Guided by a Steering Committee, the Partnership is comprised of developed and developing nations and international institutions and led by Co-Chairs from the Republic of Costa Rica and the Kingdom of the Netherlands. A Support Unit, which facilitates the work of the Partnership, has grown and consolidated to support its ambitious vision. As more governments seek support for turning NDCs into action, membership continues to grow considerably.

Organization

World Resources Institute

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 1, 2019 → Dec 31, 2021

Coverage

Nepal

Many low-income countries are suffering from shortages of health workers in rural areas. To expand access to health care, mid level health workers with up to three years training are being expected to complete tasks that higher cadres of health worker would usually undertake. Yet these cadres are largely ignored at a policy level. To enable these health workers to fulfill their potential and provide good quality care, they need to be adequately supported and supervised. Research suggests that health workers may respond better to supervision if their supervisor is aware of their emotional needs, and they build trust through listening, empathy and responding to their individual concerns (Cummings et al. 2010). This development grant will enable us to develop supportive supervision interventions for mid level health workers in rural Nepal, which will then be implemented through existing systems and evaluated in subsequent research. We will conduct a review of the literature using a realist methodology to understand for whom and in what circumstances interventions work. This will inform the development of supportive supervision interventions in Nepal. We will collect data from policy makers, programme implementers, managers, and health workers to describe existing systems, their weaknesses and collate the learning from national pilot interventions. This information will be discussed in a working group of government and non government participants who will meet regularly. This will help us to develop feasible interventions that have a broad level of support. A health economist will then model intervention costs. Interventions will be presented, debated and prioritised in a workshop with participants from the district and central level. On finalising interventions, a methodology will be designed to evaluate and understand the effect of these interventions, with input from experts and the working group. Funding sources will be identified to implement the interventions and research the effect of a supportive supervision intervention for mid level health workers in rural Nepal. We will disseminate our learning from this process through international peer reviewed publications, briefing papers, conferences and social media.

Organization

Department For Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

Budget

USD 156K

Timeline

Feb 1, 2016 → Dec 31, 2017

Coverage

Nepal

This activity is part of the Right Here Right Now 2 (RHRN2) programme. It includes the consolidated results of the RHRN2 Nepal country coalition.

Organization

Rutgers

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 1, 2021 → Dec 31, 2025

Coverage

Nepal

RHRN Nepal

Organization

Rutgers

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Dec 1, 2016 → Dec 31, 2020

Coverage

Nepal

Right Here Right Now 2 (RHRN2) builds on the successes of its predecessor Right Here Right Now (2016-2020) funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The new partnership, RHRN2 (2021-2025) consists of consortium partners Rutgers (lead), AMPF, ARROW, CHOICE, RHU, and RNW Media, and technical partners Dance4Life and IPPF AR. The strategic objective of RHRN2 is for young people in all their diversity to enjoy their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in gender-just societies. By placing young people at the forefront of the partnership, RHRN2 seeks:• to increase public support for SRHR; • to improve policies and laws; and • to strengthen civil society. RHRN2 works through partners in: Bangladesh, Benin, Burundi, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Kenya, Morocco, Nepal, Tunisia and Uganda.

Organization

Rutgers

Budget

USD 3.1M

Timeline

Jan 1, 2021 → Dec 31, 2025

Coverage

Nepal

<p class="ql-align-justify">This&nbsp;Initiative addresses the&nbsp;<a href="https://cgiar-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/g/personal/performanceandresult_cgiar_org/EZK1Mrs-xcFDoSsihDRenLUBmJIqamygaqJebCZpLJMRmg" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">Sustainable intensification</a>&nbsp;(SI) of&nbsp;<a href="https://cgiar-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/g/personal/performanceandresult_cgiar_org/EZK1Mrs-xcFDoSsihDRenLUBmJIqamygaqJebCZpLJMRmg" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">Mixed farming systems</a>&nbsp;(MFS). By SI, we mean&nbsp;the production of more food on the same piece of land while reducing the negative environmental impact.&nbsp;MFS&nbsp;cover&nbsp;about 2.5&nbsp;billion&nbsp;ha of land globally<span style="background-color: inherit;">i</span>. In the developing world, MFS supply around 75% of milk, 60% of meat,&nbsp;and 41–86% of cereals consumed<span style="background-color: inherit;">ii</span>. These&nbsp;<a href="https://cgiar-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/g/personal/performanceandresult_cgiar_org/EZK1Mrs-xcFDoSsihDRenLUBmJIqamygaqJebCZpLJMRmg" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">farming systems</a>&nbsp;occur in nearly all&nbsp;agro-ecological zones, with an enormous variety of climatic and soil conditions<span style="background-color: inherit;">iii</span>&nbsp;and livelihood patterns<span style="background-color: inherit;">iv</span>.&nbsp;</p><p class="ql-align-justify">In MFS, livestock provides draft power for crop cultivation and manure to fertilize the soil, while crop residues provide livestock feed. Livestock is sold to compensate for low crop yields in unfavorable years. Mixed systems allow farmers to diversify risk from single crop production, use labor efficiently, access cash, and add value to products. Integrating crops and livestock has the potential to maintain ecosystem function and health, and to help prevent agricultural systems from becoming fragile by enhancing biodiversity and thus increasing capability to absorb shocks to the natural resource base<span style="background-color: inherit;">v</span>.&nbsp;</p><p class="ql-align-justify">&nbsp;</p><p class="ql-align-justify">Population growth, urbanization, water scarcity, soil degradation, climate change, evolving food consumption patterns, and food price volatility are pressures that act on these systems<span style="background-color: inherit;">vi</span>, deepening inequalities in resource access,&nbsp;and&nbsp;leading&nbsp;to conflict and migration<span style="background-color: inherit;">vii</span>. Social inequalities are a persistent feature of&nbsp;agrifood&nbsp;systems including MFS. They relate to deeply entrenched inequitable norms that produce unfavorable outcomes—&nbsp;primarily for women, youth, and marginalized actors—&nbsp;and obstruct progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)<span style="background-color: inherit;">viii</span>.&nbsp;</p><p class="ql-align-justify">&nbsp;</p><p class="ql-align-justify">Farmers’&nbsp;local experience and knowledge&nbsp;enable them&nbsp;to adapt to many challenges. However, the increasing speed at which many changes are happening will likely exceed their capacity<span style="background-color: inherit;">ix</span>.&nbsp;</p><p class="ql-align-justify">The challenges can be mitigated through SI, which responds to the need to both feed growing populations and counteract environmental degradation<span style="background-color: inherit;">x</span>. Sustainable intensification requires integrated systems research to identify context-specific pathways towards resilient, scalable MFS that preserve natural capital, offer equitable benefits for all, and attract young people to venture into profitable agribusinesses. The components of MFS interact both with each other and with the external environment, including climate and landscape<span style="background-color: inherit;">xi</span>. However, there are knowledge gaps on the biophysical and socio-economic interactions and dynamics<span style="background-color: inherit;">xii</span>, which can undermine many development-oriented interventions aiming at driving MFS towards SI.&nbsp;</p><p class="ql-align-justify">&nbsp;</p><p class="ql-align-justify">A predominantly commodity and biophysical research approach has been leading to improvements in single system components, but frequently amplifies the&nbsp;<a href="https://cgiar-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/g/personal/performanceandresult_cgiar_org/EZK1Mrs-xcFDoSsihDRenLUBmJIqamygaqJebCZpLJMRmg" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">trade-offs</a>&nbsp;between different livelihood objectives if the interactions between crop, tree, livestock, and social sub-systems are not properly addressed at the appropriate spatial and temporal scales. This has affected the capacity to scale many of the technologies and practices promoted by CGIAR and partners in landscapes dominated by MFS.&nbsp;</p><p class="ql-align-justify">&nbsp;</p><p class="ql-align-justify">Current research to support SI&nbsp;of&nbsp;MFS is often disconnected, falling short of the effectiveness and scale needed to achieve important global targets such as the SDGs. Also, attention to how SI may (re-)produce inequalities has remained low<span style="background-color: inherit;">xiii</span>. For One CGIAR to make significant contributions that result in multiple desired impacts at sufficiently large scales will require well-coordinated, prioritized,&nbsp;and focused efforts that strategically integrate multiple elements of the sub-systems in MFS. SI&nbsp;of MFS provides a viable avenue to achieve this.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p>

Organization

ICRC Nepal

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Apr 1, 2022 → Mar 31, 2025

Coverage

Nepal

<p class="ql-align-justify">Home to one-quarter of humanity — one-fifth of whom are youth – South Asia has the world’s largest concentration of poverty and malnutrition.^[i] The Green Revolution positioned South Asia to produce one-quarter of the world's consumed food,<strong> </strong>but<strong> the region’s agrifood systems today face formidable poverty reduction, climate change adaptation and mitigation, environmental health and biodiversity challenges. Significant hurdles remain to securing an adequate and affordable supply of diverse foods necessary for sustainable healthy diets (SHDs)</strong>.^[ii] Social, economic, and geographic inequalities create barriers from production to consumption, disproportionately affecting the poor.[iii] Unhealthy food consumption is rising, with many nutritious foods too costly for the poor.^[iv]</p><p class="ql-align-justify">South Asia’s predominantly rice-based farming systems span the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP).^[v] While crucial to food security and political and economic stability<strong>,</strong>^{<strong>[vi]</strong>}<strong> </strong><strong style="color: black;">parts of the IGP are threatened by unsustainable groundwater withdrawal</strong><span style="color: black;"> — the region extracts one-quarter of global groundwater — due to food and energy policy distortions.</span>^[vii] <strong>Natural resource degradation, low resource use efficiency, and agriculturally-based nonpoint</strong> <strong>source air pollution undermine sustainability and human health</strong>.^[viii] South Asia’s farmers are both contributors to and victims of <strong>climate change and extreme weather.</strong>^[ix] In association with off-farm employment opportunities, these issues contribute to <strong>rural out-migration </strong>— particularly of youth — resulting in rising labor scarcity and increased production costs. This in turn <strong>disproportionately affects resource-poor and women farmers</strong>.^[x] Outside of the highly-productive ‘breadbasket’ of the western IGP, many farmers suffer from weak markets, poor access to extension, limited access to irrigation, and insufficient policy support.^[xi] These issues contribute to nearly<strong> 22 million hectares being fallowed </strong>across South Asia following the harvest of the monsoon-season rice crop,^[xii]&nbsp;indicative of a significant missed opportunity sustainable intensification and diversified farm production. </p><p class="ql-align-justify">Many of South Asia’s agricultural policies and the research systems supporting them focus primarily on the production and related value chains of single crops in isolation, with less emphasis on developing an evidence base around the <strong>multisectoral farm, market, and policy interventions</strong> needed to sustainably intensify and diversify farming systems equitably without overstepping environmental boundaries.^[xiii] Although agriculturally-focused nutrition interventions are frequently proposed to improve diets in rural communities, causal linkages between farm production and nutrition are not always direct, underscoring the <strong>need for integrated approaches considering household food production alongside market purchase</strong>.^[xiv] In addition, <strong>poor nutrition awareness</strong> among rural households, low affordability of nutritious diets and <strong>limitations to women’s empowerment</strong> interact to prevent progress.^[xv]</p><p class="ql-align-justify">These obstacles must be overcome through<strong> coordinated efforts to transform agrifood systems in ways that ensure that people can equitably access and consume healthy diets produced within environmental boundaries, while also securing livelihoods</strong> and reducing poverty.^[xvi] <strong>Food systems are urgently needed that generate profits and incentivize farmers to produce nutritious foods, while also reducing prices for consumers purchasing healthy products by shortening and reducing inefficiencies within value chains</strong>.^[xvii] These objectives — which are also governmental and donor priorities in Bangladesh, Nepal, India, and Pakistan — require <strong>coordinated research and action across the public and private sector</strong>.^[xviii] In response, TAFSSA will partner across sectors to generate <strong>actionable evidence spanning the production-to-consumption continuum</strong>. TAFSSA <strong>will also amplify the effects of other CGIAR Initiatives</strong> working in South Asia to <strong>achieve productive, environmentally sound agrifood systems that support equitable access to SHDs</strong>. <span style="color: black;">(</span><em style="color: black;">Additional references and supporting evidence can be found online in </em><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/gje6of3nsrax06q/ANNEX%202.1.pdf?dl=0" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Annex 2.1</em></a><span style="color: black;">)</span></p>

Organization

ICRC Nepal

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 1, 2022 → Dec 31, 2024

Coverage

Nepal

This IATI activity file represents the grantees receiving AmplifyChange funding for their projects in Nepal. Certain projects may have been anonymised in the data for safety and security reasons. AmplifyChange is a multi-donor fund that supports civil society organisations who advocate for improved sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). AmplifyChange offers both financial and capacity-building support to selected civil society organisations through a challenge fund model, where organisations submit applications in competitive funding rounds. AmplifyChange is managed by MannionDaniels in consortium with the African Women’s Development Fund and Global Fund for Women. AmplifyChange was tendered in 2013, established in 2014, and the first funding rounds were held in 2015. The number of donors have increased since the beginning to a current total pot of approximately £90 million available for grant making (correct as of end-2017); the additional donor commitments have been extended to 2021. The donors include the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Denmark (Danida), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, ViiV Healthcare, the Department of International Development (DFID) the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) working with the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education (RFSU), and one anonymous donor. Please refer to the parent IATI activity of this country activity for more information on the Fund. AmplifyChange Fund support civil society organisations (CSOs) primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, with some small grants being extended to organisations operating in Latin America, the Middle East and East Asia. Applicants can apply across four grant types: 1) Opportunity Grants: maximum 10,000 Euros over 1-year maximum 2) Strengthening Grants: between 40,000 – 100,000 Euros over 6 to 24 months 3) Network Grants: between 150,000 – 550,000 Euros over 2 years 4) Strategic Grants: between 550,000 to 2 million Euros over 2 years.

Organization

MannionDanniels

Budget

USD 3.1M

Timeline

Jun 23, 2014 → Nov 30, 2021

Coverage

Nepal