Development projects in Nepal

Some key activities include: -Improved Capacity of Global South Negotiators -Increased Participation of Developing Country Negotiators -Progress initiatives and work plans -Global South Suppliers Benefiting from CASA2 Opportunity Fund Other activities include:  Preparing and strengthening delegations  Enhancing government representation  Diplomatic engagements  Pavilion events management  Ongoing support

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Practical Action

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Aug 1, 2024 → May 1, 2025

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Nepal

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Mar 1, 2024 → Jul 31, 2025

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Nepal

This funding is a grant that helps to deliver clean energy access in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, or the Indo-Pacific. It must include a UK registered administrative lead and if you are an international organization, partnership with a UK administrative lead is required.

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Practical Action

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Jun 1, 2024 → Apr 30, 2026

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Nepal

The consultant firm will lead a baseline survey in Nepal's dairy and vegetable sectors, and other interventions, to collect data on smallholder farmers and households for CASA's Cohort 3 partnerships. Key objectives include gathering operational and livelihood data on smallholder farmers and collecting qualitative baseline data from CASA partners.

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Jun 24, 2024 → Sep 30, 2024

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Nepal

Conduct vulnerability risk assessment for 38 municipalities of Nepal and equip local governments with the tools, insights, and guidance necessary for effective climate-related hazard assessments, climate risk mitigation, and fostering a proactive approach to building resilience in local communities.

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Practical Action

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Jul 15, 2024 → Jul 17, 2025

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Nepal

The overall objective of the assignment is to build the capacity of AKC and VHLSEC on climate change discourse to support the integration of NDC and NAP priorities into agriculture plans and budgets in Nepal. This will be done through providing orientation to stakeholders, and by providing training to agriculture and livestock frontline official, Agri stakeholders, and private entities in Nepal with comprehensive knowledge of climate change discourse.

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Practical Action

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Jun 2, 2024 → Jan 7, 2025

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Nepal

Under the assignment a market assessment will be done to understand the rural water kisk models and feasibility in Sarlahi and Rautahat districts of Nepal. The outcome will be recommended operating models.

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Practical Action

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Feb 20, 2024 → May 31, 2024

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Rautahat, Sarlahi

The opportunity aims at reducing the impacts of heatwaves using Artificial Intelligence. This involves developing an automated dashboard called Heat-AI. This dashboard will collect data from various sources, including ground level observations and other credible data sources and visualize the information through heat-land effects, highlighting hotspot areas and offer recommendations for preparedness and to act in anticipation.

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Practical Action

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Mar 20, 2024 → Apr 15, 2025

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Nepal

In phase one two supplychains liking e-cooking suppliers and financial institutions in urban and pre-urban areas were developed. In this phase we will take the learnings and activate the supplychain to disseminate 1500 EPCS.

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Practical Action

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May 1, 2024 → Feb 28, 2026

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Nepal

Project to improve river level monitoring for flood early warning and expanding Index Based Flood Insurance coverage to climate impacted communities in Babai River, Banke District and tributary of Karnali Rivier Nepal.

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Practical Action

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Dec 31, 2023 → Mar 31, 2027

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Banke, Lumbini

The outcome assessment will cover partner agribusinesses and smallholder farmers engaged through the CASA component for both Cohort I and Cohort II. The research will adopt a mixed research approach, consisting of a quantitative survey of smallholder farmers and qualitative enquiry with farmers, partners and potentially other stakeholders.

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Practical Action

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Jan 25, 2024 → Apr 11, 2024

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Nepal

The urrent Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance has been requested to develop a global proposal to the Foundation for a 12 year Climate Resilience Programme. this builds on much of what we have achieved and many of the same approaches from phase 2 of the F

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Practical Action

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Feb 1, 2024 → Dec 31, 2027

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Nepal

The overall objective of the assignment is to develop guidance on scaling up CSA tools and technologies in addressing gender disparities and promoting gender equality and inclusivity in agriculture system in Nepal.

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Practical Action

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Dec 7, 2023 → Jun 30, 2024

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Nepal

The objective of this assignment is to develop local level climate and human security frameworks for local level to help understand human security risks and identify solutions for Barekot Rural Municipality and Nalgad Municipality of Jajarkot District.

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Practical Action

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Sep 8, 2023 → Apr 30, 2024

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Jajarkot, Karnali

This project aims to strengthen and improve livelihoods of poor women farmers in Nepal by teaching regenerative farming techniques. We will implement a peer mentorship model to support poor women farmers in Nepal to adopt regenerative agriculture techniques that improve soil fertility and increase incomes. This proposed pilot project aims to reach 500 farmers, (400 will be women), targeting women heads of households and ethnic and marginalised groups, primarily from the Dalit community.

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Practical Action

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Oct 1, 2023 → Apr 30, 2025

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Nepal

1/ Développer les services publics, communautaires et privés pour la Petite Enfance (accès aux services) ; 2/ Améliorer la protection et la qualité de l'éducation des jeunes enfants; 3/ Enrichir les pratiques et renforcer les compétences des acteurs de la PE (expertise et capitalisation).

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AFD

Budget

USD 448K

Timeline

Dec 1, 2020 → Jun 2, 2022

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Nepal

N/A

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Practical Action

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May 15, 2023 → Apr 14, 2025

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Nepal

Assess the current energy sources for cooking and their consumption patterns small and medium scale enterprises/businesses and institutions; Identify the opportunities and barriers to promoting e-cooking stoves among enterprise and institutions; Design a business/financial model for the sustainable promotion of e-cookstoves in the commercial/business and institutional sectors.

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Practical Action

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Mar 21, 2023 → Sep 30, 2024

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Nepal

The project activities include activation of early warning systems through data-based modeling and using modern technologies, identifying risk sensitive areas, development and installation of early warning systems and conduction of capacity development trainings to the local government authorities.

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Practical Action

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Feb 13, 2023 → Feb 28, 2024

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Nepal

The Sahaj Challenge Fund will aim to address those challenges where disruptive, ‘break-from-the-past’ type innovations are considered key to move the sector forward. The Fund aims to solve persistent bottlenecks in the private sector functioning of agriculture in Province 1. bottlenecks in the private sector functioning of agriculture in Province 1 and contribute to a higher level of commercialization and economic value-add in this sector.

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Practical Action

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Feb 20, 2023 → Jun 1, 2024

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Koshi, Nepal

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Practical Action

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Oct 24, 2022 → Mar 22, 2025

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Karnali, Nepal

The research will also support and inform our work with the Government of Nepal and our wider projects on adaptation

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Practical Action

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Jan 1, 2023 → Dec 31, 2026

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Nepal

he Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS) challenge fund provides research funding to stimulate innovations in modern energy cooking technology and systems. In addition, MECS supports the advancement of innovative clean energy cooking products, processes, and services in low-income countries that are appropriate and acceptable to users.

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Practical Action

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Dec 1, 2022 → Jun 30, 2023

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Nepal

The assignment is to understand the prospect of increased use of electricity as cooking fuel at the enterprise, commercial and institutional level. To facilitate our understanding, the proposed research will be undertaken and will allow the stakeholders to envisage Current practices, challenges, opportunities, benefits and barriers for the enterprise, and so on.

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Practical Action

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Dec 1, 2022 → Aug 22, 2023

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Nepal

This assignment will lay out the baseline that will determine the starting point, or benchmark for which the interventions proposed will be assessed in order to determine the project impact. The baseline assessment will also serve as reference for decision making in terms of specific actions to be taken by the project in order to achieve the objectives specified.

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Practical Action

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Sep 28, 2022 → Dec 27, 2022

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Nepal

The aim of this competition is to support highly innovative, market-focused energy solutions in any technology or sector.

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Practical Action

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Sep 1, 2022 → Sep 17, 2024

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Nepal

The aim of this current assignment is to expand our research to explore the use of multiple devices in a household, particularly as mechanisms for mitigating the upfront costs are emerging (e.g. cost reduction of devices, credit facilities, utilities led financing, carbon finance, and results based financing). We seek to generate data on a wider range of devices and how they can be used to meet all household cooking needs.

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Practical Action

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Oct 1, 2022 → Mar 31, 2023

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Nepal

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Aug 10, 2022 → Jun 9, 2025

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Nepal

The main objective of this task order is to provide mentorship (consulting, coaching, mentoring and support needed) to the top teams to be successful in bringing their business ideas to market or extend their business reach, such that new locally appropriate DRRM solutions are available and distributed sustainably (i.e., marketed and sold by local businesses).

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Practical Action

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Jun 15, 2022 → Sep 30, 2022

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Nepal

The project will be executed through a consortium of three national and international organizations namely NSET, The LWF and PAC. Proposed activities including province and local coordination, and reporting to IOM and MoFAGA.

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Practical Action

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Apr 15, 2022 → Feb 5, 2023

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Nepal