Development projects in Nepal

A $217,190 Bilateral grant from IDRC-International Development Research Centre to IFPRI for FEMINIZATION OF AGRICULTR

Organization

ICRC Nepal

Budget

USD 18K

Timeline

Jul 1, 2019 → Jun 30, 2021

Coverage

Nepal

The nutrition transition in South Asia, both in the rapidly urbanizing population and in peri-urban and rural areas, has led to diets that include a high amount of ultra-processed food, including sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs). Aggressive marketing of SSB industries, along with inadequate policy, low compliance and weak enforcement of existing policies, is leading to high consumption of SSBs, particularly among children and youth in the countries of focus. Evidence from global research suggests that SSB labels, both text or image-based, reduce young people’s predicted preferences for, and reported probability of purchasing, SSBs. This also influences parents’ willingness to purchase SSBs for their children. Calorie information may also reduce selection and consumption, specifically of SSBs. This project seeks to build momentum for a more effective regulatory and fiscal policy in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka and, ultimately, across the region. The project will undertake analysis of current policies and laws as well as SSB marketing practices and then co-create culturally relevant and understandable package labels. This will serve as the basis for policy recommendations for contextually appropriate labelling to inform consumer choice and improve diet-related health outcomes. This project is part of a cohort supporting diverse and multi-actor coalitions that combine collaborative learning networks and communities of practice, operating at multiple scales, to collectively support the production, consumption of and access to healthy diets for all, particularly the most vulnerable, emphasizing sustainable systems that contribute to the health of people and ecosystems.

Organization

International Development Research Centre

Budget

USD 60K

Timeline

Nov 1, 2024 → May 1, 2027

Coverage

Nepal

Trade measures, taxes and subsidies are an important means of enabling access to healthy dietary choices. Ensuring policy coherence, such as aligning domestic agricultural subsidies, taxes and trade policies with interventions for better nutrition, is a complex undertaking. This project will address the research gap on how fiscal and trade policies interact with dietary patterns and consumption choices to impact nutrition and health outcomes. This project aims to develop a South Asian research, policy and practice network for deploying fiscal and trade policies to improve access and affordability of healthy diets. The project team will use scoping reviews and exploratory research techniques to develop country-specific analysis to identify and use fiscal and trade measures to overcome the triple burden of wasting, stunting and obesity, and to promote healthy diets. This analysis will include an assessment on how national food safety requirements are connected to trade policies. The research team will focus on understanding how policy reform can address gender disparities, which are one of the most pervasive forms of inequality and a major cause of poor health and nutrition outcomes in South Asia. This project is part of a cohort supporting diverse and multi-actor coalitions that take on a leadership role to influence policies and transform food systems at the country and regional level in Central and South America, South Asia and Southeast Asia. These coalitions combine collaborative learning networks and communities of practice, operating at multiple scales, to collectively support the production and consumption of, and access to, healthy diets for all, particularly the most vulnerable, emphasizing sustainable systems that contribute to the health of people and ecosystems.

Organization

International Development Research Centre

Budget

USD 32K

Timeline

Jan 1, 2025 → Apr 1, 2026

Coverage

Nepal

Climate change affects people and economies across the world, but the impact is nowhere more pronounced than in marginalized communities in low-income countries like Nepal. Even within the impacted population, women are significantly more vulnerable than men because of an absence of economic independence and pre-existing social settings that leave them deprived of essential rights. On the other hand, climate-positive micro-enterprises in rural areas not only help address the climate change problem, but also provide opportunities for economic empowerment for women, thereby enhancing the resilience of such societies to the impacts of climate change. However, a major hurdle faced by such entities is access to finance. With inadequate scale, insufficient access to resources, unevolved business models, uncertain markets and absence of credit history, these micro-enterprises are considered ineligible for finance by traditional institutions. This project is aimed at developing a research-informed template for identifying constraints and impediments faced by women-led or women-benefiting enterprises in sustainable forestry in Nepal, and identifying meaningful appropriate pathways for access to finance for such enterprises. The research will also highlight the need for specific project preparation, including appropriate capacity building, for such enterprises, which will be utilized to design a funded project preparation facility that could potentially culminate in fundraising for select enterprises.

Organization

International Development Research Centre

Budget

USD 353K

Timeline

Oct 15, 2024 → Oct 15, 2026

Coverage

Nepal

IDRC is embarking on a five-year partnership (Artificial Intelligence for Development: Responsible AI, Empowering People) with the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, also known as AI4D-FCDO, to support policy, innovations and expanded leadership to spur safe and responsible artificial intelligence (AI) development in Africa and beyond. The vision of the program is to support an inclusive and responsible AI ecosystem that improves the quality of life for all in low- and middle-income countries. This project, which is part of AI4D-FCDO, will ensure that sexual, reproductive and maternal health (SRMH) hubs around the world graduate from proof-of-concept to testing and scaling. In South Asia, the AI Sarosh hub has awarded nine grants in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The grants cover areas such as adolescent health, developing affordable colposcopy imaging and digital microscopes, early detection of postnatal depression, risk management for pregnant mothers, AI-enhanced fetal ultrasound services, AI-enabled detection of perinatal depression and early diagnosis of gestational diabetes. The monitoring of these projects has allowed AI Sarosh to identify gaps in policy and regulatory frameworks, implementation challenges, and a lack of an evidence base on the responsible use of AI in health in the region. Through this project, AI Sarosh aims to: generate evidence by supporting field evaluations of the solutions currently in development in real-life settings that can inform scaling; improve understanding of SMRH issues and the potential of AI applications in SRMH through gap analysis; develop strategies to inform policy and regulatory decision-makers and relevant stakeholders; and provide a platform for the sub-grantees to interface with other health and AI experts.

Organization

International Development Research Centre

Budget

USD 80K

Timeline

Sep 1, 2024 → Sep 1, 2027

Coverage

Nepal

In sub-Saharan Africa, indicators for maternal, sexual and reproductive health continue to lag other health indicators. For example, the continent is not on track to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal’s target of ensuring universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services. Artificial intelligence (AI) holds the potential to be a transformative tool in tackling the continent’s ongoing maternal, sexual and reproductive health challenges. However, significant concerns remain about the potential harms and risks of using AI in this sector. IDRC supported the establishment of a Hub for Artificial Intelligence in Maternal, Sexual and Reproductive Health in sub-Saharan Africa, which, among other things, has funded development of a tool for predicting miscarriages among women in Uganda. In this new project, the hub seeks to scale a subset of promising AI innovations for maternal, sexual and reproductive health from the previous project. The new project will also strengthen the capacity of AI innovators to create solutions for local maternal, sexual and reproductive health priorities based on large datasets. By the end of the project, the project teams aim to have AI solutions scaled in five African countries and four new AI innovations developed through an open innovation competition. IDRC is supporting a five-year partnership, called Artificial Intelligence for Development: Responsible AI, Empowering People, with the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to support policy, innovations and expanded leadership to spur safe and responsible AI development in Africa and beyond. The vision of the partnership is to support an inclusive, responsible AI ecosystem that improves quality of life for all.

Organization

International Development Research Centre

Budget

USD 13K

Timeline

Aug 1, 2025 → Aug 1, 2026

Coverage

Nepal

A $45,000 Bilateral grant from World Bank to IFPRI for RURAL-URBAN LINKAGES- SA

Organization

ICRC Nepal

Budget

USD 15K

Timeline

Jul 25, 2017 → Jan 31, 2020

Coverage

Nepal

A $608,578 Bilateral grant from CEPR-Centre for Econominc Policy Research to IFPRI for Asian Inv. Manufacturing

Organization

ICRC Nepal

Budget

USD 203K

Timeline

Nov 1, 2013 → Dec 31, 2019

Coverage

Nepal

A $66,592 Bilateral grant from IDRC-International Development Research Centre to IFPRI for CAPACITY BLDG ON WEAI

Organization

ICRC Nepal

Budget

USD 6K

Timeline

May 8, 2019 → Jun 8, 2023

Coverage

Nepal

A $19,000 Bilateral grant from IIE-Institute of International Education to IFPRI for IPV COLLABORATION SUPPORT

Organization

ICRC Nepal

Budget

USD 2K

Timeline

Mar 11, 2019 → May 31, 2019

Coverage

Nepal

A $563,222 Bilateral grant from Rockefeller Foundation to IFPRI for CONVENING & ADVISORY SERV

Organization

ICRC Nepal

Budget

USD 47K

Timeline

Nov 1, 2018 → Jan 1, 2022

Coverage

Nepal

A $356,864 Bilateral grant from TUFTS University to IFPRI for DIETARY DATA EXPANSION

Organization

ICRC Nepal

Budget

USD 30K

Timeline

Jan 1, 2015 → Dec 31, 2019

Coverage

Nepal

A $100,036 Bilateral grant from WRI-World Resources Institute to IFPRI for GLOBAL COMM ON ADAPTATION

Organization

ICRC Nepal

Budget

USD 8K

Timeline

Dec 1, 2018 → Aug 30, 2019

Coverage

Nepal

A $127,700 Bilateral grant from USDA-United States Department of Agriculture to IFPRI for IMPACTS OF CHANGING DIETS

Organization

ICRC Nepal

Budget

USD 11K

Timeline

Sep 1, 2018 → Dec 31, 2022

Coverage

Nepal

A $80,000 Bilateral grant from McDONALD’S CORPORATION to IFPRI for SESAME SEED PROCURMENT

Organization

ICRC Nepal

Budget

USD 7K

Timeline

Mar 9, 2018 → Feb 18, 2020

Coverage

Nepal

A $200,286 Bilateral grant from TUFTS University to IFPRI for SIPS - IN

Organization

ICRC Nepal

Budget

USD 17K

Timeline

Nov 1, 2017 → Jan 31, 2021

Coverage

Nepal

A $170,019 Bilateral grant from University of Florida to IFPRI for CLIMATE ADAPT-SUPPLYCHAIN

Organization

ICRC Nepal

Budget

USD 14K

Timeline

Jul 1, 2017 → Jun 30, 2022

Coverage

Nepal

A $703,895 Bilateral grant from University of Oxford to IFPRI for OUR PLANET OUR HEALTH

Organization

ICRC Nepal

Budget

USD 59K

Timeline

Apr 1, 2017 → May 30, 2022

Coverage

Nepal

A $474,814 Bilateral grant from ADB-Asian Development Bank to IFPRI for TA9218 FOOD SECURITY-ASIA

Organization

ICRC Nepal

Budget

USD 158K

Timeline

Mar 22, 2017 → Jan 31, 2021

Coverage

Nepal

A $166,000 Bilateral grant from USDA-United States Department of Agriculture to IFPRI for GLOBAL DIETS AND IMPACT

Organization

ICRC Nepal

Budget

USD 14K

Timeline

Aug 15, 2016 → Dec 31, 2019

Coverage

Nepal

The activity does not have a description. You can contact Sida for more information. Call +46 8 698 50 00 or send an e-mail to sida@sida.se.

Organization

Sida / Sweden

Budget

USD 520K

Timeline

Jan 1, 2006 → Jun 28, 2008

Coverage

Nepal

The activity does not have a description. You can contact Sida for more information. Call +46 8 698 50 00 or send an e-mail to sida@sida.se.

Organization

Sida / Sweden

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 1, 2006 → Jun 28, 2008

Coverage

Nepal

A $2,226,011 Bilateral grant from Digital Green to IFPRI for FTF DLEC- DEV LOC EXT CAP

Organization

ICRC Nepal

Budget

USD 223K

Timeline

Sep 15, 2016 → Jun 30, 2021

Coverage

Nepal

A $660,036 Window 3 grant from BMGF-Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to IFPRI for MICRONUTRIENT FORUM

Organization

ICRC Nepal

Budget

USD 55K

Timeline

Mar 16, 2018 → Mar 15, 2019

Coverage

Nepal

A $200,000 Window 3 grant from China-Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs to IFPRI for COMPACT2025

Organization

ICRC Nepal

Budget

USD 17K

Timeline

Jan 1, 2018 → Dec 31, 2020

Coverage

Nepal

A $2,813,744 Window 3 grant from BMGF-Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to IFPRI for CAADP 3

Organization

ICRC Nepal

Budget

USD 234K

Timeline

Nov 17, 2016 → Jan 31, 2021

Coverage

Nepal

A $2,500,000 Window 3 grant from IFAD-International Fund for Agricultural Development to IFPRI for FOOD SEC. & INCLUSIVENESS

Organization

ICRC Nepal

Budget

USD 833K

Timeline

Feb 1, 2016 → Dec 31, 2022

Coverage

Nepal

A $7,406,000 Window 3 grant from BMGF-Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to IFPRI for GENDER AGRI. & ASSETS

Organization

ICRC Nepal

Budget

USD 617K

Timeline

May 15, 2015 → Dec 31, 2023

Coverage

Nepal

A $3,200,000 Window 3 grant from IFAD-International Fund for Agricultural Development to IFPRI for IFAD - ASSESSING IMPACT

Organization

ICRC Nepal

Budget

USD 320K

Timeline

Nov 29, 2018 → Dec 31, 2022

Coverage

Nepal

A $423,000 Window 3 grant from USA-United States Agency for International Development to IFPRI for SOUTH ASIA BIOSAFETY-2019

Organization

ICRC Nepal

Budget

USD 106K

Timeline

Oct 1, 2018 → Sep 30, 2022

Coverage

Nepal