Development projects in Nepal

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Organization

Sida / Sweden

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Sep 18, 2024 → Mar 31, 2030

Coverage

Nepal

This is an income generation project. 50 PWDs, of whom 20 are disabled women, will be engaged on incense stick making activity. They will receive training on production and sales of incense sticks. The income generated by selling the incense sticks as a pr oduct during training, will be distributed to the participants as seed money for production of incense sticks on individual basis.

Organization

Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 1, 2015 → Dec 31, 2015

Coverage

Nepal

An awareness raising project by the Hard of Hearing Association to disseminate information about needs and problems of persons with hard of hearing or deafened. Printed materials are distributed to the authorities, schools and media. A workshop is organise d for 70 people.

Organization

Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 1, 2015 → Dec 31, 2015

Coverage

Nepal

The project provides vocational skills training for self-employment and inclusion in educational system for PWDs. 14 persons with visual disability will be given skills training (i.e. stool making, bamboo sticks). There will also be braille literacy train ing, mobility and daily living skills trainings. The participants will sell products in local market. The project will also conduct 3 days seminar on inclusive education for 45 participants to teach about disability and the importance of inclusion in scho ols. The participants will be parents of CWDs, students with disabilities, teachers and other stakeholders. There will be a resolution on inclusive education after the seminar that will need to be adopted by all participants.

Organization

Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 1, 2015 → Dec 31, 2015

Coverage

Nepal

An capacity building and advocacy project by the Blind Association to organize leadership training and culture event with blind musicians. Human rights information is also distributed.

Organization

Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 1, 2015 → Dec 31, 2015

Coverage

Nepal

Women with disabilities organize tailoring training for women to improve their tailoring skills. Attention is given to marketing and selling products.

Organization

Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 1, 2015 → Dec 31, 2015

Coverage

Nepal

The project by the Deaf Association to organize a 6 month Nepali Sign Language course. In total 16 young Deaf participate the course.

Organization

Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 1, 2015 → Dec 31, 2015

Coverage

Nepal

A disability group distributes buffalos to four persons with disabilities and train them to husband buffalos. Milk from buffalos will be sold for income. Some part of the income will be used for purchasing more buffalos.

Organization

Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 1, 2015 → Dec 31, 2015

Coverage

Nepal

Teaching sign language to teachers of deaf children and deaf adults. Income generating activities: raising chicken and growing mushrooms.

Organization

Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 1, 2015 → Dec 31, 2015

Coverage

Nepal

Supporting the education of children with disabilities by informing parents of children's rights, broadcasting a radio show, integrating CWDs to mainstream school and provision of assistive devices to these children with disabilities.

Organization

Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 1, 2015 → Dec 31, 2015

Coverage

Nepal

A training project by a disability group throigh which computer training is provided to 10 persons with disabilities. Improved computer skills increase their job opportunities.

Organization

Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 1, 2015 → Dec 31, 2015

Coverage

Nepal

Sweden will support three activities addressing Objectives 1 and 2 over a one-year period, from July 2025 to June 2026 Output 1: National legal & policy frameworks are aligned with international standards on business and human rights Activity 1.1: Provide Technical and Advocacy support for national legal and policy frameworks aligned with international standards on BHR Activity 1.2: Facilitate Country-Level Participation at the Annual Global UN Forum on Business and Human Rights Output 2: Enhanced regional collaboration, advocacy and awareness raising to drive policy alignment and responsible business practice in Asia Activity 2.1: Convene the UN Responsible Business and Human Rights Forum Activity 2.2: Strengthen regional UN networks for joint innovation and engagement

Organization

Sida / Sweden

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jul 1, 2025 → Jun 30, 2028

Coverage

Nepal

The project aims to contribute to the overall goal "Climate change governance is strengthened for the effective development and implementation of gender inclusive climate policies to protect young people and especially the most marginalised, while also helping them to increase the scale of their climate actions". To achieve this overall goal, YECAP will focus of strengthening capacity and training oung change agents (e.g., youth-led local and regional civil society organizations) and bringing young people together with decision-makers. The project also aims to raise awareness among decision-makers to systematically include and support young people in all stages of decision-making processes.

Organization

Sida / Sweden

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

May 16, 2024 → Jun 30, 2027

Coverage

Nepal

Nepal is in a post-conflict period of transformation, recovery and reconstruction, following the decade long armed conflict that ended in 2006. The project aims to enhance realisation of people’s right to peace by empowering right-holders and demanding d uty-bearers to link the most vulnerable to the national processes of peace building. The role of the project is to enhance women’s and youth’s decision-making capacities with regard to conflict prevention, resolution and peacebuilding, and to improve t he realisation and protection of human rights and security of women and girls and factors that directly influence them. Emphasis will be given to concretely address the root causes of conflict through FCA’s Right to Livelihood and Education related inter ventions and fostering inclusion and participation. The overall goal of the project is to achieve sustainable peace and just society. The specific objective of the project is to contribute to promote equitable, proportional and meaningful participation of women and youth at all levels of decision-making of conflict transformation and peace building process.Activities: • Develop National Actions Plan (NAP) training manual and train on NAP on UN Security Council Resolutions 1325 and 1820 • Evidence based advocacy • NAP implementation monitoring • Women empowerment • Advocacy and networking• Skill training and employment• Support conflict affected children in school • Higher / vocational education support • Strengthening CBOs and their netwo rks • Capacity development for peace and development • Social mobilisation and Community mediationRights-holders /beneficiaries: Conflict-affected women and girls and youthsImplementing partner: World Vision Advocacy Forum (WVAF)

Organization

Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 1, 2013 → Dec 31, 2015

Coverage

Nepal

Vocational training and income-generation for people with disabilities, advocacy work.

Organization

Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 1, 2014 → Dec 31, 2015

Coverage

Nepal

Empowering ethnic communties to improve their livelihood and social situation in environmentally sustainable way.

Organization

Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 1, 2014 → Dec 31, 2015

Coverage

Nepal

Empowering the landless communities to improve their livelihood and legal situation.

Organization

Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 1, 2014 → Dec 31, 2015

Coverage

Nepal

Supportin local small-scale farmers in producing vegetable seeds for their own use as well as for sale. Income generating activities.

Organization

Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 1, 2014 → Dec 31, 2015

Coverage

Nepal

The main objective of the contribution is to promote full respect for the human and labour rights of migrant workers within supply chains in Asia. A specific focus is given to women and migrants in situations of vulnerability. Central to the rationale of the MBHR Asia programme are the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and their "Protect, Respect and Remedy" framework and the programme outcomes are structured along this framework. PROTECT (Outcome 1): Improved labour migration governance that holds private sector actors accountable in protecting migrant workers' rights from a multi-sectoral, rights-based and gender-responsive approach. Output 1.1 Increased capacities and technical resources of national and subnational authorities and regional bodies in Asia in the design and implementation of policies related to labour migration governance, Responsible Business Conduct and the protection of migrant workers' rights in coordination with the private sector and the Civil Society Organisations Output 1.2 Increased availability of rights-based, gender-responsive and inclusive support and information services for migrant workers in coordination with Civil Society organizations, migrant networks and service providers. RESPECT (Outcome 2): Improved corporate due diligence practices of private sector entities that respect the rights of migrant workers across their entire supply chains and at all stages of labour migration. Output 2.1 Improved knowledge and tools of private sector entities in the implementation of human rights due diligence and ethical recruitment and employment standards. Output 2.2 Increased opportunities for private sector stakeholders to engage in dialogues and collective actions around the responsible and transparent management of labour migration processes and the development of industry-led advocacy initiatives. REMEDY (Outcome 3): Enhanced access for migrant workers to effective and gender-sensitive state justice and corporate grievance and remediation mechanisms. Output 3.1 Improved knowledge and tools of state actors and the private sector in the implementation of grievance mechanisms and the effective remediation of rights violations and abuses experienced by migrant workers. Output 3.2 Increased capacities and resources of civil society, migrant-driven organizations and trade unions in advancing migrant workers´ access to state-based justice and corporate grievance mechanisms.

Organization

Sida / Sweden

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Dec 15, 2023 → Sep 30, 2027

Coverage

Nepal

to characterize the microbes and metabolites of the maternal gut and locally produced fermented foods for the purpose of developing next generation nutritional and microbial interventions that improve maternal and child health

Organization

Gates Foundation

Budget

USD 2.1M

Timeline

Dec 3, 2020 → Aug 31, 2027

Coverage

Nepal

The overal object of the project is to improve the living conditions of children and families in project area in Ramecchap distric. The project aims to improve access of children to education and protection measures at local level improve minimum enabling conditions and quality of education in community schools strengthen local institutions including child clubs for bearing their duties and claiming their rights from local government and service providers and c ommunity mobilization for improved availabilit y and accessibility of basic services at local level with community monitoring and carrying out watch dog roles of CBOs/NGOs.

Organization

Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jun 4, 2013 → Dec 31, 2015

Coverage

Nepal

Overall objective: Impart marketable skills training psychosocial counselling and job placement support to youths from targeted community who are suffering from unemployment and different forms of economic and socio-political disparities. Specific objectiv es: -Provide quality technical education and vocational training to 240 youths -Empower them with career guidance and soft skill training -Ensure job placement of at least 80 youths (80%) job placement of graduates -Develop confidence on those youths to be self reliant and self dependentIdentify the community based organization or traditional institutions at targeted community to assure the identification of needy youths under this project Coordinate with them (CBOs community level structure for example wom en's group child Clubs) targeted Community VDC and District Level governmental line agencies CBOs and NGOs Develop finalize and share trainees selection criteria with all stakeholders Collect profiles of prospective youths and conduct interview with them S elect and finalize the trainees and arrange their arrival at training centre Orient about the training and enrol them Impart vocational training including soft skills and life skill lessons Conduct exposure visit in related factories workshop and working locations as per training Provide career guidance and psychosocial counselling support Conduct Exposure Visit and arrange OJT Support the graduates

Organization

Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

May 16, 2013 → Dec 31, 2015

Coverage

Nepal

Approached from a multi-country (India, Sri Lanka and Nepal) perspective in the sub-region, the initiative will look into the tea industry which is a common vital sub-sector in all these 3 GGGI-member countries’ economy and this project can bring transformational impacts to the industry. It aims to strengthen the sustainability (building climate resilience and greening investments) of the tea industry in India, Sri Lanka and Nepal through the conduct of a Sustainability Needs Assessment and development of an investment pipeline to support uptake of green investments and raise awareness of stakeholders in the sub-region’s tea industry.

Organization

Global Green Growth Institute

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Nov 1, 2022 → Jul 7, 2026

Coverage

Nepal

Sustainable increases in income of smallholder farmers

Organization

FCDO Nepal

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jun 29, 2010 → Jun 30, 2012

Coverage

Nepal

This activity Market Access for Smallholder Farmers Programme - Implementation is a component of Market Access for Smallholder Farmers Programme reported by FCDO with a funding type of 111 - Not for profit organisation and a budget of £2,500,000. It works in the following sector(s): Tourism policy and administrative management, Agricultural development, Agricultural services, Agricultural policy and administrative management.

Organization

FCDO Nepal

Budget

USD 3.8M

Timeline

Apr 9, 2010 → Nov 30, 2013

Coverage

Nepal

The overall objective of the project is to create national movement Teach for Nepal of young people to enhance quality of education in public schools in Nepal. The project aims to attract outstanding university graduates and young professionals to teach in public and community schools for two years as Fellows primarily in maths science and English to decrease achievement gaps that exists between private and public schools students. The project will be co-funded with Nepalese private sector companies. Priv ate sector will also offer working placements for the Fellows after their two years engagement is public schools.

Organization

Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jun 28, 2012 → Dec 31, 2015

Coverage

Nepal

The project aims to contribute for creating democratic and credible governance and management system in NGOs/CSOs of Nepal that could be scaled up to Nepali politics and society. The overall objective of the project is to increase access and voices of peop le to basic services and entitlements as the rights-holders by expanding the roles of NGOs/CSOs in democratic governance and development which ultimately contribute for sustainable peace and conflict transformation in the country. The project aims to devel op the capacity of NGOs/CSOs for embedding the key elements of institutional good governance which will enhance effectiveness of NGOs/CSOs in development process of Nepal. It will give a greater credibility to them for the development process they facilita te. The specific objective of the project is to improve governance and management of NGOs/CSOs for effective delivery of basic services in the country by enhancing their legitimacy transparency accountability and integrity.

Organization

Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jun 25, 2012 → Dec 31, 2015

Coverage

Nepal

Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Programme

Organization

WHO Nepal

Budget

USD 286K

Timeline

Jan 1, 2026 → Dec 31, 2027

Coverage

Nepal

Detection of and response to acute public health threats is rapid and effective

Organization

WHO Nepal

Budget

USD 4.0M

Timeline

Jan 1, 2026 → Dec 31, 2027

Coverage

Nepal

Preparedness, readiness and resilience for health emergencies enhanced

Organization

WHO Nepal

Budget

USD 100K

Timeline

Jan 1, 2026 → Dec 31, 2027

Coverage

Nepal