Development projects in Nepal

PATRA, in consortium with Parivartan, has been working in 2 VDCs of Lahrepauwa and Daibung in Rasuwa district since right after the devastating earthquakes of April and May 2015. Parivartan PATRA provided livelihoods and WASH support to the population of 2800 families as part of the Cordaid project. The earthquake project activities were in two phases: 1) emergency response May-November 2015 and 2) reconstruction phase 1 December 2015 to 31 December 2017. This project is phasing out project. This project aims to extend WASH and livelihoods activities in these 2 communities for 1 year to ensure sustainability of the positive impacts achieved in NEO017 and responsible handover, as Cordaid is phasing out. Additional support will also be provided to vulnerable families on agriculture/livestock to increase their income and sustainability. About 540 household from the current resilient project will be technically backstopped in the livelihood sector to ensure they will have quality products, out of which 45 new families (from the Dalit community, women headed household and disadvantaged people) will be added and supported with goat/chicken production and Tunnel farming to support direct economic upliftment for them. An 100 additional households will also be provided with waste water collection and management support to encourage the clean house. These HHs will be used as volunteers to reach to further 400 HHs with the clean house concept. Planned activities include: - Strengthen market linkages and equipping the collection centres with necessary inputs. - Continue increasing goat production and nutrients - Enhance rural poultry - Continue seed production and coordinate demand for local seed - Support to farmer cooperatives - Technical support on tunnel farming and drip irrigation - Promote household Waste Water management and hygiene promotion - Operations and maintenance training for Water User Committees - Water source protection - Maintenance of the training centre

Organization

CAFOD

Budget

USD 0

Timeline

May 1, 2017 → Apr 30, 2018

Coverage

Rasuwa, Bagmati

This project, led by CAFOD’s partner Catholic Relief Services, aims to meet the immediate needs of vulnerable families and communities affected by the 2015 earthquake in Nepal. It addresses the first, six month, phase of DEC funding, to be followed by a further 30 months of recovery programming. It aims to: • assist families to prepare for the monsoons, and help mitigate risks associated with aftershocks, through the provision of appropriate transitional shelter solutions, including: shelter kits, toolkits, material transport, debris clearance, and appropriate training; • assist families to obtain essential household items such as clothes, blankets, kitchen utensils, and water buckets through the provision of unconditional cash grants; • support market recovery in the main market areas north of Gorkha district centre, in particular Hansapur and Simjung markets which service the most vulnerable households, through the provision of materials or cash to rebuild store fronts and/or storage facilities.

Organization

CAFOD

Budget

USD 0

Timeline

May 1, 2015 → Oct 31, 2015

Coverage

Gorkha, Gandaki

Our ambitious project seeks to bring water access, sanitation and menstrual hygiene management to three high hilltop schools and surrounding communities in Nepal's Gulmi District. With an anticipated timeframe of April 2020 to October 2025, this project will bring water access to more than 1,031 school children and reach over 4,640 indirect beneficiaries with improved WaSH practices.

Organization

GlobalGiving

Budget

USD 0

Timeline

Nov 29, 2019 → End not reported

Coverage

Gulmi, Lumbini

This 2 year project aims to support the earthquake affected households in 5 VDCs in Sindupalchowk district of Nepal. The 5 VDCs include Bhimtar, Shipapokhare, Bandegaun, Nawalpur and Bhotshipa. The project will target 1350 families for the overall project intervention and out of these families, 780 most vulnerable households will be identified. They will work in Self-Help Groups (SHGs) for Income Generating Activities (IGAs) through entrepreneurship support. The project will apply integrated approach to recover the affected people's livelihoods. The major activities of the project involve rehabilitation of the drinking water supplies, irrigation systems, construction of domestic animal sheds, training farmers on improved practices in crop cultivation, fish farming and livestock management. The interventions will include both on-farm agriculture-based IGAs and off-farm IGAs such as small business entrepreneurship development. The project also plans to introduce innovative techniques in agriculture like tunnel gardening and organic agriculture farming. Agriculture is one of major components of the project which will undertake tasks such as strengthening farmers’ field school management, distributing quality seed, transferring vermi-compost and crop and vegetable intensification technologies, exploring and facilitating marketing of organic products to home-stays and tourist hub or other market places, promoting plantation of economically profitable plants, and encouraging intercropping practices. The project also include skills enhancement and income generating activities and encouraging women's micro-credit groups to link to local cooperatives is also part of the project activities. Households will also be encouraged through hygiene promotion activities to learn and apply improve hygiene practices in water and sanitation and in the use of animal sheds to help improve communities health.

Organization

CAFOD

Budget

USD 0

Timeline

May 1, 2016 → Jun 30, 2018

Coverage

Nawalparasi East, Gandaki

to build the local and regional capacity for scaling citywide inclusive sanitation in South Asia that contributes to achieving safely managed sanitation

Organization

Gates Foundation

Budget

USD 4.4M

Timeline

Oct 4, 2021 → Dec 31, 2026

Coverage

Nepal

Direct assistance with the drafting of new water policy and legislation that directly supports capacity building on basin management with the Nepalese Government.

Organization

DFAT Australian Aid

Budget

USD 37K

Timeline

Jul 1, 2018 → Jun 30, 2019

Coverage

Nepal

The Direct Aid Program (DAP) 2015-16 is a small grants scheme administered by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) through Australia's diplomatic posts in developing partner countries. The DAP's objective is to deliver targeted local level assistance. This funding supports the WASH for Senior Citizens program in Nepal.

Organization

DFAT Australian Aid

Budget

USD 18K

Timeline

Aug 31, 2015 → Jun 30, 2016

Coverage

Nepal

Funding under this activity provided financial support for the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees to deliver emergency food, water and shelter to vulnerable displaced persons located within Nepal affected by the earthquake.

Organization

DFAT Australian Aid

Budget

USD 789K

Timeline

May 15, 2015 → Jun 30, 2015

Coverage

Nepal

The Eastern Gangetic Plains is one of the most densely populated, poverty stricken belts in South Asia. Behind this persisting poverty are deeply entrenched social structures of class and caste, with a high incidence of inequitable landlord-tenant relations. This is combined with poor access to irrigation water in the dry season, limited irrigation capacity and low agricultural innovation. The overall aim of the project is to improve the livelihood of woman, marginal and tenant farmers through improved water use and increased dry season agricultural production. Specific objectives are to determine: existing water resources and sustainable utilisation for irrigation from tanks and groundwater; the socio-economic, structural and institutional constraints to sustainable water use; and evaluate approaches for access to water for irrigation focusing on using renewable technologies and alternate approaches to land tenure and their impact on livelihoods and resilience.

Organization

DFAT Australian Aid

Budget

USD 216K

Timeline

Sep 1, 2014 → Aug 31, 2018

Coverage

Nepal

This project focuses on the Eastern Gangetic Plains (EGP) of Bangladesh, India and Nepal, home to 300 million people, with the world’s highest concentration of rural poverty and a strong dependence on agriculture for food security and livelihoods. The EGP has the potential to become a major contributor to South Asian regional food security, but rice and wheat productivity remain low and diversification is limited. The project addresses two research questions: would farm management practices based on the principles of conservation agriculture and the efficient use of water resources provide a foundation for increasing smallholder crop productivity and resilience; and would institutional innovations that strengthen adaptive capacity and link farmers to markets and support services enable both women and men farmers to continue to innovate in the face of climate and economic change.

Organization

DFAT Australian Aid

Budget

USD 230K

Timeline

May 12, 2014 → Jun 30, 2018

Coverage

Nepal

The purpose of this study is to facilitate the transition from dairy-cow-based milk chain towards a water-buffalo-based dito, in Bangladesh. Our objectives are to:Evaluate the present status of the buffalo milk chain in Bangladesh, from udder to consumer, focusing on udder health, handling practices and milk production. Identify risk factors and best practices for better milk quality and safety.Evaluate the presence of typical foodborne pathogens in buffalo milk such as Brucella and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Identify measures to control their transmission in a One Health approach.Model the effect of a transition from a dairy-cow-based milk chain towards a water-buffalo-based milk chain.Design and implement a transition strategy towards a water buffalo milk chain, using stakeholders’ inputs and the previously collected informationThis four-year study will be carried out as one PhD and four MSc projects, and will include traditional prevalence studies based on milk and aninal sampling, risk factor analyses and mathematic and epidemilogical modelling. The project will be led by one researcher from Sweden and one from Bangladesh.The overarching goal of this proposal is to map the milk related disease status of water buffaloes in Bangladesh and see whether transition to a water buffalo dairy chain is sustainable, profitable, and holds healthier animals and humans in a ONE HEALTH perspective.

Organization

Sida / Sweden

Budget

USD 0

Timeline

Jan 1, 2019 → Jun 30, 2024

Coverage

Nepal

Despite making up less than 1% of all water on Earth, fresh water is essential for supporting people, prosperity and the planet, and central to securing basic needs, livelihoods and development. Freshwater ecosystems such as lakes, rivers, wetlands and aquifers are uniquely important and yet particularly under threat. Under competition from many users for a multiple of different productive, municipal and economic uses, they bear the brunt of human activity through over extraction and pollution and will keenly feel the effects of climate change. Their protection, restoration and management is of utmost concern and importance to all, particularly considering that the majority of UN Member States, 151 out of 193 countries, share part or all of their water resources with another country. These concepts form the basis of the rationale behind Sustainable Development Goal (6), “Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all,” the achievement of which would be instrumental for securing sustainable development. Yet a lack of information, capacity, incentives, tools and involvement of stakeholders including gender aspects is hindering actors, from individual to government to corporate level, from taking steps to protect and restore freshwater ecosystems and achieve water-related SDG targets. Poor land and water management and growing competition, leading to the degradation of water-related ecosystems and the loss of their critical services, is a growing concern worldwide, with an urgent need for action. It is estimated that the world has already lost at least 60% of its natural water bodies since wide-scale development began in 1900, and that one-third to one-seventh of rivers in developing countries face severe pathogenic and organic pollution, including from a lack of safely managed wastewater and from run-off from land-based activities. Growing water stress in many parts of the world, as well as drought and desertification, are further serious concerns which the World Economic Forum among others has identified as some of the most serious threats facing our current and future societies and businesses. At the same time, since most countries share important transboundary water resources, information sharing and cooperation across borders is essential, requiring technical assistance and trust-building measures. There is growing concern that failure to do so can lead to tension and conflict, and further degradation of water bodies. Robust and abundant evidence also exists that freshwater resources are particularly vulnerable and have the potential to be strongly impacted by climate change, with wide-ranging consequences for human societies and ecosystems. Given future trends of population growth, development, and climate change, the integrated management of water resources across uses and users is therefore of utmost importance to ensure the sustainability of freshwater ecosystems and their services.

Organization

UN Environment Programme

Budget

USD 0

Timeline

Apr 3, 2019 → Dec 31, 2023

Coverage

Nepal

Based on the success of the “Sustainable WASH for All” programme from 2011 to 2015, this year we received funding (6 mln Euro) from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs to continue our collaboration and taking our work to the next level of acceleration. The grant by the Dutch government is used to diversify our funding base and become internationally recognised, to continue learning and innovating together on WASH sector development and acceleration and at the same time to provide 160.000 people with sanitation and 140.000 with water in 2016. The related financial transactions will be reported in the published IATI datasets of the individual organisations involved.

Organization

WASH Alliance International

Budget

USD 0

Timeline

Jan 1, 2016 → Dec 31, 2016

Coverage

Nepal

The WASH Alliance Nepal through its implementing partners has successfully acquired some tested technology in its 1st phase (2011-15). Lessons learned and the technologies itself will be adopted widely in 2nd phase. The enhancement of technologies like urine application, rope pump, rain water harvesting and the engagement of micro finance institution are major success factors. Similarly, in this bridging year (2016), along with hardware activities to increase access in WASH services, also other crucial activities are also be carried out, like capacity development activities of local stakeholders and partner organisations, research initiatives and a WASH Stakeholder mapping. These activities will be accomplished primarily in 8 districts. However, the communication and advocacy activities will address the national as well as the local level. These activities are building blocks for the projects beyond 2017 under the WASH Alliance Nepal.

Organization

WASH Alliance International

Budget

USD 0

Timeline

Jan 1, 2016 → Dec 31, 2016

Coverage

Nepal