Development projects in Nepal

Increased vaccination coverage for hard-to-reach populations and communities

Organization

WHO Nepal

Budget

USD 1.0M

Timeline

Jan 1, 2016 → Dec 31, 2017

Coverage

Nepal

Implementation and monitoring of the global vaccine action plan, with emphasis on strengthening service delivery and immunization monitoring in order to achieve the goals for the Decade of Vaccines

Organization

WHO Nepal

Budget

USD 707K

Timeline

Jan 1, 2016 → Dec 31, 2017

Coverage

Nepal

Universal access to quality tuberculosis care in line with the post-2015 global tuberculosis strategy and targets

Organization

WHO Nepal

Budget

USD 272K

Timeline

Jan 1, 2016 → Dec 31, 2017

Coverage

Nepal

Increased access to key interventions for people living with HIV

Organization

WHO Nepal

Budget

USD 283K

Timeline

Jan 1, 2016 → Dec 31, 2017

Coverage

Nepal

Increased access to key interventions for people living with HIV

Organization

WHO Nepal

Budget

USD 239K

Timeline

Jan 1, 2016 → Dec 31, 2017

Coverage

Nepal

Prithvinagar Small Farmer Agriculture Cooperative (PSFAC) is located approximately 10 km South of Bhadrapur close to the border with India. It focuses on tea production, processing and marketing. and it was established in 1995 in response to promote the production of tea by smallholder farmers, as the land in the area is very suitable for tea production. The cooperative started with only 25 members and 1250 NPR shared capital. Now the cooperative has 1987 members and shared capital of 17 million NPR. Besides promoting tea growing the cooperative was initially mainly involved in the business of savings and credit services to its members. Until 1999 the cooperative also collected tea leaves from its members and sold it to a private tea factory. However, the prices offered by this factory where relatively low and there was no timely payment. Therefore the cooperative created in 2009 the ambition to invest in its own processing factory. The large tea factory was built with government funding support. Total investment was 80 million NPR, of which 30 million government grant, 20 million loan SKBB (5% interest) and 30 million share capital of the members. The factory started production in July 2014. The tea factory started producing and making profits, but there are lots of opportunities to increase the profit within the processing factory if they improve their efficiency and increase marketing activities. The partnership will work on constraints that were limiting Prithivinagar to scale bigger and provide maximum returns to their members. On this basis, one of the main activities will be to develop production plan and integrate it with marketing plan. The activities will also include strengthening their supply and establishing linkages with different marketing channels to ensure maximum sales. Provide better returns to members by increasing efficiency of tea factory and improving marketing channels.

Organization

Stichting Agriterra

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jun 1, 2017 → Dec 31, 2017

Coverage

Nepal

to support UNICEF's focus on accelerating reductions on MMR, NMR and stillbirths in 25 ENAP high-burden countries, including deeper engagement and TA in Ethiopia, Nigeria

Organization

Gates Foundation

Budget

USD 1.7M

Timeline

Oct 13, 2021 → Jun 5, 2025

Coverage

Nepal

to accelerate introduction of typhoid conjugate vaccine into Gavi-eligible countries and reduce the global burden of typhoid fever

Organization

Gates Foundation

Budget

USD 1.2M

Timeline

Nov 1, 2021 → Mar 31, 2027

Coverage

Nepal

On April 25, 2015 at 11: 56 AM, Nepal was shocked by powerful earthquake with magnitude of 7.9 Richter scale, affecting the central part of the country mostly. The impact is huge in 14 districts of te country as well as in the capital city. Agriterra and its constituency decided that such a natural disaster can not be neglected as it is has a major impact upon the people's lifes. In total almost 9000 people were killed, over 17,000 peeple were injured, and at least 500,000 houses were destroyed. Makwanpur district is one of the 14 most hit districts. The District Agricultural Federation, having 25 Small farmers Agricultural cooperatives as member made an inventory of the damage among the members. Details of 10 cooperatives that Agriterra has been supporting over the last two years shows that out of 4141 member households - 8 people died and 12 got injured - 957 families completely lost their house/livestock sheds - 680 families partially lost their house/lvestock shed - loss of food stock in 5 cooperatives - loss of livestock 7 cooperatives. After receiving the first relief support, the first priority for people is to rebuild their houses. After that it is important that people pick up/continue their agricultural business as this is their main income and food source. Makwanpur is one of the 14 severely affected districts in Nepal. Agriterra works since 2013 with the District Agricultural Federation of Makwanpur. District Agriculture co-operative Federation was established in 2010 to work as an umbrella organization for the primary Agricultural cooperatives. Vision of the federation is to have a capable and transparent district level umbrella organization providing services to small scale agriculture co-operatives and related co-operatives in helping them economically, socially, culturally, and with technology based agricultural production, purification and marketing. Project 6016 (contracted through NACCFL but implemented by DAF makwanpur) describes how Agriterra has been working with 10 primary cooperatives in Makwapur district. The earthquake has severly damaged Makwanpur district including the 10 Village Development Commities in which Agriterra has been working actively. For these 10 VDC a relief and Agricultural reconstruction programme has been prepared. The support includes the following: - blankets and kitchen utensils - roofing matrials for house/animal shed reconstruction - knapsack sprayer for vegetables - vegetable seeds - beehives in one VDC - young animals in few VDC Financial support will be channelled through the District Federation. The Federation has created a disaster risk response team (responsible for selection of recipients and distribution of the goods) and a procurement team (collective purchase of goods). The primary cooperatives and the district federation will be responsible for the selection of the right beneficiaries, keep the records of the distribution of goods and provide technical support. Monitoring and evaluation of the support porgramme will be done by DAF, NACCFL and Agriterra. The period for the project is 3 months; june-July and August 2015. Beneficiaries: 4141 members, of which 470 members (Women only) receive support for reconstruction. Most families will receive seeds. Update September 2015: After the succesful distribution of different Agricultural inputs, and with the assage of time, farmers pick up their routine in farming again. Most families have foudn a temporarily housinga nd cultivate crops again. In ordre to furher support the farmesr in rebuidling their economic activities, this project will be extended till the end of 2015 to further strengteh the Agricultural reconstruction. DAF Makwanpur proposes several training activities, as well as s tronger focus on coopertaive marketing for those coopertiaves that have a fouvorable locationtowards the market. DAF Makwapnrur is very consious about teh sustainability of its activities and realises the importance of having farmer led advisory service sto teh memebrs. In this activity plan, lead farmers are the key persons in making a change and focusing really on commercial farming, bringing in a more entrepreneurial spirit and attitude. Budget: 59,500 Euro (June-AUgust 2015 Phase 1) 15,000 Euro (September-December 2015, Phase 2) Monitoring will be done by DAF and also by NACCFL and Agriterra. DAF will also receive donated high quality vegetable seeds and they will be distributed to selected farmers. The major objective of this project is “Access of immediate relief support for the reform of the Agricultural Sector to earthquake victim in Makawanpur district”.

Organization

Stichting Agriterra

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

May 28, 2015 → Feb 8, 2018

Coverage

makawanpur, Bagmati

On April 25, 2015 at 11: 56 AM, Nepal was shocked by powerful earthquake with magnitude of 7.9 Richter scale, affecting the central part of the country mostly. The impact is huge in 14 districts of te country as well as in the capital city. Agriterra and its constituency decided that such a natural disaster can not be neglected as it is has a major impact upon the people's lifes. Among the NACCFL members, about 700 persons died; 87% of all rural families lost their house, or have serious damaged houses; several lost their livestock, animal sheds, seeds etc. After receiving the first relief support, the first priority for people is to rebuild their houses. After that it is important that people pick up/continue their agricultural business as this is their main income and food source. NACCFL is receiving huge demand on for the emergency response from its member’s cooperative for earthquake victims. The need is shelter, primary health services and income generating activities. Agriterra knows that the farmers organisation are in a very good position to provide relief/reconstruction support, having an extensive network reaching out to the most remote areas of the country. The Nepal Agriculture Co-operative Central Federation Ltd. (NACCF) is the umbrella organization of Small Farmer Agro Cooperative Limited (SFACL) . SFACL are agricultural micro-finance cooperatives, which are fully owned and managed by the local community. They have their origin in the Small Farmers Development Program (SFDP), which has been implemented by the Agricultural Development Bank Ltd. (ADBL) since 1975. It is specifically designed for small and marginal farmers. AT present 611 SFACL in 68 districts are member of NACCFL, representing 615.000 individual members. SFACLs face different problems, such as gaining access to markets, acquiring new technical and management skills, obtaining loan and credit services, etc. Subsequently, they decided to fight poverty by federating their cooperatives into a strong network. NACCFL mission is to provide appropriate non-financial services to the member organization for their institutional development and for the socio-economic development of the small farmers. NACCFL was requested by Agriterra to submit a proposal focusing on reconstruction of agricultural activities in few of the most affected areas where they trust the capacity of the District Agricultural Federation. Strongly affected districts Dhading and Makwanpur will receive relief and reconstruction support directly from Agriterra for those SFACL that Agriterra has been working with the last 2-3 years (see also projects 6362 and 6363) . The other SFACL in these two districts will receive relief and reconstruction support through NACCFL, as the capacity of the District Agricultural Federation is not enough to support all SFACL. In addition, NACCFl proposes to support 3 SFACL in Rasuwa district and two SFACL in Nuwakot district, not far from each other (cluster) at about two hours drive from Kathmandu. In total 21 SFACL (primary cooperatives) will benefit from the support. 95 percent member SFACLs in the highly affected districts lost their house and now they are residing in either tent or temporary shelter. In addition to that, domestic animal also died as the communities were fully depended to livestock and its product for their livelihood. The program will be implemented through members SFACL of NACCFL. 95 % of member is earthquake affected members among them 82 % are female members. In this program, 8186 members that is 52% of the affected members of proposed district will be benefited. In one hand they lost their house, in another hand they do not have alternatives for income generating activities. To carry out the agricultural activities as per agro calendar in some of the farmers nether they have Ox for plough the land as Ox were also died nor they have seeds. In the five proposed VDCs of Nuwakot and Rasuwa districts, the earthquake has destroyed/hampered all the sources of livelihood and other economic activities. Members were engaged in agriculture, poultry and livestock activities. These were primary sources of income for them to contribute to family expenses. The SFACL is selected on the basis of following criteria: a. Highly affected SFACL b. VDCs mentioned in Dhading and Makwanpur districts are not included in the relief program of District Agricultural Cooperative Federation (DAF ) of Dhading and Makwanpur. c. Remote SFACL d. Majority of people are disadvantage group e. Highly depended on agriculture sector f. Lost both cattle and house g. Majority of the members are female. Proposed activities are: -Distribution of rice and wheat seeds -Distribution of plants and seedlings for horticulture -Distribution of goats and piglets -Construction of livestock sheds The support will be equaly distributed among teh 21 coopertiaves. NACCFL is the final responisible organisation for the administration and monitoring of the support program. As much responsibility as possible will be delegated to the district Federation and the primary coops. Total budget requested to Agriterra is 40,000 Euro. Own contribution of NACCFL is: 14.587 Euro Total budget: 54.587 Euro Total number of beneficiaries: 780 members of NACCFL benefitting an estimated 11.580 people. to provide immediate/emergency response for the earthquake effected members of 21 Small Farmer Agriculture Cooperative Limited (SFACL) of 4 districts within NACCFL network.".

Organization

Stichting Agriterra

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

May 27, 2015 → Feb 2, 2017

Coverage

Dhading, Kathmandu

NACCFL has its roots in the Small Farmers Development Program which was implemented by the Agricultural Development Bank in 1975 for the development of the small and marginal destitute in rural areas. The sub project office became a Small Agriculture Cooperative Ltd (SFCL) in 1993, the moment in which the ownership of the project was handed over to the farmers. In 2008 the farmers felt that they were facing different problems which could be better addressed by a federation and formed the NACCFL in January 2008. NACCFL is an umbrella organization of various Small Farmer Agro Cooperative Limited (SFACL). At the moment 615 SFACL are member of NACCFL in 64 different districts across the country covering 530,000 individual farmer members. NACCF provide services to SFACL and the SFACL is responsible to provide the services to the groups and cooperatives. The mission of NACCFL is to provide appropriate non-financial services to the member organizations for their institutional development and for the socio-economic development of the small farmers and deprived people. The three objectives aim to (1) to improve the efficiency and autonomy of the members cooperatives through capacity building; (2) to advocate for the inclusion of deprived sector in the national budget and (3) to increase its membership through the establishment of new cooperatives. In addition to the projects focussing on farmer-led economic development, Agriterra and NACCFL took the initiative mid-2014 to collaborate in a separate project to strengthen and improve the NACCFL-PMEL system and tools. This trajectory starts with and is supported by the expertise of an external local PMEL-expert. Based on the M&E health check, a M&E SWOT analysis and the M&E workshop held in Manila in March 2014, the following can be concluded about the M&E capacity of NACCFL: - There is a will to do M&E but a lack of human resources to conduct systematic M&E at all levels of NACCFL. - There is a membership database software system designed but not yet operational. NACCFL is keen to make this membership data base operation as registration of members and their characteristics is crucial to further improve service provision to members. - In general, NACCFL prepares plans and budget but M&E is not systematically addressed, good indicators are missing and there is a lack of information of te members at the individual level or group level. From the above analyses and taking into account the context described and the development stage and mission of NACCFL, both NACCFL and Agriterra agreed upon the following priorities related to strengthening the M&E capacities and system of NACCFL for the period August 2014 to December 31, 2014 --> A. Database: development of a membership registration database maintained by, owned and supported at both the local, district and national level. B. M&E on Agricultural activities: the developed membership registration database should include agricultural details/characteristics of the members. These data should be directly linked with the member registration for as such it allows for a comprehensive M&E system focusing on agriculture. NACCFL has requested the support of Agriterra to make their current ACCESS-system operational. This requires two approaches: 1. Datacollection at grass root level be done (what data must be collected, how, how often and by whom). 2. What data are need at the national level, for what purpose and how to make the database operational (design, responsibility and consolidation of data). Concerning the process To ensure data collection and absorption, it is important to have the commitment of members/groups at all levels. Commitment is linked to social, economic and intrinsic factors. The intrinsic factor can be stimulated by asking only the relevant data, and make it clear and understandable why the data are needed and what they mean (the feedback). The social factor is about trust and loyalty among the members. A transparent way of working, involving the local people can ensure openness and commitment to provide the data and to collect the data. With economic factors we refer to economic incentives that motivate people to collect the data. Not necessarily salaries, but a small remuneration for the SFACFL staff that compile the data. Agriterra is willing to support NACCFL to make the membership database system operation and ensure feeding the system with relevant agricultural information important for the members and the organisations itself. In the detailed action plan and budget, the most important steps (actions) are described. A local advisor with expertise and experience in the field of M&E and membership registration will support NACCFL for the period of August to December. NACCFL has the capacity and committment available to adhere to this M&E trajectory. From the above analyses and taking into account the context described in paragraph 1 and the development stage and mission of NACCFL we (NACCFL and Agriterra) agree upon the following priorities related to strengthening the M&E capacities and system of NACCFL: I. Membership registration: further development of a membership registration database maintained by, owned and supported at both the local, district and national level. II. M&E on Agricultural activities: the developed membership registration database should include agricultural details/characteristics of the members. These data should be directly linked with the member registration for as such it allows for a comprehensive M&E system focusing on agriculture. The trajectory entails the remaining of 2014, August 2014 to December 31, 2014. The details of the priority areas are worked out into the action plan, see paragraph 6. NACCFL has requested the support of Agriterra to make their current ACCESS-system operational. This requires two approaches: 1. Data collection at grass root level be done (what data must be collected, how, how often and by whom). 2. What data are need at the national level, for what purpose and how to make the database operational (design, responsibility and consolidation of data).

Organization

Stichting Agriterra

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Oct 2, 2015 → Mar 19, 2018

Coverage

Nepal

Project background Nepal has a long history of Tea cultivation, initiated with the establishment of Ilam Tea Estate in the Hills of Ilam District in 1863 and Soktim Tea Estate. Tea is widely cultivated in the eastern hilly regions. Major tea producing districts are Jhapa, Ilam, Panchthar, Dhankuta and Terathum. Tea is one of the main cash crops in the hilly districts in Mechi zone contributing to rural and national economics and to alleviating poverty through income and employment generation. Orthodox tea, which is produced at altitudes between 3000 - 7000 ft are famous for its aroma, bright liquor and subtle, slight fruity flavor, which are mostly sought attributes by the consumers of overseas countries. Orthodox Tea is a high value, flavor intensive perennial crop with a potential for generating foreign exchange, reducing rural poverty, promoting economic growth and improving ecology and environment. The total land area under orthodox tea plantation is around 14,000 hectares; this industry consists of more than 35 tea states, around 18,000 small orthodox tea farmers and about 17 tea-processing factories (source: HOTPA). Currently Nepal is producing more than 1.7 million kg of Orthodox tea of which small farmers' contribution amounts to 67.8% (Baseline GTZ, 1997). 2.2 million kg of Orthodox tea is produced in a year 2010(source: HOTPA, 2010). Now Farmer's contribution is more than 85% in production and more than 95% is being exported. More than 90% of orthodox tea is exported to India and overseas countries and the rest is partially used for consumption and partially for blending purpose in black tea to impart good flavor. There are 14 mini processing factories operated by individual tea farmers and cooperatives which produce very nominal quantity but in the future its scope of operation will be increased due to interest of all cooperatives to establish such small factory so that they can produce tea by themselves without depending on factory. Due to the growing demand of Organic tea in the international market there is a realization of converting factories and garden of individual farmers into organic by certifying in a group and there are 3 factories and 7 groups already certified by NASA. As the international certification is expensive Code of Conduct for tea produced in Nepal is envisioned in a year 2003, which is owned by Himalayan Orthodox Tea Procedures’ Association (HOTPA) and jointly implemented by HOTPA and TEASEC with support from Tea Alliance, which regulates the production, processing and marketing of tea in Nepal with due consideration for ecological, social and economic dimensions. CoC implementation is at the primitive stage especially at the tea farmer’s level and need more promotion, education, and ultimately economic benefit to them. Now more farmers are attracted towards CoC tea due to the reason that the Internal Control System adopted in CoC has helped the farmers to also get Organic certification within very less time frame. Rationale In the previous phase program intervention with support from Agriterra and SNV, TEASEC has facilitate in establishing 49 cooperatives with 2,859 members and provided them with the services to build their capacity to manage their business. They were provided trainings on cooperative management and accounting. Business plans of all 48 cooperatives have been prepared. Now there are four district level cooperative federations in all program districts and Central Tea Cooperative Federation (CTCF) which is an umbrella organisation representing four district cooperative federations and is recently established. All cooperatives are now actively operating with regular savings and credit from their members, they are maintaining four ledger accounting system and few cooperatives have involved in selling green leaf to the factory with regular collection from their members. Cooperative federation in the district is now supporting cooperatives in delivering services with support by TEASEC Social Mobilizers. 15 cooperatives have submitted proposal to the Commercial Agricultural Alliance (CAA), a project implemented by the World Bank and 7 have received funds which has been utilized to invest in developing infrastructure in the tea sector. There are 1,200 tea farmers who are still not associated with the cooperatives or farmer’s groups. So the number of cooperatives is likely to increase in the future. These tea farmer’s will be further counselled and provided with services from the TEASEC. Very few female members (2%) are in the cooperatives and in the decision making positions. District cooperative federations do not have sufficient human resources to work in a full time basis. Social Mobilizers will thus be stained at District Federation office to maintain database of tea sector and by 2013 they will be permanently stationed there. There are existing 15 mini processing units which operate in areas where there is difficulty in transporting green leaf to the big tea factory. There are many such remote places where tea is grown in scattered pocket areas and so need to expand with more mini processing factories in the future. There is a growing demand and every tea farmer’s choice to certify their tea garden into organic certification. For certifying with organic it requires minimum of 3 years after complying with ICS. But Himilayan Sangrila has certified with organic by NASA within 2 years along with 2 cooperatives and 1 farmer’s group as a sub licensee. This has been possible due to the reason that they were previously certified with CoC and complying ICS. This means CoC standard is a stepping stone towards organic certification. Similarly, this trend is going to continue as Gorkha factory which is already complying CoC is going for certifying with Organic along with Eco and Sundarpani cooperatives. Monitoring of regular tea sector indicators is another aspect which is completely missing. TEASEC will have to take a lead in facilitating to regularly keeping the database of all major tea indicators as there is now a permanent reporting structure from individual farmers to Central Tea Cooperative Federation. Capacity of Social Mobilizers will be enhanced to keep tracking of information. The key points are summarized below to justify the need of program: - Government of Nepal, Ministry of Agriculture, and Cooperative has published “organic guideline” for certification of organic agriculture products. - HOTPA, an association of tea factory has a vision of converting all orthodox tea garden of Nepal into organic by the year 2012. Tea being exportable product to EU, Japan and those countries has regulation and pesticides band. - Major buyers from German (Mr. Thomas Holz) and America have already requested to provide them organic tea due to the reason that if any consignment is detected with pesticides than the whole industry may be collapsed. - Almost all chemical fertilizer used in Nepal is imported from India and other third country. Going into organic will stop importing fertilizer and save from losing foreign exchange. - In neighboring country India at Darjeeling are already in the process of converting their tea garden into organic. Darjeeling tea is looked as a competitor. - Organic market of orthodox tea is increasing in the positive trend. - European buyers are demanding tea that complies with the CSR standard and CoC covers those aspects of standard. - Approximately 95 % of orthodox tea is exported to Europe, Japan, America and India that reveals that market of organic orthodox tea is increasing in the positive trend. - Farmer cooperatives and its federations are instrumental to lobby and advocacy with the government and other donors that will ultimately increase bargaining power of the smallholder farmers. - 14 mini processing has already been established by the Individual farmers and cooperatives and this will continue to grow in the future. TEASEC will provide necessary services to

Organization

Stichting Agriterra

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Apr 7, 2011 → Mar 19, 2018

Coverage

Dhankuta, Ilam

Objectives of this project: 1.To reach out to 65.000 poor individuals members and provide them ACCES to affordable micro finance in order to be able to improve their wealth. 2. To expand the mutal aid services (micro insurance) to 150 SACCOS (reaching 5.800 individual memebrs) and achive operation break even of this service 3. Interlending fund increased for provision of loans 4. Membership growth of 250 additional SACCOS (from 650 to 900 SACCOS) Proposed Activities: Micro finance: In the period from 2010-2012, NEFSCUN wants to expand it services to 100,000 low income people (of which 80% women). NEFSCUN member SACCOS will provide them with microfinance services and contribute to building their wealth. Microfinance services will be provided by applying the Credit Union Microfinance Innovations (CUMI) methodology, which includes a ful fledged orientation and training programme especially designed for poor segments of the society. After the orientation and training period and 6 months saving, the new members are entitled to take their first loan. In 2010 we plan to provide CUMI based microfinance services to 30,000 and in 2011 to 35,000 new members reaching 65,000 in 2 years. This programme will be supported by Business Development Services, supporting entrepreneurial poor women in accessing the market. Mutual Aid services: NEFSCUN provides funds, builds capacities, provides financial risk protection with its Mutual Aid services (micro-insurance) and provides all kinds of materials and administrative tools to professionalize the services of the SACCOS. Nepal Federation of Savings and Credit Cooperative Unions Limited (NEFSCUN) is the national apex body for Savings and Credit Cooperatives (SACCOS) and their District Unions in Nepal. This member based organization provides financial and non-financial services to its members, guided by International Credit Union Principles and Values. NESFCUN promotes, strengthens and provides a forum for SACCOS to become viable community based financial institutions by providing value-added services such as education, training and financial services. NEFSCUN’s core services support SACCOS in providing financial solutions to their individual members. NEFSCUN has 842 SACCOS as member including 31 District Unions representing over 500,000 individual members at the end of 2010: 45% female and 55% male. Over 70% of SACCOS members are living in rural areas, depending for their income on the agricultural sector. In the urban areas SACCOS provide their services mainly to members active in small business and cottage industries but also agricultural related jobs such horticulture. NESFCUNs core services are: 1. Central Finance Facility Inter-lending (CFFI), 2. Microfinance services 3. NEFSCUN Mutual Aid (‘micro-insurance’), 4. Stationery services. 5. Cooperative Banking Software Solutions 6. Training and Education CFFI was initiated in 1996 and its objective is to provide share, savings and loan facilities to member SACCOS. Through training and education services NEFSCUN aims to strengthen the capacity of SACCOS staff and leaders which must lead to improvement of performance of the SACCOS operations. Since most of the individual members are low-income people there is a big demand for microfinance services. NESFCUN promotes and capacitates the SACCOS to provide these services to existing and new members on the basis of the CUMI methodology (developed by ACCU). NEFSCUN Mutual Aid is a co-operative based financial security system. It is aimed at pooling resources among low-income members, who are excluded from formal social protection mechanism, under co-operative principles & values. Through stationary services we provide all required materials for registration of SACCOS data as well as educational publications and posters, by ordering stationary centralize we can provide materials at reduced rate to our members. Cooperative Banking Software Solutions aims to assist SACCOS in digitalizing their operations and increasing efficiency in serving their members with up-to date account data, software also serves to provide fast and up-to date statements and management reports. Objectives of this project (2010-2011) 1.To reach out to 65.000 poor individuals members and provide themn ACCES to affordable micro finance in order to be able to improve their wealth. 2. To expand the mutal aid services (micro insurance) to 150 SACCOS (reaching 5.800 individual memebrs) and achive operation break even of this service 3. Interlending fund increased for provision of loans 4. Membership growth of 250 additional SACCOS (from 650 to 900 SACCOS) Proposed Activities: Micro finance: In the period from 2010-2012, NEFSCUN wants to expand it services to 100,000 low income people (of which 80% women). NEFSCUN member SACCOS will provide them with microfinance services and contribute to building their wealth. Microfinance services will be provided by applying the Credit Union Microfinance Innovations (CUMI) methodology, which includes a ful fledged orientation and training programme especially designed for poor segments of the society. After the orientation and training period and 6 ,month saving, the new members are entitled to take their first loan. In 2010 we plan to provide CUMI based microfinance services to 30,000 and in 2011 to 35,000 new members reaching 65,000 in 2 years. This programme will be supported by Business Development Services, supporting entrepreneurial poor women in accessing the market. Mutual Aid services: NEFSCUN provides funds, builds capacities, provides financial risk protection with its Mutual Aid services (micro-insurance) and provides all kinds of materials and administrative tools to professionalize the services of the SACCOS. Apart from our core business NEFSCUN is working in the following fields: advocacy & networking, policy support, Microfinance and business development services, financial intermediation, alternative energy promotion and organizing its resources to become a recognized information center for savings and Credit Cooperatives in Nepal. NEFSCUN runs a few pilot services; recently introduced ACCESS branding as a pilot service; this branding system helps SACCOS to identify the strength and weaknesses improve performance on basis of benchmarking and effective monitor an identify member needs. Another pilot service is the youth and women inclusion program which aims to attract youth and women in SACCOS by promoting their inclusion and developing new attractive products for them. Expected results/outcomes: - Represent and provide services to 900 SACCOS and their members by the end of 2011 - Increased Interlending fund for provision of loans to SACCOS, reaching Rs. 100,000,000 CFFI fund assets. - Training and education service will be provided on demand (e.g. Credit Union Directors Competence Course) and PEARLS, Policy, Plan training (PPP) and implementation will be a must for all members. - Mutual Aid Services, the Cooperative security Policy will be provided to over 5,800 members in 150 SACCOS by the end of 2011, with this operational break even will be reached. - Stationary services will increase in volume as the amount of member SACCOS is increasing, for the Nepali fiscal year 2066/2067 we plan a revenue of Rs. 400,000 and 2011 Rs. 500,000. - By the end of 2011 more than 150 SACCOS apply NEFSCUN Cooperative Banking Software - With microfinance CUMI provision the wealth situation of 65,000 individual members, mostly women, will improve, for that purpose 300 SACCOS staff and leaders will be trained to reach out and provide services to the poor. - 100 SACCOS without women and youth specific policies implement the sample policy on women and youth integration and service provision. Budget request 2010 Total budget: € 213.889 NEFSCUN: € 111.111 Agriterra: € 55.556 (26%) CCA:€ 29.630 ACCU€ 4.630 others € 12.963 Budget request 2011 Total budget: € 246.296 NEFSCUN: € 138.889 Agriterra: €

Organization

Stichting Agriterra

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Mar 3, 2011 → Mar 19, 2018

Coverage

Nepal

Guttmacher Institute (GI) has been a solid and trusted partner of Sida. The last agreement between Sida and GI ended in 2018 and was highly successful resulting in the Guttmacher Lancet Commission (GLC) and its expanded SRHR-definition and identification of a comprehensive package of services and interventions, which has become widely recognised and appreciated. The main intention and objectives of this contribution is to continue the work that was started with the GLC, i.e. advocating for a comprehensive approach to SRHR. However, with a specific focus on 'neglected areas' of SRHR such as safe abortion, infertility/ fertility, reproductive cancers and GBV. Advocacy will target global processes including declarations and statements at the UN, but also advocacy at the regional and national level for the adoption of the GLC definition and intervention package into national plans and strategies, particularly in the framework of UHC. The contribution supports the institute's work on Global Advocacy with the primary focus on furthering the advocacy work of the GLC and to more efficiently translate research findings into advocacy and policy at global, regional and national levels in close partnership with organizations active in the respective countries and regions. The Sida contribution to Guttmacher is therefore called the Global Policy Project and has the following project goal, outcomes and objectives: Consistent with the GLC, this projects ultimate goal is broad and inclusive and based in human rights principles. Through this project GI will seek to advance the Commissions vision of a world in which all people are able to achieve sexual and reproductive health and realize their sexual and reproductive rights. GI will do so by advocating for the GLC's comprehensive and inclusive vision for SRHR that recognizes the human rights of all individuals, including those from vulnerable or stigmatized populations and communities, as well as by promoting progressive inclusion of the GLCs holistic vision for SRHR in UHC. Objective 1: Advocate globally for the adoption of the GLC comprehensive definition of SRHR and essential package of interventions by producing evidence-based advocacy materials and providing technical support and expertise to Member States and multilateral institutions; and Objective 2: Promote progressive inclusion of the GLC essential package of interventions with particular attention to UHC planning, adoption and implementation in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America focusing on selected chronically neglected interventions. Across both objectives, GI will work with global and regional organizations and several focus countries to seize policy opportunities for the advancement of SRHR. To inform this work, GI will use evidence from a range of sources including findings and recommendations in the Commissions report, Guttmacher-published research, as well as other relevant evidence such as WHO guidelines and standards, related studies in peer-reviewed journals and data published by global and regional agencies. The project will also serve as an opportunity to identify research gaps and bring them to the attention of others at the GI and in the field more broadly. Furthermore, the country case studies (under Objective 2) that will be completed in collaboration with country partners will provide a mechanism for learnings among partners across countries and regions: they will offer summaries of experiences covering the joint work towards policy change, including what evidence was found to be influential and in what circumstances, what did not appear to work and reasons why not; what approaches for communicating evidence and for obtaining attention and action of relevant policymakers worked well and which did not, and the particular circumstances and reasons. Collectively, these resources gathered and generated in collaboration with GI's partners in LMICs will result in a wealth of knowledge for the wider SRHR community and a critical opportunity for South-South learning and cooperation. The Program is fully in line with the Strategy for Swedens Global Development Cooperation in Sustainable Social Development 20182022. The Program especially relates to the strategic goal 'Increased Access to SRHR, including freedom from GBV' with a dedicated focus on often neglected areas of the SRHR definition such as safe abortion care, prevention and treatment of GBV, infertility/ fertility and reproductive cancers. It also relates to the strategic goals of 'Strengthened and Sustainable Systems of Good Quality for Health' through its work on SRHR in UHC, and Strenghtened Capacity for Living Healthy Lives through its focus on advocacy related to reproductive cancers and infertility/ fertility. In line with priorities as set out in the operationalisation GI focus on normative policy development and advocacy within the area of SRHR, honing on in abortion, gender based violence, fertility/ infertility and reproductive cancers. These are areas, except for abortion, that have been identified as weak in the portfolio, and therefore offers a unique added value to the existing contributions. Furthermore it complements the current efforts on safe abortion care and Sida's work on Achieving Universal Health Coverage for all, which of course must include SRHR.

Organization

Sida / Sweden

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Aug 1, 2021 → Oct 31, 2024

Coverage

Nepal

As per ILO regional report, women in Nepal carried out 85 per cent of daily unpaid care work, spending a total of 29 million hours a day to 5 million hours spent by men. The amount of time Nepali women spend on unpaid care work is six times higher than that of men. The National Planning Commission (NPC) of Nepal, with technical support from the International Labour Organization (ILO) and UN Women, commissioned a report titled Public Investments in Nepal’s Care Economy, An Estimation of Care Deficit, Investment Costs and Economic Returns in the Education and Health Sectors (2024). The study highlights that an investment of US$ 2 billion to address care coverage gaps in Nepal’s education and health sectors could generate approximately 1,386,000 jobs (both direct and indirect), with at least 60% of these jobs expected to be filled by women. Such an investment would not only strengthen aggregate demand across the economy but also enhance long-term societal well-being, gender equality, and inclusive economic growth. Recognizing both the challenges and the transformative potential of the care economy, the Government of Nepal is working towards developing a care policy that strengthens care economy and safeguard the rights of care workers. Led by the NPC, a care working group has been established, comprising representatives from multiple stakeholders. Building on existing evidence, the ILO, continues to promote the care economy as a critical component of its transformative agenda for gender equality and the protection of labour rights. Specifically, the ILO supports to: - Increase the capacity of constituents to design, promote, and implement transformative care policies and programmatic investments. - Assess and improve the working conditions and representation of care workers - Support the government and social partners in defining policies and investments to create jobs in the care sector and improve social dialogue and representatiion.

Organization

ILO Nepal

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 1, 2026 → Dec 31, 2027

Coverage

Nepal

The Government of Nepal became a Pathfinder Country in 2018 and implemented a number of measures stipulated in the Second National Master Plan for the Elimination of Child Labour (2028–2028), submitting its progress report on time to the Alliance 8.7 Global Coordinating Group. In 2024, through the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security (MoLESS), the Government of Nepal endorsed a revised list of hazardous occupations for child labour, aligning with international labour standards. The updated list identifies brick production, the adult entertainment industry, domestic work for children, and debt bondage as hazardous sectors for children under the age of 18. In 2025, a study on Decent Work Deficits in the Adult Entertainment Sector in Nepal was conducted, and its dissemination is planned for 2026. The ILO collaborated with two municipalities to declare them child labour-free and worked closely with the National Child Rights Council (NCRC), the government body responsible for child rights and protection, to support the effective implementation of the National Plan of Action on the Elimination of Child Labour in Nepal. The ILO will continue to support its constituents in Nepal by: Supporting the implementation of the National Plan of Action for the Elimination of Child Labour, including the promotion of child labour-free municipalities. -Assisting the National Statistics Office in incorporating a child labour module into the National Labour Force Survey, which is currently underway. -Providing recommendations and guidance to address decent work deficits in the adult entertainment sector in Nepal. -Validating a legal gap analysis of the Convention C189 and prepare an action plan to advance decent work for domestic workers.

Organization

ILO Nepal

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 1, 2026 → Dec 31, 2027

Coverage

Nepal

Nepal has ratified 11 International Labour Conventions, including, seven fundamental, one governance and three technical conventions. In 2024, the Ministry of Labour, Employment, and Social Security (MoLESS), formed a Tripartite plus Stakeholders International Labour Standard (ILS) Committee. This committee developed and approved a work plan in 2024 to prioritize the ratification of nine ILO standards by 2026, including: C081 (labour inspection), C087 (Freedom of Association), P029 (Forced Labour Protocol) , C190 (Violence and Harassment), C189 (Domestic Workers), C155 (Occupational Safety and Health), C187 (Promotional Framework for Occupational and Health), C177 (Home Work), and C181 (Private Employment Agencies). In 2025, Convention No. 81 (Labour Inspection Convention, 1947) and the Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (P029) were submitted to the Cabinet for ratification. According to the Ministry of Labour, with regards to the ratification of Convention No. 87 has been circulated to the concerned ministries for their review and consent. For Convention No. 155 and Convention No. 187, a study task force has been established to conduct a detailed analysis related to ratification. Gap analyses between national legislation and the requirements of Convention No. 190 and Convention No. 189 are currently underway with technical assistance from the ILO. To support ILO constituents in their efforts towards the ratification and effective application of ILS, the ILO’s support in 2026–2027 includes: • Expert inputs for legal gap analyses of Conventions Nos. 190 and 189. • Organization of consultative meetings on the ratification of selected Conventions. As a member of the ILO, Nepal submits regular reports on ratified and fundamental international labour standards. In this biennium, Nepal is required to report on Conventions Nos. 111 and 100 in 2025.

Organization

ILO Nepal

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 1, 2026 → Dec 31, 2027

Coverage

Nepal

Country portfolio budget - CPB Nepal 2024-2028 Provide nutrition-sensitive school meals in targeted food-insecure areas and technical and operational assistance to strengthen the Government’s capacity to implement the national school meals programme as part of the national social protection framework

Organization

World Food Programme Nepal

Budget

USD 13.7M

Timeline

Jan 1, 2024 → Dec 31, 2028

Coverage

Nepal

Country portfolio budget - CPB Nepal 2024-2028 Assist national institutions and the private sector to strengthen and deliver effective and sustainable health and nutrition-focused social protection programmes to meet the needs of vulnerable populations

Organization

World Food Programme Nepal

Budget

USD 3.1M

Timeline

Jan 1, 2024 → Dec 31, 2028

Coverage

Nepal

Country portfolio budget - CPB Nepal 2024-2028 Provide assistance to meet the immediate essential needs of crisis-affected populations, including food, nutrition and livelihood recovery, before, during and after shocks and other stressors

Organization

World Food Programme Nepal

Budget

USD 4.2M

Timeline

Jan 1, 2024 → Dec 31, 2028

Coverage

Nepal

Country portfolio budget - CPB Nepal 2019-2023 Provide technical assistance and support evidence generation for government and multi-sector partners to enhance rights-based food security and nutrition plans, policies, regulatory frameworks and service delivery.

Organization

World Food Programme Nepal

Budget

USD 83K

Timeline

Jan 1, 2019 → Dec 31, 2023

Coverage

Nepal

Country portfolio budget - CPB Nepal 2019-2023 Support the strengthening of national nutrition-sensitive social safety nets for vulnerable populations and provide specialized nutritious foods, technical assistance, logistics, as well as social behaviour change communication for the prevention of malnutrition.

Organization

World Food Programme Nepal

Budget

USD 5.3M

Timeline

Jan 1, 2019 → Dec 31, 2023

Coverage

Nepal

Les crédits globaux pour petites actions permettent le financement d’opérations ponctuelles, peu coûteuses, significatives en termes de développement, à composantes diverses (techniques, sociales, organisationnelles et de gestion, politique, économique, informative, etc.)

Organization

Swiss Development Cooperation

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 1, 2025 → Dec 31, 2025

Coverage

Nepal

Based on Swiss expertise in Technical and Vocational Education and Training, the projectcontributes to establish a federal vocational qualifications system. The NVQS will increase thetransparency on the labour market for employers and workers, improve official recognition ofworkers competencies in hospitality, construction and automobile sectors and allow links betweenTVET and general education to access higher level qualifications for better employment indomestic and international labour market.

Organization

Swiss Development Cooperation

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jul 16, 2020 → Jul 15, 2024

Coverage

Nepal

<p>Build a clinic in the vilage of Goli.</p>

Organization

Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic

Budget

USD 11K

Timeline

Aug 23, 2019 → May 23, 2020

Coverage

Nepal

Measuring the Impact and Operational Feasibility of Community Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition Pilot in Nepal

Organization

FCDO Nepal

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

May 3, 2011 → Mar 30, 2012

Coverage

Nepal

This activity Fund to UNICEF - Community Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) Evaluation is a component of DFID Nepal - Community Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition Evaluation reported by FCDO with a funding type of 109 - Multilateral organisation and a budget of £80,036. It works in the following sector(s): Basic nutrition.

Organization

FCDO Nepal

Budget

USD 129K

Timeline

Apr 28, 2011 → Aug 31, 2013

Coverage

Nepal

This activity Support to Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Piority Hospitals in Nepal is a component of UK Support to Increase Resilience to Natural Disasters in Nepal reported by FCDO with a funding type of 104 - Procurement of Services and a budget of £2,168,822. It works in the following sector(s): Disaster prevention and preparedness, Environmental policy and administrative management, Material relief assistance and services.

Organization

FCDO Nepal

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Apr 21, 2011 → May 29, 2018

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, 2004 → Jun 28, 2005

Coverage

Nepal

PANTHER (the PANdemic preparedness plaTform for Health and Emerging infectious Response) aims to contribute to the control of future epidemics or pandemics on the African continent through a flexible ‘ready-to-use’ clinical research platform, supporting preparedness and rapid response through the development and assessment of adapted tools, starting with therapeutics and vaccines in Africa. Launched in late 2022, PANTHER has been incubated by DNDi during its start-up phase.

Organization

Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Dec 1, 2022 → Dec 31, 2028

Coverage

Nepal