Development projects in 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

Nepal ranks as the 17th poorest country in the world, with 41% of the population reportedly under-nourished and 30 of its 75 districts food insecure. Sixty six per cent of the population lives off a combination of agriculture and forest products. Factors preventing forestry systems from providing adequate livelihoods include low productivity, sub-optimal management, limited marketing opportunities and inequitable centralised planning and service delivery. This project in the Middle Hills of Nepal has three main objectives, to improve: the capacity of household-based agroforestry systems, the functioning of community-based forestry systems, and the productivity of and equitable access to under-utilised agricultural land.

Organization

DFAT Australian Aid

Budget

USD 1.3M

Timeline

Apr 1, 2013 → Jun 30, 2015

Coverage

Nepal

In eastern India and Nepal tanks (small reservoirs) are still used for irrigation, livestock and domestic purposes, but fisheries are emerging as their primary usage. Competition between irrigation and fisheries often creates a rift within communities, resulting in management issues that directly contribute to poor tank maintenance. The primary objective of this 10-month scoping study is to investigate the characteristics of tanks and tank irrigation in East Indian states (West Bengal, Bihar and Orissa) and the terai (plains) of Nepal. The constraints identified and opportunities envisaged will assist the development of a 3-year ACIAR research proposal.

Organization

DFAT Australian Aid

Budget

USD 30K

Timeline

May 1, 2012 → Feb 28, 2013

Coverage

Nepal

More than half of Nepal’s population live in poverty. Poor access to health and education, low literacy rates, limited agricultural productivity, malnutrition and inequities resulting from traditional social structures limit Nepal’s ability to make gains in social development. The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research supports collaborative research in Nepal, including projects on small ruminants, wheat and legumes, and Australian Aid has supported community forestry research and development activities. Funding under this initiative supports ACIAR scoping to identify research and priorities in Nepal.

Organization

DFAT Australian Aid

Budget

USD 182K

Timeline

Feb 15, 2012 → Jun 30, 2013

Coverage

Nepal

Evolving climate resilient agricultural technologies will increase farm production and productivity vis-à-vis continuous management of natural and manmade resources constitute an integral part of sustaining agriculture in the era of climate change. This project supports research and capacity building to enhance the resilience of Nepalese agriculture covering crops, livestock and fisheries to climatic variability and climate change through development and application of improved production and risk management technologies.

Organization

DFAT Australian Aid

Budget

USD 105K

Timeline

May 8, 2012 → Jun 30, 2013

Coverage

Nepal

Many Asian economies depend more on agriculture than those of developed countries, and have less resilient institutions, they will be more heavily affected by climate change. The poorest farmers bear the brunt of climate change because they live in the more vulnerable areas. The impacts of climate change will amplify the current food security crisis. Funding under this initiative aims to resolve institutional and policy related research gaps for climate resilient farming systems intensification.

Organization

DFAT Australian Aid

Budget

USD 65K

Timeline

Jun 22, 2012 → Jan 30, 2013

Coverage

Nepal

Mountain areas are central to ecosystem functions and biodiversity hotspots. They are also inhabited by deeply impoverished populations. People in the Himalayan landscapes have long lived in contexts of chronic structural risks generated by climate change and deeper socio-political factors in Nepalese society. One strategy has been large collective and individual labour investments in the landscape. This research will investigate such long term landscape investments in order to understand how people’s landscape use and economic and social structures are mutually constituted with very different outcomes for different social groups in a hierarchical society such as Nepal. It does so in a situation where patterns of outmigration creates a situation of rural labour scarcity, which has relatively unknown consequences for land uses and landscapes. The interdisciplinary research team will use the own developed method ‘ES-walks’, in combination with various forms of interviews and collaborative activities in three contrasting mountain landscapes.The project will contribute to the growing body of socio-political nuanced understandings of resilience and adaptive capacity, as well as analyse and reflect on development and environmental changes in an integrated manner. Such knowledge of human-environmental relations is crucial for supporting and improving smallholders’ rural livelihood opportunities.

Organization

Sida / Sweden

Budget

USD 0

Timeline

Jan 1, 2019 → Dec 31, 2024

Coverage

Nepal

Large efforts are made internationally to control deforestation as an approach to climate mitigation; one example of this is the implementation of the UN-backed program REDD. However, so far REDD has been unable to curb the drivers of deforestation when facing complex realities of expanding agricultural frontiers, large-scale infrastructure projects and irrepressible markets. Smallholders´ multiple land uses play a central role in fighting climate change and as an important provider of ecosystem services (ES). This research therefore proposes to rethink how ES management and climate mitigation measures can be achieved. While approaching ES from a landscape perspective, this research seeks to investigate smallholders´ motivations and actions for ES management and how these might promote forest cover maintenance, and other forms of ES provision at the same time as it meet the smallholders´ livelihood needs. This will be investigated by using ethnographic and PRA methods in two contrasting country case studies, Brazil and Nepal. These findings will feed into a larger local discussion on motivations for ES management and potential incentive structures for collective action. Finally, the bureaucratic structures, processes and assemblages affecting such actions will be explored. This project engages with the timely and important issue of maintenance of ES, highlighting smallholders´ potential as contributors in ES management and climate change mitigation.

Organization

Sida / Sweden

Budget

USD 0

Timeline

Jan 1, 2015 → Dec 31, 2017

Coverage

Nepal

"Please Help my Kashmir in this difficult situation."We are responding to this plea with an EMERGENCY RELIEF program to address immediate and desperate needs as winter takes hold in Kashmir. The situation in Kashmir is very unstable and many families no longer can earn an income to feed themselves. The Relief program seeks to help at least 50 families to support them with one month's food and grocery supply.

Organization

GlobalGiving

Budget

USD 0

Timeline

Dec 23, 2019 → May 12, 2020

Coverage

Nepal

Tharu are an ethnic group indigenous to the Terai - the southern foothills of the Himalayas in Nepal. History of tharu living in the area about five thousand years old but society slowly modernizing and adopting western and European culture. Ancient tharu culture and tradition disappearing everyday therefore to preserve and promote indigenous culture tharu museum has been establish where tharu women have been selling tharu dresses, ornaments and ancient materials for their income.

Organization

GlobalGiving

Budget

USD 0

Timeline

Sep 17, 2019 → Nov 19, 2021

Coverage

Nepal

The project will support the establishment of accessible livelihood activities for 624 PWDs (emphasizing women, who are often most deprived), in an effort to reduce poverty and improve household health and education outcomes.

Organization

Disability and Development Partners

Budget

USD 0

Timeline

Jul 9, 2018 → End not reported

Coverage

Nepal

Men and women with disabilities whose livelihoods could benefit from engagement with the coffee value chain

Organization

Light for the World International

Budget

USD 283K

Timeline

Dec 19, 2019 → Mar 31, 2023

Coverage

Nepal