Development projects in Nepal

This investment covers management and administrative services for the provision of Australia Awards Scholarships, Australia Awards short courses, Australian Professional Opportunities, on-award scholar engagement, alumni engagement, communications and enabling activities across South Asia and Mongolia (covering Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka). In line with the Australia Awards Global Strategy Framework, the investment seeks to achieve two key outcomes: a. Alumni are using their skills, knowledge and networks to contribute to sustainable development; and b. Alumni are contributing to cooperation between Australia and partner countries. Cross-cutting priorities include GEDSI considerations, and indigenous participation are mainstreamed in every aspect of the investment implementation.

Organization

DFAT Australian Aid

Budget

USD 4.0M

Timeline

Sep 30, 2019 → Jun 30, 2028

Coverage

Nepal

This initiative will aim to enhance the capacities of finance-mandated and other relevant criminal justice agencies in targeted countries in South Asia and foster regional cooperation and coordination with the objective of preventing and countering drug trafficking revenues. This will be achieved through a mapping of illicit financial flows (IFFs) originating from drug trafficking in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, followed by the delivery of technical assistance informed by the research. In turn, this technical assistance will support beneficiary governments to counter terrorism and other illicit financing and reduce activities reliant on these funds.

Organization

Global Affairs Canada

Budget

USD 141K

Timeline

Mar 5, 2025 → Mar 31, 2028

Coverage

Nepal

Under CARA LLAF FY 26/27, climate impacted municipality/ies have a functional Adaptation and Resilience Fund, which is managed by the local government/s, that leverages public-private finance, enabling women smallholder farmers, including vulnerable groups such as single women, persons with disability (PwD), Dalits, indigenous people, LGBQTI+ individuals and economically marginalised groups; and Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) to access blended finance and adopt digital solutions for locally led agroecology-based climate adaptation.

Organization

FCDO Nepal

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jul 17, 2026 → Jun 30, 2027

Coverage

Nepal

The project aims to lay foundation for a transition to resilient and commercially viable agroecological farming system by strengthening capacity and capability for agroecological policy, planning and practice in Nepal’s western Provinces, and facilitating cross Boarder knowledge exchange with other Hindu Kush Himalayan states of India and Bhutan and with UK Research Institutions.

Organization

FCDO Nepal

Budget

USD 338K

Timeline

Aug 8, 2025 → Jun 30, 2026

Coverage

Nepal

The Nepal in Business programme will unlock economic prosperity by generating inclusive growth, expanding businesses, and addressing income poverty in Nepal. The programme will do this by supporting and financing small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to build organisational effectiveness through improved management and productivity, to achieve business growth and create jobs. It will partner with government to create a more conducive business environment in Nepal, delivering the reforms that matter to improve the ease of business. It will establish a recyclable fund to improve access to finance for SMEs by crowding-in commercial finance.

Organization

FCDO Nepal

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

May 17, 2023 → Mar 31, 2031

Coverage

Nepal

The facility will ensure both financial and value additionality, particularly by i. providing finance that is not provided by the market ii. Mobilizing resource from the private sector and adding value beyond providing financial support by mitigating risks, helping SMEs achieve higher standards (i.e., on gender practices, sustainable business practices, ESG performance) or building capacity or transferring knowledge and know how.

Organization

FCDO Nepal

Budget

USD 20.0M

Timeline

Oct 14, 2024 → Mar 31, 2031

Coverage

Nepal

This project aims to empower voices and supports to end Gender-Based Violence ensuring that Individual community members have the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and effective collaborative mechanisms to prevent and respond to GBV. The project also aims to systematically support stakeholders to have the capacity and coordination to advocate for, develop and deliver GBV prevention and response services.

Organization

FCDO Nepal

Budget

USD 10.1M

Timeline

May 10, 2024 → Dec 31, 2027

Coverage

Nepal

Technical Assistance for Micro Enterprise Development for Poverty Alleviation, (MEDPA-TA) project will be fully anchored within government’s ongoing MEDPA programme to support its effective and efficient implementation. The project team will work closely with the federal and provincial level government officials designated to work for MEDPA in rolling out MEDPA implementation in all 753 local governments through allocations of budgets, provisions of micro-enterprise development policies and guidelines, building capacities and strong collaboration between local, provincial and federal governments.

Organization

DFAT Australian Aid

Budget

USD 782K

Timeline

Oct 12, 2018 → Jun 30, 2020

Coverage

Nepal

The Australia Awards Fellowships (AAF) program aims to build skills that contribute to economic and human development; and foster links between Australia and partner countries. This is achieved by providing grant funding to Australian organisations to host Fellows from developing countries for short-term study and professional development. Funding under this investment supports round 17 of the fellowships program. The total value of this investment is $19.0 million expensed in the 2017-18 financial year.

Organization

DFAT Australian Aid

Budget

USD 357K

Timeline

Jul 1, 2017 → Jun 30, 2020

Coverage

Nepal

DFAT provides Australia Awards Fellowships to build skills that contribute to economic and human development and foster links between Australia and partner countries. Australia Awards Fellowships contribute to this aim by providing grant funding to Australian organisations to host Fellows from developing countries for short-term study and professional development. DFAT has assessed applications for funding under Round 16 and supports 91 applications from 46 Australian organisations. The total value of this investment is $18.2 million expensed over two years, starting in the 2016-17 financial year.

Organization

DFAT Australian Aid

Budget

USD 370K

Timeline

Jul 1, 2016 → Dec 31, 2017

Coverage

Nepal

To contribute to the development of an ideal food system that is nutrition-health-and safety-driven, productive, and efficient (and thus able to deliver affordable food), environmentally sustainable, climate smart, and inclusive.

Organization

FAO Nepal

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Dec 1, 2023 → May 31, 2025

Coverage

Nepal

To contribute resilient, inclusive and nutrition-sensitive agri-food systems in Nepal, supporting SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) and SDG 13 (Climate Action) through strengthened climate resilience and food security of vulnerable farming households.

Organization

FAO Nepal

Budget

USD 350K

Timeline

Mar 1, 2026 → Feb 28, 2027

Coverage

Koshi, Madhesh

The Rapid Enterprise and Livelihoods Recovery Project support Nepal’s long term recovery. The early recovery package of support will focus on three key themes: meeting the education needs of vulnerable children, with a focus on girls and children with disability as they transition back to school, and “building back better”; rebuilding livelihoods of women and other vulnerable populations; and rebuilding social cohesion, by ensuring there is access to alternative dispute resolution for addressing disaster-related conflict, violence and exploitation of women. Funding is provided to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) for the Rapid Enterprise and Livelihoods Recovery Project (RELRP) . RELRP will help people recover their livelihoods. Through quick reactivation of local enterprises and establishment of new enterprises the project will also rebuild local economies. The project, which will be implemented in cooperation with the Nepal Ministry of Industry, targets a total of 12,000

Organization

DFAT Australian Aid

Budget

USD 6.2M

Timeline

Jun 1, 2015 → Apr 30, 2017

Coverage

Nepal

Restore and strengthen agricultural livelihoods of target households with improved risk management capacities

Organization

FAO Nepal

Budget

USD 400K

Timeline

Dec 3, 2024 → Dec 2, 2025

Coverage

Nepal

Protect the livelihood assets of 5,000 vulnerable households (25,000 individuals) in the five municipalities of two districts and reach above 10,000 households (50,000 individuals) with Early Warning Risk Messages (EWRM) in Agriculture, livestock, fisheries and other livelihoods means

Organization

FAO Nepal

Budget

USD 350K

Timeline

Oct 2, 2024 → Apr 1, 2025

Coverage

Nepal

To enhance the livelihoods of mountain communities by leveraging their natural advantages and overcoming financial and market access barriers through the development of value chains for two of the most promising high-value mountain products, establishing effective market linkages to connect producers with buyers, ensuring products reach markets efficiently, fetch fair prices, and implementing a payback mechanism and benefit-sharing among local producers through their farmers' institutions

Organization

FAO Nepal

Budget

USD 99K

Timeline

Aug 21, 2024 → Jan 31, 2026

Coverage

Nepal

Promote inclusive growth and job creation by strengthening the capacity of producers, government institutions and private enterprises to effectively link to domestic and international markets through the development and promotion of a Geographical indication (GI) for the country?s two commodities namely: Sichuan pepper (Timur) and the Butter Tree (Chiuri).

Organization

FAO Nepal

Budget

USD 352K

Timeline

Dec 1, 2025 → May 31, 2027

Coverage

Nepal

Australia Awards Fellowships assist to build skills that contribute to economic and human development and foster links between Australia and partner countries. Australia Awards Fellowships contribute to this aim by providing grant funding to Australian organisations to host Fellows from developing countries for short-term study and professional development. Funding under this investment (Round 15) supports 111 applicants from 46 Australian organisations and is valued at $24.9 million to be expensed during the 2014-15 financial year.

Organization

DFAT Australian Aid

Budget

USD 718K

Timeline

Jul 1, 2014 → Jun 30, 2015

Coverage

Nepal

Scholarships have been a feature of the Australian Government’s engagement in South and West Asia since the start of the Colombo Plan in the 1950s, and they represent a key pillar of the Australian aid program. Australia Awards funded through the aid program are provided to build the skills and knowledge of individuals so they contribute to their country’s development, and to support the ongoing development of links between Australia and the countries to which it provides aid. The Australia Awards in South and West Asia Investment (AASWAI) provides the management, operational and administrative resources required across the participating countries (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Maldives, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan). The total value of this investment is $28.9 million over 4 years, starting 2014-15.

Organization

DFAT Australian Aid

Budget

USD 5.1M

Timeline

Jan 16, 2015 → Jun 30, 2020

Coverage

Nepal

International Participation in Graduate Training (IPGT) provides international participants with a theoretical basis for their practice of diplomacy and essential tradecraft skills for their career progression. The course aims to build capacity through professional and academic training and will expose international participants to key Australian foreign, trade and development policy issues. Partner countries have relatively small foreign ministries, with little opportunity to conduct professional training or promote career development. The IPGT program provides participants with a suite of relevant policy, professional and academic training to enhance their ability to pursue key international policy objectives of their respective countries. It aims to establish strong and enduring personal linkages between junior Australian DFAT officials and officials from priority regional countries which will be utilised in the pursuit of Australian foreign, trade and aid policy objectives into th

Organization

DFAT Australian Aid

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jul 1, 2014 → Mar 31, 2016

Coverage

Nepal

Restore and strengthen agricultural production capacities and livelihoods of floods-affected households in the worst hit districts in Nepal

Organization

FAO Nepal

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Dec 10, 2021 → Feb 8, 2023

Coverage

Nepal

The objective of the project is to enhance Food security and Livelihoods of the earthquake affected people particularly women, poor, marginalized and socially excluded.

Organization

FAO Nepal

Budget

USD 500K

Timeline

Dec 15, 2023 → Apr 14, 2025

Coverage

Jajarkot, Karnali

To support and develop Agriculture Sector Disaster Risk Reduction and Preparedness Plan (A-DPRP) in enhancing the resilience of the farming communities by enhancing the resilience capacities to anticipate, prepare, adopt, reducing losses and damages in agriculture sector, enhancing resilience through risks informed planning and implementation of agriculture, and building quality of life of farming communities by addressing the existing constraints of climate induced disasters in agriculture.

Organization

FAO Nepal

Budget

USD 70K

Timeline

Feb 1, 2024 → Dec 31, 2025

Coverage

Nepal

To create a conducive environment to protect children from child labour situation in all its forms including agriculture sector, wherein the roles and functions of agricultural stakeholders are identified and unlocked in a coordinated manner together with other national actors to ensure their safety and well-being.

Organization

FAO Nepal

Budget

USD 75K

Timeline

May 1, 2024 → Sep 30, 2025

Coverage

Nepal

Development of full proposal on Climate Resilient Transformation of Rice-based Farming and Food Systems in Central Nepal (CRAFT Nepal)

Organization

FAO Nepal

Budget

USD 200K

Timeline

Jan 8, 2024 → Aug 9, 2025

Coverage

Nepal

To provide technical assistance to review and revise the Agriculture Development Strategy (ADS).

Organization

FAO Nepal

Budget

USD 98K

Timeline

May 6, 2024 → Apr 30, 2025

Coverage

Nepal

To support in enhancing the capacity of National Statistics Office in data integration, editing, processing, validation, cleaning, analysis and dissemination of agricultural census data.

Organization

FAO Nepal

Budget

USD 78K

Timeline

Mar 15, 2023 → Dec 31, 2024

Coverage

Nepal

To open a new horizon to transform existing agriculture and food system into a more smart, efficient, profitable, and sustainable one and improve the quality of life of rural people by addressing the existing constraints of digitalization in agriculture.

Organization

FAO Nepal

Budget

USD 300K

Timeline

Nov 1, 2022 → Apr 30, 2025

Coverage

Nepal

Through the Australia Awards Scholarships Australia offers a range of study and professional development opportunities (including long-term awards) to promote sustainable development. The overarching goals of the Australia Awards Scholarships are to: achieve country and regional program development outcomes through strengthened individual and institutional skills and knowledge; support leadership; and support Australia's broader foreign policy agenda through long-term linkages and partnerships. They provide long and short term study and professional development opportunities to citizens from developing countries around the globe. The total value of this multi-country initiative is $347.6 million over 8 years, starting 2012-13.

Organization

DFAT Australian Aid

Budget

USD 5.1M

Timeline

Jul 1, 2012 → Jun 30, 2020

Coverage

Nepal

In Least Developed Countries (LDCs) approximately only 14% of the adult population have access to financial services and growth is stagnant whereas around 25% of the population own mobile phones and ownership is growing by 23% annually. Mobile phones can be used by poor people to access financial services and banking. The UNCDF Mobile Money for the Poor will facilitate access to financial services through mobile phone technology bringing those services to a large number of poor people. The role of Mobile Money for the Poor is to help Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), banks and other organisations with information, ideas, incentives and initial investments to provide financially sustainable mobile banking services to low-income clients in developing countries. The Mobile Money for the Poor goal is to provide four million additional individuals and small microenterprises in LDCs with access to one or more branchless financial services by the end of 2017. This will include 1.2 million peop

Organization

DFAT Australian Aid

Budget

USD 100K

Timeline

May 4, 2012 → Mar 31, 2013

Coverage

Nepal