Development projects in Nepal

Investment Project Financing. Implementing agency: Ministry of Health

Organization

World Bank Nepal

Budget

USD 150.0M

Timeline

Timeline not reported

Coverage

Nepal

Specific Investment Loan

Organization

World Bank Nepal

Budget

USD 10.0M

Timeline

Timeline not reported

Coverage

Nepal

Investment Project Financing. Implementing agency: Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development (MoALD)

Organization

World Bank Nepal

Budget

USD 22.7M

Timeline

Start not reported → Jun 30, 2024

Coverage

Nepal

Investment Project Financing. Implementing agency: Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development

Organization

World Bank Nepal

Budget

USD 0

Timeline

Start not reported → Jun 30, 2027

Coverage

Nepal

Specific Investment Loan

Organization

World Bank Nepal

Budget

USD 41.5M

Timeline

Mar 14, 1989 → Jun 30, 1996

Coverage

Nepal

Specific Investment Loan

Organization

World Bank Nepal

Budget

USD 26.7M

Timeline

Apr 12, 1994 → Dec 31, 2000

Coverage

Nepal

Specific Investment Loan

Organization

World Bank Nepal

Budget

USD 18.3M

Timeline

Sep 3, 1996 → Dec 31, 2003

Coverage

Nepal

Poverty Reduction Support Credit

Organization

World Bank Nepal

Budget

USD 70.0M

Timeline

Nov 18, 2003 → Nov 1, 2004

Coverage

Nepal

Investment Project Financing

Organization

World Bank Nepal

Budget

USD 25.3M

Timeline

Jun 1, 2004 → Aug 31, 2012

Coverage

Nepal

Investment Project Financing

Organization

World Bank Nepal

Budget

USD 50.0M

Timeline

Sep 9, 2004 → Jul 15, 2010

Coverage

Nepal

Investment Project Financing

Organization

World Bank Nepal

Budget

USD 18.2M

Timeline

Jan 19, 2007 → Jul 31, 2011

Coverage

Nepal

Specific Investment Loan

Organization

World Bank Nepal

Budget

USD 27.0M

Timeline

May 6, 2008 → End not reported

Coverage

Nepal

Sector Investment and Maintenance Loan

Organization

World Bank Nepal

Budget

USD 50.0M

Timeline

May 6, 2008 → End not reported

Coverage

Nepal

Investment Project Financing. Implementing agency: Ministry of Health

Organization

World Bank Nepal

Budget

USD 129.2M

Timeline

Apr 20, 2010 → Jan 15, 2016

Coverage

Nepal

Investment Project Financing. Implementing agency: Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development

Organization

World Bank Nepal

Budget

USD 40.0M

Timeline

Jun 26, 2012 → Jun 30, 2017

Coverage

Nepal

Development Policy Lending. Implementing agency: Ministry of Home Affairs (National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority), Ministry of Health and Population, Ministry of Urban Development (Department of Urban Development and Building Construction), Ministry of Forests and Environment, Ministry of Finance (Main)

Organization

World Bank Nepal

Budget

USD 50.0M

Timeline

Mar 10, 2020 → Nov 30, 2024

Coverage

Nepal

Program-for-Results Financing. Implementing agency: Ministry of Health and Population

Organization

World Bank Nepal

Budget

USD 50.0M

Timeline

Jul 8, 2021 → End not reported

Coverage

Nepal

Program-for-Results Financing. Implementing agency: Ministry of Health and Population

Organization

World Bank Nepal

Budget

USD 100.0M

Timeline

Apr 28, 2023 → Jul 15, 2028

Coverage

Nepal

Development Policy Lending. Implementing agency: Ministry of Finance

Organization

World Bank Nepal

Budget

USD 100.0M

Timeline

Feb 29, 2024 → Feb 28, 2025

Coverage

Nepal

Lhomi Preschool Program in Nepal is a liaison between Wycliffe Finland (WRK) and its partner Nepal Lhomi Society (NELHOS). The main output will be Mother Tongue Based Early Childhood Education program for the Lhomi.The status of children in Nepal is often very poor especially among indigenous people groups. Lhomi children are often discriminated. There is no preschools available and they must start primary school in Nepali language which is unknown for them. This will have a bad effect to their success in t he school and finally it causes exclusion.Providing pre-school opportunity by their mother tongue this project will increase parity in the education levels of children in the target communities with other children in the country. Children's rights will be increased by providing them pre-school education that equip them and easy their transition to the first grade in Nepali instructed primary school. In doing so children will comprehend and learn faster they will stay in school and ultimately will increase t heir self-development. This will be achieved through a well-founded Mother Tongue Based Early Childhood Education (MTB ECE) -program that will be developed in the target language.The project aims to reduce inequality and vulnerability of indigenous childre n. The rights of girls disabled children and low cast children will be emphasized. Moreover gender equality reduction of inequality disability and climate sustainability will be part of the learning material.NELHOS is responsible of project implementation. As an organization they will gain capacity of mother tongue education as well as they become strong advocate of minority language groups and the rights of marginalized groups in Nepal.Main beneficiaries are the Lhomi language speaking children their paren ts and the local education actors who benefit of increased capacity. The government supports mother tongue education and pre-schools but often they do not have resources to start schools in the remote areas.Key activities:- Influencing the attitudes of the stakeholders.- Producing MTB ECE program and material for it.- Training teachers.- Pilot classes.- Capacity building.

Organization

Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Oct 27, 2016 → Dec 31, 2020

Coverage

Nepal

In Nepal children are not screened for visual or hearing impairments. Knowledge of eye- and ear health is generally poor. Traditional beliefs and treatments can be detrimental to sight and vision. Having a disability is still greatly stigmatised. Although the majority of children in Nepal have access to education differently abled children are still mostly excluded from it. This is a major risk for marginalisation. The project which is a 2-year pilot in Bara district in the Terai region in the south of Nepa l aims to increase the enrollment of 3 to 8-year-old children with vision or hearing impairment in public preschools. The inhabitants of the district are poor and the number of children not attending school is considerable. The majority of pupils in Bara a re boys and the project aims to promote girls' right to education.Grass-root level volunteers are educated to identify children with problems with vision or hearing. The children identified through screening are examined at eye + ear camps to diagnose cond itions affecting sight and vision. It is estimated that most of these children have problems that can easily be cured with simple treatments. Children with a severe visual or hearing disability will undergo a 4-6 month rehabilitation to enable life outside home and attending school. Awareness raising campaigns regarding eye- and ear health as well as rights of disabled children will be organised among local inhabitants during the camps.This project is as a collaboration between a Nepalese NGO B.P. Eye Found ation and PSR Finland. The collaboration was initiated from Nepal. Like the previous work of B.P. Eye Foundation this project aims to screen for and promote treatment of disabling conditions as well as contribute to a change in the Nepalese view on the rig hts of people with disabilities remove barriers and stigmas associated with disabilities and enable children with disabilities to become productive citizens. The Department of Education (DoED) Nepal has signed a Memorandum of Understanding on implementing these pilot protocols in other districts in Nepal.

Organization

Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Nov 4, 2016 → Dec 31, 2020

Coverage

Bara, Madhesh

The Technical Assistance for Competence-Based Soft Skills Development in School Education in Nepal (TASS) is the second phase of the Finnish funded TSSP program which was implemented in the years 2012-2015. The aim of the TSSP program was to improve the qu ality of education in Nepal by integrating soft skills into teaching. Soft skills are defined as personal cooperation thinking innovation and business skills. The TSSP project ends in December 2015.The mid-term review of TSSP concluded that the integration of soft skills into the education sector in Nepal is highly relevant as it can improve both the quality and the relevance of education. The evaluation recommended a continuation of the project. The main achievements of TSSP were the approval of new curric ula in six different subjects for grades 9-10 as well as the development of teachers training materials and their testing. The new textbooks for grade 9 will be in schools in 2016 and teachers' training packages have been taught in 40% of Nepal's teacher t raining facilities. The second phase ? the TASS project ? will build on the achievements of the first phase. During the TASS program the update of the curriculum for grades 9-10 moves to the implementation stage. Teaching materials are being developed also for grades 6-8 and work on materials for grades 9-10 continues. The education of teachers and capacity building of relevant institutions regarding the application of soft skills also continues. The beneficiaries of the project are Nepalese students in g rades 6-10. The immediate beneficiaries are the Ministry of Education and regional and district level education directorates and offices. In addition the projects 80 pilot schools and their teachers benefit from focused capacity building support. The Minis try of Education in Nepal implements the project. The proposed budget for the project is 17 MEUR for the years 2016-2018.

Organization

Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Dec 8, 2015 → Dec 31, 2019

Coverage

Nepal

The Rural Village Water Resources Management Project in Nepal Phase II (2010-2015) has after four years of implementation achieved better water supply for 93 000 people sanitation for 269 000 people and home gardens for 155 000 people. The purpose of phase III is to achieve full coverage of water supply and sanitation and establishment of functional planning and implementation frameworks for all water uses in nine project districts. The expected results of the project are: 1) institutionalized community cap acity to construct and maintain community managed water supply and adopt appropriate technologies and behavior 2) Improved and sustainable nutrition food security and sustainable income at community level through water resources based livelihoods developme nt 3) Institutionalized capacity at district level to continue integrated water resources planning and support to communities in implementing and maintaining WASH and livelihood activities. In terms of beneficiaries the project will reach over 300 000 peop le. The executing agency is Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development of Nepal together with participating District Development Committees (DDC). Finland will support the project with 15 million euros from 2015 to 2020.

Organization

Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Dec 5, 2014 → Dec 31, 2022

Coverage

Nepal

The project has four outcomes: facilitate the communities and stakeholders for further improvement of the sanitation situation of the communities (Total Sanitation), institutionalization of the health works particularly maternal and child health. The secon d outcome is related to improving livelihood status of the marginalized ethnic and minority communities which was started in the CHEP III. The third outcome is to continue facilitating the community organizations formed in the earlier project to enable and institutionalize them so that they can sustain the basic development activities in their communities and to realize their fundamental rights. As a fourth outcome, the project will make effort to mainstream key cross cutting issues such as peace, disabilit y, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), gender and social inclusion (GESI). This includes capacity building of the project staff, sensitization of the communities and stakeholders on these issues and incorporating important issues in the project activities.

Organization

Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 1, 2014 → Dec 31, 2019

Coverage

Nepal

Community resilience programme: supports rural and remote Nepalese villages in increasing disaster preparedness, decreasing women's vulnerability through skills training and financial suppport for livelihoods. Health promotion and preparedness activities ( including local disaster response supplies and funds) are integral part of the project. Branches of Nepal Red Cross are supported in the target communities.

Organization

Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 1, 2013 → Dec 31, 2019

Coverage

Nepal

Finnish water projects have supported the government of Nepal in developing decentralized community based water and sanitation approach and working modalities since 1990. Project in Devchuli Nepal is an extension to WaterFinns NAPA WASH project in Nepal in 2014-2016. There is great potential in developing the area to the next level in water quality and sanitation by capacity building in municipality and ward level trainings and minor construction to ensure the long term sustainability based on self-reliance of the communities. There is a need to increase understanding and awareness of sustainability of WASH services and facilities in user committees ward and municipality level. There is a clear demand for a continuation project after NAPA WASH; Devchuli area has basic level water and sanitation services however the quality of water and skill of maintaining WSP are not still sufficient and therefore causes health issues. The overall project objective is to improve the self-reliance of Devchuli communities to sustain their WASH services at acceptable good level to ensure safe drinking water and healthy hygienic environment for the whole community. This is done by applying tested Operation + Maintenance and Management practices new technologies and capacity buil ding at the community ward and municipality level. The project is situated in Devchuli municipality in Nawalparasi Nepal. Devchuli has a population of 34912 with 6336 individual households which all are direct or indirect beneficiaries of the project. Proj ect management is done by WaterFinns Finland with the local partner Center for Appropriate Technology Nepal (CATN) in Nepal in addition to the Devchuli municipality. Project?s beneficiaries are the users of WASH services in Devichuli Municipality.The proje ct is designed also to support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) especially of 5. Gender equality 6. Clean water and sanitation 10. Reduced inequalities and 13. Climate action. The project will integrate Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Re duction measures in the WASH process e.g. the WSP aiming to minimize the impacts of weather induced disasters.

Organization

Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Dec 3, 2013 → Dec 31, 2020

Coverage

Nepal

Finland has in 2012 agreed to support Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project in Western Nepal (RWSSP-WN II) with 137 million euros. The overall objective of the project is improved health and fulfilment of the equal right to water and sanitation service s for the inhabitants of the Project area. In the last three years the Project has built 172 water supply schemes which serve approximately 85 000 people. From the 14 districts in the Project area only 3 are still without access to sanitation services. Fin land will support the Project with an additional 1 million euro funding. The additional funding will increase the number of beneficiaries of the Project and guarantee the sustainability of the water supply schemes. With the additional funding (1 million eu ros from Finland and 1 million euros from Nepal) the overall budget of the Project for the years 2013-2019 will be 2423 million euros of which Finland´s share will be 147 million euros. The additional funding of 05MEUR applied for in 2018 will be directed to the project investment funds. The funds will be utilized to complete the already started water schemes conducting Water Safety Plan-trainings and enhancing the capacity of the newly established municipalities' M-WASH-Units.

Organization

Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Dec 20, 2012 → Dec 31, 2020

Coverage

Nepal

The unions participating in the project continue organizing forest workers, with the aim of getting 10?000 new members in four years. Occupational health and safety measures continue to reduce the number of accidents and injuries in forestry work. The unio ns advocate for legislation that influences interest representation of forestry workers, and participate in cooperation with environmental organizations to promote sustainable green jobs. The major problems of the forestry sector are unstable work relatio nships and dangerous working conditions. Awareness of rights, collective bargaining and union density have before the project been low, and before 2016 workers of the sector were not even officially recognized as workers. The project activities have brough t around 20?000 new members to the unions, and close to 12?000 people have participated diverse types of trainings and advocacy work. Almost 2?000 people have through cooperatives gained additional income to supplement the forestry work, making use of othe r products of the forest, such as tree leave plates, mushrooms, berries and honey. The cooperation with environmental organizations, especially WWF, has reduced tensions between forestry workers and environmentalists by fitting together sustainable forestr y and conservation, as well as nature tourism. This last project phase ensures the continuity and sustainability of the work done in the current target regions and through spreading the successful models of action to a few new districts. The project benef its Nepalese forestry workers and their families through improved income and safety, as well as the participating unions through strengthened membership base, negotiation position and cooperation in advocacy work. The main actors of the project are BWI NAC (Building and Wood Workers’ International Nepal Affiliates Committee) as the coordinating cooperation body and its affiliates CAWUN (Construction and Allied Workers’ Union in Nepal), CUPPEC (Central Union of Painters, Plumbers, Electro and Constructio n in Nepal) and ANCWU (All Nepal Construction Workers’ Union) that implement the project in cooperation with WWF Nepal.

Organization

Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 1, 2012 → Dec 31, 2019

Coverage

Nepal

Nepal has a variety of development challenges related to the nonfulfillment of human rights that need to be addressed. This Country Programme aims to catalyse and equip the local churches and other civil societies to act as strong societal advocates to ful fil the rights of vulnerable children and youth. In local partnership with AGN churches, Rescue Nepal, Relative Nepal, Transformation Nepal and New Life Service Association, the Country Programme improves children and other beneficiary rights, especially i n regards to their rights to health, education, and adequate living standards. The health component of the Country Programme is addressing the health situation, hygiene and sanitation, and unsafe drinking water that have resulted in the poor health situati on in village development areas of Basauti, Pabera, Gadariya, Pahalmanpur and Udasipur in the Kailali district. The Education component of the Country Programme is addressing the improvement on the quality of basic education, school management skills, know ledge and skills of parents in schools, and village development areas of Ishworpur Muncipality in Sarlahi district, in Ramgorpalpur and Hattisarwa in the Mahottari district, Janakpur Muncipality and in Bateshwar, Bagchaura, Mithileshwar Nikas, Bhutahi Pate rwa, Lagmagadhaghuthi and Tulsiyahi Nikash in the Dhanusha district. The adequate standard of living component of the Country Programme addresses the strengthening of institutional facilities and providing awareness and skills to improve livelihood of the families in Pokali, Ragani, Khijichandeshwori, Khijifalate and Khijikati village development areas of the Okhaldhunga district. The capacity building and advocacy components of the Country Programme are implemented with and within the AGN Church denominati on. On the grass root level, the AGN church partner is a motivated social and development actor throughout Nepal. The Country Programme is expected to directly benefit 57 000 people and 305 000 people indirectly already during the Programme period. Moreove r, the Programme will have many multiplier effects for the development of Nepal.

Organization

Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Mar 15, 2007 → Dec 31, 2019

Coverage

Okhaldhunga, Dhanusha

Aim of this project was to support Okhaldunga community hospital during Covid-19 pandemic. The project supported the hospital to have different kind of protection equipment to staff, and to have resources for personnel to keep hospital runnng during pandem ic.

Organization

Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jan 1, 2020 → Dec 31, 2020

Coverage

Nepal