Goal
To improve the living situation of marginalized and vulnerable people through introducing sustainable agriculture, cooperative development, enterprise development and the creation of additional income and employment opportunities.
Duration
July 2018 to June 2021
Location
Jhapa, Dhanusa, Lalitpur, Kathmandu, Dhading, Chitwan; Nawalpur, Kaski,Lamjung; Dang, Pyuthan, Banke, Bardiya, Palpa, Surkhet, Dailekh, Jajjarkot; Kailali, Kanchanpur, Baitadi
Beneficiaries Outreach
37941 direct participants, among them 24,908 are female
Funding Partner
Caritas Australia, Australian Aid
The Situation (Background)
NLRP is a program consisting of three ongoing individual projects, namely Integrated Pest Management (IPM), Cooperative Development and Enterprise Promotion Program (CDEPP) and Children and Youth Empowerment Program (CYEP). NLRP supports communities in the fight against poverty, promotes social and economic development through diversified livelihoods to achieve sustainable prosperity.
Approach (Strategies)
The project seeks to improve human, social, natural, financial and physical capacities. In the course of this, the following measures will be taken:
– Promotion of biological practices and control.
– Support for an efficient and effective use of local resources.
– Training of agricultural students for the IPM extension.
– Encouraging farmers, foreigners and students to visit the Agro-Eco Tourism Learning Centre and Homestay to learn about eco-friendly farming practices and technologies.
– Raising awareness about child policies and rights among the pupils by offering extracurricular activities in schools.
– Increasing safety at school so that children always feel safe and comfortable.
– Motivating children to get involved in school-based clubs in order to strengthen their team spirit. In this way, children of different castes, religions and faiths are brought together which increases the acceptance of students among themselves.
– Launching campaigns to reduce child marriage and drug use.
– Integrating adolescents into vocational training and financially supporting them so that they can start their own businesses.
Objectives
1. To support rural poor households to diversify their income portfolios Sustained Economic Wellbeing and Resilience, Just and peaceful relationships, Improved basic wellbeing of people and human dignity, Improved livelihoods, farming sustainability
- Improved household food security (two and half months) of small holder farmers
- Improved household nutritional and food security and incomes (Annual income NPRs. 25000/person-small holder farmers, cooperative members and child/youths).
- Crop yield increased by 20-45 percent depending on different crops,
- Marketing infrastructures developed
- Women are economically empowered
- Community people involved in agro-eco tourism and home stay are able to earn sustainable income at HHs level or sustainable rural employment opportunity created at local level
- Small holder farmers are able to adopt suitable Good Agriculture Practices (GAP), Hi-Tech and improved farming at HHs level and able to disseminate technology to surrounding communities.
- Strengthened cooperatives are able to provide micro-finance service delivery
- Skill and knowledge on enterprise/business sector developed where entrepreneurs are able to run their own off and on farm enterprise/business.
- Good governance and democracy in the cooperatives.
- Women lead in the cooperatives and have greater strategic role in the villages.
- Food safety due to avoidance of pesticide contamination.
2. To empower community people and organization to reduce external risk and make community resilient. Community people pursuing various livelihoods and community organizations are able to reduce external risks and move towards greater resilience.
Community is more resilient
- Impact of climate change hazards reduced
- Community people are able to analyze the hazards, risks and vulnerability situation at local level and able to make plan of disaster risk mitigation measures and implementation at community level themselves.
- Community people and local organizations( IPM network, youth/child clubs and cooperatives ) are able to increase their knowledge and skill to manage DRR measures.
3. To address social concerns through Organized networks/child club, youth, small holder farmers, community members of cooperative and prompt for social advocacy actions and social advocacy
Just and peaceful relationships, Influence and Independence (IHD)
- People claim their rights and able to obtain subsidy/supports from government and service providers.
- Developed and strengthen strong people’s their own local organization/institutionalization (IPM network, coop network, child/youth network) at local level
- Organized child clubs are able to create awareness on the issues and environment concerns
- Youth are able to pursue suitable path for growth.
- People (small holder farmers, cooperative members, child/youths) claim their development rights and are able to voice on issue/ concerns.
- Improved child protection services and more safe environment
- Social security of women and children/Youth/cooperative members improved and greater inclusion of discriminated groups and castes.
- Increased women’s voices in decision making Health awareness (women reproductive) raised through cooperative supporting women to have good health and be healthy.
