📋 Tender Overview
Project sponsor: ADRA - Adventist Development and Disaster Aid Austria
Land: Nepal Funding amount: € 55,600.00 Start: September 1st, 2023 End: August 30, 2027
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
project goal
Empowered CSOs and networks including those led by women engaged in conversation, sustainable utilization, and restoration of biodiversity and ecosystems in Banke and Bardiya districts of Lumbini Province.
expected results
1. Forest User Groups (FUG) actively engaged in Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) practices in line with National Forest Stewardship Standards (NFSS);
2. Farmer groups implemented climate smart farming and wildlife resistant farming practices;
3. Green jobs (circular economy) created utilising natural resources and ecosystem services;
4. Policies, guidelines and plans at local level developed and implemented;
5. Knowledge generated and disseminated for wider environmental awareness.
target group
11.200 direct beneficiaries from local communities;
Organised in 70 groups (50 forest user-groups, 20 farmers groups) from four local governments: Rapti Sonari Rural Municipality, Kohalpur Municipality of Banke district, Madhuban Municipality and Thakurbaba Municipality of Bardiya district.
Measures
• Organize Forest User Groups (FUG) and capacitate in institutional management;
• Implement sustainable forest and ecosystem management activities with improved knowledge and capacities of CSOs, and relevant stakeholders, and adoption of best practices;
• Organize farmers groups and capacitate in institutional management;
• Capacity building of farmer groups members on climate smart farming and/or wildlife resistant farming practices;
• Identify most promising forest and farm-based products and ecosystem services;
• Capacitate Community based Enterprises on proposal writing, enterprise development and business planning;
• Facilitate local governments in formulation of a)Local Forest Act, b) Wildlife Damage Relief and c)Strategic Plan on sustainable farm and forest management;
• Generate evidence and document lessons learnt on implementation of national policies on biodiversity, climate change and wildlife and international commitments;
• Create general awareness in biodiversity and environment among FUGs, women, youth and school children.
background information
Nepal has developed institutional structures, plans, programs, implemented conservation and community benefit programs like community forestry, wildlife protection through national parks and conservation areas. However, in the current context of political transition of Nepal into a federal structure, lacking policy harmonisation, coordination between conservation as well as development and governance problems are major gaps in biodiversity conservation.
Despite tremendous contributions of CSOs to natural resource management and biodiversity conservation in Nepal, CSOs are facing challenges due to
i) technical capacity in forest- and group management and governance,
