📋 Tender Overview
PROJECT DETAILS
Project number:
2024.2089.1
Status:
ongoing project
Responsible organizational unit:
2A00 Asia I
Contact person:
Lucie Pia Pluschke lucie.pluschke@giz.de
Partner countries:
Nepal
SUMMARY
Goals:
The framework conditions for local economic development in selected communities and value chains as well as at the provincial level in Nepal have improved.
Client:
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Project partners:
Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Allevation
Financier:
not available
ORDER VOLUME
Overall project:
(including all previous, current and subsequent project phases, if applicable)
33,150,000 euros
Current project:
12,000,000 euros
COMBINED FINANCING
not available
PREVIOUS PROJECT
2018.2064.6
Local and Provincial Economic Development in Nepal (LPED)
SUCCESSOR PROJECT
not available
DURATION
Overall project:
(including all previous, current and subsequent project phases, if applicable)
01.04.2019 - 31.12.2027
Current project:
01.02.2025 - 31.12.2027
OTHER PARTIES INVOLVED
not available
FURTHER INFORMATION
Project website
not available
DEVELOPMENT POLICY IDENTIFIERS
Convention on Biological Diversity
Significant secondary objective
Gender equality
Main goal
Democratic and inclusive governance
Significant secondary objective
Inclusion and empowerment of people with disabilities
Significant secondary objective
Adaptation to climate change
Significant secondary objective
CRS KEY
25030 Business development services
EVALUATION
not available
PROJECT DESCRIPTION (DE)
Initial situation:
A major challenge for Nepal's predominantly agricultural economy is the lack of jobs for young people and the fact that many men leave the country to work. The remaining women face a very heavy workload and make up a large proportion of the agricultural workforce. However, they face multiple discrimination, and their access to better-paid employment in the agricultural sector is limited. At the same time, the effects of climate change threaten the availability of income in the agricultural sector.
Objective: Nepal's economy can develop in a more gender-equitable and climate-resilient way.
Approach:
The project works with Nepalese and international partners, such as local municipal and district administrations, to improve the conditions for gender-equitable and climate-resilient economic development. This aims to establish new businesses, further develop and market products, and support the economic role of women.
The focus is on three areas of action:
1. Expanding access to services such as new processing concepts and digital services for entrepreneurs, so that existing or newly founded businesses, especially women-led businesses, can develop.
2. Promote partnerships with the private sector, for example, through joint projects with Nepalese trading companies to specifically support women's economic d
