The objective of the SAD project is to prevent and reduce drop out and to promote the completion of higher secondary school education of 501 children belonging to marginalized families in Kolkata, Nadia, Murshidabad, North 24 Parganas and Darjeeling. Ensuring access to education by the children is the main aim of the project support. Under the project, the children who are directly sponsored are provided with support in a number of areas including education materials, books, uniform, kit, admission fee. Free coaching support is also provided to the children through six learning centres under the project.

The SAD project also provides health and nutritional support to the children apart from education support. The aim of the health project is to ensure that the sponsored children maintain good health throughout the academic year. The project aims to prevent and reduce poor health condition so that this factor does not become a reason for absenteeism from school and learning centre and/or dropout.

Under this project all the children are provided with nutritious pack of supplementary diet on quarterly basis. In order to track the health condition of the children and to ensure that the children receive regular medical assistance, quarterly medical check-ups are held by engaging registered medical practitioners. They are provided with free medicines as per the doctor’s prescription. Health awareness sessions are held at the learning centres with the children. The awareness sessions focus on dissemination of information on developing hygiene behaviour and prevention methods for communicable, vector borne and water borne diseases. The children are also provided with a quarterly toiletry kit consisting of soaps, tooth brush, paste, detergent, shampoo, etc.

Beneficiaries 426 children, between the age group of 6-18 years
Partner DBDOC
Project location Kolkata, Nadia, Murshidabad, North24 Parganas & Darjeeling
Duration 12 Months
Project cost € 78,758.00

The tea garden area in the Jalpaiguri district is plagued with a number of problems – limited access to primary and secondary education, high rates of drop-outs, insufficient public educational infrastructures, and sub-standard quality of teaching. The provisions under the project makes Education materials, books, uniform kit available to the children. The admission and school fees are also paid. The students are also provided supplementary coaching support through learning centres.

However, residences of the sponsored children are quite scattered. Therefore, all of them do not come under the purview of the free learning centres on regular basis. Hence, they visit their nearby centres twice a week. The 400 non-sponsored children receive the support of only free coaching in the 31 learning centres.

On the health front, all the children are provided with nutritious pack at the learning centre. In order to track the health improvement of the children and to ensure that the children receive regular medical assistance, quarterly medical check-ups are held by engaging registered medical practitioners. Community health camps are also organized to support the family members of the children, non-sponsored children residing in the area and the community at large. They are provided with free medicines as prescribed by the doctor. Health awareness sessions are held at the learning centres with the children and also at the villages, involving the parents and other villagers. At the awareness sessions they are provided information on adopting hygiene behavior and ways and means to prevent communicable, vector borne and water borne diseases. The children are also provided with a quarterly toiletry kit consisting of soaps, tooth brush, paste, detergent, shampoo, etc.

Beneficiaries 340 children, between the age group of 6-18 years
Partner Rural Aid
Project location Dhupguri, West Bengal
Duration 12 Months
Project cost € 54,788.00

The objective of the project is to prevent & reduce drop out and to promote the completion of higher secondary school education of 305 children belonging to marginalized families in South24 Parganas. Under the project, the sponsored children are provided with education support which includes Education materials, books, uniform kit, admission fee and free coaching support. There are 3 learning centres under the project.

The project team also ensures that the children and their family members are able to access government schemes and entitlements. At the same time, the Project staff members also provide referral and linkage building support with that of Government Vocational Trainings, Higher Education Scholarship Schemes, etc. This facility is available to the children who have successfully completed class 12 during 2015 and 2016, as well as to the children who have dropped out before completion for some reason.

The SAD project, apart from providing education support to the 262 children, also provides nutritional support. The aim of the health project is to ensure that the sponsored children maintain good health throughout the academic year. The project aims to prevent and reduce the instances of poor health condition as the reason for absenteeism from school and learning centre and/or dropout. The project also supports their family members and also the community at large to maintain good health status. Under this project all the children are provided with nutritious pack at the learning centre. In order to track the health condition of the children and to ensure that the children receive regular medical assistance, quarterly medical check-ups are held by engaging registered medical practitioners. They are provided with free medicines as prescribed by the doctor. Health awareness sessions are held at the learning centres with the children and also at the villages, involving the parents and other villagers. At the awareness sessions they are provided information on developing hygiene behavior and on ways to prevent communicable, vector borne and water borne diseases. The children are also provided with a quarterly toiletry kit consisting of soaps, tooth brush, paste, detergent, shampoo, etc.

Beneficiaries 260 children, between the age group of 6-18 years
Partner Nishtha
Project location Baruipur, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal
Duration 12 Months
Project cost € 50,012.00

The SAD project in Panchamkhanda, Sundarban, with PUS, was initiated in 2014. Under this project boarding facilities are provided to 43 children from marginalized families, from neighbouring villages. The children in the boarding house are provided with education support, consisting of education materials, books, uniform kit as well as free coaching support. There are teachers who provide coaching support to the children twice a day- before and after school hours, for five days a week, within the boarding house.

The aim of the health aspect of the project is to ensure that the sponsored children maintain good health throughout the year. It also seeks to prevent and reduce the instances of poor health condition as the reason for absenteeism from school. In order to track the health improvement of the children and to ensure that the children receive regular medical assistance, quarterly medical check-ups are held by engaging registered medical practitioners. The project ensures that the sponsored children receive three times meal every day, having proper nutritional value. During every quarter the children are provided with toiletries. The boarding in charge facilitates and ensures that the children regularly use the toiletries.

Beneficiaries 43 children, between the age group of 6-18 years
Partner Pally Unnayan Samity
Project location Panchamkhanda, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal
Duration 12 Months
Project cost € 20,174.00

The project aimed at the improvement of the state of health of 350 beneficiary families within 8 villages of South 24 Parganas. The project supported the installation of domestic lavoratories co-funded by the beneficiary families. The families have been trained in the use and maintenance of these infrastructures. The project also worked towards raising awareness of the community on the issues of health and good hygiene related practices. This project had a very good impact on the community, whereby during the project period and even after the completion of the project, many families have adopted the system of domestic lavoratories and built so in their houses solely at their own cost with technical support of the project staffs. Thus though the target beneficiary was 350 families, the project impacted people in the target area beyond these numbers.

Beneficiaries 350 families
Partner NISHTHA
Project location South 24 Parganas
Duration 3 years
Project cost €98,606

The project aimed at preventing and fighting against trafficking of children and small girls in 10 villages of the district of South 24 Parganas. The project organized different training activities, raising the awareness of children and youth in 9 schools in the area. The project adopted peer to peer approach within the school and community to spread the anti-trafficking message. At the community level, the project has also reinforced child protection mechanisms, increasing awareness of the target communities about the dynamics of child protection and the associated risk situations. The project has facilitated the establishment of local child protection committees. The project has also come out with a manual on Trafficking for youth. The manual details the ways of prevention of trafficking and also ways to react and respond to cases of abuses coming to us.

Beneficiaries 6000 teenager girls and 60 younger girls
Partner NISHTHA
Project location South 24 Parganas
Duration 3 years
Project cost € 45,490

The project aimed at working towards the reduction of the harmful practice of child marriage and the reinforcement of child protection mechanism within 4 blocks of the Murshidabad District. The project has tried to combine three elements – the youth, the community and collaborating different stakeholders. The project conducted several workshops, trainings and meetings within the schools and communities to build life skills within young girls and boys such that they are able to acquire greater negotiating power with regards to decisions that affect their lives. The project promoted community dialogue to bring to the forefront the negative effects of Child Marriage. Through these dialogues, the project also highlighted the positive cases studies, that is, the girls who have successfully delayed their ages of marriage and built a career for themselves. Through these cases the project tried to focus the importance of completing education, and also how education helps to increase the social status of girls. 60 girls completing their education have received vocational training in Nursing and are placed as Nurses in different major hospitals in Kolkata. The project has successfully collaborated with different stakeholders to activate local child protection committees to resist child marriage.

Beneficiaries 2700
Partner Don Bosco Development Society Calcutta
Project location Murshidabad
Duration 2 years
Project cost € 40,000

The project aimed at increasing mobility of 91 disabled children from marginalized vulnerable families in Bankura district. The project provided the implementing organization with a school bus which caters to these 91 children. The bus is used to pick up children from their villages to the Centre and to the School meant for disabled children. It was otherwise difficult for these children to attend these centre and school and thus unable to participate in the different activities and classes meant for their development. Being from extremely marginalized families their parents are not in a situation to provide the necessary cost and also spare human resource for movements of these children. Thus the bus in a way has not only increased mobility for the children but also in a way contributed towards their overall development.

Beneficiaries 91 disabled families
Partner Kenduahdihi Bikash Society
Project location Bankura
Duration 1 year
Project cost € 8,630

This project aims at supporting disabled children and children with cognitive disorders, particularly Cerebral Palsy, in 7 blocks of South 24 Parganas. This project is being supported since 2011 and is being supported till now. Presently the project is supporting 66 differently-abled children. These children are being provided with physiotherapy by trained practitioner. The children are also involved in different fitness activities and trainings on skills of daily living activities along with educational and medicinal support. The children are engaged in cultural activities as well. The parents of these children are provided with counselling support at the centre and also through the home visits. The project is also linking these children with the different government schemes available for disabled children & their families and to the government schools.

Beneficiaries 110 children
Partner Palli Unnayan Samity
Project location South 24 Parganas
Duration 4 years
Project cost € 79,730

This project aims to work in the blocks of North 24 Paraganas that are situated at the Indo Bangaldesh border for the prevention of child trafficking. The intervention is planned in a consortium approach with grassroots and state level organizations, creating strong connection with community members, local administration and State / National level administration and networks. The project is working towards raising community level awareness on trafficking, child rights and gender equality through peer groups, mobilizing youths and adolescents. The project is bringing together Self Help Groups, elected members of Panchayat for creating safety nets of child protection at the community level. The project is organizing different training programs for legal empowerment of vulnerable families and trafficked survivors. The project will undertake a research in collaboration with reputed Universities in West Bengal and Dhaka to find out the gaps in rescue, repatriation and rehabilitation process of trafficked survivors and make recommendation for policy level advocacy.

Beneficiaries 6,650
Partner Sanlaap & Daghagia Social Welfare Society
Project location North 24 Parganas
Duration 3 years
Project cost € 180,285.07

Faced with this critical conflict situation of Myanmar, FADV has started a Child Protection Project in partnership with Action Aid Myanmar aiming to strengthen the community and civil society capacity to address issues of Child Protection along with other developmental factors. FADV will be introducing the component of Child Protection in the existing Action Aid Myanmar’s Fellowship Program. The program will be implemented by the 10 fellows (1 from each village) who are a part of the Action Aid program. These fellows will be trained in the issue of Child Protection. These fellows will then start working on the issue at the grassroots through awareness raising among different sections of the community on the issue of child protection. They will take up the issue of the importance of children going to school and not being employed as cheap labour as a child. They will organize different campaign activities in their respective villages as a part of this project. These campaigns would focus on themes of importance of education for children and preventing exploitation of children by employing them as cheap labour in different situations.

Along with making the community aware at the grassroots level, the project will also involve different government and administrative bodies to ensure sustainability and visibility of the program. The project intends to activate School Committees and Parent Teachers Associations to address the issue of drop outs within the community, to create the attitude of parents towards sending their children to middle school, as the dropout rate is the maximum after completion of the Primary education. The project looks towards building Child Protection Committees at the village level such that there is a local network that is operational to ensure that the child goes to school, that the child is not hired for cheap labour and that the child does not undergo unsafe migration. The project will also build linkages between the local administrative blocks, the community and the NGOs. The project also seeks to empower children making them aware of their own rights and their protection issues.

Beneficiaries 2800
Partner Phyu Sin Saydanar Action Group (PSSAG)
Project location Kayin State, Myanmar
Duration 6 months
Project cost € 8,159

Faced with the conflict situations since a long period of time many schools in Myanmar are yet to have proper buildings, proper toilet facilities and the school building becoming unusable during the rains whereby classes come to a halt. Although basic education is officially free, many families in poor and remote areas cannot afford additional exercise books and stationery, uniforms and unexpected fees for their day to day schooling. School infrastructure is also an issue in the area. Often families are asked to contribute towards renovating the school or procuring materials for the schools. In a situation where poverty is acute and parents find it difficult to provide for regular books/copies, providing for school renovation is way beyond capacity. Parents decide not to send children to school in such situations. In the border and remote area, such as Kayin state, where decades of civil war severely destroyed the education facilities and infrastructure, the situation is much worse than in mainland Myanmar. According to the result of the baseline survey conducted in 7 villages of Hpapun Township, more than 50% of school going aged children are not attending school anymore and working as child labor. One of the sources of problem found out by the survey is poor condition and insufficient space of the school caused high percentage of out of school children.

In this critical context, FADV proposes to start a School Renovation Project for primary schools. The project will be implemented in 7 schools located in 7 different villages for 7 schools of Hpapun Township, Kayin State. School Renovation means expansion, repairing, building stronger & durable structures, moving the classrooms to safer place (to avoid flooding) and changing the design to make way for child friendly school buildings.

Beneficiaries 708
Partner Phyu Sin Saydanar Action Group (PSSAG)
Project location Kayin State, Myanmar
Duration 6 months
Project cost € 12,988

The aim of the project is to enhance the disaster preparedness and mitigation capacity of schools and communities including children through participatory household, schools and community based disaster risk reduction actions and to strengthen DRR capacity of stake holders at different level in 24 North Parganas in West Bengal. Therefore, the project foresees the vulnerable community and children have reduced their exposal to risk by implementing child focused DRR actions and resource mobilization for mitigation. At the same time enhancing capacity of schools to identify the safety issues and strengthening school based DRR. Local Government stake holders will also improve knowledge, tools and capacity on DRR and will be mainstreamed in all developmental activities.

Beneficiaries 26094 population including 2215 families, 2766 children, 30 teachers and 160 officials
Partner Andrewspalli center for Integrated Development (ACID)
Project location Hingalganj in North 24 Parganas in West Bengal, India
Duration 30 months
Project cost €77,088.46

Project aim is to enhance preparedness and mitigation capacity of community including children and other vulnerable people living in multi-hazard prone areas in Kendrapada, Odisha by engaging community and relevant stake holders in the community and school based disaster risk management process. The project will ensure Multi hazard prone communities with improved knowledge and skills will plan and execute a child focused CBDRR activities with active participation of children. At the same time participatory inclusive school disaster risk reduction plan will be developed and implemented in the target schools. Local Government, DRR stake holders and school authorities will also enhance their knowledge, tools and capacity to address the need of the children in entire disaster management cycle and mainstream into developmental programmes.

Beneficiaries 15481 population including 3096 families, 392 children, 30 teachers and 65 officials
Partner Centre for Development Service (CDS)
Project location Pattamundai block, Kendrapada district, Odisha, India
Duration 30 months
Project cost € 60,359

The aim of the project is to strengthen preparedness and mitigation capacity of community and children living in multi-hazard prone areas in Balasore, Odisha by engaging children, community members and relevant stake holders in the community and school based disaster risk management process. The project foresees Multi hazard prone communities with improved knowledge and skills have planned and executed a child focused CBDRR activities with active participation of children. At the same time Participatory inclusive school disaster risk reduction plan will be developed and implemented in the target schools. Local Government, DRR stake holders and school authorities will improve thier knowledge, tools and capacity to address the need of the children in entire disaster management cycle.

Beneficiaries 11261 population including 2215 families, 615 children, 30 teachers and 40 officials
Partner Social Empowerment and Agriculture Development Agency (SEADA)
Project location Bhogarai Block, Balasore District, Odisha, India
Duration 30 months
Project cost € 60.192,31

Project aims to strengthen strategies and capacities targeting at disaster preparedness and mitigation measures of communities-at-risk in 10 villages under Kamrup (Rural) district of Assam with active participation children community members and relevant stakeholders within three years. So, the project also anticipates community coping capacities enhanced and strengthened, particularly to reduce vulnerabilities and disaster risk of children and general community through the adaption of village specific approaches. At the same time culture of promoting disaster preparedness and strengthening at community and schools by empowering children on DRR issues, introducing DRR in education, promoting school as model centre of knowledge and skill on DRR in the project area. Apart from all these strengthening institutional capacities and linking of the target communities with different stakeholders enhancing for reducing disaster risk, with special focus on DRR issues of children.

Beneficiaries 21085 population including 1017 children, 61 teachers and 60 officials
Partner Gramya Vikash Mancha (GVM)
Project location Kamrup (Rural) district of Assam, a state in north eastern region of India
Duration 30 months
Project cost € 63,200.13

Project aims to ensure continuity of education along with Nutritional support, WASH, infrastructural and Psychosocial with recreational needs of most affected children in Lalitpur District. So, the project anticipates that target children will have continued access to their education, have improved psychosocial status with sports and recreational activities through creation of child friendly space. At the same time malnutrition of the targeted children will also be reduced through improved access to diversified diets, micronutrients and nutritional food in the form of nutritional package.

Beneficiaries 4239 children including teachers and officials
Partner Nepal Don Bosco Society
Project location 7 most affected VDCs in Lalitpur district of Nepal
Duration 6 months
Project cost € 50,791.15

Project aims to ensure continuity of education along with Protection and Psychosocial support with recreational needs of most affected children in Kavrepalanchowk District. The targeted children will have continued access to their education with enhanced knowledge on protection issues and accessing safe sanitation and personal hygiene. At the same time targeted children will have improved psychosocial status with sports and recreational activities through the implementation of the project.

Beneficiaries 3502 children including teachers and officials
Partner ADRA Nepal
Project location 12 most affected VDCs in Kavrepalanchok district of Nepal
Duration 7 months
Project cost € 33,005.31

The project aims to contribute to early recovery of earthquake affected schools and communities in Kaverepalanchowk District. The project will ensure protection through an integrated approach by providing health and education support to the children and their families. The government officials, community members and other relevant stakeholders will be provided with training on child protection issues and their roles in ensuring a safer community for children. The project also seeks to establish social business venture with young adult girls and women from the target community to improve their socio-economic situations by setting up of sanitary napkin production unit.

Partner Community Development and Research Organization (CORD) Nepal
Project location 8 most earthquake affected Village Development Committees in Kavrepalanchowk District of Nepal
Duration 8 months
Project cost € 59,973.45

The aim of the project is to make the Mount Carmel School of the Carmelite Fathers in Dhupguri a safer and better-equipped environment where to carry out the educational activities for children attending primary and secondary schools. The main infrastructural interventions to be carried out are: the implementation of safety measures within the school to protect against the overflowing of the river behind the school and the construction of new embankments, the installation of a fire prevention systems, the creation and the outfitting of science, physics and IT labs, the creation of two basketball courts, the leveling of the main access drive to the school.

Beneficiaries 557 children who attend the Mount Carmel School of the Carmelite Fathers in Dhupguri
Partner Santa Teresa Provincial Delegation of Carmelite Fathers
Project location St. Paul Centre, Dhupguri, Jalpaiguri district, West Bengal, India
Duration 3 years
Project cost € 45,971

This project proposes to provide technical training in tailoring for 102 girls and women (18-25 years of age) coming from the tribal areas of the tea plantation area of Dhupguri. The project uses professional training as a tool for the social emancipation of the women who, thanks to this course in tailoring, can safely gain access to the labour market, earn an income and consequently gain greater independence and more power over decisions that influence their own lives.

Beneficiaries 102 teenage girls and women aged between 18-35
Partner Santa Teresa Provincial Delegation of Carmelite Fathers
Project location Dhupguri, Jalpaiguri district, West Bengal, India
Duration 3 years
Project cost € 69,242

The aim of the project is to contribute towards fighting against the poverty of the tribal families in tea plantation areas through the promotion of domestic animal rearing micro activities. Therefore the project foresees the creation of domestic infrastructure and enclosures where courtyard animals are kept alongside the training of beneficiary families, especially women, as regards the animal rearing and sales techniques. At the same time, the project implements awareness-raising activities relating to the correct nutrition of children among the beneficiary mothers.

Beneficiaries 300 families within the villages of Lakikanto, Dhupguri, Gairkata and Huldibari
Partner Santa Teresa Provincial Delegation of Carmelite Fathers
Project location Dhupguri, Jalpaiguri district, West Bengal, India
Duration 28 months
Project cost € 46,000

The aim of the project is to contribute to the reduction of poverty level and social exclusion of marginalized rural households of Sonarpur Block. Major intervention under the project had been i) Establishing Self Help Groups (SHGs) for promoting savings-credit & income generation activities of women, ii) Creating new opportunities for income generation related to agriculture and allied activities, iii) Increase awareness on entitlements under government schemes, iv) Promoting community-level institution for ensuring sustainability. Impact of the project has been substantial. First, at the end of the project, 570 women have been mobilized to form 52 SHGs. They have mobilized sizeable credit through micro savings. This amount is Rs.4.88 million The money, mobilized in such manner, has been utilized by all the groups in profitable income generating activities. Second, all the SHGs have been federated into a community cluster called ‘Nari Sakti Sangha’. Third, the amount of loan disbursed among the members is INR Twelve million. Fourth, empowerment of the members has led to increased participation in local governance. As many as 61% of the SHG members participated in GP level planning process. Fifth, increased awareness has led to greater access to different government schemes like PDS, MNREGA, Indira Awas Yojna etc.

Beneficiaries 400 vulnerable families residing in 9 villages in the Sonarpur block Partner Palli Unnayan Samity, Baruipur (PUS) Project location Sonarpur, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India Duration 3 years Project cost € 89,696

Eradication of poverty and social inclusion of backwards communities are two main objectives of the project which is being implemented in Gosaba and Hingalganj blocks in the Sundarban region of West Bengal. The methods followed in order to meet these objectives are dignified and diversified livelihoods and strengthening of community institutions. Promotion of diversified livelihoods opportunities is aimed at provide a support base to the communities extremely vulnerable to shocks and making them more resilient to the difficult circumstances. Active participation of the community members through creation of Self Help Groups (SHGs) was encouraged right from the inception in order to ensure sustainability of the project. Linkages have been forged with Panchayats and other Government Departments. Creation of Clusters, a secondary organizations through federating the SHGs has also been another significant step towards building community ownership.
The strategies included livelihood diversification through enhancement of skill and knowledge, increasing market access, building social capital, ensuring government entitlements through linkage with govt. schemes etc.
The achievements of the project can be understood from the following figures:

96% of the project participants have successfully initiated livelihood activities e.g. rice cultivation, fishery, livestock rearing & small business through a grant support of Rs. 27 lakhs
All 330 participants have been included within 27 self help groups, of which 90% (299) started inter-lending.
Beneficiaries 900 vulnerable families residing in 6 Gram Panchayats in Gosaba and Hingalganj block
Partner Andrewspalli center for Integrated Development (ACID) in Hingalganj and Rajarhat PRASARI in Gosaba
Project location Gosaba in South 24 Parganas, Hingalganj in North 24 Parganas in West Bengal, India
Duration 27 months
Project cost € 203,104

The project is being implemented in Gosaba and Hingalganj Block of India and Satkhira District of Bangladesh with 2690 participants including 430 women, 550 men and 1710 children. This three-year programme was initiated in December 2015 and still ongoing. There are three major components of the project:
Increase in capability of water management
Increase in Agricultural output
Introduction of alternative livelihood different from agriculture

Major strategies adopted in the project are:
Efficient management of water through improved access and availability
Increased agricultural production (using improved technology/variety for saline soil)
Promote alternative livelihood (different from agriculture)
Community based Natural Resource Management.

Positive impact of the initiatives are evident from the first year itself: Some of the success stories are:
‘Five-Square model for reduction of soil salinity’, ‘Floating Vegetable Garden’-alternative agriculture in waterlogged region, ‘Rain shelter for off-season vegetables’- for ensuring increased income to the farmer, ‘Low-cost feed preparation for fish cultivation’ etc. Demonstration of these activities have been carried out successfully and created opportunities for replication through government or other international organizations.
30 self help groups have been formed with 285 poor & ultra-poor women
2 km area of embankments have been covered through plantation of 70,000 mangrove saplings
A farmer’s information and service centre and a market shed has been constructed at one block for ensuring improved knowledge & access to agricultural as well as market information and service
461 participants received training and input support for agriculture and domestic breeding
Beneficiaries 2690 participants covering India & Bangladesh
Partner Rajarhat PRASARI in Gosaba, Andrewspalli center for Integrated Development (ACID) in Hingalganj & DALIT, Bangladesh
Project location Gosaba in South 24 Parganas, Hingalganj in North 24 Parganas in West Bengal, India & Tala & Asasuni Upazila of Satkhira District, Bangladesh
Duration 36 months
Project cost € 224,127.41

The project is implemented in six VDCs of the earthquake-affected district of Lalitpur. The prime focus of the project is livelihood promotion through value chain development of lime and mandarin in all these targeted VDCs.
After earthquake, the lack of livelihood opportunities has triggered the vulnerabilities of people affecting their livelihood and deteriorating the overall socio-economic condition of the families. The project has the main goal of promoting resilient livelihood for the most vulnerable farmers of Lalitpur district of Nepal through the value chain development of lime and mandarin.
The 600 direct farmers (women and men) are being capacitated through different technical trainings in all the phases of the first segment of the valuechain: preparation of land, slope stabilization, micro-irrigation, orchards development and inter-cropping. The capacity building part is being sustained by the provision of inputs and set-up of demonstration plots, in order to show practically how to manage the new techniques.
Beside these activities, the project also supports the farmers in creating a cooperative that are in charge of all the phases of the value chain. The project staffs constantly works with the cooperative and the relevant stakeholder to develop market linkages to sell the final product (lime and mandarin) but also the sapling that are being produced in the screen house nursery which are set-up by the project. Moreover the cooperative is being supported in the post-harvesting handling, thanks to the setting-up of 3 collection centers and 3 cellar storage facilities, in the business development and in having access to financial institutions.
Beneficiaries Direct Beneficiaries: 600 farmers, Indirect Beneficiaries: 5269 participants from 249 households
Partner Ecards
Project location 6 Village Development Committees (VDC) of Lalitpur, Nepal
Duration 36 months
Project cost € 209.879,68