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United States Agency for International Development Bureau of Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance Office of Food for Peace United States Agency for International Development Bureau of Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance Office of Food for Peace Fiscal Year 3 Quarter I Report (October-December 2016) Promoting Agriculture Health and Alternative Livelihood (PAHAL) Program Awardee Name and Host Country Mercy Corps/Nepal Award Number AID-OAA-15-00001 Project Name Promoting Agriculture, Health & Alternative Livelihoods (PAHAL) Submission Date 26 January 2017 Reporting Fiscal Year FY 2017 Awardee HQ Contact Name Jared Rowell, Regional Manager, South and East Asia Awardee HQ Contact Address 45 SW Ankeny St NW Portland, OR 92704 Awardee HQ Contact Telephone Number 1-503-896-5853 Awardee HQ Contact Email Address [email protected] Host Country Office Contact Name Mark Pommerville Host Country Office Contact Telephone Number +977-1-501-2571 Host Country Office Contact Email Address [email protected] PAHAL is a program financed by USAID and implemented by Mercy Corps and the following international and national consortium partners. i TABLE OF CONTENTS Acronyms ..................................................................................................................................................... iv Introduction ................................................................................................................................................... 5 Performance Summary .................................................................................................................................. 5 Sub-io 1: Increased Access to Quality Health and Nutrition Services and Information ............................... 6 1.1. Farmer Groups Trained On Nutritious Food Production Practices for Household Consumption ... 6 1.2. Vulnerable Populations Reached with Nutrition Messages ............................................................... 7 Sub-io 2: Better Access to Improves Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Services, Strategies, And Technologies ................................................................................................................................................. 8 2.2. Improved Drinking and Productive Water Services and Infrastructure ............................................ 8 2.3. Improved Post-ODF Planning, Implementation and Monitoring by Village Water Sanitation and Hygiene Coordination Committee (V-WASH-CC) and District Water Sanitation and Hygiene Coordination Committee (D-WASH-CC) ................................................................................................ 10 2.4. Optimal Hygiene Promotion for Vulnerable Populations ............................................................... 11 Sub-IO 3: Improved Access to Effective Disaster Risk Management Services, Strategies and Technologies ............................................................................................................................................... 12 3.1. Functional and Inclusive DRR Committees Established ................................................................. 12 3.2. Functional Early Warning Systems (EWS) Established/Improved Climate Information Services. 13 3.5. Household DRR Planning Campaign Implementation .................................................................... 14 3.6. DRR Plans Mainstreamed Into Planning Process ........................................................................... 15 3.9. Improved Earthquake Preparedness of District and VDC Stakeholders and Beneficiaries ............ 15 Sub-IO 4: Improved Access to Appropriate and Diverse Financial Services and Products ....................... 16 4.3. Informal S&L for Off-Farm Livelihoods Established ...................................................................... 16 Sub-IO 5: Improved Access to Dynamic and Responsive Agricultural and Non Agricultural Markets .... 17 5.1. Linkages to Profitable Off-Farm Markets Established. ................................................................... 17 5.3. Linkages to Agriculture Buyers and Export Actors are Strengthened ............................................. 19 5.4. Improved Agriculture Collection and Aggregation Services ........................................................... 20 5.5. Improved Quality of Agricultural Inputs and Services .................................................................... 21 5.6. Improved Agricultural Infrastructure .............................................................................................. 21 5.10. Access to Safe Migration Related Information .............................................................................. 21 5.11. Improved Agriculture Extension and Production Technology ....................................................... 21 Sub-IO 6: Improved Access to Productive Natural Resources and Resource Management Systems......... 26 6.1. Community Forest Management Practices are Strengthened ......................................................... 26 ii Sub-IO 7: Increased Participation, Agency and Voice of Vulnerable Groups in Governance Processes ... 28 7.1. Increased Enabling Spaces (Political, Physical, Cultural, Social Capital) for Vulnerable Population ............................................................................................................................................... 28 7.2. Diverse Civil Society Groups Supported and Strengthened............................................................. 28 7.3. Increased Capacity of Community Groups to Advocate for Accountability of Local Service Providers ................................................................................................................................................. 28 7.4. Community Based Social Accountability Mechanisms Practiced .................................................... 29 7.5. Increased Community Coordination with Government Programs and Activities ............................ 29 Gender Equality and Social Inclusion ......................................................................................................... 29 Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning ......................................................................................................... 30 Challenges and Lessons Learned ................................................................................................................ 30 List of Annexes ........................................................................................................................................... 31 iii Acronyms ALO Alternative Livelihood Officer CCA Climate Change Adaptation CFUG Community Forestry User Group CDO Chief District Officer DADO District Agriculture Development Office DAG Disadvantaged Group DC District Coordinator DDC District Development Committee DIP Detailed Implementation Plan DLSO District Livestock Office DSCO District Soil Conservation Office D/VWASH-CC District/Village Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Coordination Committee FFP Office of Food for Peace FG Farmer Group GESI Gender Equity and Social Inclusion GoN Government of Nepal HH Household IPM Integrated Pest Management KISAN Knowledge-based Integrated Sustainable Agriculture and Nutrition LNGO Local Non-Governmental Organization M&E Monitoring and Evaluation MIT Micro Irrigation Technology MoAD Ministry of Agricultural Development MoFALD Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development MoHA Ministry of Home Affairs MUS Multiple Water User System NGO Non-Governmental Organization ODF Open Defecation Free PAHAL Promoting Agriculture, Health and Alternative Livelihoods Program PC Project Coordinator USAID United States Agency for International Development VCA Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment VDC Village Development Committee WASH Water Sanitation and Hygiene WDO Women Development Office WUC Water User Committee iv INTRODUCTION Promoting Agriculture, Health and Alternative Livelihoods (PAHAL) program is a $37 million, five-year United States Agency for International Development (USAID) initiative designed to achieve food security among vulnerable populations in 14 districts in the middle and high hills of Far-West and Mid-West Nepal. PAHAL is a Development Food Assistance Project (DFAP) under the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA)/Office of Food for Peace (FFP) that takes a multi-dimensional, systems- based approach to address the underlying socio-political, economic and ecological constraints, and the related shock and stress exposure that drive food insecurity in Nepal. The program’s sub-purposes form the resilience pathways which would enable people of the vulnerable communities: 1. Better cope with and absorb shocks and stresses; 2. Adapt to better health and livelihood strategies in order to effectively reduce exposure to and impact of shocks and stresses; and 3. Recover quickly and ‘bounce back better’ through transformed systems in the face of shocks and stresses. PERFORMANCE SUMMARY In the first quarter FY17, PAHAL continued implementation work in the 75 VDCs that comprise the first phase of the program’s implementation strategy. PAHAL also initiated some preparatory activities in eight new VDCs during this quarter. For further information on the new VDCs incorporated into the programmatic activities, please refer to Annex A: List of PAHAL Working VDCs for Q1, FY 2017. PAHAL activities involved over 8,500 households during the first quarter of fiscal year (FY) 2017. 67% of those households were in the Mid-West Region and 33% in the Far-West Region. A total of more than 11,300
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