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Strengthening Livelihood Capacities to Disaster Risk Reduction - Compilation of Change Studies, Kathmandu, Nepal, Practical Action
S T R E N G T H E N I N G L I V E L I H O O D C A P A C I T I E S T O D I S A S T E R R I S K R E D U C T I O N I N N E P A L Compilation of Change Studies Study Team Dinanath Bhandari and Yuwan Malakar Suported By Ghanashyam Bhandari, SAHAMATI Yani Gaha, SAHAMATI Yadu Kandel, SAHAMATI Anil Prajapati, SAHAMATI Anju Adhikari, MADE Nepal Gita Kumal, MADE Nepal Baburam KC, MADE Nepal Reviewers Pieter van Den Ende, Practical Action Gehendra Gurung, Practical Action © Practical Action Nepal Office, 2011 In collaboration with SAHAMATI and MADE Nepal Citation: Practical Action (2011) Strengthening Livelihood Capacities to Disaster Risk Reduction - Compilation of Change Studies, Kathmandu, Nepal, Practical Action ISBN: 978-9937-8135-8-7 No use of this publication may be made for resale or other commercial purpose without prior permission of the copyright holder. 'This material has been funded by UKaid from the Department for International Development, however the views expressed do not necessarily reflect the department's official policies.' C O N T E N T S Foreword ii Why work in disaster risk reduction? iv Acronyms vi Chapter 1. Introduction 1 Chapter 2. Irrigation facilites reduce sensitivity to drought 10 Chapter 3. Electric fencing decreases exposure to wild animals 22 Chapter 4. Vegetables are an additional source of income to improve resilience 29 Chapter 5. Improved bee keeping and its contribution to reducing landslides 36 Chapter 6. -
Food Insecurity and Undernutrition in Nepal
SMALL AREA ESTIMATION OF FOOD INSECURITY AND UNDERNUTRITION IN NEPAL GOVERNMENT OF NEPAL National Planning Commission Secretariat Central Bureau of Statistics SMALL AREA ESTIMATION OF FOOD INSECURITY AND UNDERNUTRITION IN NEPAL GOVERNMENT OF NEPAL National Planning Commission Secretariat Central Bureau of Statistics Acknowledgements The completion of both this and the earlier feasibility report follows extensive consultation with the National Planning Commission, Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), World Food Programme (WFP), UNICEF, World Bank, and New ERA, together with members of the Statistics and Evidence for Policy, Planning and Results (SEPPR) working group from the International Development Partners Group (IDPG) and made up of people from Asian Development Bank (ADB), Department for International Development (DFID), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), UNICEF and United States Agency for International Development (USAID), WFP, and the World Bank. WFP, UNICEF and the World Bank commissioned this research. The statistical analysis has been undertaken by Professor Stephen Haslett, Systemetrics Research Associates and Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, New Zealand and Associate Prof Geoffrey Jones, Dr. Maris Isidro and Alison Sefton of the Institute of Fundamental Sciences - Statistics, Massey University, New Zealand. We gratefully acknowledge the considerable assistance provided at all stages by the Central Bureau of Statistics. Special thanks to Bikash Bista, Rudra Suwal, Dilli Raj Joshi, Devendra Karanjit, Bed Dhakal, Lok Khatri and Pushpa Raj Paudel. See Appendix E for the full list of people consulted. First published: December 2014 Design and processed by: Print Communication, 4241355 ISBN: 978-9937-3000-976 Suggested citation: Haslett, S., Jones, G., Isidro, M., and Sefton, A. (2014) Small Area Estimation of Food Insecurity and Undernutrition in Nepal, Central Bureau of Statistics, National Planning Commissions Secretariat, World Food Programme, UNICEF and World Bank, Kathmandu, Nepal, December 2014. -
Resettlement Plan: Narayanghat–Butwal Road
Resettlement Plan July 2016 NEP: SASEC Roads Improvement Project Narayanghat-Butwal Road Prepared by Department of Roads, Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transports, Government of Nepal for the Asian Development Bank. CURRENCY EQUIVALENTS (as of 27 May 2016) Currency unit – Nepalese rupee (NPR) NPR1.00 = $ 0.00931 $1.00 = 107.432 ABBREVIATIONS ADB - Asian Development Bank Aps - Affected Persons BPL - Below Poverty Line CBO - Community Based Organization CBS - Central Bureau of Statistics CDC - Compensation Determination Committee CDO - Chief District Officer CoI - Corridor of Impact DAO - District Administration Office DDC - District Development Committee DLSO - District Land Survey Office DLRO - District Land Revenue Office DoR - Department of Roads CSC - Construction and Supervisi0n Consultant EA - Executing Agency FGD - Focus Group Discussion GDI - Gender Development Index GEU - Geo- Environment Unit GRC - Grievance Redress Committee GoN - Government of Nepal HDI - Human Development Index HPI - Human Poverty Index HHs - Households IA - Implementing Agency INGO - International Nongovernment Organization MoF - Ministry of Finance MoPIT - Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport NGO - Non-governmental Organization PDP(s)- Project Affected Family (Families) PD - Project Director, PID PIU - Project Implementation Unit PPTA - project preparatory Technical Assistance RoW - Right of Way RP - Resettlement Plan R&R - Resettlement and Rehabilitation RS - Resettlement Specialist SPAF - Severely project Affected Family SPS - Safeguard Policy Statement (ADB 2009) Sqm - Square meters TPPF - Transport Project Preparatory Facility VDC - Village Development Committee ZoI - Zone of Influence GLOSSARY Affected Person – Any person including Vulnerable encroachers/squatters, households, business affected by the project through the acquisition of land or other assets or disruption in business irrespective of legal or ownership title. -
Struggle for Environmental Justice Aug 23.Indd
Chapter Five From Local Resistance to a Movement The restrictions imposed by the Park on daily life have produced immense hardship for the indigenous communities that live in Chitwan. Their livelihoods have been seriously affected, especially those of the landless Bote-Majhi and Musahar. Fishing and harvesting of forest products is no longer possible. The nutritional standards of the communities have fallen noticeably. The struggle launched by the people, to which this study now turns its attention, has to be understood as a struggle for life. Gradually, a mass movement has evolved, but it has very much remained a grassroots movement. Emergence of MMBKSS The resistance movement of the indigenous people started in 1983/84 (2040 BS) ‘before democracy’. Ten active individuals from different villages organised informal meetings to discuss their problems. Their efforts did not go unchallenged, particularly by local elites (e.g., landlords). Bote-Majhi leaders were persuaded to renounce their attempt to register a formal organisation. In response to complaints filed by local elites, police took action. By 1986 (2042 BS) arrest warrants had been issued for the leaders of the movement. Once, while mobilising the people, the leaders were forced to take refuge in the forest and went underground for months. They hid in the forests of Gajapur across from Sighrauli. Amar Bahadur Majhi, Jit Bahadur Majhi and his wife, Buli Ram Majhi, Tej Bahadur Bote, Hari Bahadur Musahar, Kaliya Musahar, and others had to desert their villages. Interestingly, they report that Army personnel were fairly cooperative while they hid inside the National Park and relied on the products of the forest. -
SAMBAD: Dialogue for Peace Project
SAMBAD: Dialogue for Peace Project BASELINE SURVEY REPORT Submitted to: CARE Nepal Regional Office Bharatpur, Chitwan Submitted by: Bijay Kumar Singh, Ph.D. Kathmandu, Nepal Email: [email protected] January 2014 Study Team Bijay Kumar Singh, Ph.D. Team Leader (Consultant) Mr. Santos Kumar Shah Statistician SAMBAD/CARE Nepal Team Ms. Nirmala Sharma Program Coordinator. CARE Nepal Mr. Madhav P. Dhakal Project Manager, SAMBAD/ CARE Nepal Ms. Bimala Puri Community Dialogue Officer, SAMBAD/ CARE Nepal Mr. Bishnu Nepali Monitoring and Evaluation Office, SAMBAD/ CARE Nepal Mr. Amleshwar Singh Impact Measurement and Learning Manager, CARE Nepal Partner NGO Team Ms. Mibusha Ghimire District Project Coordinator, LARC Mr. Madan Prajapati Field Supervisor, NAMUNA Ms. Chandani Chhetri Finance Assistant, NAMUNA Mr. Rajesh K. Chaudhary Finance Assistant, LARC Field Data Collectors LARC, Nawalparasi Ms. Sarita Adhikari Ms. Phoolmaya Paswan Ms. Menka Shree Rajkumari Mr. Ramhari Dusadh Mr. Ravi Shanker Harijan NAMUNA, Rupandehi Ms. Sonika Shrestha Mr. Jeewan B.K. Mr. Mukunda Paudyal Ms. Bindramati Chaudhary Mr. Dinesh Aryal Special Contribution in the Baseline Survey for Data Collection Mr. Prem Nath Gyawali - LPC Secretary, Rupandehi Ms. Anjana Acharya - LPC Secretary, Nawalparasi Acknowledgements The Team Leader would like to express his gratitude to CARE Nepal for the opportunity given again to serve the organization. He would like to extend his sincere thanks to Officials of CARE Nepal Mr. Madhav P. Dhakal, Ms. Nirmala Sharma, Mr. Amleshwar Singh, Ms. Bimala Puri, Mr. Bishnu Nepali and Mr. Chuda Basnet for their kind cooperation and hearty support in successfully completion of the assignment on time. He would like to earnestly extend his special gratitude to Under Secretary Mr. -
Saath-Saath Project
Saath-Saath Project Saath-Saath Project THIRD ANNUAL REPORT August 2013 – July 2014 September 2014 0 Submitted by Saath-Saath Project Gopal Bhawan, Anamika Galli Baluwatar – 4, Kathmandu Nepal T: +977-1-4437173 F: +977-1-4417475 E: [email protected] FHI 360 Nepal USAID Cooperative Agreement # AID-367-A-11-00005 USAID/Nepal Country Assistance Objective Intermediate Result 1 & 4 1 Table of Contents List of Acronyms .................................................................................................................................................i Executive Summary ............................................................................................................................................ 1 I. Introduction ........................................................................................................................................... 4 II. Program Management ........................................................................................................................... 6 III. Technical Program Elements (Program by Outputs) .............................................................................. 6 Outcome 1: Decreased HIV prevalence among selected MARPs ...................................................................... 6 Outcome 2: Increased use of Family Planning (FP) services among MARPs ................................................... 9 Outcome 3: Increased GON capacity to plan, commission and use SI ............................................................ 14 Outcome -
Musahar/Bote's Changing Livelihoods Contexts
Reframing Livelihoods Strategies: Musahar/Bote’s Changing Livelihoods Contexts and their Responses to Diverse Development Interventions A Study Report Prepared by: Krishna Paudel Devendra Adhikari Sharda Paudel Environmental Resource Institute P.O. Box No. 12207 Kathmandu, Nepal Tel: 00977 1 5550631; 5552924 Fax: 00977 1 5535190 E-mail: [email protected] July 2007 Table of Content Acronyms ......................................................................................................................... iii Executive Summary ......................................................................................................... iv 1 Introduction ............................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Background of the study ................................................................................... 1 1.2 Objectives ......................................................................................................... 1 1.3 Organisation of the report ................................................................................. 2 2 Bote/Musahar Community in development context ................................................. 2 2.1 Mushahar and Bote in the Chitwan Valley ....................................................... 3 2.2 Chitwan Valley ................................................................................................. 6 3 State interventions on development and environment .............................................. 7 3.1 Migration -
Forest Management Audit 2016
Forest Management and Conservation (District Forest Office- Bara, Chitwan, Nawalparasi, and Rupandehi) Final Report of Environment Audit, 2016 (2072) l lll lllll lllll llll lll l Office of the Auditor General, Nepal Kathamandu, Nepal. 1 Forest Management and Conservation (District Forest Office- Bara, Chitwan, Nawalparasi, and Rupandehi) Final report of Environment Audit, 2016 (2072) Introduction 1. Background - Forest is one of important renewable national resources. Effective management and proper use of this resource could significantly contribute in economic and social development of a country, protection of environment and availability of essential goods and services to the majority of people residing in remote area. If forest resources are not properly managed, many environment problems may emerge Key Performance Indicator (KPI) caused by the degradation of forest • Systematic demarcation of forest resources. Sustainable and scientific • Removing Forest Encroachment • Implementation of Agreement management of forests are imperative to • Protection and monitoring of address the concerns of climate change and afforestation • REDD (Reducing Emissions from Controlling grazing and forest fire Deforestation and Forest Degradation). • Controlling export smuggling Existing Forest Policy and laws aim to • Scientific forest management achieve economic and social development through implementation of developed concepts in sustainable forest management, environment protection, bio-diversity and climate change. District Forest Offices have been -
Bharatpur – Bardghat 220 Kv T/L Project SIA Report
Bharatpur – Bardghat 220 kV T/L Project SIA Report CHAPTER-1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) is constructing a 220 kV transmission line from Bharatpur to Bardaghat in Nepal to strengthen the power transmission network of Integrated Nepal Power System (INPS), thereby increasing the capacity of power flow from the west where the major generating stations exist or planned to the east where the demand is high. The line particularly enhances the existing Bharatpur-Bardghat sector which is of single circuit configuration only and has been constructed with limited capacity in early seventies when the power system was in nascent stage. This will also help enhance the power exchange with India. The proposed alignment passes through Bharatpur Municipality of Chitwan district and 14 VDCs of Nawalparasi district. The estimated length of the transmission line is 73.5 Km. Right of Way (RoW) of the transmission line is 30m (15m on each side of centerline) and each tower will require an average area of 12.5mx12.5 m. A total of 0.673 ha private land will be acquired by the project for the placement of 43 towers. The SIA has been prepared in compliance with GoN legislation, The World Bank policies, guidelines and best practices. The Bank policies emphasize the need to avoid or minimize involuntary resettlement on development projects. This SIA of Bharatpur- Bardghat 220 kV Transmission Line Project has been prepared based on the review of available literatures, collection of the secondary VDC level data, findings of household survey of affected households and inventory of affected private and public assets. -
Global Initiative on Out-Of-School Children
ALL CHILDREN IN SCHOOL Global Initiative on Out-of-School Children NEPAL COUNTRY STUDY JULY 2016 Government of Nepal Ministry of Education, Singh Darbar Kathmandu, Nepal Telephone: +977 1 4200381 www.moe.gov.np United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Institute for Statistics P.O. Box 6128, Succursale Centre-Ville Montreal Quebec H3C 3J7 Canada Telephone: +1 514 343 6880 Email: [email protected] www.uis.unesco.org United Nations Children´s Fund Nepal Country Office United Nations House Harihar Bhawan, Pulchowk Lalitpur, Nepal Telephone: +977 1 5523200 www.unicef.org.np All rights reserved © United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) 2016 Cover photo: © UNICEF Nepal/2016/ NShrestha Suggested citation: Ministry of Education, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Global Initiative on Out of School Children – Nepal Country Study, July 2016, UNICEF, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2016. ALL CHILDREN IN SCHOOL Global Initiative on Out-of-School Children © UNICEF Nepal/2016/NShrestha NEPAL COUNTRY STUDY JULY 2016 Tel.: Government of Nepal MINISTRY OF EDUCATION Singha Durbar Ref. No.: Kathmandu, Nepal Foreword Nepal has made significant progress in achieving good results in school enrolment by having more children in school over the past decade, in spite of the unstable situation in the country. However, there are still many challenges related to equity when the net enrolment data are disaggregated at the district and school level, which are crucial and cannot be generalized. As per Flash Monitoring Report 2014- 15, the net enrolment rate for girls is high in primary school at 93.6%, it is 59.5% in lower secondary school, 42.5% in secondary school and only 8.1% in higher secondary school, which show that fewer girls complete the full cycle of education. -
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Environmental Impact Assessment NEP: SASEC Roads Improvement
Environmental Impact Assessment August 2016 NEP: SASEC Roads Improvement Project Prepared by Department of Roads, Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport, Government of Nepal for the Asian Development Bank. This is an updated version of the draft originally posted in June 2016 available on http://www.adb.org/projects/48337-002/documents. CURRENCY EQUIVALENTS (as of 27 May 2016) Currency unit – Nepalese rupee (NPR) NPR1.00 = $ 0.00931 $1.00 = 107.432 ABBREVIATIONS ADB - Asian Development Bank BOQ - Bill of Quantities BZMC - buffer zone management committee CNP - Chitwan National Park CFUGs -- Community Forest User Groups CSC - Construction Supervision Consultants DOR - Department of Roads DBST - double bituminous surface treatment EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment EMP - Environmental Management Plan EMOP - Environmental Monitoring Plan EPA - Environment Protection Act GHG - greenhouse gas emission GRM - grievance redress mechanism GRC - grievance redress committee IUCN - International Union for Conservation of Nature GoN - Government of Nepal MHC - Mid-Hill East-West Corridor MOEST - Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology MOPIT - Ministry of Physical Infastructure and Transport NPWCA - National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act NGO - Non-governmental organization PIP - Priority Investment Plan REA) Rapid Environmental Assessment ROW - right-of-way SWRP - Sector Wide Road Program SPS - Safeguard Policy Statement TNM - Traffic Noise Model TYIP - Three Year Interim Plan WWF - World Wildlife Fund This environmental impact assessment is a document of the borrower. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of ADB's Board of Directors, Management, or staff, and may be preliminary in nature. In preparing any country program or strategy, financing any project, or by making any designation of or reference to a particular territory or geographic area in this document, the Asian Development Bank does not intend to make any judgments as to the legal or other status of any territory or area.