Livelihood

Flood Recovery Project (2017-2020)

VSO Nepal started this project in September 2017 in the wake of disastrous monsoon flooding in the Terai. With financial support of DFID, VSO deployed volunteers and staff in three municipalities of Rautahat District, working closely with local partners to respond to the disaster, accelerate community-led recovery, and help to build lasting resilience to multi-hazard risk. A key facet of this work was identification of the area’s most marginalized families and their involvement in community-based planning initiatives and income generation activities.

Project Objectives:

Adapting to Climate Induced Threats to Food Production and Food Security in the Karnali Region of Nepal

The project is aimed at increasing adaptive capacity of climate vulnerable and food insecure poor households by improved management of livelihood assets and natural resources in the Karnali mountain districts of Nepal. The project will strengthen local capacity to identify climate risks and design adaptive strategies, diversify livelihood and strengthen food security for climate vulnerable poor households and increase resilience of natural systems that support livelihoods to climate change induced stresses.

Gender equality and Women’s Empowerment

UNFPA works in strengthening public institutions and community capacities increased to prevent and respond to GBV. Under this outcome the program strengthens national and Local (Provincial and Municipal) capacity to prevent and respond to gender-based violence. This will be accomplished through prepositioning GBV prevention commodities, integration of GBV within the health response in emergencies in its plan and policies and its dissemination and advocacy for enhanced data collection and analysis to enable appropriate targeting. UNFPA Humanitarian Program focuses mainly on key 5 areas:

Sexual and reproductive health (SRH)

UNFPA is supporting national efforts in Nepal to improve the sexual and reproductive health of the most marginalized adolescent girls and women with increased capacity to deliver integrated, quality sexual and reproductive health services that target women and adolescent girls, especially the most vulnerable, including in emergencies. The program strengthens capacity for SRH services and health response to GBV during the emergencies at Federal and Sub-national level.

PAHUNCH “Realizing the Rights of Children in Nepal through CSSP” (Access in Nepali)

The overall objective is to reduce child poverty in Nepal with specific objectives included as improved well-being of children in the CSSP project area through improved access of children, their caregivers and other eligible people to existing social protection schemes, improved functioning of service providers in delivering quality services relevant for CSSP, strengthened child protection system at village and district level relevant for social protection, enhanced child sensitivity of social protection recipients, their households and the community and improved government policies and provis

Sustainable action for Resilience and Food Security (SABAL)

The program aims to increase resilience and food security for targeted vulnerable populations with special focus on 1) increase stable income of communities, especially vulnerable females and males, 2) improve health and nutrition status of pregnant and lactating women, children under 5 and their families and 3) strengthen the ability of households and communities to mitigate, adapt to and recover from shocks and stresses.

Mainstreaming livelihood-centered approaches to disaster management

The project aimed to strengthen the resilience of 1500 most vulnerable households by improving the agriculture practices, diversifying the livelihood options and reducing the risk of disasters from landslides and soil erosion in upstream and flash floods and debris flow in downstream. The project was implemented in Chitwan and Nawalparasi districts.
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