Agriculture

Assignment name: Piloting Micro-irrigation and Ground water schemes Nepal

Approx. value of the contract:

(State Currency): NRs 23,933,089.25

Country: Nepal; Location within country:  Mid-western Region

Duration of assignment (months): 27 Months

Name of Client: Department of Irrigation (DOI), Jawalakhel, Lalitpur

Funded by World Bank

Total No of staff-months of the assignment: Number of Staff: 11

Number of Person Months: 297 Months

Address: Jawalakhel, Lalitpur

Approx. value of the services provided by your firm under the contract: NRs. 23,933,089.25

Start date: 29th Feb, 2016

Completion date: 18th March, 2018

No of professional staff-months provided by associated Consultants: N/A

Name of associated Consultants, if any: N/A

Name of senior professional staff of your firm involved and functions performed:

Dr. Dhurba Pant (Team Leader)

Er. Umanath Devkota (Irrigation Expert)

Narrative description of Project: The program has been related to livelihood/micro irrigation system and livestock activity. All total 775 households are engaged in the programs.

• Capacity enhancement training for high valued crop (vegetable mainly) production and marketing, crop intensification and diversification.
• Use of pond, pipe, drip, sprinkler, solar pump, high value vegetables Hardware and Technology
• Formation of water user group, capacity development/ training, strengthening, etc.
• Providing micro financing aid to match user co-financed micro irrigation projects.
• Need Assessment, Capacity Assessment, and Baseline Survey of project beneficiaries.
• Assets creation and income generation for improvement of livelihood/livestock
• Increasing farm water use efficiency on water scarce pockets (both hill and terrain areas) for socially excluded poor and marginalized households.
• Community development and social mobilization.
• End line Survey, evaluation and Impact Study

Assignment name: Enhancing Sustainable Livelihood/livestock for Indigenous Community in Tanahu District

Approx. value of the contract:

(State Currency): Rs. 4,448,100.00

Country: Nepal; Location within country:  Tanahun District

Duration of assignment (months): 10 Months

Name of Client: WWF/USAID/Hario Ban Program

Total No of staff-months of the assignment: Number of Staff:4

Number of Person Months: 40 Months

Address: Baluwatar, Kathmandu

Approx. value of the services provided by your firm under the contract: Rs. 4,448,100.00

Start date: 12th Oct, 2018

Completion date: 31st August, 2019

No of professional staff-months provided by associated Consultants: N/A

Name of associated Consultants, if any: N/A

Name of senior professional staff of your firm involved and functions performed:

Ms. Shakuntala Neupane

Mr. Suvash Khanal, Project Consultant

Narrative description of Project: The program has been related to livestock activity. All total 50 peoples are engaged in the programs. We supported the local chicken and other necessary materials for required to promotion the poultry farming.

• Integrated livelihood/livestock project of local poultry farming and vegetable farming.

• Study to increase the value and price of local agro and livestock product through local poultry farming and agriculture promotion.
• Collection Secondary Data and SWOT analysis

• Need Assessment, Capacity Assessment and Baseline Survey of project beneficiaries
• Conducting the Local Poultry Farming training
• Conducting the Vegetable Farming training
• Community development and social mobilization
• Assets creation and income generation for improvement of livelihood
• Endline Survey, evaluation and Impact Study
• Submit the Project and survey reports

Name of the project

NGO Service for "Pilot Micro-irrigation and Ground Water Schemes

Client

Irrigation and Wager Resource Management Project (IWRMP); Department of Irrigation

Implementing agency

Right to Access Nepal (RAN; Kathmandu in Joint Venture (JV) with

Social Development Forum (SDF), Nepalgunj

Contact: 01-4412240/9841584764

 Email: rannepalktm@gmail.com

Geographic locations of Project Implementation

Districts

Gaupalika (VDCs)/Municipality

2016

2017

2018

Kalikot

-       None -

Manma, Daha

-       None -

Dailekh

Goganpani, Baraha,

Malika, Seri

Laligurans Gaupalika

Banke

Kamdi, Fattepur, Nepalgunj Municipality

Fattepur

Dundwa Gaupalika

Total Duration of the Project

27 months

Start Date: March 14, 2016       

Completion date:  June 15. 2018

Target groups/ beneficiaries

About 750 socially excluded poor and marginalized farming households of of the selected VDCs/Municipalities from programme district under Mid-Western Development Region.

Objectives

Overall objective: to improve livelihood and food security through asset creation and income generation through micro irrigation supports in the project locations. Specific objectives are to:

·         Form groups of the target groups

·         Enhance production capacity of target groups through training and capacity buildings programs

·         Install micro irrigation systems in project locations

·         Create conditions for sustainability of the project

·         Document and disseminate the project results

Major activities

The major activities to be accomplished are derived from the following main components: 

·         Social component: group formation, registration, mobilization, institution building

·         Software component: capacity development/ training, WUA strengthening

·         Agriculture component: High value crop (vegetable mainly) production and marketing, crop intensification and diversification

·         Irrigation hardware technology component: Installation of MITs like community/individual tank with necessary  pipe line arrangement , drip, sprinkler, solar pump, treadle pump

Expected outcomes/

outputs

By the end of project periods:

·         34 groups of the target groups have adequate irrigation facilities in project locations

·          Micro irrigation systems (drip, sprinkle, plastic pond, bamboo treadle pumps) are utilized by the target groups

Team composition

1. Team leader;

2. Micro-Irrigation Specialist;

3. District Coordinators (2 nos);

4. Sub Engineers (1 nos);

5.  JTAs (1 nos);

6. Social organizers (2 nos );

7. Accountant;

8. Support staff (2 nos )