Livelihood

Assignment name:  Engaging Youths in  the Promotion of Underutilized Indigenous Crops and Goat Raising in Lalitpur district Nepal

Approx. value of the contract:

(State Currency): NRs 2,995,607.00

Country: Nepal; Location within country:  Lalitpur

Duration of assignment (months): 27 Months

Name of Client: National Agricultural Research and Development Fund (NARDF), Kathmandu

Total No of staff-months of the assignment: Number of Staff: 108

Number of Person Months: 16 Months

Address: Singadarbarplaza, Kathmandu

Approx. value of the services provided by your firm under the contract: NRs. NRs 2,995,607.00

Start date: April, 2016

Completion date: June, 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. Sandhya Bista

Mr. Suvash Khanal, Project Manger

Narrative description of Project: The program has been related to livestock activity. All total 180 farmers are joining in the programs. We supported the goats and buck to farmers for livelihood support and conducting the technical training, insurance of goat.

• Need Assessment, Capacity Assessment, and Baseline Survey of project beneficiaries.
• District consultation meeting, VDC consultation meetings and meetings with agro-vet center operators
• Collection Secondary Data and SWOT analysis
• Baseline household survey, capacity assessment survey and Participatory planning workshop
• Training on group dynamics, technical trainings, pre and post harvest handling and marketing training.
• Delivery of agricultural inputs such as she-goats, delivery of marketing materials such as plastic crate, weighing machines etc.
• Support for the construction of a minor collection center, and interaction with vegetable traders.
• Mid-term assessment of performance, documentation and dissemination of  project results and  impact assessment study
• Training, legal aid and other supports for transforming groups into Cooperatives.
• End line Survey, evaluation and Impact Study

Project Name

Training on basic hand embroidery

Project Location

Kathmandu Metroplitan City Ward No.29, Lainchour

Clint Name/ Address

Office of the District Development Committee,Kathmandu

Number of employees

1 Person

Starting Date

2071 Jestha

Completion date

2071 Ashad

Budget

Rs 200, 000/00

Details of the services been provided

1. Coordination with Office of District Development Committee, Kathmandu and Ward No.29
2. Selection of 35 women’s living permanently in Ward No.29
3. Training of 30 days to 35 women’s on preparing women’s daily use materials like: Hand embroidery (Kurta, Sal, Tops and filling of designs on dresses)
4. Formation of professional plan for participants
5. Training for loan mobilization and conduction of group business.

Project Name

Training on filling designs on womens using dresses and materials like: Hand embroidery (Sal, Kurta, Tops etc.)

Project Location

Ichangunarayan VDC, Kathmandu

Clint Name/ Address

Office of the Village Development Committee Ichangunarayan, Kathmandu

Number of employees

1 Person

Starting Date

2071 Jestha

Completion date

2071 Ashad

Budget

Rs 100,000/00

Details of the services been provided

1. Coordination with Office of Village Development Committee, Ichangunarayan and with Social mobilizer.
2. Selection of 30 womens living permanently in VDC. 
3. Training of 30 days to 30 womens on preparing womens daily use materials like: Hand embroidery (Kurta, Sal, Tops and filling of designs
4. Formation of professional plan for participants
5. Training for loan mobilization and conduction of group business.

Project Name

Training on conduction of Agricultural Cooperatives and production of non-seasonal vegetables.

Project Location

Tikathali VDC, Lalitpur

Clint Name/ Address

Office of the District Development Committee, Lalitpur, Nepal

Number of employees

1 Person

Starting Date

2070 Magh

Completion date

2070 Chaitra

Budget

Rs 64,125/00

Details of the services been provided

1. Coordination with Office of District Development Committee, Village Development Committee, Social Mobilizer, Ward Citizen Forum,Local Governance Party and Local representative of Agricultural groups.
2. Selection of 45 womens living permanently in VDC. 
3. Conduction of 2 days training to participants on producing unseasonal vegetable tomato under tunnel
4. Distribution of improved seeds to participants with objective that they will use their vegetable producing skills to optimum after training.
5. Conduction of training on vegetables collection and mobilization and establishment of distribution center.
6. Conduction of training on mobilization of agricultural cooperative.

Project Name

Traning on proposal, report writing and delivering speech based on youth motivation, leadership development and counseling providing program.

Project Location

Nirmalpokhari VDC, kaski, Pokhara

Clint Name/ Address

Office of the District Development Committee, Kaski

Number of employees

1 Person

Starting Date

2069 Chaitra

Completion date

2070 Ashad

Budget

Rs 114,550/00

Details of the services been provided

1. Coordination with District Development Committee, Village Development Committee Nirmalpokhari and Social Mobilizer of Kaski.
2. Selectionof 45 youths 5 from each ward of VDC.
3. Conduction of 3 days training to 45 participants.
4. Practice of writing proposal and report that are submitted to VDC, DDC and various other sectoral organizations.

Project Name

Basic training on hand embroidery

Project Location

Office of the Namuna Village Development Committee, Nakhel, Bhaktapur 

Clint Name/ Address

Office of the Namuna Village Development Committee, Nakhel, Bhaktapur 

Number of employees

1 Person

Starting Date

2070 Magh

Completion date

2070 Fagun

Budget

Rs 118,000/00

Details of the services been provided

1. Coordination with Office of District Development Committee, Bhaktapur Village Development Committee Nakhel and Social mobilizer.
2. Selection of 45 womens from marginalized community 5 from each ward of VDC.
3. Conduction of 1 month (30 days) training to 45 participants
4. Formation of group by dividing the total participants to 15 in each and providing training on loan and saving to run their business.
5. Formation of business paln for participants.
6. Training for loan mobilization and conduction of group business.