Category Archives: Completed Projects

Rupantaran Nepal conducted a preliminary assessment for piloting PES under the financial assistance of Care Nepal in 2013.

Objectives

1. Review PES related relevant policies and practices in Nepal and at international level

2. List out the important ES available in the selected VDCs of the Lamjung districts and prioritize the top two ES among them

3. Create scenario maps and valuate  of the prioritized ES

4. Identify key stakeholders of the prioritized ES and their role to maintain, manage and/or restore the ES

5. Provide recommendations for possible strategies or models for PES initiatives in Lamjung.

Key Activities

1. Review international national policies and practices  of PES

2. Carry out consultations  at the district level to identify an important ES in the selected VDCs of Lamjung, prioritize them and identify top two ES among them

3. Identify the role of relevant stakeholders to protect, manage or restore the prioritized ES

4. Collect primary and secondary data needed for the valuation of the prioritized ES

5. Map out the distribution of the prioritized ES in the selected VDCs of Lamjung, do valuation of them and create scenario maps at different situation.

6. Present the results from valuation and scenario maps of the prioritized ES at the second district level stakeholders’ consultation and identify their interest to protect, manage or restore the service.

7. Recommend for possible strategies or models of PES initiative in Lamjung.

Project outcomes

1. Inception report with detailed outline of the study and background information needed for PES, its valuation and practices at international and national levels

2. Draft report after the field visit to ensure the data gathered from the field visits and consultations

3. Second draft report after detailed analysis of the data gathered from the field visits and consultations

4. Final report including the list of ES, its priority ranking, valuation, scenario maps, stakeholders interest and possible strategies for PES in Lamjung after incorporating the comments from the supervision team.

Involvement of women, marginalised and disadvantages people

Number of marginalised or disadvantaged  people who were involved in the project as professionals/core staff members were women (7), Dalit (3); Janajati (14). Professionals whose hometown was located in Mid and Far West districts (7).

Rupantaran Nepal carried out an assignment funded by ADRA-Nepal for creating community climate change in Rupandehi district from March 2013 to May 2014.

This project addressed the following Millenium Development Goals (MDGs)

MDG3 Promoting Gender Equality and Empowerment Women
MDG7 Ensuring Environmental Sustainability
MDG8 Developing a Global Partnership Development

The broad objective of this project was to enhance adaptive capacity of poor and climate vulnerable people and communities by supporting their urgent and immediate climate change adaptation priorities.

Specifically the project aimed to:

1. Raise awareness of the co-operatives members and local level stakeholders (local bodies, line agencies, civil society and private sector) on climate change adaptation.

2. Strengthen capacity of existing institutional mechanisms e.g. cooperatives, local bodies and local service provider (government agencies, private sector providers) to deliver urgent and immediate adaptation needs and coordinating planning for synergy development.

The outcomes and key activities were as follows:

Outcome 1 To enhance the coping capacities of vulnerable co-operative members to respond to the impacts of climate change. Key activities were: Identify of climate vulnerable HHs, Awareness and sensitization on CCA, CCA focus education programme, development and publication self- generated education  materials

Outcome 2 To strengthen the institutional capacity of existing cooperatives and vulnerable communities to respond to the adverse impacts of climate change : Key activities were Seed fund establishment, resource centre establishment and strengthened, training on CBAP preparation and implementation, CBAP implementation support and cross learning and sharing

Outcome 3 To support innovative community based adaptation priorities identified by village development committee: Key activities were Village Climate Change Coordination Committee formulation and strengthening, LAPA development  with synthesising CBAP and its implementation support; joint monitoring.

Project Outcomes

1. District project inception workshop has organised  with 26 district based service providers and stakeholders to inform about the project, explore possible synergy development and coordination

2. 422 number of climate vulnerable women had participated and graduated 3 months climate change focused Non Formal Education Classes

3. 5 resource centre  were established within cooperative and serving different services and climate change knowledge to cooperative members

4. 5 Community based adaptation plan has prepared by Cooperatives and it has been implemented with support from 5C project

5. 4 Local Adaptation Plan for action have developed  with following the LAPA frameworks , engaging local stakeholders  and which has been led by VDC

6. Village climate change coordination committee has been formulated and functional within VDCs to facilitate and implementation of LAPA

7. 4 Visual documentaries has been produced by using multi- media monitoring approaches by using local videographers and its learning synthesis in one video documentation

Involvement of women, marginalized and disadvantaged people

This project has worked with women led saving and credit cooperative and mostly targetted to climate vulnerable co-operative women and their families. Therefore, strong engagement and participation of women has been ensured in planning, implementation and monitoring of all project interventions.

Rupantaran Nepal undertook an organizational development and capacity need assessment of key and
primary stakeholders for GIZ under Renewable Energy for Rural Areas (RERA) programme in Province-1
from July, 2018 to October, 2018. The assignment were located in Morang, Sunsari, Jhapa, Illam and
Bhojpur districts of Nepal.

The main objective of the assignment is to assess the Organizational Development (OD) and Capacity
Needs (CN) of key and primary stakeholders respectively for RERA program implementation in Province-

1. More specifically;

• Defining a systematic approach and methodology to conduct organizational assessments and capacity needs assessments.
• Carry out organizational development assessment of identified key stakeholders and propose organizational development measures with GESI friendly to improve the key stakeholder’s performance in regards to renewable energy by applying systematic approaches/methodologies,
• Carry out capacity needs assessment of primary stakeholders and recommend capacity development measures with GESI friendly to increase their effectiveness in regards to renewable energy according to a systematic approach.

The progress of the assignment activities were timely reported ODA and CNA reports to the client. The
outcome of the assessment has shared with the senior officials of the Alternative Energy Promotion
Centre and GIZ through consultative workshop. The feedback received during such meetings was
considered to enrich the report of the assignment. Based on the feed Rupantaran Nepal has also
prepared a consolidated report. Finally, a final report incorporating feedback from the funding agency was
submitted at the end of the project.

Rupantaran Nepal is working in partnership with  HTSPE/ NCCSP (Nepal Climate Change Support Programme-Startup-Phase) for the implementation of the Local Adaptation Plan for Action (LAPA) project in 30 Village Development Committees (VDCs) of Jajarkot, Rukum, Dailekh, Rolpa, Dang and Bardiya districts.

The project started from April to August 2012 to enhance the adaptive capacity of poor and climate vulnerable people and communities by supporting their urgent and immediate climate change adaptation needs.

Rupantaran Nepal follows the Government of Nepal (GoN)/ Ministry of Environment (MoE) approved LAPA framework, as a guided document while developing LAPA.

Objectives:
To raise awareness of the district level stakeholders [local bodies, line agencies, civil society, and private sector] on climate change and climate change adaptation planning

• To facilitate the  local adaptation plan preparation process following LAPA framework
• To develop baseline of current climate vulnerability for monitoring and evaluation purpose
• To develop district capacity development plan related to climate change adaptation of the hub districts

Project outputs:

• Enhanced knowledge and raised awareness on the climate change adaptation among district level stakeholders
• Developed local adaptation plan that is owned by local bodies
• Developed district capacity development plan related to climate change adaptation
• Developed baseline of current climate vulnerability for Monitoring and Evaluation

Rupantaran Nepal was awarded a service contract by World Health Organization for Development of Training Manual on Climate Change and Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) under the project “Building adaptation to Climate Change in health in least developed countries through resilient water sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in Nepal”. The awarded service contract was commenced on 15 June, 2017 and completed by 16 October, 2017.

The objective of this assignment was to develop standard training manuals on Climate Change and WASH. Specifically following three manuals were to be developed according to the specific target audiences

• Training manual for district engineers (for about 2 days)
• Training manual for Water and Sanitation Users Committees (WSUC) for about 2 days
• Materials for Orientation Programme on Climate Change and WASH (1/2 day) for mass awareness and sensitization

The assignment activities were timely and successfully completed. Under this service, Rupantaran Nepal undertook inception meeting with WHO, Department of Water Supply and Sewerage (DWSS), National Water Supply and Sanitation Training Center (NWSSTC) and other related stakeholders such as RWSSFDB, FEDWASUN and other NGOs. Likewise a desk review of Government acts, regulations, plans, policies, strategies and operational procedures was done. Based on the review and consultation, an inception report was produced, submitted and approved from WHO. Aligning with the inception report, RN undertook a training and capacity need assessment among the DWSS and NWSSTC staffs, analyzed and identified capacity and focused on the climate change and WASH.  Further desk review of the climate change and WASH documents were done and synthesized into an annotated outline of curriculum module. The curriculum of the modules were shared with WHO, DWSS and NTWSSTC officials and further refinement of the curriculum matrix has been done. Based on the matrix, RN prepared three different training modules for 1. District Engineer 2. Water and Sanitation Users Committee 3. Water and Sanitation Users groups. In each module, RN included facilitator’s guide for facilitators, participant’s guide for Participants and reference guide for both facilitators and participants. These documents were shared with WHO, NWSSTC and DWSS officials for their review, feedback and comments. RN enriched the documents addressing the comments and suggestions. Then the documents were undertaken for peer review from the NWSSTC officials for finalizing the documents and quality assurance. Finally, RN prepared various presentation materials – PowerPoint presentation, poster and case study as demanded by the modules. At the end, RN submitted project completion report and hard as well as soft copies of the modules and its other learning as well as reading materials.

Rupantaran Nepal and its consortium partners Samuhik Abhiyan, Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ) and Association of Village Development Committees in Nepal (NAVIN) conducted District Training on Climate Change and Community-based Adaptation Planning- Phase II in 30 Districts of Nepal from July, 2015 to January, 2017 (18 Months). The contract of assignment signed with Asian Development Bank under Mainstreaming Climate Change Risk Management in Development project of Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience (PPCR). The main aim of the district training on Climate Change and Community-based Adaptation planning was to enable local planners to integrate measures to address climate change risks into the decentralized local planning process. More specifically

• Raise awareness of local leaders, media and the civil society representatives at the district level about the impacts of climate change and the need for integrating adaptation into local development plans.
• Train local planners – district development officers, district line agency personnel, and Village Development Committee representatives – on the concepts of climate change projections, impacts and methods to integrate adaptation into local development planning.
• Transfer knowledge and skills to participants in understanding and applying tools for community-based vulnerability assessment, risk assessment and identifying priorities for adaptation.
• Enhance participants’ abilities to facilitate participatory local development and adaptation planning within the framework of Nepal’s decentralized planning process.

The assignment activities were timely and successfully completed. Under this assignment RN and its consortium has undertaken following actions;

Inception report: Rupantaran and its consortium partners undertook SHs consultation to prepare inception report including monitoring and evaluation Plan, gender and social inclusion strategy and communication and outreach plan. Prior to submit inception report, RN organized inception workshop in presence Secretary of Ministry of Population and Environment Dr. Kul Chandra Poudel and wider Stakeholders to share and receive feedback on the implementation modality and strategy of the district training

Revision training manual: RN and its consortium reviewed, updated and printed existed training manual on climate change and community-based adaptation planning. RN received is ISBN number 993700172-2 from the Central Library of Tribhuvan University.

Organization of Training of Trainers (ToT):  A training of trainers training was organized to develop Co-facilitators and common understanding among all team on training process and training manual. The Co-facilitator were selected in close coordination of with MoPE and the participants were from National Planning Commission (NPC), Local Development Training Academy (LDTA), Ministries and its regional training center- Health, Forest, Livestock development, District Development Committee (DDC) and Civil Society Organization(CSOs). Total 28 number of participants were successfully completed the training and mobilized them in district training.

Completion of District Training: In close coordination with MoFALD and leadership of DDC, 30 events district training on climate change and community-based adaptation planning were organized in 30 districts in 5 lots.  Total 817 including 40 % women were trained on the climate change, vulnerability assessment, adaptation planning and its integration in local development planning process. Likewise a Google groups formed exchanged the learning and experiences in the application of the training which is still alive and functional. 

Conduction of Follow-up Monitoring and Early Impact Assessment: the monitoring of the training was done in different stages of the training by using participatory. At the end of the assignment, RN undertook follow-up monitoring and early impact assessment of the training. Based on this assessment a video was developed and documented the learning and experiences.

Completion Assignment: A final project completion workshop including learning and sharing was done with wider stakeholder in leadership of MoPE and finally submitted the project completion report to MoPE and ADB

Home Garden Project Phase – IV is a SDC funded project being managed by LIBIRD. The project is being implemented by Rupantaran in 4 districts – Bardiya, Dang, Rolpa and Salyan from November 2014 till January 2018. Rupantaran Nepal, as a resource partner, is contributing to Rupantaran NGO providing technical support for the effective implementation of the project.

The home garden refers to traditional land use system around a homestead, where wide varieties of vegetables, fruits, fodder, medicinal plants, fish, poultry and livestock are maintained by the household members and the products thus generated are primarily intended for family consumption. Home garden plays important role in the fulfilment of Families’ nutritional needs along with the instantaneous source of family income through surplus production. Basically, it has been focused for resource poor and DAGs.

The project has anticipated achieving the goal through two distinct outcomes. Outcome 1: Small holders and disadvantaged groups adopted home garden for improved family nutrition and increase income from surplus production and Outcome 2: Government agencies and non-government organizations internalized home garden as a targeted programme to SHDAGs for nutritional improvement.

Rupantaran Nepal performed a baseline and KAP survey for child centered climate change adaptation project under the financial assistance of Plan Nepal from March 2013 to September 2014. The project sites were located in Sunsari and Morang districts of the eastern- inner Tarai region of Nepal.

The main objectives of the baseline and knowledge attitude practice (KAP) survey were to:

1. Assess and compile socio-economic condition in project area

2. Assess impact of disaster and climate change on children

3. Assess knowledge of local people, youth and children on climate change and identify the practices and attitudes towards climate change adaptation

4. Prepare climate change impact/disaster risk map of the project area

The progress of the project activities were timely reported to the client through the organization of joint meetings. The feedback received during such meetings was considered to enrich the project activities. A draft report was submitted to the finding agency upon the successful completion of project activities and analysis. Finally, a final report incorporating feedback from the funding agency was submitted at the end of the project.

Involvement of women, marginalized and disadvantaged people

It was ensured by identifying the most vulnerable wards in the project VDCs and concentrating the project activities in those wards and ensuring the proportional involvement of people of different castes and sexes in the project activities.

Rupantaran Nepal in collaboration with Government of Nepal and support from Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO) implemented “Improved governance for effective timber monitoring and traceability of
Shorea robusta in Nepal” under the Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade programme of
European Union (EU FLEGT). The project was implemented in Nawalparasi and Rupandehi districts from
July, 2014 to September, 2016. The aim of the project was to promote good governance and increase
transparency of production and trade of Shorea robusta by developing a control system covering timber
supply, Chain of Custody and independent monitoring and building necessary capacities of different
stakeholders. In this project, Rupantaran Nepal worked closely with Department of Forest (DoF) by
formulating project advisory committee (PAC) led by the Director General (DG) and by forming technical
working group in the chairmanship of Deputy Director General along with Civil Society Organizations
(CSOs) and identified key stakeholders of timber sector. The output based progress of this project is
presented as follows:

Output 1: Control system for improved transparency in Shorea robusta production and trade
developed;

Reviewed of existing legal and regulatory framework and identified the existing elements and gaps
together with 7 critical control point
 Technical working group (TWG) consulted with local stakeholders and visited existing Shorea robusta
harvest and trade process sites in Pre-selected CFUGs and CFM in Kapilvastu and Rupandehi.
 Drafted the control system covering transparent timber supply, Chain of Custody and independent
monitoring for timber produced by CFUGs and CFM based on desk and field level reviews
 Developed Independent Monitoring Guideline by technical working group to track the transparent
monitoring of timber trade especially Shorea robusta.
 Organized National Consultation workshop on control system for transparent production and trade of
Shorea robusta and received feedback and updated the control system
 Undertook the peer review of Final review consolidation of control system assuring Shorea robusta
supply chain, Chain of Custody and monitoring guidelines.

Output 2: Control system for improved transparency in Shorea robusta production and trade
piloted and consolidated and stakeholder capacity strengthened:

 Identified 4- CFUGs and 2 CFMs in project district for the piloting of control system and piloting
conducted on control system. In the process of piloting; local media, government stakeholders- DFO
staff, CSO representatives FECOFUN and ACOFUN and adjoining CFUs and CFM were invited so
that they could replicate piloting initiative in other CFUGs as well.
 Conducted 6 events of awareness raising training to 281 CFUGs and CFMs users and executive
committee. The events were of grand successful to raise awareness on chain of custody of timber,
traceability of legal timbers and advantage of implementation of the control system within CFUGs and
CFUGs. Likewise, 2-awareness raising events were organized and representative of neighboring
CFUGs within the VDCs were invited and ensure their participation.
 Updated the drafted timber supply and CoC systems based on experiences gained during the piloting
phase and desk review was shared among the technical working group.

Output 3: Project results disseminated though the development of extension and training
materials and study tours;

 Produced various extension/training materials which included project leaflet, poster of chain of
custody and control system and traffic lights of control system.
 Produced a documentary with covering the FLEGT concept and learning of piloting of transparent
timber supply and chain of custody, legal timber and training manuals of control system

Output 4: Monitoring, evaluation and visibility framework developed:

 Organized a project inception workshop with the European Union Delegation and Food and
Agriculture Organization representatives responsible for FLEGT activities as well as with relevant
stakeholders. Total 28 forest sector stakeholders were attended.
 Organized National dissemination workshop in Kathmandu at the end of the project in 30 September,

2016. A pen drive with all manuals, documentary, posters, and leaflet has been distributed to all
      participants.

The project took more than expected due delayed in the endorsement process and PAC formulation. The
SHs participants who were attended in the final workshop has highly appreciated the implementation of
this project though there was limited knowledge and readiness of the forest sector stakeholders within the
country. The lesson of the project was the readiness of local stakeholders in transparency in supply
chain of Shorea robusta was a pertinent issue and its governance process was found always critical.