Pragya
Women’s Self Help Groups (SHG) will be formed in 3 impoverished villages in the high altitude mountain district of Dolpa in Nepal, and each SHG will set up a small revolving fund for horticulture farming. They will be helped to reclaim village wastelands with irrigation facilities and set up group plantations of apples and fuelwood/fodder species, with intercropping of medicinal herbs.
Livestock-based Microenterprise Development Programme, Gorkha District
This project aims to support resource-poor tribal Kumal women in the Gaikhur and Chyangli Village Development Committees of Gorkha District by providing knowledge, skills and seed funding for goat farming that ultimately helps in improving their livelihoods by ensuring sustainable income opportunities. The specific objectives of the project are to:
- train the tribal Kumal women groups on conservation farming methods, sustainable agroforestry management, fodder and forage management, goat farming and effective marketing so that they can sustain their livelihoods using locally available resources.
- develop an effective microenterprise model based on goat farming and agroforestry using the revolving-fund approach for its implementation amongst the community groups.
- create employment opportunities at a local level and develop linkages with markets to raise incomes.
