Implementing Agency:
Department For International Development (PAND)

Managing Institute:
CARE International UK

Contractor:
CARE International UK

Project Code: 167-680-014	Start Date: 01/04/1990	End Date: 31/03/1994
Commitment: £395,025	Status: Completed	Type of Funding: Bilateral - JFS

Project Background:
Mountainous ecosystems (mostly comprising areas defined as remote) are particularly fragile and in need of protection, whilst government services are less available than in other parts of Nepal. The project will address the inter-related problems of lack of access, soil erosion, deforestation, over-grazing, low agricultural productivity and lack of community organization in such areas. A strong users' group organisation component is central to the project strategy, therefore the project will work only with well-motivated communities that are interested in managing their own development activities. The results of this project should enable all participants to better plan and implement further, longer term programs for the effective fulfillment of basic needs for the people of the remote areas of Nepal.

Project Objectives:
The wider objective is to strengthen the self-reliance of communities in remote districts to fulfill their Basic Needs. The immediate objectives are: To increase capability of their communities in remote districts to identify, plan and implement development activities by the end of the project. To increase the agricultural productivity of participant communities in remote districts, to increase incomes, by the end of the project. To increase the safe access to trade, agriculture and employment opportunities of partcipant communities in remote districts, to increase incomes, by the end of the project. To develop test and document strategies for promoting self-help community development in remote districts by the end of the project.

Intended Outputs:
To assist communities in remote districts to build trail bridges and irrigation systems as community entry points. To assist these communities to identify and implement natural resources management activities such as irrigation, construction and management, agroforestry, soil conservation, pasture management and drinking water supplies. To strengthen users groups capacity to sustain the development process and to train user group members to implement the project. To promote indigenous skills and low-input technologies that can be implemented, maintained and replicated by communities with minimal external assistance.