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Livelihoods Improvement of Indigenous Tharu Communities through Effective Pond Management - Annual Report 2075/076 (2018/2019)

The project intends to improve livelihoods of marginalized farmers by investing on pond improvement, supporting smallholder farmers to commercialize their farming, and establishing viable institutions to sustain the project intervention. The project has been designed on the principle of revolving the investment made available for rehabilitation of ponds to support similar initiatives of other target communities in the area. This project will support rehabilitation and improvement of two ponds in Buddhabhumi Municipality of Kapilvastu district benefitting 2,213 smallholder farmers in 461 households. IRDC Nepal is implementing this project with the support of IM Swedish Development Partner and The Charitable Foundation of Australia.

The major objective of this project is to improve livelihoods of the targeted farmers through sustainable management of ponds, crop diversification and commercialization, demonstrating climate resilient livelihoods model with potential for replication, up-scaling and also out-scaling.

The outputs of the project are:

Output 1: Increased volume of water and enhanced efficiency of water use through improvement of pond and water distribution system.
Output 2: Increased access of farmers to inputs, services, market and finance for commercial farming.
Output 3: Establishment of farmers’ institutions for sustainability and capacity building of farmers for replication.

Activities Accomplished

• Project kick-off Meeting
• Formation of Pond Management Committees
• De-siltation of pond
• Improvement of inlets
• Improvement of outlets
• Construction of culvert

Achievement status and reflection of results

It is expected that the volume of water is increased which will be calculated after the rainy season.