Local Initiative for Food Security Transformation (LIFT) Project.

LIFT project is implementing in Mugu, Bajura, Kalikot, Achham, Kailali, Okhaldhunga, and Udayapur districts with the financial support from Bread for the World (BftW), Germany. The objectives of the project are to increase collective actions for strengthened gender and social inclusion in the targeted communities for social structure and local development processes; to enhance the food production and livelihood status of target communities for strengthening their food partners in the project areas for community development initiatives; and to establish and strengthen CBO Networks to manage community development initiative in an inclusive manner.

Establishing Model Food Secure, Environmentally Sustainable and Climate Resilient Palikas

SAHAS Nepal is implementing “Paila: Establishing a Model Food Secure Environmentally Sustainable and Climate Resilent Palikas" project in partnership with Felm (Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission) in Shibhalaya and Naraharinath Palika of Jajarkot and Kalikot district. The project strives for making climate-resilient Palikas by creating the entire Palika an environmentally sustainable, economically sound, and climate resilient. The project aims to improve the livelihoods of vulnerable and marginalized communities through the use of inclusive and equitable, and sustainable and climate-resilient interventions through three pathways: improving capacity in implementing climate-resilient and disaster risk reduction plans and programs; increasing food nutrition, nutrition, and income through climate-resilient, ecological agriculture, and green market enterprises; and bringing policy, institutional and programmatic changes necessary for scaling up and out of good practices ensuring rights of marginalized communities.

“Building Empowered and Resilient Communities by Strengthening Livelihoods, Inclusion, Education and Food Security (BELIEF)”

SAHAS Nepal in partnership with Stromme Foundation is implementing “Building Empowered and Resilient Communities by Strengthening Livelihoods, Inclusion, Education and Food Security (BELIEF)” project in Sunilsmirti Rural Municipality of Rolpa district. The major obejctives of the project are children and adolescents from poor and marginalised families have access to inclusive, equitable, and quality education, adolescents are aware of their rights and empowered to fight against harmful practices, increased capacity of community mechanisms to claim their rights and operate autonomously, and targeted families have improved their livelihoods through enhanced income generation

Local Initiative for Food-security and nutrition Enhancement (LIFE) Project

The project aims to improve the food security and nutrition of the marginalized families of Jahada rural municipality, ward #2 and 5 through improved farming skills and inputs, awareness raising on nutrition and balanced diet consumption, and strengthening the local farmers groups.

Mobilizing village communities and empowering youth to promote Inclusive and Quality Education in public school

SAHAS Nepal in partnership with ChildAid Network is implementing the project entitled, “Mobilizing village communities and empowering youth to promote Inclusive and Quality Education in public school”. The project aimed to provide access to quality and inclusive education for all children, create a child-friendly learning environment, improve school management through active community engagement, and strengthen the overall management capacity of SMC and PTA. It is mainly focused on school age children of 50 schools in 7 wards of Doramba Rural Municipality (25 schools) and 5 wards of Sunapati Rural Municipality (25 schools) from the very poor and marginalised indigenous communities like Thami, Pahari and Manandhar, school aged children who are unable enrolled in ECDs and school and girls who are at risk of not being enrolled in secondary class as well as unable to continue their education after completing primary school.

Climate Resilient Livelihoods for Vulnerable and Marginalized Communities of Dailekh and Surkhet Districts of Karnali Province

Group of Helping Hands (SAHAS) Nepal in partnership with SODI, NepalTeam Germany, and ADH is implementing Climate Resilient Livelihoods for Vulnerable and Marginalized Communities of Dailekh and Surkhet Districts of Karnali Province project with major aim of strengthening, implementing and scaling up climate-resilient practices and advocating for climate-resilient development to enhance their livelihood. The direct target groups are resources poor, marginalized, vulnerable communities, focusing the Dalit, women, youth and Person with Disability (PwD). The project focus on the endangered ethnic groups of western Nepal called Raji and Badi communities who are most vulnerable to climate change

Adolescents-led Resilient Livelihoods for Terai Dalit farmers in Nepal

Group of Helping Hands (SAHAS) Nepal in partnership with International Nepal Fellowship (INF/UK) is implementing Adolescents-led Resilient Livelihoods for Terai Dalit farmers in Nepal (ASHA) project o empower and develop skills of adolescents from the most marginalised Terai Dalit farming families - to improve inclusive, sustainable, and resilient livelihoods through education, life skill training, health improvement initiatives in the community, and climate-resilient leasehold farming. The project ‘reach the furthest first’ by empowering 191 adolescent girls (13-19 years age group) of the most marginalised Terai Dalits to become change-makers and improve the living standards of the adolescents and their families. Investing in adolescents encourages self-reliance and the ability to contribute to resilient livelihoods and raise awareness of social and economic issues within their families and communities. The total number of Dalit families directly benefitting from the project in the Arnama Rural Municipality is 522. Of these, 147 are landless, and the remaining are smallholders.

Aarambha: Improving Inclusive and Quality Education in Public Schools in Jahada Rural Municipality by Mobilizing Community Structures

The Aarambha project's primary objective is to ensure inclusive and high-quality education for children in rural public schools. It employs a holistic approach, incorporating organised community structures, enhanced teacher capacity in child-friendly teaching techniques, improved learning environment, strengthened school governance, and upgraded infrastructures. Adopting a holistic perspective, the project aims to engage a diverse group of education stakeholders, spanning children, parents, community members, and duty bearers (Rural Municipality Officials), with the overarching goal of establishing an inclusive and supportive educational environment and improving children’s learning achievements in Morang disrict. The project is being implemented in partnership with Mennonite Central Committee. 

Improving Food Security and Nutrition of Smallholder Farmers through an Agroecological Approach

SAHAS Nepal is implementing Improving Food Security and Nutrition of Smallholder Farmers through an Agroecological Approach project in Kalikot and Jajarkot district of Nepal in partnership with Fastenaktion and Helvetas. The project aims to support smallholder farmers, especially women and Dalits to improve their food security and nutrition by supporting with low input nature-based solutions to increase the production of crops, vegetables, fruits and livestock including the neglected but nutritious local varieties. For this, the project applies the agroecological approach to improving agriculture practices for sustainable food production.

Climate Resilient Model Village

Climate Resilient Village (CRV) is an integrated approach to build community resilience to climate stresses through capacity building, demonstration of the site-specific climate-resilient technologies, developing knowledge and information sharing mechanisms, and mainstreaming climate change into the local planning process. SAHAS Nepal and MCC designed this project to implement in Phulkharka of Gangajamuna Rural Municipality in Dhading District. The project will address the climate change-induced problems of the three community-based organizations (CBOs) of the resource-poor, marginalized, and socially excluded groups in the project site who are most vulnerable. In addition, the project aimed to scale up the approach through local governments and Community Based Network Organizations (CBNOs) using the good lessons learned and the champion practices of the project as evidence. The project will also focus on knowledge documentation and dissemination using print and electronic media.

Improving Food and Nutrition Security in Jahada Rural Municipality, Morang District, Nepal

Improving Food and Nutrition Security project is focused to agriculture, livelihoods and nutrition of marginalized people. Specifically, it aims to improving food security and nutrition for 2,100 HHs from vulnerable, socially excluded and marginalized families such as Dalits, women, persons with disabilities (PwDs), and single women in Jahada Rural Municipality, Morang District, Nepal who experience low incomes, food insecurity, and disempowerment. The project provide community organization and mobilization through establishing and strengthening community institutions, deliver agriculture trainings, entrepreneurship skill training, provide agriculture inputs like seeds, composting, irrigation facilities and nutrition awareness through different activities. Some small construction like local farmers’ market improvement and irrigation borewell are included in the project but also more climate resilient and sustainable agriculture and kitchen garden will be promoted by this project. The project is being implemented in partnership with Mennonite Central Committee. 

Sustainable Agriculture for Livelihood Security

SAHAS Nepal is implementing the "Sustainable Agriculture for Livelihood Security/Gender (SALS/GEN IV)" project in Rasuwa district. The major aim of the project is to improve food security and livelihood of smallholder farmers by integrating climate-resilient technologies and agriculture practices. The project also greatly contributes to enhancing the institutional capacities of CBNO where members will be capacitated for overall functioning with effective and efficient utilisation of the resources in coordination with the local government and other stakeholders.

Building resilience of marginal communities through tree plantation in Sudurpaschim Province

Building resilience of marginal communities through tree planting in Sudurpaschim Province, Nepal, aims to contribute climate change mitigation and diversifying economic opportunities for Mukta Kamaiyas and Kamlaris (previously bounded agricultural labourers until 2000 AD) and other land poor and marginal communities inhabited in the project areas. This will be achieved through engaging and empowering local communities and stakeholders for improving forest cover with mixed species and its management and promotion of clean energy technologies. For forest management, the project introduces leasehold forestry and agroforestry approaches and practices.

Agriculture and Livelihood Project

Group of Helping Hands (SAHAS) Nepal in partnership with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Nepal is implementing project, "Agriculture and Livelihood Project" in Morang district. This project aims to improve the food security and nutrition of the marginalized families of Jahada rural municipality-2 and 5 through improved farming skills and inputs, awareness-raising on nutrition and balanced diet consumption, and strengthening the local farmers' groups. 600 families will be directly impacted by this project in three years project period.

Youth Empowerment and Eco-Entrepreneurship Project

SAHAS Nepal in partnership with MCC Nepal is implementing Youth Empowerment and Eco-Entrepreneurship Project (YEEP) that seeks to address interconnected social, economic, and environmental issues low-income youth experience in Morang District, Nepal, through eco-entrepreneurship training and support, and strengthened skills to bring positive economic and social changes to their communities.

Trail Bridge Sub-sector Support Programme

The project has been running in Okhaldhunga district with the aim to connect rural areas of Nepal providing access to road and market to the rural communities of the district. The project is being implemented in partnership with District Development Committee, Okhaldhunga.

Scholarship programme

This programme provides scholarships at school to poor, disabled, orphan and other students to continue their schooling. Each year new students are selected for the programme.

Rural Primary Education Project

The goal of the Rural Education Project (REP) is to improve the quality of government school education by building the capacity of teachers in child-friendly teaching techniques, improving school governance, creating a safe environment for students and increasing parental awareness about the importance of education. The project is being implemented in Morang disrict in partnership with MCC.

One student, One Solar

SAHAS Nepal, in partnership with Rosie May Foundation, is implementing the project "One Student, One Solar" in different schools of Mugu district. Students are benefitting from the solar, therefore now the darkness does not stop them from accessing quality education and learning every day. The distribution of the solar lights will help students academically and personally as well.

Youth Exchange Programme

SAHAS Nepal, Stromme Foundation and Act Now have been implementing youth student exchange programme since 2015. The programme was started for mutual support of both organisations with the slogan of "Mutual Exchange for Development”. Youths are invisible in the part development activities, therefore to make them involved SAHAS Nepal has created the platform for youth exchange.Every year volunteers from universities, Norway and Nepal gets exchanged where they experience difference in culture, development pattern, lifestyle and organisational activities of their assigned organisation. During the exchange programme, youths will learn new language and culture, learn a new way of living and great deal about themselves, take active role towards poverty eradication, injustice, cross cultural understanding and make aware about the social issues. They share their learning and experiences in the community which will help in the holistic development of the community and their lifestyles. Apart from this this youth exchange enable youth to develop as leaders and help in youth leadership and development.