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.
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 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.