NAGARKOT… Reward for the early birds

Concept note…

Country reality…

ASAP DESIGN CONSIDERATION

Concept note Climate change observable at scientific and farm level: temperature, rainfall… IFAD: work to build resilience in ag. production and ecosystem, diversification of IGA opportunities, governance, institutional strengthening Ongoing projects: work on sustainable agricultural intensification, leaseholder forestry, livestock improvement and ME development Good practices reported: forest land lease registration, NTFP, cultivation, livestock and fodder improvement

Initially proposed project outlines In the ongoing project areas 20 districts, 500 villages, 200,000HHs Mid-Western, West and Central Regions Targeting: poor, female-headed HHs

Initially proposed components Component 1: Participatory Assessments and Planning for Climate Component 2: Sustainable Land and Water Management and Livelihood Improvement Component 3: Knowledge Management, Dissemination and Policy Adaptation Project Management   

Design mission’s consideration C2 – Sustainable and adaptive agriculture C1 – Participatory assessment and planning Sub 1.1 Assessment   *Biophysical *Socioeconomic *** Sub 1.2 LAPA   *Process *Adaptation *Capacity building Sub 2.1 HH-level adaption   *crops *livestock *agro-forestry *others Sub 2.2 Community resilience   *Water management *Capacity building *Others Sub 2.3 Institutional technical service support *Tech agencies *Private sector *NGOs… *PMO *Inter-project coordination *M&E and KM *Policy dialogue *Dissemination & scale-up *** C3 – Management & coordination

Initially Proposed Logframe Narrative Summary Key Indicators by 2018 Goal: The livelihoods of small farmers in 20 districts of the Western, Mid-Western and Central districts of Nepal are more resilient to climate change Increased assets for participating households -disaggregated by gender   Number of households whose climate resilience had been increased by ASAP Income of targeted households increased by 20% over baseline condition ASAP Objective: To increase resilience and reduce vulnerability of poor smallholder farmers to climate change impacts through the promotion of environmentally sustainable, socially equitable and economically profitable, and inclusive adaptation policies, techniques and technologies:

Initially Proposed Logframe continued Outcome 1: Participatory bottom-up Community Assessment and Planning for Sustainable Natural Resources Management and Adaptation to Climate Change approaches tested and developed. Outcome 2: Sustainable natural resources management and livelihood improvements developed and promoted through landscape conservation and climate smart agriculture and community development Outcome 3: Improved knowledge and extension informing farmers of adaptation options and opportunities and effective policy dialogue