Livelihood Recovery Programme
48,439 individuals benefited through rehabilitation of irrigation canals, collection centres, processing equipments, agro machines, and trainings
4,899 individuals got professional training needed
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Women in Sindhupalchowk using a grain huller. Photo credit: Oxfam
he main objective of the livelihood
Producer groups were trained and provided
recovery programme in 2017/18 was to
with modern tools and equipment for farming
for cook, waiter, tourist guide, carpentry, home stay management
that reduced women farmers’ workload. This
982
families by supporting producer groups and
programme conducted training on improved
small and micro entrepreneurs received
cooperatives to provide access to productive
farming techniques and supported them in
training, equipment and grant to restart their
infrastructure, inputs, finance, market and
the rehabilitation of production infrastructure
income-generating opportunities at local
such as irrigation canals, collection centers
level. Gorkha, Sindhupalchowk, Dhading and
and processing units. Likewise, cooperatives’
Nuwakot districts incorporated interventions
capacities were strengthened for business
designed for rural context focusing on agrarian
plan preparation and implementation of new
community whereas the Kathmandu Valley
enterprises.
restore livelihood of earthquake affected
The main objective of focused towards creating employment the livelihood recovery opportunities. programme in 2017/18 was to restore livelihood of earthquake-affected families 8 embedded rural, peri-urban and urban priorities
business; strengthened capacity of 57 rural cooperatives
368 youth received vocational and skill enhancement trainings, 237 people got jobs through the Urban Job Hub Center
* As a project funded by DEC continued until April 2018, there were additional 7421 beneficiaries.
