Climate Smart Villages
NGO name : Aide à l’Enfance de l’Inde et du Népal (AEIN)
Project name : « Climate smart villages » : Promoting affordable and replicable adaptation and mitigation practices to improve livelihoods of vulnerable communities in Kavrepalanchowk district of Nepal
Project location : District of Kavrepalanchowk, province Bagmati - Nepal
Partner name : Association for Rural Development (ARD), Kavre, Nepal
About the project
The project is setting up “climate-smart villages” by using affordable and replicable adaptation and mitigation practices. Activities are defined around the following major components :
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capacity building to take up adaptation and mitigation measures
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adaptation activities like fruit farming, irrigation canal, water pond construction, farm technology support, improved animal sheds, pest/disease management, biogas, agroforestry, and seed banks
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communication and knowledge management targeted to fact-based results; exposure visits and capacity building to learn different adaptation techniques and transfer into practice
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facilitate the implementation of selected LAPA activities.