STRENGTHING SMALLHOLDER ENTERPRISES OF LIVESTOCK VALUE CHAIN FOR POVERTY REDUCTION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NEPAL II (SLVC II)

Target:  125,000 direct families and 350,000 indirect families 

Budget: USD 25.6 million

Project area: 31 districts of Nepal 

Project period: 2018 - 2021

Goal: To increase annual household income by 72% (NPR 557,000/year). SLVC II capitalizes the gains made by SLVC I and demonstrates the synergistic relationship between social capital development and market engagement envisioned by Heifer. SLVC II project focuses in meat goat and diary value chain, connecting smallholder producers to consumers. It aims to bring goat meat and milk/milk products from farm gate to plate in an efficient manner. This project works with Smallholder Farmers’ Organizations and Value Chain actors to improve market systems, primarily in meat goat and dairy value chains along with vegetable and backyard poultry. It intends to scale up enterprises of the participating farmers. The new technology introduced, along with increased access to other business development services (finance, market, input supply, technical services and insurance etc.) will increase productivity, efficiency and thereby increase farm profitability. The project will build capacity, facilitate relationships among the value chain actors. The project will prototype new technologies and scale as appropriate, and facilitate public-private-producer partnership (PPPP). 

STRENGTHING SMALLHOLDER ENTERPRISES OF LIVESTOCK VALUE CHAIN FOR POVERTY REDUCTION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN DHADING DISTRICT OF NEPAL

Target: 

• 1,300 families
• 52 self-help groups (on average 25 women in each group)
• One cooperative
• 2 Community Agro-vet Entrepreneurs (CAVEs)
• Goat meat entrepreneurs – traders/buyers, wholesalers, retailers

Budget: Euro 318,897

Project area: Dhading district - Siddhalake Rural Municipality - Nalang

Project period: July 2017 - June 2021

Goal: To improve livelihood and increase income of smallholder goat producers, particularly women, through increased productivity and effective linkages of producers with extension, technology, and inclusive market systems.

DESIGNING AND EVALUATING INNOVATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF SMALLHOLDER FEMALE LIVESTOCK COOPERATIVES IN NEPAL

Target: Womens' cooperatives engaged in collective marketing and female Community Animal Health Workers

Budget: USD 1,233,989

Project area: Heifer's current working districts (32 districts)

Project period: October 2016 - September 2020

Goal: To design, implement, and rigorously evaluate three highly innovative and potentially transformative interventions to improve goat value chain functionality in rural Nepal. This is a research project with the agenda that develops and evaluates innovations in management of producer cooperatives, training of CAHWs, and production of animal feed and forage, addressing the key constraints on meat goat production.

IMPROVING DAIRY ANIMAL PRODUCTIVITY AND INCOME OF DAIRY FARMERS THROUGH EFFECTIVE CONTROL OF MASTITIS DISEASE

Target families: 400 dairy animal keeping households

Budget: USD 129,142

Project area: Surkhet, Bardiya, Banke and Dang districts

Project period: October 2016 - January 2018

Goal: To enhance the livelihoods of smallholder dairy farmers through increased income from productivity improvement of dairy animals by the effective control of mastitis.

FEEDING SUPPORT TOOL DEVELOPMENT FOR ENHANCING DAIRY ANIMAL PRODUCTIVITY FOR IMPROVED LIVELIHOOD OF SMALLHOLDER DAIRY FARMERS IN NEPAL

Target families: 300 smallholder farmers from different Milk Producer's Cooperatives

Budget: USD 129,958

Project area: Palpa, Arghakhanchi and Kapilbastu

Project period: October 2016 - January 2018

Goal: To increase the household income and create improved livelihoods of smallholder dairy farmers through improvement of dairy animal productivity particularly through feeding management improvement.

Disaster Rehabilitation Fund - Flood

Target families: 11,000 families (58,500 people)

Budget: USD 250,000

Project area: Banke, Bardiya, Dang, Rautahat, Bara, Dhanusha, Siraha, Morang, and Sunsari

Duration: August - November 2017

Goal: To provide immediate relief support to the victims of flood in Terai Region of Nepal.