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Spatial accuracy level
Administrative region
Location
Madhesh Province, Nepal
Point
Lat: 27.01353
Lng: 85.68458
Description
Districts: Municipalities
Saptari: Hanumannagar Kankalini, Tiruhut, Mahadeva
Siraha: Nawarajpur, Aurahi, Bariyarpatti
Dhanusha: Janakpurdham, Mithila Bihari, Laxminiya
Mahottari: Jaleshwor, Bardibas, Ekdara
Sarlahi: Parsa, Brahmapuri, Haripurwa, Hariwan
Rautahat: Durga Bhagwati, Rajdevi, Madhav Narayan
Bara: Pachrauta, Devtal, Suwarna
Parsa: Birgunj, Jagarnathpur, Paterwa Sugau
Facility name
Nepal Forests for Prosperity Project
Comment
The project have three interlinked yet distinct technical components, and the fourth component is dedicated to project management. The project is designed to increase the forest area under sustainable community-based productive management, public lands, and private plantations, resulting in greater supplies of woods and non-wood forest products. At the same time, investments in forest-based SMEs will be stimulated to utilize these products and generate paid employment by easing regulatory provisions and providing technical assistance and accessible credit for business and entrepreneurs.
Component 1: Policy and capacity building support for new government structures and processes for sustainable forest management
This component enables the Government of Nepal (GoN) and relevant forest sector institutions to implement Nepal’s Forest Sector Strategy by addressing the challenges of Nepal’s recent federalization process.
Component 2: Community-based SFM and smallholder forest plantations
This component improves productivity and increase the area of natural and plantation forests under community management and public management.
Sub-component 2.1: Sustainable Forest Management through Community-Based Forest Management (CBFM).
Sub-component 2.2. Forest land allocation to the poor, women, and Dalits of CBFM groups and capacity support in preparing forest management plans.
Sub-component 2.3: Smallholder plantations support farmers to establish fast-growing trees and agroforestry plantations on their private lands.
Sub-component 2.4: Plantation in the public land and promote agro-forestry
Component 3: Forest enterprise improvement and development
Under this component, Agricultural Development Bank Limited (ADBL) will provide loan to private forest-based enterprises, individual enterprises directly or through selected financial intermediaries (FIs) at a marginally commercial interest rate. This component will provide loan to be intermediated through on-lending through FIs in local currency.
Sub-component 3.1: Enabling environment for the forest-based private sector.
Sub-component 3.2: Design and piloting of a viable credit line for forest-based SME establishment and improvement.
Component 4: Project Management, Monitoring and Learning
This component will enable the operation of Project Management Unit (PMU) at the Federal level and an additional PMU in each of the Madhesh and Lumbini Provinces