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| Project Name: | Jaladh Integrated Watershed and Natural Resources Management Program (JIWAN) |
| Project Description: |
| The Jaladh Integrated Watershed and Natural Resources Management Program (JIWAN) in Nepali) will be implemented in the areas that are part of the river system of Jaladh River in Dhanusa district, in the southeastern part of Nepal. The program area will cover nine Village Development Committees (VDCs) in the upper catchment, middle catchment and lower catchment areas and will include approximately 62,500 people living in these VDCs. Jaladh is one of the many rivers that originate in the fragile Churia range of hills and flows down through the Bhabar and Terai areas. Bhabar is the stretch of land lying along the foothills of the Churia and the Terai is the plain and fertile land bordering with India in the south. An ecological balance in these regions is critical to the livelihoods of the people living there and in other parts of the country as well. The rivers like Jaladh originating in the Churia hills and flowing through all of these regions offers a crucial point to start conservation and to bring related issues to the attention of all concerned at different levels.Three Danish NGOs CARE Danmark, Danish Forestry Extension (DFE) and the Foreign af Folkehjskoler I Danmark (Danish Folk High Schools Association - FFD) have formed an alliance to design and implement the JIWAN Program. All the three members bring in particular expertise to the alliance. CARE has extensive programmatic experiences in poverty alleviation through natural resources management, civil society strengthening, and good governance in different parts of the world, including extensive experience in Nepal. DFE's expertise includes forestry extension activities, natural resource management, environmental conservation, commercial forestry and awareness raising in issues of environment conservation. FFD has gained long experiences in running folk high schools in Danmark and supporting other countries in establishing similar institutes and life school centers for open learning.The program will be implemented in close collaboration among the Alliance Partners and in partnership with local NGOs, higher level civil society organizations such as the Federation of Community Forestry Users in Nepal (FECOFUN), the National Federation of Water Users Association in Nepal (NIFWUAN), and the Terai Private Forestry Development Association (TPFDA), as well as other community based organizations. |
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