Feed the Future Nepal Knowledge-based Integrated Sustainable Agriculture in Nepal (KISAN) II Project
Donor USAID Start date September 5, 2017 End date April 11, 2022 Project Districts 25 districts across province 3, 5, 6 and 7. Achievements Increase access to financial services, institutional capacity building of partners and promotion of agriculture insurance. DEPROSC-Nepal engaged with the project grantees mainly agro-vets, cooperatives, rice mills, traders etc. during the course of implementation of both components.
Partnership with bank and financial institutions, promoted group saving and credit activities and link with MFIs /SACCOs, facilitated partner cooperatives to obtain wholesale loan. Supported partner coops to prepare agriculture loan products to address the increasing demand of agriculture loan.
Component 4 increased the ability of vulnerable households to act on business opportunities. For this, KISAN II has regularly updated its Business Literacy Program to respond to market shocks and opportunities. A two-month short course on farming as a business and agribusiness entrepreneurship was run targeting for literate, semi-literate, vulnerable school-leavers, and other commercially minded farmers and returned migrants until the literacy program ended. A ten-month long course was targeted to less literate households living usually at more remote settings and help them adopt agri-technologies through a broader course of contents such as – basic literacy, nutrition, life skills, entrepreneurship and access to finance.
Project participating families were bridged with different service providers for their businesses to grow.
