Little hands for Environment Conservation and Sustainable Development through Local    Resource Mobilization

Project Area: Kathmandu , Lalitpur, Bhaktapur  and 20 Terai Districts of Nepal
Project Duration: 4 years (July 2007 –August 2011)
Project Coordinator: Global Environmental Protection Mission, Nepal

Involvement:       

• Ministry of Forest and Soil Conservation, Government of Nepal
• Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Government of Nepal
• Department of Irrigation.
• NARC
• NAST
• NPRL/DPR
• Local CBOs, and NGOs

Objectives: Mobilization of local resources for the sustainable development and poverty alleviation.
                    Specific objectives are:

• Plantation of economically important and need based plant species (Like Medicinal and aromatic plants, Essential oil bearing plant, Mushroom, Holy Plants etc) in wasteland.
• Production and market management of organic products.
• Development of Alternative Energy Resources from natural products.
•  Launching Environmental  Education  Awareness camp.
• Social inclusion in each project activities
• Establishment of R and D site.

Project Activities

• Raport building with stakeholders

Beneficiaries

• Rural Poor/Urban Poor
• Organic food consumer
• Hotels/Restaurants
• Government

Intended Outputs

• Environmental conservation through plantation
• Utilization of wasteland and changed in to productive land
• Jatropha seeds used as raw materials for Bio diesel production.
• Marc/Oil cake of jatropha is used as insecticides as well as organic manure.
• Income Generation opportunities through organic farming and other valueable plants
• Use of Bio diesel reduces dependency on imported fuel and will save domestic economy during times of fuel crisis.
• Opportunities to earn from carbon trade under the Clean Development Mechanism of Kyoto Protocol.