$7.7m Japanese grant assistance
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KATHMANDU, AUG 30 -
Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) on Monday announced a grant assistance of $7.7 million (Rs 567.79 million) for three projects in Nepal aimed at reducing child malnutrition, poverty reduction and greater access to clean energy for rural poor.
Asian Development Bank (ADB), which manages JFPR, a trust fund established by the Japanese government in 2000, will administer the three projects.
First of the three projects, ‘Reducing Child Malnutrition through Social Protection’, seeks to enhance the system and processes for planning and delivering the government’s cash transfers, particularly the child grant in Karnali districts. “It will also support Nepal’s policy framework on social protection,” said ADB at a programme here.
Second project, ‘Support for Targeted and Sustainable Development Programe for Highly Marginalized Groups’ will provide targeted support to Dalits and Janajatis in hills. Dalits of Mahottari and Surkhet and Kumal community of Nawalparasi, Gulmi and Baglung will benefit from this project. Likewise, Bote and Majhi living along the Narayani and Kali Gandaki rivers from Nawalparasi to Baglung will also be the beneficiaries of this project, according to ADB.
The third project, ‘Improving Gender Inclusinve Access to Clean and Renewable Energy in Bhutan, Nepal and Sri Lanka’, a regional programme for South Asia, will support the rural electrification programme of the Nepal Electricity Authority. The project will help provide electricity access to 10 electricity user cooperatives that cover around 10,000 households in nine districts.
ADB Country Director to Nepal Barry J Hitchcock said these projects would benefit the most vulnerable and often excluded groups in Nepal, including women, children and the extreme poor.
According to him, Nepal has been beneficiary of 10 JFPR projects worth more than $17.05 million (Rs 1.25 billion) in the agriculture, governance and social sectors since 2001-2011.
Japanese ambassador to Nepal Tatsuo Mizuno said despite recent tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan, his country is determined to continue all possible assistance for the welfare of Nepali people.
Posted on: 2011-08-30 08:58
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