The activity aims to create strategies that ensure long-term sustainability and improve the livelihoods and well-being of people in the targeted municipalities

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded a $1,498,528 Project Grant under the USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas (CFDA 98.001) program to Support Activities For Poor Producers Of Nepal (Sappros-Nepal), a non-profit organization based in Nepal. The grant aims to create sustainable development strategies and improve livelihoods in the Mahankal and Madhyanepal municipalities. Key objectives include co-creating locally-led development plans, executing those plans to benefit targeted populations, and contributing to development practitioner learning. The grant will focus on empowering smallholder farmers, marginalized communities, women, youth, persons with disabilities, senior citizens, local entrepreneurs, and local government officials. Sappros-Nepal's prior work has included water and sanitation infrastructure projects as a sub-contractor, as well as sustainable water intervention initiatives as a consortium partner on federal grants.

IT will focus on empowering smallholder farmers, marginalized communities, women, youth, persons with disabilities, senior citizens, local entrepreneurs, and local government officials within mahankal and madhyanepal. The primary objective of this initiative are to: objective 1: CO-create a locally led development plan that empowers marginalized communities in target areas that meet their needs. Objective 2: collaboratively execute the locally led development plan to sustainably improve the lives of targeted populations. Objective 3: contribute to the pool of development practitioner learning.