USAID Nepal Portfolio Review - Questions & Answers.pdf

USAID Nepal Portfolio Overview – June 16, 2020

Questions & Answers

1. Will the PowerPoint be available after the meeting?

It will be posted on grants.gov.

2. Thanks, Shannon for the presentation, really helpful. What were the years on the first slide for all the activities meant to show? I assume these were end dates?

Yes, the dates provided are end dates for USAID funded education activities. See PowerPoint slide 2.

3. As several of the priority Schools Meals Program districts like Bajhang Bajura and Darchula are not in the current agricultural project districts and you suggest synergy would you be anticipating the FTF and other USAID initiatives expanding into these more food deficit mountain areas?

Feed the Future Nepal does not anticipate expanding its current geographic coverage.

Among those 25 Feed the Future districts, where there is overlap, there are opportunities for collaboration.

4. Who is implementing the current WASH and nutrition programs?

The USAID/Nepal WASH implementing partners are as follows:

Suaahara II- Helen Keller International; Swachchhata- SNV; WASH-FIN: Tetratech; Safa

Paani- SEBAC.

The USAID/Nepal Nutrition implementing partners are as follows: Helen Keller

International, Tufts University, Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), and Nepali

Technical Assistance Group (NTAG).

5. Are the minimum standards for education online?

All USAID EGRP materials are on the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology’s

(MOEST) Curriculum Development Center’s library. However, not all standards, policies, and directives are found there. Therefore, we have provided the Early Grade Reading

Minimum Package developed and endorsed by the MOEST. See following two pages of this

Q&A.

http://lib.moecdc.gov.np/catalog/opac_css/index.php?lvl=cmspage&pageid=6&id_rubrique=141