USAID Nepal Portfolio Overview Presentation - For McGovern-Dole FY 2020.pdf

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USAID/Nepal

McGovern Dole Food For Education NOFO

Applicants Information Session

June 16, 2020

Current USAID Literacy Programming

USAID/Nepal Education Development Office

Nepal’s National

Early Grade Reading

USAID’s Early Grade Reading

Program

(2021)

SSDP Joint Financing

Arrangement

(2022)

USAID’s National Early Grade

Reading Program G2G

(2022)

New: Early Grade Reading Transition

Support Activity/EGRP 2

(2023)

1. NEGRP roll out and

IC support

2. Local government strengthening

3. Teacher support, coaching, and mentoring

Current Literacy Programming:

• Grades 1-3

• National early Grade Reading Minimum

Package

• GON standard workbook and teachers’ manual and minimum package of teaching aids

• Standard teacher training package

• Assessment based on National benchmarks for oral reading fluency and comprehension

• Book corners

• Monitoring and Evaluation

• Teacher professional support through head teachers

Geographic Overlap between USAID Education Programming and USDA

MGD

USAID/Nepal Education Development Office

USAID EGRP (16

districts/5,017 schools)

+22 NEGRP

• Acham

• Dadeldhura

• Doti

• Bardiya

• Dailekh

• Kanchanpur

• Kalali

• Banke

• Salyan

• Dang

• Dolpa

• 27 districts outside of Sudurpaschim and Karnali

USDA EGR

component (6 districts1020 schools

• East Rukum

• West Rukum

• Darchula

• Doti

• Bajhang

• Jarjarkot

USDA Digital literacy (6 districts 108 schools)

• Darchula

• Bajhang

• Baitadi

• Doti

• Dadeldhura

• Jarjarkot

USDA school meals (2003 s chools)

• Acham

• Dadelhura

• Daleik

• East Rukum

• West Rukum

• Darchula

• Doti

• Bajhang

• Jarjarkot

• Bajura

• Bardiya

• Baitadi

*Dadeldhura is the only overlap with USAID USDA for literacy

**Bardiya (14 )and Dadelhura (20-25)only overlap with school meals and USAID EGR;

Acham Daleik 2020 and 2021

USAID/Nepal EGRP Results

• 5551,439 learners; 5,017 schools, 14,311 teachers, and

8,099 school administrators trained

• Over 10 million education materials distributed

• 1,500 SMC grants

• NEGRP core document, institutionalize NEGRP in

SSDP and increase support from other donors

• Development of minimum package, instructional materials in both Nepali and mother tongue and Reading benchmarks

Considerations for Literacy programs under USDA FFE

● Consideration of geographic overlap between NEGRP districts;

● Where NEGRP is present- focus on added support outside of EGR minimum package (e.g. support to local Governments, teacher professional support, reading motivators, community engagement, and book corners)

● Increase support to literacy component as there is a substantial increase in budget support for school meals by GON in this year’s fiscal year budget

● Full coverage of all schools in municipalities supported with school meals program rather than select schools

● Adherence to the national early grade reading program minimum package and guidelines

● Adapt program to federalism context

● Adapt program to integrated curriculum- How can this program support roll out of IC?

● Support resources classes and children with disabilities; apply learning and approaches and materials from USAID’s Reading For All and World Education

USAID/Nepal Education Development Office:

Considerations in the context of COVID 19

● Many of the districts in which USDA operates are some of the most severely affected by COVID with high numbers of cases, potential long-term school closures, high number of returned migrants, huge economic impact and food insecurity because of loss of remittances and extended lockdown

● Continued support to teachers and learners in the area of digital literacy;

expand the digital literacy pilot

● Consider how to adapt programming given school closures and lockdowns, e.g. virtual teacher training

● Align with the MOEST Contingency plan and Global Partnership for

Education programming to expand approaches

USAID/Nepal Education Development Office: COVID-19

USAID/NEPAL FTF PROGRAM:

POTENTIAL COLLABORATION & COORDINATION

WITH USDA MGD PROGRAM

June 16, 2020

FTF OVERVIEW

GOAL

sustainably reducing hunger, malnutrition, and poverty

OBJECTIVES

Inclusive and sustainable agricultural-led economic growth

Strengthened resilience among people and systems.

A well-nourished population, especially among women and children.

FTF ZOI

Province 3 Kavre, Sindhupalchowk, Makawanpur, Nuwakot

Province 5 Kapilbastu, Palpa, Arghakhhanchi, Gulmi, Banke, Bardiya

Province 6 Baitadi, Kailali, Kanchanpur, Doti, Accham, Dadeldhura

Province 7 Surkhet, Dailekh, Jajarkot, Dang, Salyan, Rukum E, Rukum W, Rolpa, Pyuthan

FTF ZOI

$1.3 M

2019–22

Virginia Tech

F2F

IPM

CSISA

LSIL

$15 M

2016–21

CIMMYT

$32.7 M

2017-22

WI

KISAN II NSAF

FTFNIPM

Centrally funded

FTF ACTIVITIES

FTF STRENGTH – FY19

• Production program: rice, maize, vegetable, lentil, goat

• Components:

- production/productivity

- competitiveness

- enabling environment

- BLP

• 147 private sectors

- 10 rice mills

- 68 farmer coops

- 15 traders

- 54 input suppliers

• 160,000 farm HHs

Crop Area (ha) # of producers

Production

(MT)

Rice (Paddy) 6,236 7,000 27,290

Maize 1,844 10,880 4,225

Lentil 764 3,519 495

Vegetables 2,985 50,160 56,400

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POTENTIAL INTERSECTION

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USAID/NEPAL NUTRITION

and WASH PROGRAM

Health Office, USAID/Nepal

Suaahara II is a $63.25 mil. multisector sector nutrition activity (Health, Nutrition, WASH, and Homestead

Food Production) to improve women and child nutrition in 42 districts, reaching over 2 million women and children.

• Maternal and child nutrition, including GMP and integrated SBCC

• Major school intervention: Adolescent IFA, deworming and in 4 districts integrated adolescent health and nutrition activities

• MCH and healthy timing and spacing of pregnancy

• Increase access to nutrient rich diverse food

(backyard gardening, poultry production, model farm)

Strengthening capacity of local government to implement MSNP

Mission Nutrition Program

Stunting prevalence 36%, → lifelong negative effects on health, cognitive development, earning potential, child anemia: 53%

Map: Nutrition and WASH

• Since 2011, average annual budget US$5-7M)

• Current interventions in 43 districts (all Suaahara districts plus Dolpa)

• Current activities (Suaahara II, Swachchhata, Safaa Paani and WASH-FIN)

–community water supply construction/rehabilitation

–WASH improvements in health care facilities

–WASH finance

– household hygiene promotion

• Major school interventions: safe drinking water, gender friendly toilets, menstrual hygiene management and hygiene promotion.

USAID Nepal Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Portfolio

All WASH infrastructure improvement must have a cost share and assure the long-term operational and financial sustainability.

Thank you!