1. Food For Work An Example from Nepal

2. Nepal is a LDC and LIFDC with 42% population below the poverty line 47% of population suffer from inadequate calorie intake

3. Nepal covers three main agro- ecological zones: terai, hills and mountains A high percentage of the hungry poor are concentrated in the hill and mountain districts

4. Indicators: Per capita food availability, Percentage of cultivated areas, Road density, Percentage of irrigated areas, Chronic malnutrition in children, Infant mortality rate, Natural disaster effects, Overall literacy rate, Net enrolment rate, Boys / girls enrolment ratio, Percentage of girl dropout

7. Rural Community Infrastructure Works – RCIW Joint FFW Programme with GTZ and WFP

8. RCIW objectives Enable hungry, rural poor to invest time in creating productive assets leading to food security Improve physical access, agricultural production and natural resource management Enhance capacity-building at the local level, especially for women

9. RCIW approach: Integrated Food Security ‘Backbone’ asset Complementary activities: – social mobilization – functional literacy – savings & credit – productive micro-initiatives (fishponds, orchards, irrigation) – community-managed tourism

10. Agro-forestry Fruit orchard ( Micro-project ) Agro-forestry (Micro project) Fish pond Irrigation Fruit orchard (Micro-projects) Women’s PLA group Savings & credit Target area Community Rural Road ( Core-project )

11. RCIW today: Shifting towards more food deficit areas

12. RCIW: what’s different? 1. Partnership 2. Innovations – Convoys through Tibet – Food-for-portering – Tools for participation and transparency 3. Continues to operate under current security conditions

14. 1. Partnerships: current and upcoming German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) German Agency for Technical Assistance (GTZ) Department for International Development (DFID) Danish Agency for Development Assistance (Danida) Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV) UNDP International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) FAO UNESCO

15. 2. Innovations reaching the hungry in remote areas

16. Convoys through Tibet: A 7-day, 1300km journey to Humla

17. Food transport by yak caravan

18. Food-for- portering

19. Tools for community participation and transparency RCIW’s main community-level partners are the User Groups of the beneficiary households

20. To promote transparency, all payments are made in group meetings and public audits are carried out by User Groups

22. 3. Continues to operate under current security conditions Provides direct, concrete assistance: for assets valued by communities in a form (food aid) valued by communities Successfully targets the poorest households Maintains reputation for transparency

23. Poverty and insecurity: no coincidence

24. RCIW alleviates poverty, and reduces underlying causes of conflict Increases food availability in the short term (food-for-work) Creates assets that improve long-term food availability and access to food (rural roads, irrigation systems) Provides opportunities for increased income (micro-projects and skill development)

25. Message: RCIW works. If we have the resources, we can deliver.