Nepal · Tobang District (Chitwan) & Pokhara District (Kaski)
Disaster Risk Management & Ecosystem Restoration
2023–2026 · Ongoing
Mid-hill and mountainous regions affected by increasing rainfall variability, intense monsoon events, and longer dry periods.
Strengthen community resilience to climate change by restoring ecosystem functionality, improving water availability, reinforcing agricultural systems, and supporting collective and sustainable natural resource management at catchment basin level.
Rainwater harvesting | watershed management | spring rehabilitation | retention ponds | reforestation | agroecological practices | 3D participatory and risk mapping | local governance support
approx. households across 10 rain-fed communities
households equipped with rainwater harvesting tanks
households equipped with greenhouses for market gardening
households benefiting from spring rehabilitation
households benefiting from retention pond rehabilitation
households benefiting from reforestation campaigns
local authority members engaged
Kanchan Nepal | LI-BIRD |SVSI / FECOFUN | Pokhara Metropolitan City | DWSS
Fédération Genevoise de Coopération (FGC) | Services Industriels de Genève (SIG) | L’Effet Papillon | Swisslos Aargau
Rain Communities Nepal – Project factsheet (PDF)
