Building resilience of women and indigenous people through vertical farming
Nepal is one of the countries most at risk from climate change, ranking 12th on the Global Climate Risk Index. The Konjyosom area, where indigenous Tamang communities live, is facing increasing threats from climate change. To improve resilience in these communities, especially indigenous women, the project works with a local female cooperative. It is working on building one commercial scale farm that uses hydroponic systems equipped with solar panels, and rainwater storage for access to energy and water. In addition to this, two hydroponics plants will be installed in different locations for the purpose of awareness and scalability.. Women from the cooperative receive training on how to operate and maintain these facilities, including selecting plants, dosing nutrients, harvesting, branding, and marketing.. As the cooperative gains experience, they can share their knowledge with other communities to promote resilience building.
CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT
IKI Small Grants supports SOLVE Nepal in their organisational capacity development through:
- Skill development on digital data storage and maintaining the data bank. Through this skill and technology support SOLVE Nepal will be able to maintain organisational memory and could efficiently evaluate the organisation’s SWOT analysis
- Partnership and stakeholder management development
ABOUT THE ORGANISATION
The organisation has worked on projects to help communities and women, especially in farming. They have experience with climate-resilient farming using hydroponic systems and have tried to make their projects fair for everyone. Their goal is to help people and groups adapt to climate change, use resources wisely, and improve farming. The project has experience with monitoring and evaluating the impact of projects on disadvantaged women, girls, the community, and the environment. They have worked on three smaller projects with GIZ before.