Nepal
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Photo: Miguel Samper for Mercy Corps
Our strategy
Help communities achieve greater prosperity and food security, decrease social marginalisation, and improve environmental sustainability.
The context
Nepal remains one of the poorest countries in the world, with nearly a third of citizens living below the national poverty line — less than U.S. £0 per day — and another third living on less than $2 per day. Half of the population are youth, and 90 percent of them are unemployed. The country is also at high risk of earthquakes and floods.
Our work
- Agriculture & Food: Improving incomes of smallholder farmers by expanding access to financial services and supporting production of high-value crops like ginger, cardamom and potato
- Disaster preparedness: Helping communities identify vulnerabilities and build protections against floods; working with the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology to build early warning systems and emergency coordination
- Children & Youth: Creating school programmes that educate children to protect themselves and others in emergencies
- Women & Gender: Teaching financial literacy so women can develop and expand microenterprises
All stories about Nepal
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Nepal: Just a quick note on the story below about workers leaving Nepal June 15, 2011
Our friend Bal Joshi, who's involved in the remittances business here in Nepal — making it possible for people to send money home — told me that each month, there are 18,000 young people (18 to 30) who leave Nepal in search of work.
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Nepal: Khadga Ramtel in Katwalguan village June 15, 2011
Mercy Corps’ Khadga Ramtel, a monitoring and evaluation officer for our agricultural and infrastructure work, talks with women in the village of Katwalguan.
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Nepal: When your man goes to India June 15, 2011
The Nepali women we’ve been talking to don’t complain. Or not like I imagine most of us would if we were faced with the hardships they endure — on their own — every day. They live a long way from any services or resources.
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Nepal: A grueling life on top of the world June 13, 2011
Yes, Nepal is so, so beautiful.
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Nepal: Upheaval is unsettling, but it brings the possibility of change, and peace June 10, 2011
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Nepal: It's hard to see your country slide backwards June 9, 2011
Last night we had tea with our friend Bal, a Nepali entrepreneur who has a remittances and web portal business here in Kathmandu. He told us how hard it was to see Nepal going backwards. The roads in the capital are deeply rutted and eroded.
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Nepal: Bamboo and bio-engineering interventions for mitigation of riverbank erosion April 27, 2011
Floods are a major hazard in Nepal contributing to endemic poverty, an occurrence that is likely to increase and magnify due to climate change.
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Nepal: Making Disaster Risk Reduction a reality April 29, 2010
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Nepal: Nourishing Opportunity February 24, 2009
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Nepal: The promise of cardamom, part 2 January 28, 2009
Large cardamom pods are a crop that presents an excellent opportunity to Nepalese farmers and exporters because it has a high value on the world market and is easy to cultivate.