This project involved a funding partnership with the English Family Foundation (EFF) following the devastating Gorkha earthquake in April 2015 that destroyed the Cooperative’s infrastructure. In the partnership, NAFA funded the rebuild of the infrastructure: two structures for housing egg-laying and broiler chickens and a caretaker cottage. EFF funded a range of activities, including: [...]
INTERIM EVALUATIONOF TAWAL GOAT PROJECTNOVEMBER 2017 Introduction This project is a part of the re-establishment of the Pasang Chowk Agricultural Co-operative following the 2015 Gorkha earthquake, funded by a grant from the English Family Foundation. Ten women were given higher value jamuna goats with the objective of improving family incomes from the sale and rearing [...]
INTERIM EVALUATIONOFTAILOR TRAINING PROJECTNOVEMBER 2016 Introduction A six-month tailor training program was conducted for twenty women from five villages in the Tawal area. Women identified the need for tailoring training at a meeting held after the Gorkha earthquake in 2015. The objective was for women who currently have no employment to earn an income through [...]
INTERIM EVALUATION OFIMPROVED COOKING STOVES (ICS) PROJECTNOVEMBER 2014 Introduction This project funded by NAFA, involved trialling the use of 90 ICS (improved cooking stoves) in 8 villages in the Tawal area. Thirty-five householders in 8 villages, representing 90% of householders who had installed ICS as at late November 2014, were interviewed. The main findings are: [...]
REPORT PRELIMINARY EVALUATION OF ADULT LITERACY PROGRAM TAWAL, RI VDC March 2014 By Dr Deborah Setterlund This report provides a preliminary evaluation of the adult literacy program at Tawal funded by NAFA. The adult literacy program in Tawal began in 2009 following a meeting initiated by Tawal women during NAFA members’ visit to [...]
TAWAL SOCIAL HEALTH SURVEY Nov- Dec 2012 Designed and administered by Ms Bimila Prajapati Supervision and write-up by Dr Deborah Setterlund (NAFA Research Officer) Interviewer: Ms Bimila Prajapati Interpreter: Beg Tamang Prepared for NAFA, Hilly Region Development Club (HRDC), and Tawal community Special thanks to all those who participated Beg Tamang (senior health [...]
NAFA Child Education Sponsorship Program Vinayak Shiksha Niketan Secondary School, Thimi, Nepal NAFA members, VSN teachers and parents of sponsored children Researchers: Rachel Gehrke, Kate Miller, Nghi Vuong Interpreter: Ramita Shrestha Supervisors: Dr Petra Kohts, Dr Deborah Setterlund Written by: Dr Deborah Setterlund Special thanks to Surendra Prajapati, Helen Zada and Rod [...]