Output
The project's planned outputs are the following:
- A cadre of additional 210 officer-level IPM trainer prepared in the Governmental and Non-governmental organizations.
- Capacity of the national institutions to monitor field poisoning of Farmers and analyze pesticide residue in crops strengthened.
- Level of awareness among the producers and consumers increased.
- A set of tested curricula for training on IPM Tea available.
- Manuals in Nepali language on IPM in vegetables, tea and post-harvest operation prepared.
- Fifteen officials internationally exposed/trained on different aspects of IPM in place.
- Farmers group organized and additional 15 000 farmers trained in IPM so that they can undertake collective action in support of ecologically based production.
- The existing IPM farmer’s group involving 6 000 farmers strengthened so that they can undertake collective action in support of agro ecology based production.
- IPM farmers’ associations, registered: 15 district-level; 3 regional-level and 1 national-level.
The followings are the effects of the project and expected outputs to be produced.
- More efficient crop management, resulting in improved food security and incomes;
- Reduced use of pesticides, resulting in improved bio-diversity and human health;
- Farmers empowered to take decisions resulting in better response to adversity;
- Better bargaining position of farmers, resulting in improved support from government and reduced threats from corporate interest;
- Strong community interaction, resulting in greater diffusion of impacts of the programme.
Program Focus
The project's focus is on the following specific areas.
- Build on the momentum on IPM gained in the five years preceding the present project.
- Re-evaluation of the curriculum in the Training of Facilitators programme and facilitating science to farmers using a non-formal adult education approach.
- Enhancing farmer field research capability.
- Upgrading the skills of IPM Facilitators who received training earlier. It is crucial to organize annual workshops or practicum at various levels. New methods of efficiently preparing FFS reports enable better monitoring of quality of FFS in the field.
- FFS approach is effective in addressing complex issues such as pest management, food security and even bio-diversity conservation. FFS is compatible with normal extension.
- Operational use of TOT trainers as communication to continuously build up the farmer's capacities and organize IPM networks.
- Promotion of co-operation between public and private sector actors on solving problems in the field of chemical safety. The program also focus on another special consideration, that of gender sensitizing and mainstreaming. The National IPM Program in Nepal is committed to pro-vide women and men equal access to their training.
- IPM and sustainable agriculture.
- The spread of FFS implementation and Agro-ecological principles underlying FFS.
- Community IPM and the future.
- Participatory management and evaluation in IPM.
Implementation Approach and Programme Organization
To achieve the Programme objectives following major activities are carried out in collaboration with various stakeholders including CBO/NGO/INGO/Farmers' groups/Co-operatives:
- Enhancement of technical and management Capacity of PPD, collaborating GOs and NGOs personnel through appropriate package of trainings, higher studies and observation tours for sustainable support services;
- Enhancement of technical and management Capacity of farmers on agro ecosystem based crop management for sustainable production, conservation of bio-diversity and human health through learning by doing approach and experiential learning by conducting Farmers Field Schools, Farmer to Farmer Field Schools and Participatory farmer’s field experiments/trials;
- Institutionalization of IPM activities at community, district, regional and national Level through formation and strengthening of various coordination committees and IPM farmer’s groups/association;
- Improvement in quality implementation and adoption of IPM through Annual Practicum, farmer’s congresses and through regular monitoring, adjustment and advocacy activities.
The concrete activities envisaged by the Programme include the followings:
- Organize 3 training of IPM facilitators on IPM from the governmental and non-governmental organizations;
- Organize 6 refresher training courses for IPM facilitators on IPM from the governmental and non-governmental organizations;
- Organize 15 annual practicum for IPM facilitators and to share experiences, discuss field issues and improve quality facilitation and implementation of IPM programme;
- Provide partial support for in-country post graduate studies for 6 selected IPM facilitators on specific selected aspects of IPM;
- Organize within-region study tour/ training for 15 selected IPM facilitators;
- Organize pesticide poisoning monitoring in farmers;
- Organize at least 3 awareness raising programme in selected areas at national/regional/district level;
- Undertake collaborative impact assessment exercises;
- Institutionalize a national networks of IPM institutions and systematize monitoring of IPM activities from national, regional and district level;
- Organize 15 refresher training of farmers facilitators;
- Organize 15 farmers congresses for farmers facilitators to share experiences, discuss field issues and improve(backstopping support) quality facilitation and implementation of IPM programme;
- Organize 600 farmers field schools;
- Support 90 action research by farmers;
- Support organization of IPM farmers’ associations at the district, regional and national level;
- Support 75 participatory planning and implementation works in pre and post-harvest operations;
- Organize 2 national IPM workshops.
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