The overall objective of the assignment, Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) Screening with Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) Consideration, is to enable Government of Nepal’s line ministries, district institutions and their service providers to be responsive to smallholder farmer’s adaptation needs through the NAPA and LAPA preparation and implementation.
The expected outputs are:
- Conduct CC adaptation screening of MoFSC, MoAD, MoLD, MoPE, MoFALD and ASHA project districts (Salyan, Rukum, Rolpa, Dailekh, Kalikot and Jajarkot)
- Assess the current staff competencies and the required capacity building needs for the effective preparation and implementation of enhanced LAPAs in a gender and socially inclusive manner
- Conduct detailed assessment of institutional and staff capacity gaps in enhanced LAPA preparation and implementation with GESI consideration, and
- Prepare action plan to enhance ministry and district capacities to apply GESI sensitive climate change mitigation and adaptation planning through enhanced LAPA preparation and implementation.