Solar Multiple Use System (MUS) – III

In the remote hills of Nepal, communities are faced with increasing pressure to generate agricultural income through unreliable access to water. Women and girls are taking the burden for collecting water for basic household needs from hard to reach sources. This situation forces men and children to migrate in search of different work, which increases the workload for the women and girls even worse.

The Renewable World, a British NGO, conducting a project that provides 712 poor households in eight rural communities in the Surkhet district with access to water at household level. The Unica Foundation is going to work with Renewable World to carry out this project and reduce the burden that women and girls face when collecting water from distant sources. Renewable World works directly with the local partner NGO, called Sundar Nepal Sanstha (Beautiful Nepal Association-BNA), while Renewable World also has other donors to work with besides Unica Foundation on this project.

The aim of the project is to improve the income of agriculture to help people get out of poverty by training in climate-adapted agricultural technologies and linking households to agricultural inputs and markets. In addition, it supports communities to develop a plan for the conservation and protection of water resources for sustaining the community in the future.

The project has started on 1 April 2018 and ends on 31 March 2021, and will benefit a total of 4.249 people, including five schools. 2.500 other people will also benefit indirectly from this project.