Geographic coverage | 10 district (Nawalparasi West, Rupandehi, Kapilvastu, Palpa, Arghakhachi, Gulmi, Pyuthan, Dang, Banke and Bardiya) of Lumbini Province |
Project duration | 3 months (8th September, 2020 to 30th November, 2020) |
Budget | NPR. 12,169,719 |
Funding partner/s | International Labour Organization (ILO), Country Office for Nepal |
Target groups | 265 numbers of Road Maintenance Groups (RMGs) who have worked previously or strengthening the National Rural Transport Programme in Lumbini Province. |
Project Summary:
COVID-19 has exacted a heavy socioeconomic cost in Nepal. The country wide lockdown started on 24th March closed all factories, enterprises, and centres of production. Supply chains, domestic and international, have been disrupted including food systems. The lock down has limited the spread of contamination by COVID-19, but it has had an adverse effect on people with limited income and livelihood opportunities, many not covered by social safety nets, as well as exacerbating existing vulnerabilities. An immediate economic impact was seen in that IMF’s World Economic Outlook 2020 predicts that Nepal’s GDP growth will slip from 7.1% in 2019 to 2.5% in 2020. An estimation done by ILO Country Office for Nepal using Nepal Labour Force Survey 2017/18 data showed that 2 million workers could have lost their jobs due to the crisis.
About 250,000-300,000 migrant workers are estimated to be returning from Gulf countries with another 500,000 Nepali migrant workers in India reported to have returned back. This is expected to not only add an additional burden to an already depressed labour market but enact a social cost that sees particularly vulnerable segments of labour force and community affected more than others. The United Nations Multi-Partner Trust Fund (UN COVID 19 MPTF) is an inter-agency finance mechanism for supporting low and middle income countries respond to health and development crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. ILO has mobilized this fund by leveraging existing programme to deliver an immediate response for coherent safeguarding the livelihoods of people made most vulnerable by COVID-19 in Nepal.
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Major Achievements:
No. of RBG | Wage Payment
(September, 2020 to November, 2020) |
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S.No. | District | No. of Road | Male | Female | Total | No. of RBG members involved in the work | Wage payment | Tools Sharpening & Maintenance Cost@1% |
1 | Palpa |
5 |
25 | 20 | 45 | 45 | 1,982,594.76 | 19,825.94 |
2 | Nawalparasi West | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 346,448.09 | 3,464.48 |
3 | Rupandehi | 5 | 9 | 20 | 29 | 29 | 1,063,072.90 | 10,630.73 |
4 | Kapilvastu | 5 | 10 | 16 | 26 | 26 | 848,453.04 | 8,484.53 |
5 | Gulmi | 3 | 12 | 15 | 27 | 27 | 1,202,321.46 | 12,023.21 |
6 | Arghakhachi | 3 | 14 | 12 | 26 | 26 | 1,255,800.00 | 12,558.00 |
7 | Pyuthan | 3 | 9 | 17 | 26 | 26 | 1,182,854.95 | 11,828.56 |
8 | Dang | 3 | 13 | 13 | 26 | 26 | 930,767.96 | 9,307.68 |
9 | Banke | 5 | 15 | 10 | 25 | 25 | 830,744.04 | 8,307.45 |
10 | Bardiya | 3 | 0 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 926,996.08 | 6,621.09 |
Total |
264 | 10,570,053.28 |
103,051.67 |