Page 1 nepal CLIMATE JUSTICE FEMINIST PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH 2017-18 Supporting grassroots women’s movement for sustainable strategies to reduce impacts of climate change jogidaha, udayapur country profile Nepal, one of the smallest and poorest nations of the world, is extremely vulnerable to climate change. 1 Flash floods, landslides, droughts, erratic rainfalls, and crop diseases and pests, are some of the impacts of climate change that communities in Nepal have witnessed in recent times. Nepal signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1992. At the country level, it has formulated the National Climate Change Policy (2011) and the National Adaptation Plan of Action (NAPA). The NAPA document outlines Nepal’s immediate and urgent priorities in adaptation, and provides a guide to aid procuring follow- up funding, including financing from the Least Developed Country Fund (LDCF). 2 Nepal also has a national framework on Local Adaptation Plans for Action (LAPA) to strategically implement NAPA priorities. To support vulnerable communities and improve their livelihood, NAPA and the National Climate Change Policy have made compulsory provisions to spend at least 80 percent of the available budget for the implementation of adaptation activities at the local level. However, none of these plans and policies address the gender dimensions of climate change and its potential impact on women. Chetana Mahila Samuha (CMS), a federation of 25 Community-based Women’s Groups in Udayapur district of Nepal, conducted this Climate Justice FPAR in collaboration with APWLD, Women’s Rehabilitation Centre (WOREC) Nepal Team and Community Women Group. This project focuses on and supports the local women’s movement in Nepal’s inner Terai region to find sustainable strategies to protect land and lives from recurring floods and erosion.
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nepal...country profile Nepal, one of the smallest and poorest nations of the world, is extremely vulnerable to climate change.1 Flash floods, landslides, droughts, erratic rainfalls,
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