Local Adaptation Plans for Action (LAPA)

BNMT Nepal has been implementing the project entitled Local Adaptation Plans for Action (LAPA). This project was started in February 2014 covering 9 districts.

Project Goal: To prepare nine Local Adaptation Plans for Action (LAPAs) in the selected districts based on national framework of LAPA

Project Objectives:

• To conduct climate change awareness raising activities targeted at vulnerable communities and government agencies of the selected districts
• To assess climate change vulnerability identifying adaptation needs and initiatives of climate change vulnerable people, community and VDCs/DDCs;
• To design a total of 9 LAPAs in project VDCs that can be successfully integrated into local priorities of VDCs through bottom up VDC annual plan that will feed into annual DDC plan
• To assess the capacity of service providers as well as VDC and district level government and non-government stakeholders in providing climate change related services
• To implement monitoring and evaluation (M&E) activities to develop a baseline of the current climate vulnerability for the 3 districts of Hub-2

Project Coverage: 9 VDCs with 9500 Households in Three  Districts (Kailali, Achham and Bajura)

Target group and beneficiaries: Socio-economically vulnerable people who are living  in natural hazards sensitive area