Our Success

Former Member-House of Representatives, Federal Parliament (Dolakha)
Former Minister of Communication and Information Technology of Nepal Government
Former Minister of Women, Children and Senior Citizens

June 20, 2021 – Support of Aveda has been important for over one and half decade for sustainable forest management along with the community development in Dolakha district. There are exemplary forest management and value chain development initiatives developed, along with the community development initiatives esp. in drinking water and education sectors. Building on the good lessons and practices over the years, the recent PPCA initiative is being implemented in Jiri municipality.

The start of this initiative was timely considering the wish and hopes of the local people after the recent political transformation, and the devastating earthquake. Implementation of this initiative is helpful in three ways – i) establishment of Jiri as an organic mountain village, ii) sustainable community development in Jiri promoting local level entrepreneurship and sustainable natural resource management, and iii) demonstration of the sustainable local economic development model for up/out scaling other parts of the country. Currently the activities are being undertaken, especially preparing the base and developing capacities of the local people. A strategic plan for sustainable conservation and management of farm and forest resources in Jiri municipality indicating short, medium and long-term activities has been developed, which is also in line with the Nepal government’s vision of ‘Prosperous Nepal, Happy Nepali’.

The three years of the PPCA implementation in Jiri has provided a solid foundation, and there is need of continuation of the activities as indicated in the Jiri Declaration of PPCA and identified in the strategic planning document. For this, there is need of continuation of this initiative including backstopping technical support to the municipality for carrying out the activities.

June 25, 2021

We thank ANSAB and Aveda for partnering with Jiri Municipality for the piloting of PPCA program in Jiri. While the program activities focus on sustainable farm and forest-based management for community development in the Municipality, as the initial step, we have initiated working on organic agriculture and sustainable forest management. It is directly relevant to the Municipality’s vision of “clean Jiri, green Jiri, and organic Jiri”, and the capacity building at community level and formulating policy and programs at the municipality level have been well moving ahead. We can see increasing number of organized home-gardens contributing to increased food and nutrition security at the household level, also with the increasing number of farmers initiating organic farming at commercial scale. Few Jiri products, namely Jiri potato and Jiri kiwi are established in national level markets in Kathmandu and Pokhara. In some areas where lands used to remain as barren, farmers have initiated cultivation of vegetables and started consumption of vegetables, which is a new phenomenon.

A strategic plan on sustainable conservation and management of farm and forest resources has been developed with technical support from ANSAB. We hope it will be very instrumental to design programs and activities at the municipality level and to meet the development goal of the municipality. It is in the implementation stage, and for its implementation and to assist the organic movement of the municipality, there is continuous need of support from ANSAB. We hope that the partnership of municipality with ANSAB and Aveda will continue in the years to come.