Climate literacy in Jumla

-Upendra Neupane/RSS

Jumla, Dec 26, 2019 : Climate literacy has started in remote parts of Jumla district.

Partnership Aid Centre (PACE-Nepal), an organization, has initiated climate adaptation literacy through its CAPS Karnali project, which is being implemented with support from Nepal government’s Ministry of Forest and Environment.

The climate adaptation programme accompanied by food security has been implemented in 46 wards of Jumla, Kalikot and Mugu districts. It is being implemented in 10 wards of Jumla, 16 wards of Kalikot and 20 wards of Mugu district, PACE Nepal shared.

As part of the programme, the social mobilizers, overseers and local people representatives gather people in the remote villages and teach them how to adapt to climate change and maintain food security.

Kishor Neupane, PACE-Nepal’s Executive Director, informed that climate literacy has been rolled out in project-implemented areas of the districts and memorandum of understanding has been signed with the concerned units of local government.

Jumla alone has the programme worth amounting to Rs 50 million in the fiscal year 2076/77 BS. It includes physical infrastructure, food security and adaptation literacy.

Climate adaptation education is continue in six wards of Tila rural municipality, two wards of Hima rural municipality and two wards of Tatopani rural municipality with concrete plan, Neupane shared.

Ghodsim village based in Tila rural municipality-7 is a remote area. PACE-Nepal has initiated the climate adaptation literacy project including irrigation canal scheme in the settlement having 96 households. The project is being supported by the federal ministry of forest and environment and world food programme.

The village with fertile agrarian land has been lagging behind in lack of irrigation facilities.

Deputy Chief of the District Coordination Committee, Karma Budha handed over a contract of Rs 4.11 million for the construction of 899-metre-long irrigation canal amidst the gathering of local people.

The organization had constructed a makeshift canal at Ghodesim village in 2017. Villagers and local government representatives have expressed their happiness over the plan for construction of cemented canal, said ward chair Hasta Bahadur Budha.

“There was water leakage from the makeshift canal which also posed serious threats of landslide in the steep village. It has been resolved with the construction of cemented canal”, he added.

Priority has been given on income-generating activities targeting 96 households in the project area. Local people from the project-implemented areas have been educated on climate change aspects, climate adaptation measures, drought adaptation in agriculture, organic farming, gender equity and quality assessment of plans.

District Coordination Committee Deputy Chief Budha, who attended climate orientation session, highlighted the importance of climate literacy programme and asked the project actors to work to yield concrete results.

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