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High Mountain Agribusiness and Livelihood Improvement Project The  project  will  assist  farmers  and  downstream  enterprises  to  strengthen  linkages, taking advantage of the gradual improvement in infrastructure, to realize the existing demand for mountain  products.  A  demand-driven  approach will  be  used  to  (i) mobilize interested  producer groups; (ii) provide support for quality improvement, value adding, and product aggregation into quantities  of  scale  sufficient  to  attract  demand-side  business;  (iii) stimulate  private  sector agribusiness  development;  and  (iv)  reduce  risk  exposure  to  businesses  investing  in  the  high mountain  districts.  Project  grants  will  be  provided  to  eligible  entities  for  implementing  viable agribusiness  plans  that  demonstrate  income  and  employment  benefits  in  the  project  districts. The  private  sector  has  expressed  interest  in  a  range  of  suitable  business  development, including (i) organized production of high-value products through contract or supply agreements; (ii) established collection, post-harvest quality grading, and storage facilities; (iii) processing and value adding; and (iv) quality certification to access high-value markets.
Nuts and Fruits in Hilly Areas Project The project will increase agricultural income of approximately 40,000 farm households in 100 municipalities in hilly areas of five provinces: Province 1, Bagmati, Gandaki, Karnali and Sudurpashchim. This will be mainly achieved through the development of approximately 10,000 hectares (ha) of climate resilient fruit and nut orchards providing value-addition to the nuts and fruits produced by at least 30,000 farm households. The project will also improve the institutional capacity for managing the nursery and horticulture sector. For about 10,000 smallholder households, who are not capable of investing in fruit and nut orchard development in the project provinces, the project will assist them to improve their vegetable and other nutritious crop production and its marketing.
Subregional Transport Enhancement Project The proposed loan and grant (the Project) will improve the country's road network totaling about 217.3 km, (i) providing north-south link of the country's north eastern region to the east-west highway (EWH); and (ii) improving major international trade corridors in the country in conjunction with customs systems enhancement. The capacity of the road sector and customs institutions will also be strengthened. The project will expand connectivity with remote areas and enhance the capacity of major international trade corridors to develop the economy of project areas as well as integrate those more effectively with their primary markets in India, and further to third countries, by enhancing the capacity of roads and customs clearance.
Kathmandu Sustainable Urban Transport Project The project will improve the quality of urban life in the capital city of Nepal by delivering
a more efficient, safe, and sustainable urban transport system (UTS),2 favoring local economic
growth and addressing climate change and air pollution mitigation. The UTS will be enhanced
by focusing on (i) a plan to rationalize and upgrade the existing public transport network, tested
through the implementation of pilot routes provided with electric vehicles; (ii) traffic management
works and measures that will enable heritage routes in the city center to be pedestrianized and
improve general walkability (general walking conditions); and (iii) improvement of air quality
monitoring. The project aims to integrate these components holistically. The environment for
development work has greatly improved since 2006, when the decade-long conflict ended. The
experience of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has shown that active community
participation can insulate development work from a country's wider challenges and thus bring
about effective service delivery. Consultations were undertaken with various stakeholders,
including the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC), relevant central government ministries and
departments, public transport operators, and residents associations. The project design and
implementation arrangements have fully taken into account the current political context in
Nepal,3 with the implementation expected to proceed amid the ongoing peace process.
Integrated Urban Development Project The project will provide the population in the municipalities of Dharan, Janakpur, Nepalgunj, and Siddharthanagar with better access to municipal infrastructure and services in a socially inclusive manner.  In accordance with the priorities of each municipality, integrated urban environmental improvements, including drainage systems, solid waste management (SWM) facilities, and urban roads, will be implemented in Janakpur, Nepalgunj, and Siddharthanagar municipalities. A water supply development subproject will be implemented in Dharan municipality. The project will also undertake community development programs (CDPs), focusing primarily on poverty pockets in the municipalities and communities that may not benefit directly from major infrastructure improvement subprojects. Gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) will be mainstreamed in all subprojects in the municipalities, and the capacity to address GESI in the Ministry of Physical Planning and Works (MPPW) will be strengthened by establishing an appropriate institutional structure and mechanisms for GESI mainstreaming.
South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation Road Connectivity Project ADB and the Government of Nepal are working together to improve some of the most important roads in the country to help people and freight move more easily, and to increase trade with neighboring countries. The South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation Road Connectivity Project is building alternative routes between the districts of Sunsari and Saptari to create year-round passable conditions along the East-West Highway, especially across the Koshi River. This will include the repair of feeder roads that connect nearby villages to the highway, and improve people's access to government services and livelihood opportunities. The project, which is providing jobs for unskilled workers in the area, particularly women seeking employment, is upgrading 73 kilometers of bypass and border roads along the East-West Highway to two lanes, and improving 114 kilometers of another strategic roadway. The project is also providing training for people in the area to protect the environment and encourage tourism.
Electricity Transmission Expansion and Supply Improvement Project The project will improve the reliability of energy supply in Nepal and strengthen the transmission infrastructure needed to promote Nepal's capacity for cross-border energy trade. It will provide support in three critical areas in the electricity supply industry, which has experienced severe underinvestment: (i) electricity transmission capacity expansion, (ii) strengthening of distribution systems including those along the Tamakoshi (Khimti)-Kathmandu transmission line, and (iii) rehabilitation of selected small hydropower plants.
Urban Water Supply and Sanitation (Sector) Project ADB has supported the government in improving water supply and sanitation services in 70 of the 176 small towns in Nepal through three small towns projects introducing continuous water supply, meeting national quality standards, and providing universal household connections with subsidized connections and affordable supply for poor and vulnerable households.
Tanahu Hydropower Project The project has three main components: (i) a medium-sized hydropower plant of 140 megawatts (MW) with significant water storage facilities and associated transmission lines to evacuate the generated power; (ii) rural electrification and community development in the project area, and (iii) a reform and restructuring plan for the national utility, the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA). The project site is in the Seti River in the Tanahu district, about 150 kilometers (km) west of Kathmandu.
Third Small Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project ADB and the Government of Nepal are working together to provide water supply and sanitation services to selected small towns in the country. The Third Small Town Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project is providing the services to small towns with a population of 5,000 to 40,000 that show the potential for growth by having access to roads, power supply and telecommunications. This includes the upgrade or construction of water supply systems in up to 20 small towns, involving 1,450 kilometers of water supply pipelines; 67,500 household connections; and 20 water treatment systems with an estimated capacity of 50,000 cubic meters per day. The project will also provide about 5,000 household toilets with septic tanks, as well as provision of septic management facilities and equipment. Drainage systems and master plans are also prepared in towns with flooding risks. Training is being provided to help local water agencies modernize their operations and manage water rates, and to teach local communities public awareness on water conservation and public hygiene.
South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation Mugling-Pokhara Highway Improvement Phase 1 Project The project road is the primary access link of Pokhara to Kathmandu and is a major feeder road of two SASEC corridors linking Kathmandu to Dhaka (Bangladesh) and Kolkata (India) through Mugling and the East-West Highway. It is a two-lane carriageway that handles about 7,400 vehicles per day, including 14% of goods vehicles and up to 55% of motorcycles in urban areas. Traffic is forecast to increase to 13,000 vehicles per day by 2040, and the rising number of motorcycles creates significant road safety risks, notably as (i) the road winds through the mid-hill region of Nepal and its geometry can be improved, (ii) slow-moving vehicles and pedestrians are not segregated in urban areas, and (iii) the pavement is in poor condition. The road will be widened to four lanes to cater to increasing demand, and design standards will feature enhanced geometry, pavement, structure, drainage, safety, and intelligent traffic system features to improve sustainability, safety awareness, and safety compliance. The road will be median divided, and service lanes in urban areas will improve safety, particularly for women and children, who are more likely to walk, ride a bicycle, or use public transport than men.
South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation Customs and Logistics Reforms Program (Subprogram 1) The proposed program will support continuing reforms in customs through implementation of the Customs Reform and Modernization (CRM) Plan 2021-2026 and improving trade logistics through the preparation and implementation of a new Trade Logistics Policy (TLP) 2022.
Strengthening Systems to Protect and Uplift Women Project The project will help strengthen the government's response to gender-based violence (GBV) in Nepal. The project will (i) provide long-term rehabilitation for GBV survivors; (ii) fill gaps in availability of survivor-centric and gender equality and social inclusion (GESI)-sensitive infrastructure within the Nepal Police to ensure safe, confidential, and respectful environments for reporting cases; (iii) build service providers' capacity; and (iv) increase awareness on GBV prevention and available services. The project is aligned with the governments vision of a Prosperous Nepal, Happy Nepali, which envisions a society without discrimination, violence, or crime.
Supporting the School Education Sector Plan The results-based lending (RBL)program will assist the Government of Nepal in reforming the school education system through the implementation of its School Education Sector Plan (SESP) in a sector-wide approach (SWAp) supported by eight development partners, including the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The RBL program will strengthen equity, quality, and resilience of school education by helping the government (i) enhance learning provisions for basic and secondary schools; (ii) strengthen teaching and learning in basic and secondary schools; (iii) accelerate the recovery from learning losses caused by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic; and (iv) improve the capacity of governments, especially local governments, for education planning, monitoring, and reporting.
Bagmati River Basin Improvement Project - Additional Financing The Bagmati River Basin Improvement Project (current project) will improve river health and flood management in the BRB. The additional financing is required to expand the current project, including (i) consolidation of water management institutions; (ii) expansion of riverbank beautification works; (iii) mobilization of the riverine community; and (iv) the design, building, and operation of a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). The additional financing is also required to cover the cost overruns to the current project, the performance of which is on track.
Community Managed Irrigated Agriculture Sector Project The Project aims to improve the agriculture productivity and sustainability of existing small and medium farmer-managed irrigation systems suffering from low productivity and poverty in Central and Eastern Development Regions thereby enhancing the livelihoods of the poor. This is achieved through (i) providing improved means for WUA empowerment, irrigation infrastructure, agriculture extension, and targeted livelihood enhancement to build the human capital of the poor; and (ii) strengthening policies, plans institutions and their operations for more responsive service delivery and sustainable impacts.
Disaster Resilience of Schools Project The impact of the Project will be enhanced disaster risk management for human resources development (Post Disaster Recovery Framework and School Sector Development Plan) . The outcome will be disaster resilience of schools and communities increased and learning environment improved. The outputs will be (a) heavily damaged schools reconstructed and improved; (b) unsafe schools retrofitted and disaster risk reduced; and (c) institutional capacity for disaster resilience strengthened.
Emergency Flood Damage Rehabilitation Project The Project will rehabilitate and restore damage caused by the 2008 monsoon floods in the eastern region and far western region. It will enable people to resume their normal lives by restoring access to livelihoods and basic infrastructure. The Project supports increased disaster preparedness and mitigation of damage from future recurrent floods by enhancing the Government’s disaster management capacity, and improving the disaster recovery system in cooperation with the Government of India.
Detailed Engineering Study for the Upper Seti Hydropower Project The Study will provide consulting services for each of two major engineering design specifications: (i) civil works on geological risk ssessments, and (ii) facilities on technical and hydrological risk assessments. It is essential for hydropower development to clarify the project's uncertain factors and to incorporate preventive actions and risk mitigation measures in the project design, prior to financing decisions and implementation. To minimize project risks, the Study will focus on geological and hydrological assessments through rock tests and hydraulic model simulation to establish engineering design parameters.
Urban Resilience and Livability Improvement Project The project will support to improve municipal infrastructures and governance of the selected project municipalities, thereby contributing to achieve inclusive economic growth and improved livability . This will be achieved through the following three outputs: (i) municipal infrastructure for resilience developed (Output 1); (ii) Tourism assets revitalized and managed (Output 2); and (iii) capacity of municipalities, provinces and Department of Urban Development and Building Construction strengthened (output 3). The project will support eight municipalities (Pokhara, Janakpur, and a cluster of six municipalities includes Devdaha, Lumbini Sanskirtik, Ramgram, Sainamaina. Siddharthanagar, and Tilottama).
Roads Connectivity Sector I The principal objective of the grant is to reduce the isolation of remote rural communities, mostly in the hilly region by enhancing access of the poor to basic services, employment opportunities, and service centers of health and education in major towns and district headquarters.

The anti-trafficking program will help mitigate the spread of HIV/AIDS, and hence, is included in the HIV/AIDS and Anti-Trafficking Program to be financed by the Grant.
COVID-19: Active Response and Expenditure Support Program The CARES Program aims to help the government in implementing its pandemic response plan the National Relief Program to respond to public health emergencies and to mitigate adverse economic and social impacts caused by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.
COVID-19: Responsive COVID-19 Vaccines for Recovery Project under the Asia Pacific Vaccine Access Facility The project will support the procurement and delivery of safe and effective vaccines against COVID-19 through APVAX's RRC in compliance with ADB's vaccine eligibility criteria to the country. It aims to finance the procurement of about 15.9 million doses of vaccines, which will be administered to about 6.8 million Nepalese by 2024, with data collected and disaggregated by sex and age.
Decentralized Rural Infrastructure and Livelihood Project - Additional Financing The impact of the project will be reduced rural poverty in 18 poor and remote hill and mountain districts. The project outcome will be widened access to social services and economic opportunities. The project outcome will be achieved through the following outputs:(i) rural livelihood improved; (ii) capacity and decentralized local governance enhanced; (iii) rural transport infrastructure extended and maintained;  and (iv) project management improved.     

Output 1:  Rural Livelihood Improved 
The project will improve community infrastructure in the 18 districts. This will include 90 school buildings and health posts, 36 foot/mule/link trails, 54 water supply and irrigation schemes, 10 micro-hydropower, 8 rural market places, 10 ropeways, and other community infrastructure.  The project will provide livelihood related skills training to 3,000 beneficiaries from the project impact zones, of which at least 40% are women and 60%, are from poor and excluded groups.   In nine pilot districts, the project will work with existing savings and credit groups, and assist BGs willing to form themselves into formal Savings and Credit Cooperatives and facilitate their access to credit from existing institutional suppliers. 

Output 2:  Capacity and Decentralized Local Governance Enhanced 

The project will improve district and national capacity building to promote improved decentralized governance. The thrust will be on establishing the capacity for sustainable management of rural road networks, strengthening the decentralized management of rural infrastructure, and raising central capacity to support local government bodies.  

Output 3: Rural Transport Infrastructure Extended and Maintained 

The project will improve 260 kilometers (km) of rural roads in the 18 districts (200 km new and 60 km upgrading). Rural roads of 1,200 km will be maintained in the 18 districts and 6,500 meters of trail bridges will be constructed. The implementation of the road sub-projects will employ labor-based equipment-supported methods, and works performed by BGs will be promoted over construction by contractors. Only those civil works that cannot be executed by the communities may be awarded on the basis of local competitive bidding to contractors.
 Output 4: Project Management Improved 

Technical support to project implementation will be provided through a Central Implementation Support Consultant (CISC) and District Implementation Support Consultant (DISCs) in each of the 18 project districts.
Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women The goal of the Project is to reduce poverty in rural Nepal by empowering poor rural women and members of other disadvantaged groups, such as ethnic and low-caste women. The objective is to improve the socioeconomic conditions of poor rural women through a process of economic, social, legal, and political empowerment by (i) strengthening their individual capabilities to improve their access to and control over assets; (ii) building group support for individual and collective action to influence and hold institutions accountable; and (iii) reforming Government institutions and processes to become gender-responsive and include previously marginalized women into development opportunities. The project components comprise (i) economic empowerment, (ii) legal empowerment, (iii) social empowerment, and (iv) institutional strengthening and project management. The components are mutually supporting to promote a virtuous circle of socioeconomic improvement among poor rural women.
South Asia Tourism infrastructure Development Project - Additional Financing additional financing concerns the project intervention in Nepal and in particular the necessary capacity upgrading of the Gautam Buddha Airport (GBA) in Lumbini to meet higher international standard.  The outputs for Nepal include (i) improved connectivity to Lumbini; (ii) destination improvements; and (iii) capacity development of sector agencies and local communities. The first output originally intended to upgrade GBA's capacity from a local to an international airport with 3,000m runway meeting a "regional international standard".  The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation (MOCTCA) is the Executing Agency (EA). The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) is the implementing agency (IA) for air transport infrastructure and services, and the Lumbini Development Trust (LDT) is the IA for tourism development of the Lumbini area.
Rural Connectivity Improvement Project - Additional Financing The overall project is estimated to cost $255.72 million, including additional financing of $120.00 million, of which ADB is providing a concessional loan of $100.00 million from ADB's ordinary capital resources. The government will finance $20.00 million of the proposed additional financing project. The attached TA is estimated to cost $1.00 million, which will be financed on a grant basis by ADB's Technical Assistance Special Fund.

The impact and outcome of the overall project will remain unchanged from those of the ongoing project. The proposed additional financing will scale up the current output 1 by an additional 324 km of rural roads and output 2 by increasing capacity support to fulfill the roles and responsibilities in a federal system.
Education Sector Program Cluster (Subprogram II) The ESP II will contribute to poverty reduction in Nepal by increasing the level of education attainment, particularly for girls and disadvantaged groups.  The ESP II will support the preparation and transittion to School Sector Reform (SSR), particularly the early implementation of the 1-8 basic education restructuring in a few districts.
Secondary Towns Integrated Urban Environmental Improvement Project The objective of the project is to develop reliable, affordable, and effective municipal infrastructure and to strengthening the capacity of municipalities and the central government for project management and operation. The project area is Biratnagar, Birgunj, Butwal municipalities and Kavre Valley (Panauti, Dhulikhel and Banepa municipalities). The project was approved in 6 July 2010 and the planned project closing date is 30 June 2016.