Project Title: RISE: Resilient, Inclusive and Sustainable Emergency Response and Early Recovery Project

Partner:
ActionAid International Nepal (AAIN), with funding support from ActionAid International – IHART (Flood Response)

Project Location:

• Rasuwa District: Uttargaya Rural Municipality
• Nuwakot District: Bidur Municipality and Belkotgadhi Municipality
• Dhading District: Gajuri Rural Municipality

Project Duration:
1 September 2026 – 31 March 2027 (7 months)

Project Summary:
The RISE Project aims to provide timely, inclusive and dignified humanitarian assistance to flood-affected communities in Rasuwa, Nuwakot and Dhading districts. The project focuses on meeting immediate survival and basic household needs, strengthening the protection and safety of women, children and other vulnerable groups, and supporting affected households to begin restoring their livelihoods. Guided by a human rights-based and feminist approach, the project promotes women’s leadership, community participation, accountability and locally led recovery.

Result and Activities:
The project is structured around three key outcomes:

1. Immediate Survival and Basic Needs: Distribution of food packages, winterisation and bedding kits, hygiene and dignity kits, and baby kits; support for transitional shelter construction and debris clearing; construction of temporary household latrines; and restoration of WASH facilities in schools and communities.
2. Protection and Safe Learning Environments: GBV prevention awareness sessions; establishment of women and child safe spaces; psychosocial counselling; provision of assistive devices and nutritious food for vulnerable groups; risk communication on secondary hazards; distribution of educational materials; and support for child-friendly school environments and learning recovery.
3. Livelihood Recovery and Community Leadership: Grant support for income-generating activities, support to small-scale group enterprises, mobilisation of women and youth activists, interface dialogues, coordination and advocacy meetings, and capacity development of women and young people on disaster risk reduction and climate resilience.

Beneficiaries:
Flood-affected households and communities in Rasuwa, Nuwakot and Dhading, with particular focus on women, girls, children, persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups. Planned activity targets include 300 households receiving transitional shelter and debris-clearing support, 300 households receiving hygiene and dignity kits, 400 households receiving livelihood or multipurpose cash grants, 400 children receiving educational materials, and other vulnerable individuals and communities benefiting from protection, WASH, shelter and recovery interventions.