Promoting Agriculture, Health and Alternative Livelihoods (PAHAL) program is a five-year United States Agency for International Development (USAID) initiative designed to achieve food security among vulnerable populations in 14 districts in the middle and high hills of Far-West and Mid-West Nepal. PAHAL is a Development Food Assistance Project (DFAP) under the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA)/Office of Food for Peace (FFP) that takes a multi-dimensional, systems approach to address the underlying socio-political, economic and ecological constraints, and the related shock and stress exposures that drive food insecurity in Nepal. The program’s goal is: Vulnerable populations in the middle and high hills of Far-Western and Mid-Western Nepal are food secure. The program’s sub-purposes form the resilience pathways that would enable people of the vulnerable communities:
- Better cope with and absorb shocks and stresses;
- Adapt to better health and livelihood strategies in order to effectively reduce exposure to and impact of shocks and stresses.
- Recover quickly and ‘bounce back better’ through transformed systems in the face of shocks and stresses.
The program is led by Mercy Crops Nepal, where Rupantaran is one of the consortium partners implementing the Agriculture theme in 7 districts of MW.
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