Resilience for Women through Climate-smart Economic Transformation (RECET)
The RECET project envisaged to empower women in their responsiveness to adverse impacts of climate change on livelihoods, income generation and wider well-being. This stirs up transformational changes within the 18 months, running from August 2024 to February 2026. The application shall focus on climate-smart agricultural practices, non-agricultural micro-entrepreneurship and women in leadership in light of local climate advocacy.
The project will help in building climate resilience among 100 women-led households in 10 drought-prone settlements of Ganeshman Charnath and Sahidnagar Municipality in Dhanusha district, Madhesh Province, Nepal. This project gives major emphasis to the women who have been disadvantaged because of caste, poverty and illiteracy. Overall, the broad objectives of RECET are to empower women to take up climate-smart agricultural systems, establish sustainable micro-enterprises and operationalize 10 Women-Led Assemblies called SAMVAD for advocacy of Local Adaptation Plans of Action to integrate into local development planning.
The project has already initiated beneficiary selection, group formation, baseline surveys and community-level inception workshops. It also started awareness programs and demonstration of climate-smart solutions at the community level. These are just the beginnings in making meaningful and sustainable change for women and their families to overcome climate change crisis in Dhanusha.
Content by: Mr. Bhava Narayan Jha
