KATHMANDU: Japan has provided approximately NRs 71.70 million to Peace Winds Japan under the Grant Assistance for Japanese NGO Projects Scheme for implementing a project on improving water access and agricultural income in Sindhupalchowk district.
Peace Winds Japan, an international NGO based in Japan, will work with the Nepali partner NGO, the Institution for Suitable Actions for Prosperity (ISAP), to implement the project in Sunkoshi and Melamchi Municipalities and Balefi Rural Municipality, a statement issued by the Embassy of Japan said today.
The grant contract for the project was signed and exchanged on Thursday between Yoshioka Yuzo, Counsellor at the Embassy of Japan and Yamamoto Yuko, Country Representative, Peace Winds Japan, at the Embassy of Japan in Nepal.
The statement said that the grant will be used to enhance people’s living conditions by improving water access and through agriculture income generation.
“It will also build and renovate safe drinking water facilities in all three municipalities that were badly affected by the 2015 earthquakes,” the statement said adding, “It will work to enhance the income of the people through agriculture production and marketing support.”
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