ANNEX-B
Home Gardening Initiative in Plan Nepal: Presentation by Plan Nepal
Hem Poudel
Goal: Improvement in family nutrition
Objective: Increase availability of fresh vegetable, fruit and meat in the diets of the
participating family.
Scheme period: 3 years
Families proposed under HGS
District Year I (FY05) Year II (FY06) Year III (FY07) Total
Morang 200 250 300 750
Sunsari 200 250 300 750
Rautahat 200 300 400 900
Bara 200 200 300 700
Makawanpur 260 300 400 960
Banke 645 800 1000 2445
Total 1705 2100 2700 6505
85 families will have small fish pond in the home garden
Criteria for family selection
- Holds atleast 5 Dhur of open land
- Interest to participate and contribute labour, input and time.
- At least one child below 10 years of age in the family.
Components
- Perennial vegetables; mostly creepers that demand minimum floor space.
- Multiple harvest, multiple use and perennial
- Improved or locally superior varieties
- No hybrid
- One pair of pigeon
- 2-4 booths of Banana/ Papaya
- A set of black sugarcane or passion fruit and 1-2 mango sapling
Optional - 2-4 Muscovy duck
- Mushroom
- Fishpond-250ft2
Plan/NGO contribution
- Provide seed, sapling, input and training support for the first year
- Fruit plants at the name of a children
- Technical backstopping
Monitoring/evaluation
- Plan and implementing NGO visits twice in first six month
- 2 visits- 2nd month & last month of the 2nd year