NACCFL is national federation of 750 agricultural cooperatives having members of 750,000 household farmer members. CTCF is national federation of 92 tea cooperatives having members of 5721 household tea farmers. Both NACCFL and CTCF are largest cooperatives network in Nepal. Government of Nepal and donor organizations value inputs from NACCFL and CTCF in making strategic decision, policy making and budget related to agriculture and cooperatives sector.
Agriterra is working with Nepal Agricultural Cooperative Central Federation Limited (NACCFL) and Central Tea Cooperative Federation (CTCF) for around 4 years. Key focus in the last year has been introducing the FACT methodology. In 2016, NACCFL and CTCF with their members have reaped the benefit of using FACT methodology to access the grants and influence in policy advocacy. The result of policy lobby and advocacy in 2016 are given below:
NACCFL Results
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S.N. |
Beneficiaries organizations |
Purpose |
Funding organisatons |
Amount (Euro) |
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1. |
Small Farmer Agriculture Cooperative Limited, Bauniya |
Commercial farming |
Ministry of Agricultural Development (MoAD) Nepal |
80.000 |
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2. |
NACCFL |
Construction of Multipurpose Cooperative Training Center |
MoAD Nepal |
60.500 |
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3. |
District Agriculture Cooperative Union (DACU) Morang |
Construction of Cold store facility |
MoAD Nepal |
45.000 |
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4. |
District Agriculture Cooperative Union (DACU) Makwanpur |
Construction of Irrigation facility |
Winrock International |
4.500 |
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5. |
NACCFL |
Promotion of family farming program in Nepal
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MoAD Nepal |
28.570 |
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6. |
NACCFL |
Rice processing plant, cold storage, capacity development program etc. |
MoAD Nepal (Approved) |
560.000 |
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7. |
NACCFL |
Junior Technical Assistance (JTA) services |
Government of Nepal (expected) |
800.000 |
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8. |
NACCFL received Financial support and technical assistance from CECI for farmers basket program |
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9. |
Government has considered NACCFL as a serious stakeholder/discussion partner for drafting new cooperative law. |
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CTCF Results
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S.N. |
Beneficiaries organizations |
Purpose |
Funding organizatons |
Amount (Euro) |
|
1. |
CTCF |
Cultivation improvement training |
UNNATI |
31.400 |
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2. |
27 cooperatives |
Plantlet, tea nursery and processing factory |
National Tea and Coffee Development Board (NTCDB) and local government |
346.300 |
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3. |
6 Cooperatives |
Soft loan |
YSESEF and from Nepal Rastra Bank |
103.350 |
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4. |
21 Cooperatives |
Establishing and upgrading processing factory |
UNNATI project (expected) |
900.000 |
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5. |
CTCF is core team member for preparing 5-year strategic plan of tea development sector in Nepal |
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6. |
CTCF and 3 DTCFs (Ilam, Panchthar, Terathum) prepare proposal to International Labor Organization (ILO) on the base of FACT Approach and lobbying by FACT Approaches. |
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7. |
CTCF has been conducting regular lobby and advocacy to Governments and other donor agencies to allocate the budget in organic certification, organic inputs and crop insurance in tea sector |
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8. |
CTCF participated various discussion regional and national meeting of auction tea market. |
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9. |
CTCF has been requesting the government's offices of revenue to make custom duty exemption. |
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NACCFL and CTCF realized that enhancing FACT as a tool is an integral part of a broader initiative for Farmer Advocacy Consultation to ensure that any policy proposal that the organization prepares take root in the reality, needs and concerns of members.
Nearly half a dozen ministries, including Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Agriculture Development, Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport, and Ministry of Irrigation, that have the largest chunk of budget have failed to spend. They hold some 44 percent of the total budget, according to Finance Secretary Shanta Raj Subedi. (Source: Republica, national daily newspaper, 06 February 2017).
In this perspective, strengthening capacity of NACCFL and CTCF in policy lobbying and advocacy will support to access that unspent budget of government and favorable policy change.
