Improving Livelihoods through Knowledge Partnerships and Value Chains of Bee Products and Services in the Himalayas



Contract partner: ICIMOD - International Center for Integrated Mountain Development Country: Südasien, regional/länderübergreifend Funding amount: € 939.820,00 Project start: 01.07.2008 End: 31.12.2012

Short Description:

Overall goal


The proposed project builds upon the results of ICIMOD's previous activities in the field of beekeeping under the "Himalayan Honeybee Projects" supported by the Austrian Government (ADA) since 1993.

This last phase will upscale the successes achieved so far, cover all eight ICIMOD regional member countries (RMCs) in the HKH region and focus more on poverty reduction and on increasing agricultural productivity and conserving biodiversity.

Under the overall project objective 'to enhance the resilience of mountain people to manage the effects of global change', the project's main purpose is 'to increase the income of mountain men and women by promoting the value chains of bee products and pollination services through the building of human and institutional capacities and regional cooperation'. The project will assist ICIMOD's regional member countries to develop quality standards, policy instruments, and to upscale existing successful activities to develop pro poor value chains for honeybee products and services.

Project activities are structured into six main sections, namely, the development of pro poor value chains for bee products and services, the facilitation of an enabling environment for national honey trade policy, the strengthening of networks for information sharing, development of curricula on apiculture for technical institutions and universities, pollination and ecosystem services and support for national upscaling initiatives.

ICIMOD will implement the programme in collaboration with partner institutions in the participating countries.

project number 1469-00/2008
source of funding OEZA
sector Landwirtschaft
tied
modality
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    • 1= policy is a significant objective of the activity
    • 2= policy is the principal objective of the activity
  • Donor/ source of funding: The ADA is not only implementing projects and programmes of the Austrian Development Cooperation , but also projects funded from other sources and donors such as
    • AKF - Foreign Disaster Fund of the Austrian federal government
    • BMLFUW - Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water
    • EU - Funds of the European Commission
    • Others - various other donors are listed in ADA’s annual business report.
  • Type of Aid – Aid modalities: classifies transfers from the donor to the first recipient of funds such as budget support, core contributions and pooled programmes and funds to CSOs and multilateral organisations, project-type interventions, experts and other technical assistance, scholarships and student costs in donor countries, debt relief, administrative costs and other in-donor expenditures.
  • Purpose/ sector code: classifies the specific area of the recipient’s economic or social structure, funded by a bilateral contribution.
  • Tied/Untied: Untied aid is defined as loans and grants whose proceeds are fully and freely available to finance procurement from all OECD countries and substantially all developing countries. Transactions are considered tied unless the donor has, at the time of the aid offer, clearly specified a range of countries eligible for procurement which meets the tests for “untied” aid.
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