USAID Local Works: Mugu

OVERVIEW

USAID Local Works: Mugu increases the social and economic independence, confidence, and resilience of marginalized groups in Mugu, which has one of the lowest human development indexes in Nepal. The activity focuses on single women, people living with disabilities, and returnee migrants with limited economic resources.

HIGHLIGHT

USAID Local Works: Mugu partners with Practical Help Achieving Self Empowerment Nepal to help marginalized groups in Mugu District rebuild their livelihoods, improve their resilience, foster connections with local government, and provide social START empowerment opportunities.

USAID Local Works: Mugu Promotes locally led solutions:

USAID promotes locally led solutions to effectively meet the needs of Nepal’s most vulnerable and marginalized citizens by identifying the risks to those most in need. USAID helps marginalized groups identify their own solutions to reduce these risks by providing local cooperatives with credit to support migrant returnees. Once these solutions are implemented, impacted groups can rebound from shocks more quickly and follow a path to prosperity, without backsliding with each new disaster or crisis.

Engages marginalized communities:

USAID strives to understand power dynamics at the individual, household, community, and systems levels after identifying those most at risk. This knowledge provides critical context to marginalized groups as they explore solutions to reducing risks.

Reduces the causes of vulnerability:

USAID helps vulnerable and marginalized populations to strengthen their networks to ensure participation in, access to, and agency for addressing the systemic causes of the challenges they face.

Strengthens stakeholders:

USAID identifies and then strives to understand local institutions that the activity can use to promote stakeholders’ participation in decision making that impacts government service delivery and local planning processes that support marginalized people.