Support 200 Nepalese farmers to become food secure

As we mentioned in our latest report from July, the project has entered a data-gathering phase that will take six months. This entails many aspects that need to be considered carefully before we engage in a community participatory process with users of the biokilns to assess the effectiveness of the product as well as to collect farmers’ insights on use and design, among other aspects. During the first three months, we have been working on our Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) survey, which is the method we have decided to use to collect our data. It aims to analyse what is known (knowledge), believed (attitude), and done (practised) in a certain context or project. The survey has already been sent to our partners in Nepal for review and to start translating it into Nepali. We are also discussing which is the best way to collect the data offline and make it accessible to the farmers. 

We have also started, together with our partners, to work on the Ethical Review Approval Process required by the Nepal Health Research Council. Ethics approvals are part of any community engagement practice in Nepal; hence in the next three months of the project, we will work on obtaining the appropriate authorizations before we collect the data and analyse the results. 

During the summer, we sent new spiral pumps that pump water and air. It is a low-power rainwater/greywater recycling system that aerates and cleans wastewater and pumps it back to roof level. This hand pump does not need maintenance, as it operates without valves or seals. We will provide more information about the pumps and how users are utilising them shortly. 

By our next report, we hope to bring you more updates about the evaluation phase of the project. Thanks for your support and for helping us get to this stage!