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The FAO endeavours to eradicate hunger and malnutrition through its global initiatives. The key priorities of the Country Programming Framework (CPF) for Nepal (2018-22) entail enhancing natural resource management and agricultural production system resilient to climate change and disasters. For this reason, resilient livelihoods are critical to the efforts of the FAO to help the most vulnerable people achieve food security and the freedom from hunger — one of the most basic human rights. Thus, protecting people’s livelihoods from shocks, and strengthening their capacity to absorb the impact of, and recover from, disruptive events is important. 

The National Gender Specialist will work for the project “Building a Resilient Churia Region in Nepal” (BRCRN) being implemented in 26 river systems of three provinces i.e. Bagmati, Madhesh and Koshi. The project aims to promote widespread adoption of climate-resilient land use practices, confront the challenges of deforestation and forest degradation, better maintain the forest ecosystem in the Churia hills, and build resilience to climate-induced hazards.
Working closely with the project team i.e. FAO-TA and the project and provincial project management units (PMU and PPMUs) of Ministry of Forests and Environment (MoFE), the consultant will support community based organisations (CBOs) of the project area to develop, strengthen and deliver forest management operational plans (FMOPs) to be able to show the increased forest density in the project sites at the end of the project. 

The overarching objective of this GCF funded project is to enhance the climate resilience of ecosystems and vulnerable communities in Nepal´s Churia region through integrated sustainable natural resource management (SNRM) approaches.