Overview

The Managing Watersheds for Enhanced Resilience of Communities to Climate Change in Nepal (MaWRiN) Project is funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forest and Environment, Government of Nepal, and the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Forests and Environment, Bagmati Province, with technical support from WWF. The project is being implemented in the Marin Watershed of Sindhuli District, covering the Marin and Kyan river systems across Kamalamai Municipality and Marin, Hariharpurgadhi, and Ghyanglekh Rural Municipalities. It promotes climate adaptive integrated watershed management through nature-based solutions, community-based natural resource management, climate resilient livelihoods, and institutional strengthening under three components: enabling climate change mainstreaming, enhancing community resilience, and monitoring, evaluation, and knowledge management. By 2030, the project aims to improve the climate resilience of approximately 35,140 hectares of land and directly benefit around 60,000 Indigenous Peoples and local community members through sustainable climate adaptive watershed management interventions.