Project Overview

LACC is a five-year project (2024–2029) designed to promote sustainable and inclusive livelihoods and natural resource management within the Karnali and Sudurpashchim provinces of Nepal.

LACC promotes local ownership

We implement our work directly through the existing planning and budgeting systems of local and provincial governments. By doing so, we ensure that our efforts are not just temporary interventions but long-term transformations owned and sustained by the communities themselves.

LACC Project impact statement

The people in all their diversity and their livelihoods and living conditions in Sudurpashchim and Karnali are more resilient to impacts of climate change and they use natural resources in a sustainable manner.

LACC Project outcome statement

Sudurpashchim and Karnali provinces, selected local levels and communities adopt climate resilient, gender equal and inclusive practices for sustainable natural resource management and livelihoods with equal participation of all segments in society.

Co-funded by the European Union, the Government of Finland and the Government of Nepal with additional financing from local governments and communities.

Our Approach to Climate Adaptation and Resilience

Result Area 1

Climate resilient livelihoods and inclusive management and conservation of terrestrial ecosystems

Result Area 2

Inclusive and sustainable water management practices strengthened

Result Area 3

Enabling conditions and governance for sustainable, inclusive and integrated natural resource management in provinces and local levels

LACC works in the following sectors:

Sustainable Agriculture, Agroforestry and Livelihoods Development

Impact Stories

I feel like a young woman again.

Before the project, securing a single day's water meant a 4-to-5-hour struggle. We woke up in the middle of the night to walk two hours to a distant spring or spent money we did not have to bring water in by bus from Sullekhan and the Mahakali River. We carried 50-litre loads on our backs along forest paths where locals frequently lost their lives to conflicts with wild boars, bears, and tigers. This scarcity dictated every part of life: because a toilet required too much water to maintain, families were forced to use the fields and jungle instead.
With support from the LACC Project, now the hours once lost to the dark are now spent sleeping. The water is used for sanitation, bathing, and growing small vegetable gardens. Water does not just sustain life; it returns it. It returns safety, dignity, and time.

- Beneficiary, the Rolkhola Tichaura Drinking Water and Sanitation Scheme in Baitadi, Sudurpashchim province