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 About Us
The Biogas Sector Partnership-Nepal (BSP-Nepal), a Non-Government Organization (NGO), is executing the BSP-IV with the financial and technical support from SNV/N. The subsidy component for BSP-IV has been co-funded by KfW, SNV/DGIS and AEPC.
The Objectives of establishing BSP-Nepal as a self--sustaining and self-regulating institution can be enumerated as follows:
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- to enable BSP-Nepal to mobilize and generate the resources from other activities.
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- to enable BSP-Nepal to replicate its success story in other areas of development.
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- to enable BSP-Nepal to provide its expert service to other countries as well.
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- to consodidate and institutionalize its experiences and gains in biogas sector.
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Introcution of BSP:
The Biogas Support Program (SNV/BSP) started in July 1992 with funding from the Directorate General for International Cooperation of the Netherlands (DGIS) of the Netherlands government through the Netherlands Development Organisation in Nepal (SNV/N). Government of Nepal (GoN) through Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC) and the Kerditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau of Germany (KfW) also started funding the BSP from the Phase-III, which started in March 1997 and lasted till June 2003, Until the Phase-III, BSP was directly implemented by SNV/N.
The BSP, Phase-IV (July 2003-June 2009) is being implemented after successful completion of the first 3 phases. The Six-year BSP Phase-IV is part of the larger programme called the Renewable Energy Sector Support (RESS) programme The Overall objectives of the RESS programme is to improve the living conditions of rural households and reduce environmental pollution through further development and dissemination of biogas, improved water mills and other Renewable Energy Technologies (RET) such as, improved cooking stoves, solar, etc, in Nepal.
The BSP Phase-IV is the largest component of the RESS programme. The programme had originally aimed to install 200,000 biogas plants during the programme period. This also a target envisaged in the Tenth plan (mid July 2002 to mid July 2007) of GoN.
The programme has reached 66 districts and some 2,593 Village Development Committees (VDCs) till December 2005, out of nearly 4,000 VDCs in Nepal. The total number of plants constructed under the programme till December 2005 was 140,549. The Phase-wise breakdown is as given in the table below.
Phase I
'92-'94 |
Phase II
'94-Feb '97 |
Phase III
Mar '97-Jun '03 |
Phase IV
Jul '03-Dec '05 |
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6,824 |
13,375 |
91,196 |
29,154 |
140,549 |
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