Livestock Insurance

After the livelihood insurance training conducted in March and regular motivation from social mobilizers, community people of Ghyalchowk were pretty aware of  importance of insurance and its benefits. In total 360 livestock (goats and buffalo) of 158 HHs from 15 livelihood groups of Ghyalchowk have been insured till date. Nepal government has identified Prudential Insurance Company for livestock insurance in Gorkha and all insurances are done through this company. The insurance programme has adopted following model: 75% support by Government, 15% ECO-Nepal and 10% beneficiaries was proposed where follow-up will be done by ECO-Nepal.