Ginger Competitiveness Project: Enhancing Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary capacity of Nepalese exports through Public-Private Partnership has been under implementation since June 2012. The duration of project is for two years with the total funding of US$ 1,373,694 from different development partners. The project has been directly funded with US$ 1,173,694 in which Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF) has contributed US$ 711,550 and Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) has contributed US$ 462,144. Besides this, GoN has contributed US$ 60,000 in kind and private sector has contributed US$ 140,000 (includes land and other facilities) in the project. The Ministry of Commerce and Supplies is the grant recipient whereas the implementing entities are Ministry of Agriculture Development, GoN Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations; and Agro-Enterprise Centre, Federation of Nepalese Chamber of Commerce and Industry. NECTRADE project along with the NIU have been facilitating the overall implementation of the Ginger Project. The project focuses on developing ginger value chain' in Nepal with major interventions to support small farmers and traders to improve quality of fresh ginger supply for export.