Juntara Mahila Krishak Samuha is a women farmers’ group in Lumbini Province, selected in DGM Nepal’s third batch of competitive small grants. Its sub-project produces handicrafts from pater and thakal, two traditional Terai materials: pater refers to woven mats and articles made from wild grasses and reeds, while thakal is a wild palm-like plant whose leaves are woven into mats, baskets and brooms. Both are cut seasonally by hand and regrow, so the enterprise draws income from forest and wetland margins without depleting them, and raw material costs only the labour of collection. Grant funds are expected to cover weaving and finishing tools, a production and training space, drying and dyeing facilities, design development to move products beyond household utility into commercial ranges, and market linkage. By formalising a craft women already practise into a commercial enterprise, the sub-project fits DGM Nepal’s support for traditional skills and forest-linked livelihoods.