In this strategic period, MADE-Nepal has prioritized three cross-cutting themes as an integral part of the overall programmes. Each of these themes is expected to enrich the analyses, design and implementation of our five strategic priorities, including organizational policies.
Objective: To mainstream GESI in programmes, the workforce and workplace for equitable impact, strengthening institutional governance and programme quality.
Gender inequality and social exclusion is common in rural Nepal. Addressing inequality and exclusion is a prerequisite for designing and delivering development programmes. In this strategic period, we will make concerted effort to mainstream GESI in our programmes, workforce and workplace to improve programme quality and to strengthen institutional governance. The application of GESI tools, notably gender sensitive budgeting, fund flow analysis and additional tools, will be identified and piloted for mainstreaming across our programmes.
To achieve this objective, within five years, MADE-Nepal will:
- Identify, test and promote gender-friendly agricultural tools, technologies and approaches to reduce women’s workload and drudgery;
- Pilot and Institutionalize GESI responsive programme planning, budgeting, and tracking fund flow;
- Enforce affirmative action to increase women’s representation and participation in MADE-Nepal’s management and governing body, and ensure that women and members from disadvantaged groups are attracted and retained; and
- Engage government policy makers and law makers, especially women mayors, ward representatives and parliamentarians (where possible), to advocate for, and bring GESI friendly changes in national agriculture, WASH, climate change, and natural resource management policies and plans.
Objective: To institutionalize knowledge management and capacity building for wider impact and strengthening organizational learning.
Knowledge management and capacity building is one of the critical elements of successful change and the ability to manage change itself. Over the past 28 years, MADE-Nepal has accumulated huge amounts of knowledge that is generally not fully utilized, but has the potential to improve our organizational learning and performance. In this strategic period, MADE-Nepal will seek to re-utilize that knowledge and create additional useful knowledge, making it available to those who can use it to positively influence their organizational learning and performance. We will also make a concerted effort to improve our database system and automate our management information system for learning purposes.
To achieve this objective, within five years, MADE-Nepal will:
- Establish a fully functional, automated global database and management information system that supports project review, planning, reporting, evaluation and new programme development;
- Produce women and youth focused knowledge products;
- Institutionalize and diversify the Tailor-Made Training (TMT) courses as a means for sharing knowledge and building capacity of staff, partners and interested stakeholders; and
- Institutionalize a system of providing technical support to a range of interested stakeholders.
Objective: To build institutional capacity for delivering effective emergency response to disaster affected communities.
MADE-Nepal works with communities living across various geographic regions that are vulnerable to different natural disasters, and their ability to recover from shocks is generally low. Disaster affected communities require rapid emergency response to protect their lives and restore livelihoods. MADE-Nepal will respond to disasters, both during and after, through a phased approach helping disaster affected individuals and communities to rebuild their family farming and restore livelihoods. In this strategic period, building on the valuable experienced gained from the 2015 earthquake response, MADE-Nepal will strengthen its institutional emergency response capability by forging partnerships with selected humanitarian organizations, and by mainstreaming emergency preparedness and response plans in its programmes.
To achieve this objective, within five years, MADE-Nepal will:
- Identify and establish partnerships with selected humanitarian organizations to build staff and partners’ capacity, and to respond to emergencies effectively;
- Develop an emergency preparedness and response plan, and roll-out the plan at all levels of the organization;
- Integrate emergency preparedness and the response plan in ongoing and new programmes; and
- Establish and manage an Emergency Response Fund (ERF) for rapid emergency response.