1 There are a number of projects and programme to support decentralized planning, monitoring and evaluation, and to strengthen the institutional capacity in this regard. These are: (a) The UNDP Project "Supporting Decentralization in Nepal - DAP (NEP/92/012) which is partially implemented by FAO; (b) the GTZ-supported "Promotion of Livestock Breeding Project" - PLBP (subtitled "Development of a Decentralized planning, Monitoring and Evaluation System on a National Basis"); and (c) the World Bank Extension Programme.
2 World Development Report, 1995
5 This is a long story but it basically amounted to the fact that although there are many qualified gender experts in Nepal, apparently none were free to work for such a long time period. Thus the search for a candidate with gender expertise was difficult.
6 Here again it took quite a bit of negotiating between WFDD and FAO to agreed upon a technically qualified candidate.
7 Although the video films being produced under
the project as well as the Guidelines for Gender Sensitive Agricultural
Development Planning at the District Level potentially constitute very
important tools for learning about and documenting gender issues in agriculture,
neither were ready at the time of the writing of this case study.
