A seven day review and planning meeting of the Community Support Programme (RRN/CSP-II) was held in Biratnagar from 19 to 25 March 2012. The meeting was organized to review the past activities and to set the plan of actions for the next two years.

The initial two days of the meeting were allocated for the orientation on Gender Equity and Social Inclusion (GESI) and documentation of GESI success stories. Ms. Sumnima Tuladhar, a GESI expert shared her idea and experiences on the dimensions of social exclusion and mainstreaming the excluded strata in the development activities. Ms. Tuladhar imparted skills and techniques to the participants on how to write a good GESI success story. The GESI workshop was followed by a field visit to the project sites to observe how the Citizen Awareness Centres (CACs) are functioning.

March 13, Kathmandu.

A half day review, planning and sharing workshop of Community Support Programme (CSP) was held on 12 March 2012 in Kathmandu. The programme was jointly organised by the Ministry of Local Development and Community Support Programme Coordination Committee to review the CSP-II results and share the lessons learnt on empowerment, transparency and accountability and forward planning with government and other stakeholders.

Mr. Govinda Neupane, Programme Coordinator of CSP from DFID shared the achievements and main features of the extended CSP-II project. He revealed that, the CSP has provided drinking water facilities to 110 thousand households and irrigation to 68 thousand households so far. He also notified that the CSP provided school facility improvement schemes in 3 thousands communities which has benefited to 603 thousand households. Mr. Neupane said that, 13 thousand households have been directly benefited through income generating schemes under CSP project. According to him, more than 819 thousand households have been benefited directly from the CSP support so far.

Week long training on Social Mobilisation and Leadership Development was organised by the Integrated Rural Development and Nature Conservation in the Mountainous Region of Chitwan District, Nepal (RRN/IRDNCMR Project) at Parsa, Chitwan on 21-27 December 2011.

Mr. Suresh Chaudary,  Project Coordinator  of  IRDNCMR Project, shared the overall objective of the training. Goal and objectives of the training were shared after the general introduction session.  Mr. Gopal Gaire, Program Coordinator of Training Program/NEST Pokhara and Ms. Sangita Parajuli, Program Officer/NEST facilitated the training.

The training was focused on social mobilization process, leadership Skill, importance of working in groups, development and people participation, communication, meeting management and communication skill.  The training specially designed as per the need of RRN/IRDNCMR Project.