22 years old Saraswati Nepali is the mom of 2 kids and lives approximately 5 hours' drive (and 5 hours walk) away from the headquarter of Karnali Province, Surkhet – a place that paid the heaviest of prices in the 10 year-long armed conflict from 1996-2006. Her first son is 8 years old, and her second son is 4 and half years old, almost as old as her term of office as a ward
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Local government mentors from Nitishala Nepal talking to local representatives of Sunil Smriti Rural Municipality, Lumbini Province, Nepal. image credit: International IDEA. The Coherence Programme, a co-creation of Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration (MoFAGA), Department for International Development (DFID, now Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office or FCDO), and International IDEA has recently launched its mentoring support to three more local governments in Lumbini Province of Nepal in partnership with Nitishala Nepal [ 1], a local organization that works in the sector of research and innovation for policy and governance reform. The expansion is a part of generating more diverse and concrete learnings from geographically and socio-culturally varied local governments (also known as Palikas) in Nepal. The expansion had been on hold for the past months due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The learnings from the expansion will feed into/inform the Provincial and Local Governance Support Programme (PLGSP) a framework programme for the capacity building support to local and provincial governments of Nepal.
. Credits of the image: International IDEA. In 2015, the new Constitution of Nepal established a federal system of governance consisting of three spheres of governments Federal, Provincial (Pradesh, 7) and Local (Palika, 753) that exercise the state powers within the ambit of the Constitution and other laws. With the new Constitution and the transition to the federal system in 2017, an opportunity was created to support the political coherence and technical coordination in local governments. A partnership between the Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration (MoFAGA), the Department for International Development (DFID, now Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office or FCDO), and International IDEA co-created the Coherence Programme with the aim of promoting political coherence in local governments through a deliberative decision-making process.