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1.1 BackgroundThe Sustainable Community Development Programme (SCDP), alsoknown as Nepal’s Capacity 21 Programme was designed in linewith the principles of Agenda 21. This Programme, launched in1996, was executed by National Planning Commission (NPC) withsupport from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).The Global Capacity 21 Initiative was created after the EarthSummit in 1992 with a mandate to help build national capacitiesfor sustainable development in developing countries. In the mid-1990s, His Majesty’s Government of Nepal (HMGN) and UNDP-Nepal jointly assessed various options and decided that the bestoption for pursuing the Capacity 21 mandate in Nepal was at thecommunity level. In addition, the government realised that thiswould also provide an opportunity to apply the principles andrecommendations contained in the National Conservation Strategy(NCS) and National Environmental Policy and Action Plan (NEPAP)towards solving development problems in poor Nepali communities.Capacity 21 resources were also to be allocated to build communities’own capacities for sustainable community development.
SCDP adopted the approaches of Capacity 21 to ensure integrationof environmentally sustainable development with participation ofall stakeholders by sharing of information for enhancement ofexperience and expertise for sustainable development (see Box 1).In order to promote sustainable development, SCDP engaged indevelopment activities that addressed all the three pillars ofsustainable development: economic development, social developmentand environmental conservation. All three components were givenequal prominence at the design stage. During programmeimplementation it became obvious that at community level all threewere greatly interdependent and linkages existed among them.Ignoring any of these areas would jeopardise the delicate balanceand would not lead to lasting development.Box 1: Approaches of Capacity 21The Global Capacity 21 Initiative providessupport to developing countries to develop theirsustainable development policies andprogrammes. Capacity 21 has three broadapproaches:Integration: The integration of the principles ofenvironmentally sustainable socio-economicdevelopment into development plans andactivities; sustainable development can bedefined as development which meets the needsof today’s generations without reducing theopportunities of future generations to meettheir needs;Participation: the participation of allstakeholders, including community groups,non-government and private sectororganisations, local and central governmentagencies, in planning and implementingsustainable development;Information: the creation and enhancement ofexperience and expertise for sustainabledevelopment that will be of continued materialvalue for all participants.Source: Project Document Phase I, 1996SCDP truly believed in this and acted accordingly. In order to realise its goal of sustainabledevelopment, SCDP worked at the grassroot level and aimed to develop the capacities ofNon-Government Organisations (NGOs) and Community-based Organisations (CBOs). TheProgramme provided technical, financial and institutional support to NGOs and CBOs insix districts: Dang, Humla, Kailali, Myagdi, Okhaldhunga and Surkhet.1.2 Peace and DevelopmentThe Maoist insurgency will reverberate throughout this report. When the Programmewas envisioned, the country was relatively peaceful. The Maoists had declared the socalled‘People’s War’ in 1996, but it was mainly concentrated in some hilly districts likeUnbu village, OkhaldhungaConflict resolutiontraining for staff andpartners fromProgramme districtsReflections on Nepal Capacity 21 Initiative: Achievements and Lessons Learned (1996-2003)3
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7LESSONS LEARNEDAND CONCLUSIONS
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ANNEXES
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