Added At: 2011-01-13 11:08 PM
Last Updated At: 2011-01-13 11:08 PM
HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE
KATHMANDU: Nepal’s international development partners today presented a strategy paper to Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and political parties with a pledge to support Nepal’s peace process and its development activities.
The paper titled ‘Peace and Development Strategy’ is a joint work of a cross-section of local and international actors, including UN agencies, bilateral aid agencies, international financial institutions, NGOs and think tanks.
Issuing a press release on behalf of the group, the UN House in Nepal said the strategy is the development partners’ ‘offer of support’ in specific areas that could help Nepal build irreversible peace and work on the development agenda embedded in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
The strategy highlights short as well as long-term priorities relating to peace and transition issues. It also includes a supplement action plan comprising 178 specific areas currently receiving support and potential areas of support. However, all actions listed are contingent on government requests. The action plan will help establish a state of readiness for development partners, according to the statement.
“Nepal’s development partners are ready to further support the peace building process. As development actors, we recognise the importance of the CPA’s emphasis on long-term transformation, in addition to short-term political measures. We are ready, when Nepal is ready, to accelerate work on this ambitious agenda in an even more concerted fashion,” the statement read quoting Robert Piper, the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nepal.
The paper titled ‘Peace and Development Strategy’ is a joint work of a cross-section of local and international actors, including UN agencies, bilateral aid agencies, international financial institutions, NGOs and think tanks.
Issuing a press release on behalf of the group, the UN House in Nepal said the strategy is the development partners’ ‘offer of support’ in specific areas that could help Nepal build irreversible peace and work on the development agenda embedded in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
The strategy highlights short as well as long-term priorities relating to peace and transition issues. It also includes a supplement action plan comprising 178 specific areas currently receiving support and potential areas of support. However, all actions listed are contingent on government requests. The action plan will help establish a state of readiness for development partners, according to the statement.
“Nepal’s development partners are ready to further support the peace building process. As development actors, we recognise the importance of the CPA’s emphasis on long-term transformation, in addition to short-term political measures. We are ready, when Nepal is ready, to accelerate work on this ambitious agenda in an even more concerted fashion,” the statement read quoting Robert Piper, the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nepal.
RSS A team representing nine countries under European Union and US led by Robert Piper, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Nepal, said this during a meeting with Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal at this chamber on Wednesday to hand over ´Nepal Peace and Development Strategy 2010-2015´. ´We, being development activists, think that the stress on long-term transformation besides short-term political efforts in the Comprehensive Peace Accord is important. If Nepal is prepared, we will are ready to work in a systematic and organized way on this agenda,´ said Piper after the meeting. The strategy states that support will be provided with due priority to work in the areas of rehabilitation of discharged of Maoist army fighters, conflict victims, women, implementation of UNSC´s Resolution 1325 and 1820, peace and security and election. Though the strategy has perceived these areas as important, it states that immediate support can be provided to rehabilitation of former Maoist army combatants, building transitional justice mechanism, return of property, reform of peace and security, institutional reform of police administration and others. Piper said that the strategy has been prepared with the participation of national and international organizations and experts, bilateral support agencies, international financial institutions, NGOs, ideologues and other people. | |||
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