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.