(1)Name and country
Name: Meera sherchan
Country: Nepal

(2)Basic information on my country
Geography
1. Landlocked country (north-china, south, west and east- India)
2. Have world's highest peak, Mt. Everest (8848m.)
3. The birth place of Lord Buddha (Lumbini)
4. Area is 147,181 square kilometers (0.30% of Asia’s land area and 0.030% ofworld)
5. Elevation - less than 100 meter in the tropical Terai to some 90 peaks over 7000
meters
6. Average precipitation varies as little as 160 millimeters in the rain shadow northof Himalayas to as much as 5,500 Millimeters on the windward slopes

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Administration
5 development regions
14 zones
75 districts
98 municipalities
3912 Village Development Committees
601 constituencies (601 constitution assembly members, 197 women)

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Demography
Total Population: 23,151, 423
Females: 51% (11,587,502)
Males: 49% (11,563,921)
Annual Growth Rate: 2.1%
Total Fertility Rate: 3.1
Less than 80% population depend on agriculture

(3) Three Major Challenges / obstacles
in mainstreaming gender in my country:• Poor conceptual clarity on gender ( Gender mainstreaming viewed
as a welfare target)• Unclear modalities for addressing gender focal point in local level• Blanket Approach for gender mainstreaming (insufficientemphasis on addressing specify gender needs diverse
disadvantage groups)

(4) Three priorities issues in the present main
national policy/plan•••

positive discrimination to maximize women's participation inDecision making levels.
Gender responsive plan and budgets.
Male involvement to fight violence against women (VAW)

(5) My job description• Act as gender focal person of the district and coordinate with district levelgovernment agencies, NGOs and civil society organization for gendermainstreaming.
• Ensure program design, implementation and monitoring and evaluation withgender perspective.

• Build partnership and coordination among government and non-government
agencies including political parties and media.
• Lead women networks from government side(6) Issues to be addressed in mainstreaming gender:
Unclear Conceptual clarity on gender(7) Justification for choosing the above issue(s):Having most of the men officer in decision level they don't incorporate
gender issues in the district level plan so always I faced various kind ofdifficulties while organize program , so that its very important to conduct
gender mainstreaming training for them although government police is well
but implement phase is week.

(8) Useful knowledge and skills gained through thisprogram in order to take action against the above
issue'sThrough this training program I have learned to Gender responsive project
cycle management is the very useful and practicable for me to solve
mention issues.

(9) Action plan on mainstreaming gender in my country(1) Title: Conceptual clarity on Gender among District Level Stakeholder(2) Project period: October 2010 to November 2011
(3) Target Areas: Syangza District level(4) Target Beneficiaries: 20 District Level Officers and 20 Districtlevel Gender focal Person(5) Implementing Agencies: Women Development OfficeSyangza(6) Overall goal: Gender equality and woman empowerment
incorporated into district level gender plan and system.

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(7) Project purpose:
To make clear vision on genderconcept among participants(8) Activities:
1. Capacity building
1.1. To conduct gender mainstreaming training for District level Officers (20participants in 3 days)
1.2 TO conduct gender mainstreaming for gender focal person (20Participants in 5 days)
1.3 Evaluation through Gender Audit (one line agencies) 15 days
1.4 Report presentation 50 members

(9) Outputs• Stakeholder gets knowledge about gender so their attitude changes to wards
women.
• Increase collaboration between line agencies at district level.
• Allocation financial resources to implement the Gender development program• 20 action plans are produced.

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