The Department for International
Development (DFID) through its Operational Plan is committed to support Nepal
in its efforts to ensure communities can live in safety and security. Nepal’s
own commitments in this area are particularly enhanced by the National Human
Rights Action Plan (2011-2014), and, of special interest to the UK, the
National Plan of Action Against Gender-Based Violence.
DFID’s proposed IP aims to improve
security and access to justice for poor and traditionally excluded people,
especially women and girls. It has been designed on the basis of extensive
analysis that is set out in the DFID ‘Security and Justice for the Poor’ (SJ4P)
Business Case.
The IP is a major initiative
coordinated by a Board convened by the Ministry of Home Affairs of the
Government of Nepal that aims to ensure inter-related initiatives are mutually
reinforcing, notably on the Government and UK priority of tackling Gender-Based
Violence.
The overall programme approach involves
interlocking elements of:
a)
community-level
awareness-raising about laws and services, and the facilitation of dialogue
with state institutions;
b)
modernised
and context-specific facilities and equipment for better public service
delivery by state institutions and;
c)
improved
institutional systems of resource utilisation, performance management and
oversight.
The overall programme will be
holistic across hard Facilities and Equipment (F&E) and soft (Capacity and
Skills Development, Police-Public Partnerships, Community Awareness-raising and
Social Development etc.) elements. Institutional beneficiaries (Nepal Police
and targeted state/ non state organisations) will be able to better service
communities who will have a greater access to, and awareness of, the services
proposed. Long term results will centre on the security and access to justice
experienced, and perceived, by the poor and traditionally excluded, through
improved delivery of service to the communities, increased level of awareness
of services offered and thereby improved access. Disaster resilience and
climate change considerations will also be cross-cutting priorities across the
project investments.
1.1.
About the
Modernisation and Improvement of Policing Project
Under this programme, UNOPS is to
implement support to the component: Modernisation and Improvement of Policing
Project (MIPP). The MIPP is primarily focused on the Nepal Police, but will
likely also encompass some related security and justice services in the targeted
district. The MIPP will modernise, tailor and help sustain high quality service
delivery through improved infrastructures and systems of resource utilisation,
performance management and oversight. The elements would be to:
a)
Identify and
prioritise F&E required for improved public service delivery for access to
justice in approximately 25 districts determined by GoN in collaboration with
DFID;
b)
Procure
building refurbishment, civil works, specialised and non-specialised equipment
and supplies;
c)
Procure
forensic equipment for the central laboratory;
d)
Implement
the construction, O&M plans;
e)
Provide
technical advisory services related to performance management, improvement and
oversight.
The project will be implemented over
a 4 year period, through three operational segments, in up to 25-28 districts.
It is envisaged that, in the latter part of the project, implementation will be
handed over to the GoN with UNOPS taking on a technical advisory role.
The primary focus will be units of
the Nepal Police, but complementary work would deliver public-facing
improvements to justice-related services provided by District Administration
Office, Women and Children Development Offices and, conceivably prisons.