Intra-IFAD GESI Thematic Workshop 22-23 August 2017 Sharing New Initiatives/Challenges/Opportunities on GESI

September, 2017

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Contents

Acknowledgement ...................................................................................................................... 2

1. Workshop Overview ............................................................................................................ 3

1.1 Background and Objectives ......................................................................................... 3

1.2 Participation, Agenda and Schedule ............................................................................ 3

2. Formal Session ................................................................................................................... 6

3. Presentation and Discussion ............................................................................................... 7

3.1 Project status and achievements ................................................................................. 7

3.2 Useful Tools ................................................................................................................10

3.3 Learning of the projects ..............................................................................................11

3.4 Issues/Constraints and Way Forward..........................................................................13

3.5 Other Agendas ............................................................................................................13

4. Next Step/Action Plan ........................................................................................................14

5. Conclusions .......................................................................................................................14

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Acknowledgement

This Intra-IFAD GESI Thematic Workshop would not have been successful without support from

RERP Management Team, IFAD Nepal CPO and Team Leaders of the specific projects. I would

like to thank personally to my colleagues of RERP and experts from concerned projects for

guiding me with their valuable suggestions. And, I would also like to express my gratitude to the

helping hands from the Liaison office, Sahayatri building.

Kalawati Rai Targeting, Gender and Social Inclusion Specialist RERP/Samriddhi Itahari

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1. Workshop Overview

1.1 Background and Objectives

Sahayatri (सहयात्री) is an intra-IFAD projects‟ common platform in Nepal with different thematic

groups which aims to develop intra-project learning sharing system. Gender and social

inclusion (GESI) thematic group was formed in December 2013 and the first GESI thematic

group workshop was organized in April 2014 which was organized by….. GESI focal persons of

the ongoing IFAD funded projects in Nepal are the members of the group. The recent Sahayatri

meeting on 24 May 2017 noted the importance of the various thematic groups and decided to

continue the Sahayatri learning-sharing platform lead by focal person. Ms. Renu Chamling Rai

is the lead for GESI theme which is Gender and Social Inclusion and Group dynamics Expert of

High Value Agriculture Program (HVAP).

The group meets regularly in trimester basis and discusses on GESI implementation status in

the project and shares the new initiatives and learning among the projects. The major agenda of

the GESI thematic group is to have discussion on how to strengthen GESI strategies adopted in

the project, explore ideas to resolve GESI related issues and ensure capacity building of the

staffs to meet the project goal through GESI responsive approaches.

The first intra-IFAD GESI thematic group workshop for fiscal year 2017/18 was organized

successfully on 22-23 August, 2017 in Sahayatri Hall, Manbhawan, Lalitpur which was

organized by Rural Enterprises and Remittances Project (RERP/Samriddhi). The major

objective of the two-day workshop was to share and discuss GESI related interventions,

achievements and lesson learned among the projects and discuss on how the learning can be

replicated in one another project‟s context. The detail agenda of the workshop is incorporated in

next section.

1.2 Participation, Agenda and Schedule

The two day workshop was planned rigorously among the GESI experts of the ongoing IFAD

projects to set the agenda of discussion. The GESI experts of five IFAD ongoing projects in

Nepal namely, Adaptation for Smallholders in Hilly Areas (ASHA), High Value Agriculture

Program (HVAP), Improved Seeds for Farmers Program (ISFP/KUBK) and Poverty Alleviation

Fund (PAF) including RERP/SAMRIDDHI and IFAD Country Program Officer (CPO) set four

points agenda of discussion and scheduled the program accordingly. The four agendas of

discussion are:

1. To review the initiatives, and contributions of IFAD on GESI, and strategies used. 2. To share and discuss GESI related interventions, key results, best practices, and lesson

learned (challenges/opportunities; Project wise).

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3. To enhance the knowledge on current tools on GESI, e.g. Capacity self-assessment of groups/cooperatives, GALS, Experience Capitalization

4. And finally, develop contextual common understanding on GESI mainstreaming including key action points, and way forward.

GESI experts, GESI focal persons and other associated members participated in the workshop.

Total 18 people participated in the workshop including the Program Mangers and Support

Staffs. The list of participants is summarized below and detail is annexed on Appendix I:

SN Name of the Participant Designation Organization Remarks

1 Saroj Prasad Guragain Project Manager RERP Formal session

2 Pashupati Nath Koirala Project Coordinator ASHA Formal session

3 Nava Raj Baral Technical Team Leader

ASHA Formal session

4 Bashu Aryal Country Program Officer

IFAD Nepal Formal session

5 Shila Gnyawali Planning Officer, GESI Focal Person

ASHA Whole session

6 Draupadi Subedi GESI Specialist ASHA Whole session 7 Subarna Pandey Social Science and

Gender Specialist PAF Whole session

8 Udaya Bahadur Poudyal GESI Advisor KUBK-ISFP Whole session 9 Sharada Sherpa Social Inclusion

Expert HVAP Whole session

10 Hari Madan Adhikari Capacity Development Officer

HVAP, AEC Whole session

11 Renu Rai GSI & GD Expert HVAP Whole session 12 Dolraj Bhusal Project Facilitator RERP Whole session 13 Sujana Dhital Knowledge

Management Specialist

RERP Whole session

14 Sita Bhattarai Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, GESI Focal Person

RERP, Koshi Corridor

Whole session

15 Rohit Prasad Joshi Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, GESI Focal Person

RERP, Janakpur Corridor

Whole session

16 Kalawati Rai Targeting, GSI Specialist

RERP Whole session

17 Sharmila Sunuwar Office Assistant RERP Support

18 Kumar Bhujel Office Assistant RERP Support

The workshop was facilitated by Ms. Renu Chamling Rai (HVAP) and Ms. Kala Koyu (RERP)

which was scheduled into two sessions; i) Formal Session to start up the workshop where

Project Managers and IFAD CPO also participated, and ii) Presentation and Discussion Session

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where GESI experts shared their project‟s GESI intervention and achievements. The second

day of the workshop discussed on current tools that are in use by the projects. The detail

schedule of the workshop is:

Day one: 22 August, 2017

Time Agenda/Activity Remarks

10.00- 10.40 o Registration and Self-Introduction Formal Session o Chair by RERP PM, Saroj Prasad Guragain o Welcome remarks and brief on objective o Remarks by CPO BashuAryal (IFAD‟s

initiatives on GESI, SAHAYATRI platform) o Formal session closing remarks by: Saroj

Guragain, PM, RERP o Group Photo Session

Kala Koyu (Gender Specialist, RERP), RenuRai (GSI, & GD Expert, HVAP); Tea/Coffee to be served in between.

Sharing of new initiatives/challenges/opportunities on GESI; Presentation and discussion session, *45 Minutes presentation from each project; and 15 minutes discussion in each presentation.

10.40-11.40 Presentation on HVAP, and discussion Sharada Sherpa (SI Expert) Renu Rai

11.40-12.00 Presentation on KUBK, and discussion Udaya Paudel (GESI Expert, KUBK)

12.00-13.00 Tea/Coffee break

13.00-14.00 Presentation on PAF, and discussion Subarna Pandy(GESI, R&D Expert, PAF)

14.00-14.45 Presentation on ASHA, and discussion Draupadi Subedi (Gender Specialist, ASHA)

14.45-15.45 Lunch

15.45-16.45 Reflection of pilot project initiative from the two corridors, RERP

Sita Bhattarai, Rohit Joshi (PME Officers, RERP)

16.45-17.00 Discussion and summarization of learning All participants

Day two: 22 August, 2017

10.00-10.30 Presentation on RERP‟s GESI Strategy Kala Koyu (Tea/Coffee to be served in between.)

10.30-11.00 Discussion and inputs to RERP‟s GESI Strategy Kala Koyu, & All participants

11.00-12.00 Capacity Self-assessment Tool in HVAP Sharada Sherpa, and Harimadan Adhikari (Capacity Development Officer, HVAP)

12.00-12.20 Tea/Coffee break

12.20-12.50 Gender Action Learning System Sharada Sherpa, Draupadi Subedi

12.50-13.30 Briefing on IFAD GESI format, and data update Renu Rai

13.30-14.00 o ToR preparation of GESI Team, Sahayatri o Pre-planning of the next GESI workshop o Workshop summarizations with key action

plan.

All participants

14.00 Workshop Closing with lunch (Teej Special) All participants

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2. Formal Session

The opening of the workshop was done in a

formal setting which was chaired by Project

Manager of RERP, Mr. Saroj Prasad

Guragain. Program Coordinator Mr.

Pashupati Nath Koirala and Technical Team

Leader, Mr. Nawaraj Koirala from ASHA

project and IFAD Nepal CPO Bashu Aryal participated in the opening session as guests to

motivate and advice the GESI thematic group members to keep on continuing the sharing-

learning events.

The CPO highlighted on the background of Thematic Group formation and its significance of

such groups. He further pointed out four concerns that GESI thematic group should initiate, i)

since all the projects are working with in the same Government of Nepal (GoN) and IFAD GESI

policy frame, learning from each other is more effective than working from scratch, ii) IFAD

projects in Nepal are good performer, however weak in documentation and exposure of

achievements, iii) women beneficiaries are more than 50 percent in each IFAD projects in

Nepal, thus the new project should target to achieve more than 50 percent women beneficiaries

which could be less in project document, and iv) in order to set the inclusion target, each project

should exercise on making inclusion target based on the population distribution of the working

district and not national scenario.

Further, the PC and TTL from ASHA also advised the group to focus more on promoting the

learning sharing culture and documenting and disseminating knowledge products in national

and international arena. Mr. Nawaraj Koirala suggested the GESI experts to look at the new

social dynamics like women in migrant families in the working area and areas that project can

initiate to resolve cases if any. The Chairperson closed the formal session by congratulating the

team to come together for sharing their experiences and hoped for effective learning session

further.

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3. Presentation and Discussion

The presentation outline was pre-discussed so that the scope of discussion was within a frame.

The presentations content was framed under following guiding themes:

Project specific definition of GESI including the target (log frame-based).

Major procedures/methodologies to mainstreaming GESI.

Major activities under GESI scope (innovative initiatives).

Major achievements under GESI (based on logframe, stories, pictures, videos).

Major constraints, challenges, issues, and gap in implementation (e.g., in management, field, but not limiting to).

Knowledge products, if any.

In the first day of the workshop, all the GESI experts except RERP/Samrdiddhi project

presented major features of their project and GESI concerns embedded within. The participants

discussed on key achievements of the project and successful tools and methodologies including

the challenges. On the second, RERP presented the Targeting and GESI strategy which is in

the process of development. The major points of discussions are summarized under following

sub-headings:

3.1 Project status and achievements

i) Adaptation for Smallholders in Hilly Areas Project – ASHA, Presented by Ms.

Draupadi Subedi and Ms. Sheela Thapa (Presentation Slides on Appendix II)

ASHA is the youngest IFAD-funded project beside RERP which is under implementation since

2015 in 11 districts of Mid-Western Development Region. However, the field level intervention in

ASHA has just started from last year, 2016. ASHA works in the Climate Vulnerable households

in the communities facing the consequences of climate change through Participatory Local

Adaptation Plan for Action with gender sensitivity. ASHA targets 100,000 direct beneficiary

families move down the vulnerability scale at least by one step.

ASHA has finished preparing strategies and implementation plans, Climate Change Adaptation

screening, ToT curriculum with GESI consideration. There is GESI expert from the technical

team and GESI Focal Person from government side in order to lead the GESI issues in ASHA.

ii) High Value Agriculture Program-HVAP, Presented by Ms. Renu Chamling Rai

(Presentation Slides on Appendix III)

HVAP works in value chain development in 7 districts of Mid-Western and Far-Western

Development Region since 2010. It is the project which is ranked Satisfactory (5 marks out of 6)

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by IFAD Supervision Mission continuously from last two years in terms of GESI, Targeting and

Empowerment which summarizes the status of the project in general. The project has 3 direct

persons (Gender, Social Inclusion and Group Development Expert, Social Inclusion Expert and

Capacity Development Officer) to institutionalize GESI in the project and „Five Mother Indicators‟

to mainstream GESI in their identified value chains. The major numeric achievements of HVAP

are:

447 Partner Organizations; 15297 HHs; (Dalit 19%; Janajati 13%; Other 68%).

26% Extremely poor; 44% Moderately poor; 21% near poor; 9% non-poor

63% women beneficiaries (60% target); 32% socially excluded (25% target)

Number of capacity building training - 950; total participants - 27892; 63% female, 17%

Janajati, 13% Salit.

47% women in key positions in an average (51% in groups, 47 % in Partner

Organizations, 40 % in Cooperatives)

iii) Improved Seeds for Farmers Programme-ISFP (किसानिा लागि उन्नत बिउ बिजन िार्यिंम - KUBK), Presented by Mr. Uday Bahadur Poudyal (Presentation on

Appendix IV)

ISF/KUBK is implemented in 6 districts of Western and Mid-Western Development Regions to

improve the formal seed sector (cereals and vegetables) and improve the smallholders‟

livestock (goat and dairy) since 2012. The GESI expert is the only person in the institution to

look after the GESI issues and concerns. The project has mandatory provisions for women

beneficiaries that have resulted in inspiring result of women participation. The major GESI

achievements in KUBK are:

Farmer Field School (seeds) - 71% are women, 21% Janajati, 13% Dalits.

Farmer Field School (livestock) – 77% women, 29% Janajati, 18 % Dalits.

30 Small Farmer and Agriculture Cooperative Ltd (SFACL) in which 95% members are

women, 24 % Janajati, 20% Dalits; 20 SFACL are entirely women members.

67 % women in key positions

The key policies that played vital role in increasing the female beneficiaries in KUBK are:

SFACL policy amendment to increase women members into 95 % for registration.

The implementing partner organization Haifer International has provision of having only

women as the member of the group. Men are eligible only if there are no women in the

family.

Farmer Field Schools require very long time commitment from the group members (15

months long for goat school) which automatically check and balance the inactive

members especially men who want to participate for temporary benefits.

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iv) Poverty Alleviation Fund-PAF, Presented by Ms. Subarna Pandey (Presentation

on Appendix V)

PAF is the oldest IFAD-funded project implemented since 2004 now in 55 districts all over the

country. PAF was established through „Poverty Alleviation Fund Ordinance 2004‟ to exclusively

address the needs of poor and marginalized. Initially, there was no GESI portfolio in the

institution, however Social Safeguard and Gender Specialist exists who mainstream GESI in the

programme. The poverty targeting indicator of PAF is based on food security, reserve 50%

spaces for women in community organizations and promotes women leadership. The key

achievement indicators of PAF are:

900,628 households beneficiaries, 32,360 community organization, 1400 informal

networks of community organizations, 425 Cooperatives, 1,873 Federation of

Community Organizations.

64 % of the beneficiaries are from extreme poor (food security less than 3 months), 78%

are female.

68% key positions are led by women, 30% Janajati, 28% Dalits, 3% Muslims.

23,330 households are Chamr/Harijan/Ram, 18033 are Musahar, 1988 are Chepang,

1648 are Dom, 430 are Badi and 147 are Raute.

80% rural finance managed by women resulted in their financial empowerment.

Economic empowerment of women contributed in the reduction in the incidence of

domestic violence against women.

v) Rural Enterprises and Remittances Project – RERP/Samriddhi, Presented by

Ms. Sita Bhattarai, Mr. Rohit Joshi and Ms. Kalawati Rai (Presentation on

Appendix VI)

RERP is the youngest project of IFAD in Nepal which was signed on December 2015. The

technical team is on-board very recently on February 2017 and since then the team is engaged

in facilitating the implementing partners‟ agreement, preparations of strategy, guidelines,

manuals and start-up workshops in the working areas. However, the corridor team has initiated

a pilot value chain work in their respective corridor which has become a testing scenario for the

document preparation of the RERP technical team. The field observations were presented to

receive the feedbacks from the experienced team.

There is GESI specialist in the technical team and GESI Focal Person in each corridor assigned

to the Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer. Third draft of GESI strategy is drafted which

was prepared by referring the project document, reviewing the secondary documents of GoN,

IFAD and IFAD funded Nepali projects and learning drawn from the pilot activities in the

corridor. After incorporating the feedback received from the workshop, the strategy will be final

to be forwarded to the IFAD.

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3.2 Useful Tools

During the workshop, Capacity Self-Assessment Tool used by HVAP and Gender Action

Learning System (GALS) tool learnt and practiced by HVAP and ASHA were discussed in brief.

In addition to these specific tools, there are other tools developed in specific to the project

demand which are tested effectively and could be modified into other project‟s necessity.

General descriptions of the tools are:

Capacity Self-Assessment Tool – It is a tool developed and used by HVAP in order to

evaluate the partner organizations by oneself. It has nine major indicators including

gender and social inclusion indicator and output is visualized on spider web format. It is

used in annual reviews of the institutions like District Chamber of Commerce and

Industry (DCCI), cooperatives, groups to highlight the strength/weakness and to plan

future.

GALS – GESI expert from ASHA and Social Inclusion Expert from HVAP participated in

the 5 days GALS workshop organized by OXFAM Pakistan in Kathmandu. GALS is an

empowerment methodology by using participatory process and drawing tools where both

men and women mainstream the gender issues in their individual life, family, community

and organization. The significance of this method is that picture or drawing is the tool to

analyze the situation which is appropriate in the communities where people are weak in

words. Vision Journey, Gender Balance Tree, Challenge Action Tree, Social

Empowerment Map, Identify Diamond are some tools under GALS which can be applied

for assessment and strategy planning by the community.

Business Literacy Class (BLC) – BLC is a tool developed by HVAP in 2013 as realization

of knowledge and skill gap in women and disadvantaged groups compared to others. It

is a 6 month class for the group of post-literate women. BLC has three modules which

are delivered within 6 months by 2 days a week and 2 hours a day session and the

modules are converted into pictorial flip chart. The BLC has sessions on business and

entrepreneurship, social and technical issues, production and marketing related concern

in VC, gender and social inclusion concerns.

Farmer‟s Field School (FFS) – It is a tool implemented by KUBK on the seed and

livestock production which can range up to 15 months long session. The students in one

FFS are 75 percent women and delivered by District Agriculture Development Office or

District Livestock Office.

Exposure Visits – This is a common learning tool which is implemented by HVAP as

Farmers Visit for the women holding the key positions in the local production

committees. It has become an effective tool to strengthen, motivate and build confidence

among the participants by learning from other co-farmer.

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The list of successful knowledge products or the materials that needs to be shared among the

project are:

i) BLC Manual by HVAP

ii) PIF operational manual by HVAP

iii) GESI Assessment in VC study report by HVAP

iv) Turmeric VC progress report by HVAP

v) FFS manual by KUBK

vi) One day Pictorial training curriculum by KUBK

vii) Social mobilization guideline by PAF

viii) GESI ToT manuals by every project

3.3 Learning of the projects

The main objective of the two-day workshop is indeed to infer the learning from methodologies

and tools used by the projects. The three projects, PAF, HVAP and KUBK which has years of

knowledge in implementing GESI concerns shared a common but very significant clue in

achieving GESI target is “social mobilization”. Similarly, ASHA who has not envisioned the role

of social mobilization in their project design has felt the need and now incorporating social

mobilizers in their institutional set-up. Following are the major learning points that are drawn

from the GESI experts‟ experiences during project implementation which are helpful for the new

projects to consider:

i) Unpacking the gender issues is important. Men/Women from different caste, different

economic status needs further analysis while implementing the program.

ii) Financial empowerment breaks the traditional norms and empowers women.

However, lower income groups who are generally excluded in financial sectors

needs to be financially included.

iii) Direct program package like Poverty Inclusion Fund (PIF) in HVAP which was not in

the initial design has resulted in meeting the inclusion targeting.

iv) GESI criteria should be included as a mandatory provision in each step or action;

starting from the project baseline study/assessment/mapping, business proposals

selection, executive board set-up. And maintaining the ratio of inclusiveness

(women, dalits, youths, marginalized groups) among the project beneficiaries should

begin from the very beginning.

v) Positive discrimination policies like reservation of seats are an effective tool to make

the project inclusive and should not be compromised. Example: SFACL policy

amendment to include 95 % women in the group is very successful. Equal pay for

equal work is partially successful.

vi) Monitoring and Evaluation Unit should be actively engaged in project intervention in

order to check that GESI mandates are met. Data collection templates should reflect

indicators of GESI disaggregated data.

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vii) Internalization of GESI concepts by the whole project team is the utmost necessary

condition. External resource person or simply inviting GESI experts from other IFAD-

project will be effective way to orient the team. Similarly, GESI analytical skills in the

implementing partners/service providers also play a role in resulting GESI target.

viii) Gender sensitive capacity assessment of partner organizations is important to make

them GESI sensitive and achieve the GESI result.

ix) Training materials, communication materials should be pictorial for effective learning

methods at community level.

x) Grievance Redress Mechanism (GRM) becomes effective when the project scope is

too big (experience from PAF). PAF has a Toll Free (1117) number where the

complaints are directly addressed by Executive Director which has become effective

medium of conflict resolution.

Feedback on RERP GESI Strategy/Guideline from Intra-IFAD GESI Workshop

Exercise on the status of illiteracy in the working area/corridor in order to design the

strategy and identify the need of beneficiaries. HVAP focused on making the illiterate

entrepreneurs be able to use the calculator instead of literacy class.

Design the manual that engages the participants and not as a reading book. Gender

Action Learning System (GALS) can be very helpful. Physcococial counseling –art

therapy

Make provision to involve Local Resource Person (LRP) from the disadvantaged

group. Make the selection criteria flexible where formal education qualification should

not be rigid. “जिस्का सवाल उस्का अवाि ।“ Invest in LRPs; not only as a facilitator but in their overall capacity. Add GESI

responsibility in their ToRs, support in micro teaching of ToT, day to day coaching,

make them participate in others‟ session, make them review of the events.

Set detail guidelines/rules for events in community like conducting meetings,

conducting PRA, facilitation skills.

For qualitative measurement of GESI, outcome indicator used by Swiss Development

Corporation can be effective.

Set-up GRM where the complaints, dissatisfaction can be addressed directly.

Prepare Knowledge Management and Communication Strategy to be inclusive and

gender sensitive.

Add one Gender Expert in the Corridor/Migration Study team.

M&E data – who is the lead of the enterprise

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3.4 Issues/Constraints and Way Forward

Although, the projects have implemented their plans by achieving their GESI targets, there are

still issues and challenges that need to be addressed. There are some challenges existing in the

community and sometimes new issues are generated which require attention of the GESI

experts while implementing the project. The challenges along with the way forward against

GESI milestone experienced by the projects were pointed out in the workshop are:

i) Although women and disadvantaged groups‟ participation is encouraging in every

project, leadership and decision making is yet to achieve in the same proportion.

Strengthening women‟s voice and increasing their bargaining power within the

organization and in the household should be focused in coming days. ii) Social issues are not discussed or considered during trainings and meetings that

keeps on overlooking the cultural barriers. Social mobilization and facilitation

skills should be still a priority. iii) Study in HVAP has shown that 78% enterprises are female lead but women have

multiple roles that increase the drudgery. Time saving technologies in

agriculture/production work, more coaching to men/women, buy-back

agreements can be supportive methods to balance the workload. iv) Community mobilization is not enough. Technical inputs like skills, financial

literacy is must to sustain their income. If the project scope is limited they can be

linked with other institutions. v) When the project coverage becomes wide and resources are not in place,

monitoring becomes weak. This is experienced by PAF who have not been able

to capture the whole picture of their community organizations and is unable to

record the graduation of their beneficiaries from one level to other. vi) Institutional capacity building of partner organizations, groups/cooperatives is a

priority issue in coming days. vii) With the experiences until now, social mobilization is to be carried on to achieve

good result and replicate good practices in coming days of the project

implementation.

3.5 Other Agendas

Beside the intra-project learning sharing, the participants also discussed on the IFAD Nepal

GECI Coverage Format and finalization of ToR of GESI Portfolio. The GESI coverage format

needs to be reviewed on the basis of the project scope and update the data accordingly. A brief

discussion on ToR of GESI Thematic Group identified key points as: i) learning sharing culture

develop, ii) Trimester meeting on rotation basis, iii) Develop Gender markers, iv) capacity

building by exchanging experts, exposure visits, v) networking not limited to IFAD but on

national and regional basis, and vi) platform to validate the documents in process.

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4. Next Step/Action Plan

In the end of the workshop, participants made some agreement considering the suggestions

made by guests in the formal session and about the issues raised during the discussion

session. The agreed plan of action is:

SN Action Lead Date Remarks

1 GESI coverage format, review and data update

Renu Rai 8 September To be forwarded to CPO Bashu Aryal

2 Exposure-News clip in Gender Newsletter

Rotation basis -- Kala Rai is responsible for upcoming 21 Issue

3 GESI thematic group meeting Draupadi Subedi

1 December Rotation basis

4 List of documents to be shared among each other

Kala Rai -- To be uploaded in e-library in the website.

5 Finalization of ToR, GESI Theme

Renu Rai -- To be forwarded to CPO Bashu Aryal

5. Conclusions

The two-day Intra-IFAD GESI Thematic Workshop became a very significant platform to share

the project experiences and draw learning from those experiences. This workshop was essential

as most of the participants were new to the platform and thus to create a network of GESI

expert within and outside the IFAD. The concluding remark of the workshop is summarized by

one of the participant, Ms. Subarna Pandey as,

“This workshop was indeed very fruitful to have glimpse of how intra IFAD projects are

intervening in the lives of people in our own communities. Furhter, this has also enriched

my knowledge and experiences to use GESI specific tools in addressing the lives of

vulnerable people by being context specific, learning the best practices and

challenges of projects and the good discussion we had have made this workshop a

learning forum for all.” – 28 August 2017

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List of Appendices