CANADA NEPAL GENDER IN ORGANIZATIONS

Section I: Introduction

4. Project Goal, Purpose and Outcomes

The goal of CNGO was to promote good governance and the transition to greater equality between men and women in Nepal. In the long term, the project contributed to this goal by strengthening gender-responsive civil-society organizations, and by contributing to gender-responsive development policies and programs.

The purpose of the project was to strengthen capacities of the Social Welfare Council and participating organizations at the central, regional and district levels to carry out gender-responsive development, and to develop strategic linkages among the SWC, selected government institutions and non-governmental organizations. The project outcomes related to this purpose are:

A Social Welfare Council in partnership with the NGO community in Nepal that effectively promotes a gender-responsive and enabling regulatory and policy environment, and that promotes NGO policy dialogue and gender equality practices among governmental and non-governmental organizations; and
NGO participants that effectively plan and implement gender-responsive development initiatives, and that competently provide technical services to community-based organizations and user groups in a gender-responsive manner.

The implementation of the project was guided by the statements of goal, purpose and expected results outlined in the project's Logical Framework Analysis, found in Reference #2 of Section 6.