Cim Assessment, Annual Review and Municipal Engagement Workshop Dailekh
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Government of Nepal Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development CIM ASSESSMENT, ANNUAL REVIEW AND MUNICIPAL ENGAGEMENT WORKSHOP DAILEKH Rural Access Programme (RAP) Phase 3 September 2017 A Report on CIM Assessment, Annual Review and Municipal Engagement Workshop, Dailekh CONTENTS Acronyms And Abbreviations ................................................................................................................. ii Executive Summary ............................................................................................................................... 1 Part I: CIM assessment and Annual Review ......................................................................................... 2 1. Background ..................................................................................................................................... 2 2. Objectives of Workshop .................................................................................................................. 3 3. CIM Assessment ............................................................................................................................. 3 4. Annual Review ................................................................................................................................ 4 Part II: Municipal Engagement Workshop ............................................................................................. 6 1. Background & Context .................................................................................................................... 6 2. Objective of the Field Mission ......................................................................................................... 6 3. Expected Outcome of the Mission .................................................................................................. 6 4. Summary of Activities ..................................................................................................................... 7 4.1 Pre-workshop activities ............................................................................................................... 7 4.2 Workshop Proceedings ................................................................................................................ 7 4.2.1 Opening Session ................................................................................................................... 7 4.2.2 Discussion Session ............................................................................................................... 7 5. Closing Session ............................................................................................................................ 10 5.1 Key outputs of the workshop ...................................................................................................... 10 6. Workshop Expenditure ................................................................................................................. 11 APPENDIX Appendix 1 List of CIM Review Meeting Participants Appendix 2 Field Itinerary Appendix 3 Annual Review and Engagement Workshop & CIM Appendix 4 Workshop Schedule Appendix 5 List of Annual Review and Municipal Engagement Workshop Participants Appendix 6 Photographs i A Report on CIM Assessment, Annual Review and Municipal Engagement Workshop, Dailekh ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS AME/DC Asset Management Engineer/District Coordinator AR Annual Review ASP Annual Support Plan CBID Capacity Building and Institutional Development CDM CONNECT District Manager CIM Continual Improvement Matrix CPD Continuing Professional Development DCC District Coordination Committee DFID Department for International Development (UK Aid) DLI Disbursement Linked Indicator DOLIDAR Department of Local Infrastructure Development and Agricultural Roads DRCN District Road Core Network DTA District Technical Assistance DTMP District Transport Master Plan DTO District Technical Office EW Engagement Workshop GE Graduate Engineer GON Government of Nepal HQ Headquarters IMCW International Management Consulting Worldwide LL Units Local Level Units (Municipality, Rural Municipality) LRN Local Road Network Mun. Municipality MCPM Minimum Conditions Performance Measurement M&E Monitoring and Evaluation MOFALD Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development RAP Rural Access Programme RM Rural Municipality RMG Road Maintenance Group RTI Rural Transport Infrastructure SWAp Sector Wide Approach TA Technical Assistance ii A Report on CIM Assessment, Annual Review and Municipal Engagement Workshop, Dailekh EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Rural Access Programme – Phase 3 (RAP3) is a 6-year DFID funded project covering 14 Districts in Nepal. It aims to improve people’s incomes and resilience through employment, sustainable access to markets and improved access to economic opportunities. Expected outputs include improved and sustainable access due to climate resilient rural transport infrastructure, maintenance, upgrading and road/trail-bridge construction. Out of the 14 Programme districts, RAP in four new districts undertakes construction of 97.5 km of seven new roads whilst the other 10 districts focusses only on the maintenance of prioritised LRNs of around 2,000 km along with CBID in all districts and economic development activities in some selected core districts. RAP conducts review of programme activities carried out in the district every year to share progress and achievements of the Programme with the relevant district stakeholders. This year RAP conducted district annual review and municipal engagement workshop in Sept 2017 in all the programme districts. District CIM assessment was organised prior to the annual review and the municipal engagement workshop. The main objectives of the engagement workshop were to identify the local development issues with a particular focus on LRN sub-sector and then to look out possible areas where RAP3 can provide support to the local governments in future under the new federal structure. The report summarises CIM assessment and score, annual review of progress and municipal engagement. CIM Review - A meeting, chaired by Mr. Prem Bahadur Thapa, Chairperson of DCC Dailekh was held on 14th Sept 2017 for CIM evaluation of LRN asset management in DCC meeting hall in Dailekh. Vice chair-person of DCC, LDO of DCC, DTO Engineers, DCC planning officer and other officials from DCC and DTO along with RAP DTA and TMO representatives were the attendees of the meeting. Following in-depth discussions on each sub-themes of CIM assigning unanimous scores against each of them, the meeting concluded with a total average score of 8.25, which is 0.55 point more than the last year’s score. Annual Review - The annual review and engagement workshop was organised on 15th September 2017. Although annual review and municipal engagement workshop were lumped into a single event annual review and engagement workshop were separated in two separate events, the first session was dedicated for annual review programme and the second one was allocated for the municipal engagement workshop. The annual review session was chaired by Chairperson of DCC Mr. Prem Bahadur Thapa, Two Member of Parliament (MPs), Chief District Officer (CDO) represented as the chief and special guest, LDO and Deputy Chief of DCC represented as the guest in the workshop. DCC programme officer Mr. Padam Sapkota facilitated the workshop as MC and opened the session with welcome speech followed by some highlights on objective of the workshop. RTL Mr. Rajendra Kumar Shrestha gave presentation on overall programme activities carried out by RAP 3 in Dailekh during last FY 2073/74. Few questions and queries were raised by the participants, which were clarified by DTA and TMO representatives. Major concerns were related to the improvement/upgrading of RAP constructed roads. MP Mr. Amar Bahadur Thapa appreciated the RAP contribution to the district in LRN sector but viewed that the need of upgrading (at least gravel) RAP constructed roads for sustainability. He also highlighted to support for constructing Dailekh-Mahabu-Jumla road via Kalikot. This road will be 67 km shorter than existing Surkhet-Jumla Karnali highway benefitting people of Dailekh, Kalikot and Jumla. Another MP Mr. Laxmi Prasad Pokhrel also appreciated RAP works in Dailekh and put his view for RAP support on Dailekh-Mahabu-Jumla road construction on the top of rural road maintenance. He wished the betterment of RAP’s programme activities and 1 A Report on CIM Assessment, Annual Review and Municipal Engagement Workshop, Dailekh continues RAP in Dailekh in further phases. CDO Mr. Bishwo Raj Neupane appreciated the efforts of RAP3 for making such common platform to identify issues and possible solutions with rigorous discussion among the key representatives of each local level bodies. He also highlighted that the content of discussion matters under six thematic areas are very common to all and assured to support from his office in the coordination part with local bodies as deemed necessary. The DCC Chief, Mr. Prem Bahadur Thapa from the chair in his concluding remarks appreciated RAP’s contribution on introducing maintenance system of DRCN in the district. He also highlighted on sustainability issue of RAP constructed three major backbone roads of the district as well as other district roads. He suggested that drain construction, slope protection and water management is the important works for the sustainability of roads, which has seen positive impact from recent works carried out by RAP and Department of