ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT FOR FY 2020/21 16 JUL 2020- 15 JUL 2021 Provincial Coordination Committee Meeting 01-APR-2021. The PCC meeting endorsed PASIP activities of FY 2021/22 ToT on LISA held in Godaworai Village Resort, Lalitpur. The program had jointly organized MoFAGA and PCGG Bagmati Province Government Office of the chief Minister and Council of Ministers (OCMCM) Bagamati Province Provincial Center for Good Provincial Program Governance (PCGG) Implementation Unit (PPIU) Jawalakhel, Lalitpur, Nepal Makwanpur, Hetauda, Nepal 30 July 2021 This page left blank intentionally Annual Progress Report of FY 2020/2021- PLGSP Bagamati Province 1 Table of Contents Table of Contents ............................................................................................................................ 2 List of Tables ................................................................................................................................... 3 Executive Summary ........................................................................................................................ 4 Abbreviations and Acronyms .......................................................................................................... 7 1. Background ............................................................................................................................... 10 2. Program Objective ..................................................................................................................... 10 3. Program Implementation Arrangement in the Province ........................................................... 10 4. Key Achievement against Target .............................................................................................. 11 5. Details on the Progress .............................................................................................................. 13 6. Mainstreaming Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) ................................................. 27 7. Responding to COVID-19 Pandemic ........................................................................................ 28 8. Monitoring and Knowledge Management ................................................................................. 29 9. Financial Progress ..................................................................................................................... 30 10. Linkage and Coordination: ...................................................................................................... 32 11. Issues and Challenges .............................................................................................................. 32 12. Lessons Learned ...................................................................................................................... 33 13. Recommendations/Suggestions ............................................................................................... 34 14. Plans and Priorities for Next Quarter ...................................................................................... 35 Annex I: ......................................................................................................................................... 38 Progress Against COVID Responsive Activities and budget under ASIP 2020/21 ..................... 38 Annex II ......................................................................................................................................... 43 Consolidated Result-based Reporting against the targets of P/ASIP ............................................ 43 Annex III ....................................................................................................................................... 48 Outputwise Beneficiaries Details* ................................................................................................ 48 Annex IV ....................................................................................................................................... 51 List of LGs with LISA Published .................................................................................................. 51 Annex-V ........................................................................................................................................ 54 List of LGs prepared RIAP, Periodic Plan and CD Plan .............................................................. 54 Annex -VI ...................................................................................................................................... 55 List of LGs accomplishing GESI Audit , GESI strategy and Code of Conduct ........................... 55 Annex-VII ..................................................................................................................................... 56 List of LGs participated in MTEF Training .................................................................................. 56 Annex VIII .................................................................................................................................... 57 Photographs of some key events ................................................................................................... 57 Annual Progress Report of FY 2020/2021- PLGSP Bagamati Province 2 List of Tables Table 1: List of curricula approved from steering committee .................................................. 20 Table 2: Participants of RIAP Orientation ................................................................................ 21 Table 3: Participants of CD events in different themes under output 13 ................................. 26 Table 4: Participants of CD events in different themes under output 14 ................................. 27 Table 5: List of virtual events during lockdown ...................................................................... 29 Table 6: Output wise financial progress of FY 2020/21 ......................................................... 30 Annual Progress Report of FY 2020/2021- PLGSP Bagamati Province 3 Executive Summary During this reporting period, PPIU and PCGG Bagamati province made a number of progress in both of the outcomes 2 and 3; and subsequent outputs except output 12. PPIU has been providing technical support on policy/laws, institution and system strengthening to provincial government and local governments. Likewise PCGG has been delivering training, orientation and capacity development activities to elected representatives of provincial and local government as well as PG and LG staff. Together with the physical progress highlighted below, PLGSP Bagamati achieve 37.28% financial progress out of budget 2,35,420,000.00 in FY 2020/21. This calculation excludes the IPF budget 1,530,000,000.00 due to IPF implementation guidelines has not been approved in FY 2020/21 to start the activities under output 12 for this purpose. Some key progress and achievement are summarized as below; Summary- PPIU Bagamati Province formulated once an act (Provincial Good Governance Act) and two regulations (establishment and executive order of PCGG). Through this achievement, Provincial Center for Good governance (PCGG) in Bagamati Province has now been legally established and functioning. OCMCM formed a review team consisting of GLE from PPIU, undersecretary and officer from OCMCM Law Section, undersecretary from MoIAL and Section officer from Attorney General Officials to review existing acts/regulations of LGs and to provide feedback for improvement. The team completed the law review process of four LGs and published “Report on the Review existing laws of LGs and provide feedback for improvement” in a book form. PPIU initiated toward preparing GESI profile of PG ministries and data collection of 88 provincial officers has been completed and drafting the staff GESI profile process is ongoing. PPIU, in coordination with the PCC secretariat, supported conducting PCC meetings, identifying the possible agenda and informing the members as required. The PCC meeting has successfully conducted on 25 March 2021. PPIU supported to disseminate the decision of PCC meeting to LGs and also supporting to execute the decisions as appropriate. Provincial Coordination Committee meeting has been conducted on 01 April 2021 and endorsed the activity for the fiscal year 2021/22. Considering the importance of SDG localization, Bagamati province has prepared and published the “SDG Localization Roadmap” to facilitate the LGs in localizing the SDGs by developing strategies and aligning it with local planning and priorities. Seven IT officers working in PG ministries and supporting to strengthen/establish IT based information management system in respective PG ministries and the Provincial Public Service Commission (PPSC) to automation, form entry and verifications etc.PLGSP further capacited them on the key ICT based management system as well as e-governance supporting tools through three days dedicated training. Bagamati Province prepared and published a book “Pradesh Sarkaar ka 3 Barsha” (three years of Bagamati Province) incorporating the achievements and progress made by PG ministries during the last three years. Annual Progress Report of FY 2020/2021- PLGSP Bagamati Province 4 Integrated website of Ministry of Physical Infrastructure Development (MoPID) has been prepared and published. A single format website of 46 offices under MoPID has been prepared and lived now. https://tid.bagamati.gov.np/np During the fiscal year 2020/21, PPIU achieved 26.40% financial progress