Karnali Employment Programme Technical Assistance (KEPTA)
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Karnali Employment Programme Technical Assistance (KEPTA) Details
The Karnali Employment Programme Technical Assistance (KEPTA) supports the Government of Nepal in developing and testing new approaches to employment-led poverty reduction. The main goal of the TA is to assess whether public work programmes (PWPs) could play a significant role in a national social protection strategy and this is done through a three-tiered approach. First, the TA supports the GoN in improving the Karnali Employment Programme (KEP) through enhanced designs, systems, processes and operations in order to enable the programme to fulfil its mandate: to reduce poverty and vulnerability in Karnali. Second, the TA increases KEP's institutional capacity to provide social protection through employment and supports the development of a sustainable model for government owned scaling up of the KEP. Third, the TA influences policy through research, stakeholder engagement, coordination of PWPs and support to the revision of programme guidelines and government acts.The TA programme has been designed as a three-year project divided into two phases. Phase 1, which started in September 2013 and is expected to finish in July 2014, aims to support the KEP in designing and implementing pilot projects in the Jumla and Kalikot districts in order to test new approaches (Tier 1). Support for improving KEP's institutional capacity is provided through training, oversight, resources and the development of a Management Information System (MIS) – which is Tier 2. Moreover, the policy process is informed and influenced by research, knowledge sharing and stakeholder engagement (Tier 3). Oxford Policy Management Limited is leading the Technical Assistance and supported by Deego Pvt. Ltd. and ITT UK. The support is funded by UK Government Department of International Development.
