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Budget
2007
Fund allocations in Nepal to Helvetas’ Working Areas in 2007.
|
Working Area |
Total Budget (NPR) |
|
Infrastructure in Rural Areas |
300,416,000 |
|
Sustainable Management of Natural Resources |
180,241,000 |
|
Education and Culture |
67,785,000 |
|
Total |
548,442,000 |
Expenses in Nepal 2006
Actual expenditures in Nepal under Helvetas’ Working Areas from
January – December 2006.
|
Working Area |
Total Expense (NPR) |
|
Infrastructure in Rural Areas |
249,290,000 |
|
Sustainable Management of Natural Resources |
166,597,000 |
|
Education and Culture |
63,748,000 |
|
Total |
479,635,000 |
Note:
Annual Budget is prepared before September for the following
year to forecast the financial needs for the work plan of
Helvetas Nepal Country Programme. Programme implementation, control,
monitoring and evaluation are done as
per Helvetas Nepal Policy Manual. All
Helvetas Nepal transactions are audited annually by
independent Chartered Accountants from a registered Audit firm.
All the
changes / amendments in National Law related to finance are
immediately included in the Helvetas Nepal Policy Manual and are
implemented with immediate
effect.
Fund Sources:
-
SDC
contributions funds to five (5) projects in Rural
Infrastructure, Natural Resources Management and Vocational
Training.
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DFID
contributes funds to the overall Helvetas Nepal Country
Programme under a Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA)
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Helvetas
contributes funds from its own resources and from various
partnership programmes, including Fastenopfer in Switzerland.
Investment
Analysis of Expenses 2006
A new
analytical tool for investment analysis has been introduced in
collaboration with SDC in 2006. Preliminary outcomes are shown
below.
Investments
by Objectives:
In 2006, the highest
investment (74%) was made for achieving Objective 1, improved
livelihoods. This includes the main tangible benefits in terms
of food and income from NRM, skills training linked to
employment, enterprising and better access to services and
markets through rural infrastructure development (bridges,
irrigation, roads, collection centers, etc), especially for the
socially discriminated and economically disadvantaged.
Investment under Objective 2 (21%) was in support of
decentralized governance (facilitation of decentralized socially
inclusive cross-sectoral planning) and the development of local
service provider systems (capacity building and financing the
services of Local Resource Persons on community demand).
Investment under Objective 3 (5%) was in support of raising the
voice and influence of the socially discriminated and
economically disadvantaged.

Investments
in support of the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS)
Projects
under the Helvetas Nepal Country Programme jointly contribute to
the Poverty Reduction Strategy of the Government of Nepal. The
approximate investments to the four pillars of the PRS are
outlined in the figure below,

Investments
assessed for social targeting and geographic location
The
tentative analysis for 2006 indicates that about 67% of the
funds were allocated for generating benefits in rural areas
(more than 1.5 hours one-way walking distance from a seasonal
road and from district head quarters) and 65% of funds were
allocated for targeting benefits to poor households (less than 6
months food sufficiency from farming for faming households, less
than NPR 3,000 per month income for non-farming households).
About 53% and 43% of investments are targeted for generating benefits for Dalits/Janjatis and women, respectively.
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