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I am Basan Shrestha from Kathmandu, Nepal. I use the term 'BASAN' as 'Balancing Actions for Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resources'. I am a Design, Monitoring & Evaluation professional. I hold 1) MSc in Regional and Rural Development Planning, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, 2002; 2) MSc in Statistics, Tribhuvan University (TU), Kathmandu, Nepal, 1995; and 3) MA in Sociology, TU, 1997. I have more than 10 years of professional experience in socio-economic research, monitoring and documentation on agricultural and natural resource management. I had worked in Lumle Agricultural Research Centre, western Nepal from Nov. 1997 to Dec. 2000; CARE Nepal, mid-western Nepal from Mar. 2003 to June 2006 and WTLCP in far-western Nepal from June 2006 to Jan. 2011, Training Institute for Technical Instruction (TITI) from July to Sep 2011, UN Women Nepal from Sep to Dec 2011 and Mercy Corps Nepal from 24 Jan 2012 to 14 August 2016 and CAMRIS International in Nepal commencing 1 February 2017. I have published articles to my credit.

Monday, January 2, 2012

Women Rights Monitoring and Analysis System (WoRiMAS)


Women Rights Monitoring and Analysis System (WoRiMAS) is being established at National Women Commission (NWC) with the support from UN Women in Nepal. Both organisations entrusted and supported me to develop WoRiMAS. I developed WoRiMAS in close consultation with NWC and UN Women officials, in three months from 15 October to 14 December 2011.

WoRiMAS aims at periodically monitoring and reporting on implementation status of policies, legislations and programmes pertaining to gender equality and women's empowerment. WoRiMAS is based on Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), National Action Plan (NAP) on United Nations Security Council Resolutions (UNSCRs) 1325 and 1820, and Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA).

WoRiMAS constitutes: 1) two set of monitoring data collection formats to be administered to district based government agencies (District Attorney Office, District Court, Chief District Office, District Police Office, District Jail Office, District Development Committee, District Women and Children Office, District Education Office, District Health Office, District Agricultural Development Office, Cottage and Small industries District Office, Local Peace Committee, Zonal Labour office and Department of Foreign Employment; The first format is administered to all listed agencies. It primarily consists of information on gender focal unit, gender sensitive leave provisions, infrastructure development, program and budgeting. Second format is administered to sectoral agencies. 2) Management Information System (MIS) developed in Excel software and 3) data output tables for reporting.

The smooth functioning of WoRiMAS by NWC on its own and with the support from Women Rights Monitoring Network member organizations will add a mile stone to monitoring and evaluation of gender equality and women's empowerment.
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