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The Ministry of Local Development (MLD) and seven donors (ADB,
DFID, GTZ, JICA, SDC, WB, and WFP) signed a Statement of
Intent (SoI) on 21 February 2008 showing their preference to
enter into a Sector Wide Approach in overall Rural Transport
Infrastructure. The SoI's goal is the more effective
delivery of rural transport infrastructure (RTI) in Nepal
and the purpose was: "Development of a more effective
framework of donor support to the Government of Nepal for
rural transport, based on Sector Wide Approach (SWAp)
principles." The SoI signatories believe that the
effectiveness of the Rural Transport Infrastructure sector
can be enhanced by more coordinated donor support for a
coherent, realistic, government-led approach. It is intended
to use SWAp principles to inform the preparation of the next
phase of donor support from 2011.
The process has identified three (component) sub-sectors viz
a vis (i) Rural roads and bridges; (ii) Trails and trail
bridges; (iii) Other rural transport infrastructure and set
up an action plan with deadlines to be achieved by the end
of 2010. Out of the three
sub-sectors, MLD/DoLIDAR believes that the trail bridge
sub–sector is in the most advanced stage among the three to
fulfil pre-conditions to enter into SWAp, as most of the
required national strategy, technical, social, procurement,
monitoring, capacity building guidelines etc have been
prepared.
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Sector-Wide
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Helvetas was established in 1956 as the first Swiss NGO under the name of SHAG for development cooperation in developing countries. SHAG was later renamed as Helvetas. Helvetas became active in Nepal since the first year of its foundation. During 1970 - 1987, Helvetas and SDC worked jointly under the name of SATA (Swiss Association for Technical Assistance) in Nepal.