Support to Constitution Building

Support to Participatory Constitution Building in Nepal (SPCBN)

Support the members of the CA, their Secretariat, technical advisors, and support staff, ensuring that they have the infrastructure, information, advice, training, outreach capacity and other tools they need to work effectively.


1. Facilitate dialogue between the CA and the public so that the concerns of all stakeholders can be understood and constructively considered. Within the ambit of the track 2 a resource centre will be established to function as a training centre and dialogue forum. The resource centre will include facilities for expert advice, training, facilitated meetings and public information.
   
   
2. Involve public outreach through television, radio and community mobilisation activities focused on increasing public knowledge of the constitutional process and issues and public input into the constitution making process. In this regard, the Project will give particular emphasis to supporting input into the constitution building process from excluded groups by way of submissions.

1. Support the Constituent Assembly process by providing specific support to the CA secretariat, CA committees and members
   
   CA Secretariat: Refurbishment of CA, communications, transportation, travel to and from constituencies, library, document management, staff training, communications, website and others.
   
   CA Committees: Refurbishment of committee rooms, provision of experts, training and support for community outreach.
   
   CA Member: Orientation workshops, trainings and seminars for members, with special emphasis on members from disadvantaged groups. Interaction of CA members with civil society to encourage submissions to the constitutional process will also be supported.
   
   
2. Establishment of a Resource Centre
   
   The Resource Centre will function as a space for democratic dialogue for all those with a stake in constitution making in Nepal. It will also be a place for knowledge development and dialogue that is essential to building an inclusive constitution.
   
   
3. Support the development and implementation of a Civil Society Support Strategy through a grants program
   
   
4. Expert assistance to CSOs
   
   Technical assistance to the preparations of CSO and NGO submissions to the CA, organizing training on how to prepare a submissions and how to ensure these submissions are prepared in the most effective manner.
   
   
5. Implement a communication and outreach strategy
   
   Establish a website, reporting on developments in the Constituent Assembly; documentation and discussion of Project activities with civil society and social mobilisers through TV and radio programmes, video and photographs.
   
   
6. Strengthen community radio and its capacity to promote engagement in the Constitution Building process
   
   Provide support to local and community radios.
   
   
7. Promote radio and television programmes in the constitution building process
   
   Production of radio programmes in the docu-drama format will continue to be produced in Nepali. It also includes the production of the live audience interview programme with key political figures, on both radio and television. Support community radio to broadcast news bulletins and live coverage of the CA, interviews with CA member and civil society activists.
   
   
8. Support to a constitution building network of 30,000 community groups
   
   The project will work with marginalized communities in every constituency by providing small grants to CSOs to work with community leaders, youth clubs, radio clubs etc to inform them of the constitutional process, connect them with their CA members to make submissions to impact the process.