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Discharge of minors- 7 Jan 2010 in Dudhauli, Sindhuli Cantonment


Service Lines
SL 4.1 – Conflict Prevention and Peace Building

On the peace building front, Nepal faced many challenges in 2007 in implementing the 2006 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and the Agreement on the Monitoring of the Management of the Arms and Armies (AMMAA). These challenges included establishing mechanisms to involve marginalised groups in the implementation of the agreements, developing initiatives to address the future of the security sector, ensuring overall improvements in the law and order and human rights situation, and mobilising resources for the implementation of the CPA.

Another major challenge was to ensure an appropriate atmosphere for elections to a Constituent Assembly (CA) to draft a new Constitution, which would be the first-ever constitution drafted by democratically elected representatives from all parts of the country.

To help respond to some of these challenges, UNDP established a Peace Building and Recovery Unit in early 2007, with four main focus areas: Recovery and Reintegration; Constitution Building Support; Electoral Assistance; and Peace-building. The major donors supporting this initiative were Britain, Norway and Switzerland. The UNDP Bureau of Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR) supported the work of this cluster through financial contributions and advisory and technical support.

UNDP introduced a series of peace-support activities and continued to place a major emphasis on reaching communities to foster grassroots reconciliation through development.

Key support was provided to UNMIN to design and implement a comprehensive strategy to register and verify the Maoist army, and their weapons, and to facilitate the lock-up of an equivalent number of Nepal Army weapons as part of the agreement. The successful registration of Maoist combatants and UN monitored storage of weapons, completed in February 2007, helped pave the way for inclusion of the CPN (Maoist) into the Interim Government.

At the request of the Ministry of Finance, UNDP provided technical assistance to the Government’s initiative of establishing a Nepal Peace Trust Fund to help mobilise and coordinate development partners’ financial support to various projects related to the implementation of peace agreements.

As preparation for the CA election and constitution drafting process, a UNDP Constitutional Advisory Support Unit was set up in late 2006 to help build the understanding and readiness of key national actors and the public at large to participate actively in the constitution building process.

UNDP provided a range of specialist technical experts to support the work of the Election Commission in its preparation for the CA elections, in close collaboration with UNMIN. UNDP supported in the establishment of the Electoral Observation Resource Centre in order to provide training and assistance to domestic and international election observers.

July 2007 saw the beginning of a unique peace-building collaboration between UNDP-supported Community Based Organisations, local community radios and the BBC World Service Trust as part of UNDP’s Participation in Peace project. The main objective of this initiative was to empower people from traditionally –excluded communities to engage meaningfully in peace and constitution-building processed through interactive radio programmes targeting 25,000 community organisations in 66 of Nepal’s 75 districts.



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