| Priorities | Activities | ||
| 1 | NPC Overhaul | 1 | Executive Order: Gathan tatha Karyasanchalan Aadesh 2074 for a reformed “National Policy and Planning Commission” drafted and submitted to Cabinet, concluding a three-year process of consultative institutional reform |
| 2 | National Development Volunteer Service (NDVS): New regulations finalized, selection process revamped and over 600 volunteers deployed (based on merit); Report on volunteer schemes under federalism prepared; Two additional volunteer programs (drafts) conceived for post-high school and post-Master’s graduates in local governments | ||
| 3 | NPC premises: New building secured and aesthetic environment improved (physical and virtual); First electric vehicle procured with Government’s own resources (to make a policy statement on clean growth) | ||
| 2 | Long-term Development Vision | 4 | Nepal’s Sustainable Development Goals: Status and Roadmap, 2016-2030 prepared and launched |
| 5 | Envisioning Nepal 2030: Contributions to a Policy Framework drafted | ||
| 6 | LDC Graduation Policy Paper prepared and official country position presented at the United Nations Committee for Development Policy (CDP) in New York (Feb 1-2, 2018) | ||
| 3 | Economic Reforms | 7 | Budget and Resource Committee: Federal budget ceiling prepared for 2018 through formal convening of the Resource Committee; Medium-term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) re-started |
| 8 | Policy roundtable series organized on six topics (Foreign Direct Investment; Forests and development tradeoff; Operation modality of new airports; Contractual management of urban infrastructure projects; Fate of the Cotton Development Board; Local-level planning | ||
| 9 | Public-Private Partnership (PPP): Role of Investment Board of Nepal and PPP Center clarified in the PPP Act; PPP Resource Book and PPP policy for local governments drafted | ||
| 10 | Poverty Alleviation Fund (PAF): Chaired a commission to propose a new design of PAF; Comprehensive Impact Evaluation of PAF undertaken by NPC | ||
| 4 | Infrastructure | 11 | Projects of National Pride (PNP): Facilitation of Arun III and Upper Karnali hydropower projects (deadlines extended); Monitoring of Kathmandu-Terai Expressway; Next steps cleared on the Second International Airport; Expediting of Melamchi Drinking Water Project; Active coordination of four large irrigation projects; High-level Report published on Suggested Reforms for the Management of Projects of National Pride |
| 12 | Budhi Gandaki investment framework: Led high-level committee (formed by the Cabinet) to prepare domestic financing framework for the 1200 megawatt Budhi Gandaki storage hydropower project | ||
| 13 | Sino/Indo projects: Pipeline of flagship India-supported projects reflected in the August 2017 Joint Statement; and discussions advanced on China’s Belt and Road Initiative, including elements of a potential (Early Harvest) Preferential Trade Agreement | ||
| 14 | Institutional coordination to nudge progress on Upper Trishuli 3A financing; MCC $500million grant signed (that was kicked off in 2015 by NPC); SEZ coordination of electricity supply in Bhairhawa and related activities; Report prepared on the conflict between reservoir projects and road infrastructure; Improved working partnership with IBN; Standard Operating Procedures for project implementation drafted | ||
| 5 | Cooperative Federalism | 15 | Standards on Integrated Urban Development prepared |
| 16 | Local-level Planning Guidelines prepared and handed over to the Ministry of Local Development; Training manual drafted | ||
| 17 | Formula for Equalization Grant prepared for the budget of 2073/74, and handed over to the Fiscal Commission for 2074/75 | ||
| 18 | Web-based visualization of detailed socio-economic data of 3.5 million people in 11 earthquake-affected districts in partnership with Kathmandu Living Labs | ||
| 19 | Regular field visits and interaction with elected representatives on evolving problems (e.g., Janata Aawas program) | ||
| 6 | Evidence-based Policymaking | 20 | National Development Action Committees (NDAC): 40th and 41st NDAC summits held successfully, chaired by the Prime Minister, and attended by an expanded Cabinet plus all Secretaries (Government’s top M&E mechanism) |
| 21 | Multidimensional Poverty Report 2018 prepared and launched in partnership with the University of Oxford, with Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) disaggregated at the provincial level | ||
| 22 | Post Flood Recovery Needs Assessment (PFRNA) prepared and launched; Policy package announced by the Cabinet and a special cell created at the National Reconstruction Authority | ||
| 23 | Central Bureau of Statistics: New economic census launched (2018-2019) and National Strategy for the Development of Statistics (NSDS) drafted | ||
| 24 | SDGs: UNDP-supported project on the pursuit of SDGs, based at NPC, overhauled for 2018-2020; SDG data portal launched in partnership with Nepal in Data | ||
| 25 | Distinguished panel of eminent persons formed to advise the Vice-Chair | ||
| 26 | Ex-officio advisory and representational roles across dozens of committees [e.g. sub-Cabinet, MoF, IBN, Nepal Academy of Science and Technology]; Constant development dialogue with donors and diplomats, as well as the private sector, NGOs, students, Non-Resident Nepalis, and the Nepal Army; Helped resolve two separate fasts-unto-death by Dr. Govinda KC | ||
| 7 | International Engagements | 27 | Tenth South Asia Economic Summit successfully organized in Kathmandu, November 14-16, 2017, in partnership with SAWTEE |
| 28 | State visits: Core Member of the Prime Minister’s State Visit to India (August 2017); Represented the Prime Minister at the 3rd Asia-Pacific Water Summit in Myanmar (at the invitation of Aung San Suu Kyi) |
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| 29 | Policy dialogue with India and China: NPC’s formal relationship with NITI Aayog established for an Annual Policy Summit; Op-ed published in the Indian Express (August 24, 2017) outlining elements of Indo-Nepal cooperation; Outreach to National Development and Reform Commission (China) initiated | ||
| 30 | UN Economic and Social Commission for the Asia-Pacific: Elected Chairman of the Second Ministerial Conference on Regional Economic Cooperation and Integration (RECI) as well as the Fifth Session of the two-yearly Committee on Trade and Investment; Deepened collaboration with ESCAP | ||
| 31 | UN Development Assistance Framework: $600 million program signed between NPC and UN for 5 years (2018-2022) after long negotiations | ||
| 32 | Asian Development Bank and World Bank: High level visit to Manila for meetings with the President; Meetings with WB Vice President and senior officials on the preparation of Country Partnership Framework (2018-2022) | ||
| 33 | High-level participation: 4th World Internet Conference (2017, China); Arctic Conference (2018, Norway) | ||
| 34 | Helped Nepal lead the BIRDS-3 satellite project (Japan) | ||
| 8 | Other Key Initiatives by Members | 35 | Universalizing Clean Energy in Nepal: Comprehensive technical plan prepared for optimal distributed generation and grid access for all by 2022 in 753 local governments; Funding needs estimated for electricity access for all |
| 36 | Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Plan II (2018-2022) launched | ||
| 37 | Cooperative Housing Policy and Guidelines prepared | ||
| 38 | Others: Draft policies prepared on Food Green City and Smart Village; Sustainable Urban Development Index initiated; Social Protection Framework drafted; Technical and Vocational Education and Training Fund (TVET) Framework drafted; Policies approved to combat the worst forms of child labor and occupational health; Contributed to a task force on reducing the trade deficit; River basin-based development initiated; Work on an omnibus act of economic reforms begun |
