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Background and use of SL
Rural-Urban Partnership Programme (RUPP) is premised around
the concept of achieving the goals of urban and rural development
by strengthening rural-urban linkages. Banking heavily in
its successful social mobilization initiatives, RUPP address
not only the physical aspects of urban development, but also
economic as well as social aspects through good urban governance.
It has adopted a holistic approach to the
issue of urban development that centres on the notion of holding
urban areas as engines of growth and seeks to capitalise on
the benefits and development potential obtainable through
well-articulated and strengthened rural-urban linkages. The
Programme is urban-based and urban led, and hence advocates
an 'Urban Based Local Development' approach.
The Programme will focus its activities of direct delivery
through the grassroots by using the decentralized government
structures and providing resources, information and building
capacity of the local and national government institutions
in dealing with rapid urbanization, weak rural-urban linkages
and growing poverty. The main objectives of the Programme
in Phase III are:
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Livelihoods of urban and rural poor secured through social
mobilization (with special emphasis on vulnerable groups)
• Economic and planning linkages between rural and urban
areas strengthened
• Urban governance improved to provide efficient basic
service delivery
• National level government and civil society institutions
strengthened to implement the vision of the 10th Five Year
Plan urban sections.
The Programme's support is provided at three levels: a) Central
or Macro, b) Municipality and Village Development Committee
(VDC) or Meso, and c) Community level - within the Municipality
and rural market centres or Micro.
The
working area of the Programme in Phase III is mainly in Far
Western, Mid Western and Eastern Development Region of Nepal
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