OM Analysis for Nepal (ENRD) Country Component

1. Vision

The citizens, local government, schools, organizations and business houses use localized computing technology more efficiently in the various fields they are involved; such as in business, management, education, social services delivery system and communication. The community groups and organizations have enough technical capacity to generate and use locally relevant content to improve their living standard and make their life more enjoyable. Such benefits of technology is being accessed by equal participation of gender, marginalized community and ethnic group. The model, the experiences and the techniques and methodologies developed by the project would be replicated in other villages of country.

2. Mission

The project will focus mainly on building the capacity of citizens, local government, community organizations, schools and business houses to use and deploy the localized computing technology in their daily activities. The program will encourage equal participation of community and organizations in getting access to technology and generating locally relevant content and displaying them in the internet in the local language

3. Boundary Partners

3.1. Local Governments body (VDC, Wards)

3.1.1. Outcome Challenge:

PAN Phase II program wants to see local government body recognizing the importance of, and engage in different ICT activities to encourage citizens use the localized computing technology, gathering the contribution and establishing the partnership with other organizations within their area. Local government are able to demonstrate and influence district level government body so that they can contribute for expanding similar program around the area. Identifying ICT as important component in the community development district level government bodies priorities and plan the ICT sectors in their annual development activities.

3.1.2. Progress Markers

Expect to See

• Participating in regular meeting for building network to increase the participation of citizens and organizations in project area.
• Acquiring the new concept for participating in the ICT development program
• Seek opportunities to disseminate the benefits of the project in community people
• Contributing minimum human and financial resources necessary to get PAN Phase –II training program to run

Like to See

• Involve in the process of building ICT infrastructure in the area.
• Encouraging the female and marginalized citizens to participate in the capacity building training program of PAN Phase-II.
• Develop new strategies to include gender participation and equity in the ICT training program of PAN Phase-II
• Develop concepts and build a network to sustainable run this process in future.
• Identifying the opportunities for collaboration with other organizations for encouraging citizens in the PAN Phase-II ICT training program.
• Coordinating and expanding the joint work to deployment of localized computing technology in every day activities of organizations.
• Involving in the process of deploying the technology to manage own system. Such as website development, document drafting and saving etc..
• Identifying opportunities for, and successfully obtaining, funding from district government and other range of sources in the project area.

Love to See

• Playing a leadership role in increasing financial investment in the ICT development component.
• Sharing lessons and experience through website with other VCDs and encourage other to deploy ICT.
• Influencing district level government for formulating policy on prioritizing ICT as important component and managing the fund for expanding similar projects in other areas.

3.1.4 Strategy Map

	Causal	Persuasive	Supportive
Individual	Contribute human and financial support to PAN Phase –II program	Conduct meetings and encourage citizens of different ethnic group and marginalized community members, and women to participate in the PAN Phase-II end users training program	Develop the ICT cell network in the area to extend the ICT services and formatting a policy to Integrating ICT program as its regular development programs in the area. Develop fundraising strategy for sustaining PAN Phase-II program
Environmental	Coordinate for providing training (layer 2 and 3) space and managing other infrastructure such as electricity power, classroom etc.	Disseminate the activity done to support PAN Phase II training program by web, radio, and news papers etc., Participate in the discussion forum for sharing the experience	Build Network of farmers, teachers, marginalized community members, students, business peoples for sharing the knowledge and information of relevant interest

3.2. School (teachers, students, school community)

3.2.1. Outcome Challenge:

The PAN Phase II project intends to see school communities (school, teachers, and students) that recognize the importance of, and engage in the ICT based education activities. School community has gained trust from the district education office and local government body so that they can contribute through their active involvement in the implementation of the project. They are able to run and engage on formal and non-formal ICT training and improve education level through the dissemination of ICT awareness classes/activities in their area. Schools act as champions for providing ICT education in the area.

3.2.2. Progress Markers

Expect to see

• Participate in the regular PAN Phase II project meetings in local level to identify opportunities for students, teachers and school community in use of localized Technology.
• Contributing the minimum human and financial resources necessary to run ICT capacity building training on PAN Phase II in the area.
• Establishing structures for equal participant of the students, teachers and school community in the PAN Phase –II ICT training program.
• Acquiring new skills for deploying ICT in their teaching, learning and school activities management component.

Like to see

• Identifying the opportunities for providing ICT capacity building training to the teachers and students including from marginalized community.
• Presenting all the skills acquired by school students, teachers and the community.
• Monitoring to the participants who are participating from school community in ICT training program.
• Producing and disseminating concrete example of benefits arising from the ICT training program.
• Identifying the opportunities for collaboration with other institutions and organizations.
• Identifying the opportunities for, and successfully obtaining, funding from a range of sources.
• Initiating contact with ICT expert and trainer.
• Requesting new opportunities for increasing participation in the training program with different organizations

Love to See

• Playing a leadership role in using localized ICT technology in the daily activities of the school, such as teaching, learning and managing (book keeping), library managment. .
• Sharing lessons and experiences with other schools to encourage deploying ICT in their daily activities.
• Influence local government and district education office to develop policy for implementing ICT in all government schools in the country.

3.2.4 Strategy Map

	Causal	Persuasive	Supportive
Individual	Contribute human and financial support to PAN Phase –II program	Organize localized computing technology training (layer 2 and 3) to the community people, Teachers and students and school community, Organize the experience sharing and discussion program	Integrate a ICT training program as it’s regular program, Formulate the policy for inviting more donor agencies and fundraising organization to promote localized computing technology in the area
Environmental	Provide computers and internet access to the training program, Include women, marginalized community and ethnic group in the training program	Disseminate the activities done to support PAN Phase II training program by web, radio, and news papers. Etc. Participate in the discussion forum for sharing the experience	Build Network of students and teachers, community for sharing the knowledge and study materials

3.3. Citizens and Community based Organizations

3.3.1. Outcome Challenge:

The PAN Phase II project intends to see local community organizations and citizens of different ethnic groups, women, farming community, youths and marginalized community equally participating for accessing and use of localized computing technology in their daily activities such as communications, online business, information and knowledge sharing by relevant content in different themes. Community people and organizations have enough skill to use and access of the localized computing technology. They are able to generate culturally relevant content and also share among the citizens in digital format. The trained and competent ICT users from different sector will form a viable network among their colleges of different PAN Phase II Project sites that are capable of exchange and share of lesson learns, success stories and important tips from their web based portals

3.3.2. Progress Markers

Expect to See

• Participate in the regular PAN Phase II project discussion in local level to identify more opportunities in use of localized Technology
• Contributing the minimum resources to run ICT capacity building training and deploying ICT in their daily activities.
• Self initiative for equal participants in the PAN Phase –II ICT training program from different ethnic group, women and marginalized community.
• Acquiring new skills for deploying ICT in their daily live activates.

Like to See

• Identifying the opportunities for participating in the ICT capacity building training.
• Promoting the concept of PAN Phase-II to the community members.
• Effectively participate in the end user training program of localized computing technology.
• Actively Participating in the process of culturally relevant content generation and content packaging skills.
• Publishing all the activities of community in local web pages.
• Requesting new opportunities for training and extension of the program.
• Producing and disseminating the concrete example of benefits arising from ICT training to community people.
• Requesting external experts when necessary to provide the information on using localized computing technology.

Love to See

• Playing a leadership role in using localized ICT technology in their daily activities such as communication, information and knowledge sharing, local online business and drafting and management of daily document.
• Sharing lessons and experiences with other citizens to encourage deploying ICT in their daily activities
• Influence the local government for making concentrate ICT development policy in the area

3.3.4 Strategy Map

	Causal	Persuasive	Supportive
Individual	####	Actively participate in the end user training program on localized computing technology	To provide the suggestion and recommendation building self initiative e-club among citizens and organizations who are participating in the training
Environmental	Support and coordinate to manage the space, electricity and planning the localized computing training in the area, Innovatively support to involve farmer, women, unemployed youths including marginalized community and ethnic group in the PAN Phase-II training program, Support to conduct layer 3 (end user ) training	Publish Activity report and disseminate them by web sites and hard copy, Participate in the discussion forum for sharing the experience	To extend the program in other area through building a network of between different ethnic group, marginalized community, and women for sharing the knowledge and study materials

3.4. E- Network Research and Development (ENRD)

3.4.1. Outcome Challenge:

As an field level implementation body in Nepal chapter, PAN Phase II program wants to see ENRD engaged on encouraging citizens to use the localized computing technology, establishing partnership networking to gather contribution within the program implementing area and demonstrate effective output in the program. ENRD would be encouraging targeted groups (ICT users) viz. women, farmers, students, teachers, youths of all social level in using local language computer content in their daily activities. ENRD team would prioritize and plan the project according to the format of Outcome mapping method to see the proper impact of the program in the project area

3.4.2. Progress Markers

Expect to See

• Participating in the regular meeting for disseminating original concept of PAN Phase –II program and gathering the contribution from the respective partners.
• Establishing a structure for cooperation in the partnership that ensures the interest of local community and organizations.
• Acquiring new skills for deploying effectively running localized computing technology and use Outcome Method to draw impact of program.
• Contributing the human and financial resources necessary to operate the PAN Phase-II program operational

Like to See

• Articulating a vision for the PAN Phase-II program that is locally relevant.
• Promote the PAN Phase-II program concept to the locally involved organizations, persons and group.
• Encouraging the equal participation to include all the ethnic group, women, marginalized community, local government members and government schools in the program..
• Requesting external experts when necessary to provide information or meet technical needs.
• Requesting new opportunities for self capacity building of people involved in program implementation.
• Producing and disseminating concrete examples of benefits as a result of PAN Phase-II program.
• Identify opportunities for collaboration with other institutions and actors in the project area.
• Identifying opportunities for and successfully obtaining funding from a range of sources

Love to See

• Playing a leadership role in increasing financial investment in the similar capacity building program in localized computing technology for other areas
• Sharing the lesson learnt and experiences with other institutions nationally and internationally.
• Influencing national policy debates and policy formulation on using localized computing technology.

3.4.4 Strategy Map

	Causal	Persuasive	Supportive
Individual	Contribute human and financial support to PAN Phase –II program.	Provide advance layer 1 training to 5 persons of 5 sites	Build a technical support team network for PAN Phase –II program area. Build a network to encourage donor agencies for extending local language computing training in area of country
Environment	Provide a training manual and study materials (layer 1 , 2 and 3) for the PAN Phase –II trainees. Support in conducting training (layer 2 and layer 3) in project area	Publish Activity report and disseminate them by web sites and hard copy, Participate in the discussion forum for sharing the experience	Establish the network among centers deploying PAN Phase -II project. Develop network of centers with government bodies and other similar interested organizations

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