The federal and provincial government are entitled to prepare annual and periodic plans to systematically intervene for development process, and comply with their roles and responsibilities. As these policies, programmes and budgets determine the direction of the various levels of governments for an entire year, it is highly essential to ensure that the most urgent are reflected and prioritised in these documents.
Children, as the most vulnerable groups, as well as vital population for investment, need to be covered in these documents to assure mainstreaming in the annual interventions from the higher levels of the governments. Realising the need to identify and access the inclusion of children in these documents, National Child-Friendly Local Governance (N-CFLG) Forum with the technical support from World Vision International (WVI) Nepal, conducted a thorough assessment of the annual policy, programme and budget of federal and provincial governments from the lens of the children.
