[{"bbox": [82, 104, 1147, 319], "category": "Text", "text": "any social protection³⁰. While cash assistance, most notably Social Security Allowances (SSAs) and scholarship programmes have a strong gender focus, critical gaps across the life cycle remain, reinforcing the exclusion of adolescent girls, women of reproductive age and those working in informal settings. While the Contribution-based Social Security Act (2017) includes provisions for all workers, current regulations are limited to formal jobs which are mostly occupied by men. As of May 2021, around 200 000 workers were enrolled in social insurance, only 3% of the employed in Nepal³¹. The extension of contributory schemes to those in informal employment is essential to provide social protection to women, PWD and vulnerable groups - groups more frequently in informal employment -and complement the coverage of social assistance programmes."}, {"bbox": [82, 345, 1147, 611], "category": "Text", "text": "Social protection is envisaged to be coordinated by NPC. However, as the responsibility is new, it requires significant institutional development. The key responsibilities for policy making and implementation of Social Security Allowance programme lies with the Ministry of Home Affairs (MOHA). At the provincial level, institutional arrangements for Girls Insurance Programmes vary between the Chief Minister's office (in province 2) and the Ministry of Social Development (MoSD) (in Karnali province). The Social Security Fund (SSF) tasked with the delivery of contributory social security for all workers, remains concentrated operationally around the Kathmandu Valley. The SSF is planning to pilot provisions of protection to workers in select informal sectors by the end of 2021. Extending this to all schemes, to all workers in informal employment will require a significant boost of SSF's operational capacities, and significant efforts for the enrolment and participation of the workers. The coordination between federal and provincial and the sub-national level needs to be streamlined and strengthened."}, {"bbox": [72, 638, 579, 672], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 3. DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTION"}, {"bbox": [136, 700, 576, 733], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.1. Objectives and Expected Outputs"}, {"bbox": [82, 744, 1147, 852], "category": "Text", "text": "The Overall Objective (Impact) of this action is to **contribute to the full realisation of Nepalese women and girls' human rights and agency**. The proposed action seeks to unlock Nepalese Women and Girls' potential through strategic actions targeting the underlying drivers of gender inequality and investment in gender equality accelerators. The Specific Objectives (Outcomes) of this action, and their corresponding outputs are:"}, {"bbox": [121, 852, 1147, 907], "category": "List-item", "text": "* **Outcome 1:** Ensuring women/girls in all their diversity, are safe, valued and have increased voice, choice and control to challenge/transform harmful social norms."}, {"bbox": [195, 907, 1147, 961], "category": "List-item", "text": "  * Output 1.1 – Enhanced capacity of men/boys to understand and address harmful social norms and model positive behaviours."}, {"bbox": [195, 961, 1147, 1016], "category": "List-item", "text": "  * Output 1.2 – Families and communities have increased understanding of women and girls’ value and contributions, and enhanced capacities to model positive inter-generational, equitable relationships."}, {"bbox": [195, 1016, 1147, 1071], "category": "List-item", "text": "  * Output 1.3 – Increased individual and collective capacity of women/youth to mobilize, organise and build coalitions for gender equality and human rights, without fear of reprisal."}, {"bbox": [121, 1071, 1147, 1125], "category": "List-item", "text": "* **Outcome 2:** Women, men, girls and boys, in all their diversity, fully enjoy and exercise their equal economic, labour and social rights."}, {"bbox": [195, 1125, 1147, 1207], "category": "List-item", "text": "  * Output 2.1 – Institutional capacities are enhanced, at all levels, to deliver equitable access to jobs, decent work, social protection and freedom from exploitative forms of work, particularly in the sustainable agriculture and forestry sectors."}, {"bbox": [195, 1207, 1147, 1288], "category": "List-item", "text": "  * Output 2.2 – Women and their collectives are supported to take part in income generating opportunities and resources, in fair and sustainable value chains based on circular economy principles and demonstrate leadership in local decision-making platforms."}, {"bbox": [195, 1288, 1147, 1369], "category": "List-item", "text": "  * Output 2.3 – Improved access to comprehensive multi-sectoral essential services in GBV prevention and response and social infrastructure with a life-cycle lens to service delivery, such as social protection"}, {"bbox": [121, 1369, 1147, 1421], "category": "List-item", "text": "* **Outcome 3:** Institutions deliver gender equality outcomes in all spheres, in line with international and national normative frameworks."}, {"bbox": [195, 1421, 1147, 1476], "category": "List-item", "text": "  * Output 3.1 – Strengthened capacities of the National Women’s Machinery to advance GEWE in line with international/national normative frameworks."}, {"bbox": [195, 1476, 1147, 1560], "category": "List-item", "text": "  * Output 3.2 – Strengthened capacity of public sector and civil society stakeholders to unlock barriers at all levels to develop, fund, implement, and monitor evidence-based laws, policies, strategies and action plans to promote gender equality in line with international policy and standards."}, {"bbox": [72, 1589, 1157, 1640], "category": "Footnote", "text": "³⁰ ILO, 2020. World Social Protection Data Dashboard – Nepal Country Profile. Available at: https://www.social-protection.org/gimi/WSPDB.action?id=13"}, {"bbox": [72, 1637, 1002, 1663], "category": "Footnote", "text": "³¹ Social Security Fund of Nepal, 2021. Reports Section. Available at: https://ssf.gov.np/np/quaterly-report.html"}, {"bbox": [1050, 1663, 1157, 1687], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 8 of 22"}]