Mr. Narayan Prasad Regmi is Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) – Level 06 in Waling Municipality, Syangja; who acted as the respondent to the CINP General Questionnaire (CGQ) during CINP Goal Development Initiatives (CGDI) effort. The questionnaire aimed at examining the women’s situation, micro-entrepreneurship development, and their activation in mainstream businesses through decent organizational practices.
More frequently, the municipality entertains funding request from women for knitting and weaving training, small farming (commercial agriculture including agriculture cooperative), animal husbandry, and bee keeping,’ he replied. Some women groups, networks, and cooperatives are more active in waling municipality,’ he confided.

In many cases, businesses are registered at ward offices, while some others are registered in municipal office. The business owners have to apply to ward office if they wish to register a business at municipal level. The ward office recommends municipal office for registration of such businesses. However, there is no active exchange of common data between ward offices and municipality with respect to number of business registrations that took place in a particular fiscal year.

‘We exchange revenue data only. A revenue officer has in his hand system to access revenue data and know if the business has been renewed. We have developed our financial system in that way. There is no budget appropriation for local data exchange system,’ he believed in that.

The municipality is also not advertising and publicizing the businesses led by women; neither it is paying visit to such organization. Gatisil Women Multipurpose Cooperative Limited is also a credit cooperative business led by woman. ‘There is no gender-based data, I cannot readily provide the list of the organization, which women run,’ The data officer replied in low voice. The capacity building initiatives are also very low,’ she replied further.

Many renewals were pending. The women are not coming for renewal of their organization. They visit and come to office only when they have programs to undertake and require financial support. Some facilitation service exists for women, which is poorly utilized by women. The women, who are in business hesitate to exchange their knowledge and ideas to promote entities at grassroot level. The partnership for the community development goals are really missing.