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local communities and strengthening local institutions through the participatory
planning. It also helps for local capacity building. Out of sixty-three thousand
households of the Karnali Zone approximately sixty thousand, i.e., 95 percent of
the total unemployed households has participated in the program.
5.4. Primary Education
Nepal has shown remarkable improvement in the net enrolment rate (NER) at
primary level. However, there has been a gradual closing of the gender gap in
NER at primary level: it decreased from 6.7 percentage points in 2005 to 2.1
percentage points in 2009 (Table 2.1).
Between 2005 and 2009, there was an increase in the proportion of Janajati
children in primary enrolment, reaching 38.6 percent (DOE 2009).
Figure-3: Net enrolment rate in primary education (Source: NPC/UNCT 2005; DOE 2005; DOE 2009).
5.5 Reduction in Child Mortality Rate
Nepal has made significant progress in reducing the infant mortality rate (IMR) and
under-five mortality rate (U5MR) in recent years. By 2006, the national IMR had
decreased to 48 deaths per 1,000 live births and the U5MR had decreased to 61 deaths
per 1,000 live births (MOHP et al. 2007). Trend analysis of data from 1995 to 2005
suggests that the IMR declined by 39 per cent and the U5MR by 48 percent over the
period (Table-1).
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