30 Advancing Gender Equality in Nepal: Refining gender-responsive budgeting for transformative impact 12. Strengthening Coordination between Development Partners in GRB: Gender-Responsive PFM and Transformative Gender-Equality Support Experience shows that both financial and technical support by development partners to Nepal’s government can greatly help GRB implementation and enhance transformative gender equality investments. Currently many cooperation partners are involved in supporting GRB implementation at different levels of government, include state, provincial and local government. However, currently there is little coordination among different development partners, and there is a lack of systematic integration of GRB in all PFM support provided by international financial institutions(IFIs) and other donors. Therefore, it is recommended: • To strengthen coordination by establishing a network – formal or informal – of development partners involved in supporting GRB implementation at different levels of government to identify areas of alignments, harmonisation and build on synergies; • To create a collaborative strategy with the government leading the efforts, with development partners and stakeholders working together to enhance GRB practices; • That development partners focus on increasing the level of funding in support of work to promote transformative gender-equality investments and full GRB implementation at all levels of government; • That development partners and IFIs involved in PFM support to the Nepali government fully consider GRB in all PFM reform and support activities, fully in line with the international GRB standards, as per the GRB Indicator in the SDGs(SDG indicator 5. c.1.) and the gender-responsive PFM Indicators in the Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability framework; 13 • That GRB is integrated in all budget support schemes; • That development partners cooperate in facilitating and supporting GRB knowledge generation in line with international best practice, e.g., supporting existing or new research and knowledge-management institutions devoted to research, knowledge generation, knowledge management and international cooperation related to GRB and gender and economics research as well as institutional research-based support in GRB implementation across Nepal; • To build systematic collaboration between development partners and academia, as a vital partnership for knowledge production and training; 13 The Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability(PEFA) programme was set up in 2001 by the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the governments of France, Norway, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, to harmonize assessment of PFM across the partner organisations.