6.1. Horizontal Policy Integration at the National Level1
As mentioned earlier, this type of policy integration can be measured through analysing cross-sectoral policy instruments.
Table 4 shows that HRD succinctly integrated in the major strategies, for example, National Sustainable Development Strategy (NSDS) 2008 and National Strategy for Accelerated Poverty Reduction (NSAPR) 2012 have included programmes on human capital development (through farmer’s field school) to enhance farmer’s skills and capacities for better land and water management. NSDS reports that vital issues in this strategy are “improvement of quality of human resources and better management” with a view to obtain agricultural and rural development as well as sustain economic growth [24], since human lives and livelihood are intricately intertwined with nature. Likewise, climate change strategy and NSAPR states HRD as an adaptive strategy for
avoiding climate vulnerabilities and a key tool for poverty alleviation, respectively. However, the Sixth Five Year Plan (FY 2011-15) not only includes HRD as a major objective but also figure out a fully-fledged strategy to achieve it [25].