This document summarizes a case study of the Rural Urban Partnership Programme (RUPP) in Nepal. RUPP aims to promote synergistic rural-urban development through community mobilization, training, and supporting small enterprises. The study examines RUPP's work in Butwal municipality. It finds that RUPP has helped establish various small trading enterprises including goat, milk, vegetable and grain trading. These enterprises have created local economic linkages and growth. However, RUPP faces challenges in fully generating multiplier effects and removing fragmentation. The study recommends that RUPP support more economic activities, increase loan amounts, cluster enterprises, widen geographic coverage, and include all urban residents to further rural-urban linkages.

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