Apart from eight MS Nepal's western development region partners, four other organizations based in Palpa also took part in TOT. Based on a Training Manual on Trade and Livelihood prepared under GRAPOL, TOT was divided into different technical and practical sessions, including Introductory, Concept of Trade, Modes of Trade (Local, Bilateral, Regional and International), Indo-Nepal Trade Treaty, Competition and the World Trade Organisation (WTO) sessions. During TOT, participants were divided into five groups for practical sessions and they went into the local markets to conduct small sample survey on select agro-produce.

At the end of the programme, participants developed an Action Plan that identified their priority areas of work back in their districts. The Action Plan of each organisations will also be used to design the intervention strategies for the second and third year of the GRAPOL project.

Similarly, under the same project, SAWTEE and Pro Public jointly organised two regional discussion forums on the same theme "WTO, IPRs and Farmers' Rights" in Tansen, Palpa on 18 September 2006 and in Taulihawa, Kapilvatu on 20 September 2006. The objective of these two forums was to sensitise the local stakeholders about the threats that farmers are likely to face from the World Trade Organization (WTO)'s rules on intellectual property rights (IPRs).

Both the forums were divided into three technical sessions - Introduction of the WTO and Nepal's Membership; Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), 1992 and Nepal's Legislative Effort; and the WTO's Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement and Nepal's Legislative Effort.

Altogether 75 stakeholders from the government, civil society, political parties, print and electronic media and farmer groups attended the forums. The forums were instrumental in sensitising the local level stakeholders about the need to tackle the challenges brought by Nepal's membership to the WTO. The participants also felt the need to be proactive to reap the benefits from membership to the global trade body. During these forums, participants also had an opportunity to discuss issues relating to types of IPRs - mainly patent and plant breeders' rights, and how they can affect farmers' rights to livelihood. The participants realised that the Nepalese government should implement effective legislation on plant variety protection and access and benefit sharing so that farmers' rights are not jeopardised from the global IPR rules.