Triangle Annual Report from Village

Annual status update

District: Syangja
Period covered by this report: January to December 2014 plus earthquake May 2015

Name of village

Jogithum-Chhapa- NP-2 Named: Water Village

Was the Triangle procedure followed? Were there any deviations from the standard procedure?

Yes, the villagers followed the triangle procedure and held settlement level planning in September. There were not any deviations.

How many people were present at the village meeting?

21 men/32 women and there were 7 from Dalits in Settlement Level Planning- SLP

How many members are in the committee?

5 men, 4 women and 2 Dalits)

Name	Position
Hari Bahadur Gurung	Chair Person
Ms. Shanti Gurung	Secretary
Chitra Bahadur Gurung	Treasure
Yam Bahadur Gurung	Member
Ms. Hari Maya Gurung	Member
Ms. Motimaya Gurung	Member
Ashis Gurung	Member
Nam Bahadur Rana	Member
Ms. Namita Rana	Member

What were the issues raised at the village meeting?

Drinking water, income generation activities, women empowerment, health and sanitation, education for children, environment sanitation, women skill development (sewing and cutting), drinking water, road etc.

What were the priorities presented by the committee?

S.N.	Name of Project	Total Score of Project*	Priority	Potential Source of funding (Institution)
1.	Bee keeping	31	1	Triangle
2.	Vegetables farming	29	2	Triangle
3.	Road repairing	29	2	VDC/DDC
4.	Skill base training	29	2	VDC
5.	Orange farming	29	2	Agriculture Office
6.	Small poultry business promotion	29	2	Triangle
7.	Goat raising	28	3	Triangle
8.	NTFP conservation training	27	4	Waiting
9.	Computer for School	27	4	Waiting

What did the villagers decide to spend the funds on?

The villagers decide to spend Nrs.30,000 to the bee keeping, Nrs 5,000 for vegetables farming, Nrs 10,000.00 for small poultry business promotion and , Nrs 45,000.00 for goat raising from Trianglen money.

Has the committee received the funds yet?

Yes it was transferred in October 2014.

Activity plan: When are the activities going to be implemented?

All planned activities were implemented which is described below;

All 86000 rupees invested for micro loan to women and poor’s income generation.

Who is responsible for the implementation?

The village committee plays the vital role to implement all activities and after that VDC Secretary, VDC social Mobilizer and Triangle responsible person Hari also support to implement and monitor.

How were the beneficiaries selected?

After completed the settlement level planning the village committees’ members again organized the meeting and make the criteria to distribution of money. Generally the villager followed some indicators for the distribution of money which is indicated by LGCDP(Local Government Community Development Programme):

The family with no or very little land.
Poor house condition.
Lack of food for whole year.
Labours for others for livelihood.
Uunemployed family.
No guarantee for settlement, etc.

Were there any disagreements – discussions about the priorities?

What was the role of the Triangle facilitator?

Some of the villagers found that the Triangle donation could not fulfil all aspects of the wishes the villages had. However, the facilitator and Hari explained about the money and the supporting system from Triangle (getting to know how to influence VDC and DDC to get projects approved, and how to ask for better services).

Specially ASK cooperate and fully focus on the settlement level planning process with the engagement of communities, give the information of the Triangle, and about the resources of the VDC block grant and the District Development Office possibilities of supporting the village. The villages have seen that the Triangle support to ASK and the villages, has given the villagers more tools for managing their own resources and influencing the those of the local bodies (VDC and DDC).

Did the villagers have any comments/questions for the Triangle?

With lack of awareness, it was difficult to manage the money the right way the previous year, but after villagers participated in settlement level planning, they realized and fully agreed to the method and found it was realistic and participatory. There was a request that ASK should provide more technical knowledge for the settlement level planning and development possibilities in the village. Now the money for micro-loan is increasing so it has to provide the account management knowledge also.

On-going activities – Status Update

Name of village/cluster

Last visit:

Progress in the reporting period

Changes/delays/comments

(Jogithum Chhapa-NP 2

Named: Water Village)

September

2014

1. Settlement level planning is completed.

2. All planned activities are under Implementation

All the activities were delayed because of heavy and delayed rain, Local festival and waiting for approval from Ministry of Local Development for settlement level planning. Implementation of all activities is on-going. It is expected to be finalized in December.
VDC is cooperating in the SLP process by assigning the social mobilize in training, workshop and planning exercise at village level.

(Jogithum Chhapa-NP 2

Named: Water Village)

May 2015

All planned activities were completed

Reporting of Micro loan

Use of Microloan until 2015

Micro loan total collected from pay back of loans: Nrs 269000 (Nrs 183000 from previous years + Nrs 86000 from 2014)

20 families got the microloan Nrs 180000 (20 persons*Nrs 9000) and started the goat raising.
Five families got the microloan Nrs 25000(5 persons*Nrs 5000) and started the small poultry business.
6 families got the microloan Nrs 36000(6 Persons*Nrs 6000 ) and started the bee keeping.
2 families got the microloan Nrs 10000(2 persons*Nrs 5000 and) and started the vegetables farming.

Major Achievements from Previous Year

The 36 families who got loan for different kinds of income generation activities in 2013, they got a lot of benefits and extra money (Minimum Nrs 4000.00 to maximum Nrs 12,000.00) and spent it for the dress and books for their children, food and some clothes for the families. Now they have felt the improvement for their improved livelihood. Therefore, they would like to remember who support the village.
The women, children and the all villagers health situation improved because of improved smokeless stoves, the use of firewood is more economical and CO2 emission is less. Now they are happy and give many many thanks that support their village with new concept and now every Hhs have improved smokeless cook stove.
1 Persons was also involved in proposal writing training organized by ASK and Triangle with the cooperation of VDC.
People from the village are continuing the regular saving, credit in a sustainable way and almost all villagers are involved in the micro-credit group also.

Impact of Settlement level planning

The villagers are also got two projects (Skill base training for making bamboo tools from VDC and Road Rehabilitation from DDC) from the VDC and district

Some examples of activities supported by Trianglen


Rearing goats	More goats

Raising chickens	Teaching

Village situation after earthquake and aftershock

Five houses are totally collapsed and 41 houses are partially cracked. Two room of school building were totally collapse and the rest of them are also cracked and it is difficult to teach inside the room. People are requesting more shelter, but the VDC distributed very few. Many livestock shed are cracked and damaged. In NP 2 The big rock above the village is partially cracked so there is danger because of the probability of landslide from the top of the village.