3 men, 4 women

Water and sanitation, income generation activities, women empowerment, youth empowerment, irrigation, ponds conservation, school repairing, foot road, women skill development, vegetables farming, road etc.

• Nrs 438000 was spent to build the meeting/rest house in the middle of the village.
• Nrs 7200 was spent to distribute the scholarship for the poor students of the sitalchaur primary school.
• Nrs 35000 rupees invested for micro loan to women and poor’s income generation.

How were the beneficiaries selected?

• 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 local bodies (VDC and DDC).

September

2014

1. Settlement level planning is completed.

2. All planned activities are under Implementation

1. All the activities were delayed because of heavy and delayed rain, Local festival and late 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.
2. VDC is cooperating in the SLP process by assigning the social mobilize in training, workshop and planning exercise at village level.

• The villagers have worked voluntarily to conserve the water stream and the youth club also built the stage themselves, so the planned money was changed from those activities to build the rest place.

• 6 families got the microloan Nrs 60000(6 Persons*Nrs10000) and started the goat raising.
• 1 family got the microloan Nrs 15000(1 Persons*Nrs 15000) and started the small poultry business.
• The villagers have started potatoes farming in 1.5 hector land as a joint farming and spent Nrs 80000 rupees as the microloan.

• The 14 families who got loan for different kind of income generation activities (goat raising, poultry business and vegetables farming) in 2013, they got a lot of benefits and extra money ( Nrs 5000 to 17000) and spent it for the their children to better education, food and some clothes for the families and pay back of loan to committee.
• 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.
• The agriculture office is also supporting for the growing potatoes with the 50% subsidy from their office.
• 2 Persons were 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 one micro-credit group and the group is affiliated in VDC level multipurpose cooperative also.

• Mr Tan Bahadur Gurung (Chairperson of NP-9) has selected for the member for integrated planning committee, and member of VDC level Social Mobilization coordination committee.