Triangle Annual Report from Village

Annual status update

District: Syangja
Period covered by this report: January to December 2014

Name of village

CHILAUNEKHARKA, NP-11 Named Ginger 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?

22 men/25 women in Settlement Level Planning- SLP

How many members are in the committee?

5 men, 4 women

Name	Position
Khadka bahadur Magar	Chair Person
Rukmangat Khana	Vice Chair person
Ms. Bhuma Kumari Magar	Secretary
Ms. Radha Khanal	Co-Secretary
Man Bahadur Magar	Treasure
Jit Bahadur magar	Member
Ms. Kamala Khanal	Member
Ms. Huma Kumari Nepali	Member
Prem Narayan Khanal	Member

What were the issues raised at the village meeting?

Water and sanitation, repairing of school furniture, income generation activities, women empowerment, youth empowerment, irrigation, ponds conservation, school repairing, foot road, women skill development, vegetables farming, 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)
	Poultry business promotion	32	1	Triangle
	Repairing of road	32	1	VDC
	Pig raising	29	2	Triangle
	Tomato farming in green house	29	2	Agriculture service center
	Goat raising	27	3	Waiting
	Nursery management	25	4	Waiting
	Orange plantation	24	5	Waiting

What did the villagers decide to spend the funds on?

The villagers decide to spend Nrs 40,000.00 for poultry business promotion and Nrs 50,000.00 for pig raising from Triangle supported money.

Has the committee received the funds yet?

Yes in October 2014, it was transferred.

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

All planned activities were completed, which are described below:

All Nrs 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.
Unemployed 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 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

Chilaunekharka, NP-11 Named: Ginger 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 giving 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.

Chilaunekharka, NP-11 Named: Ginger Village

May 2015

All planned activities were completed

There are no any comments and changes.

Reporting of Micro loan

Use of Microloan until end 2014

Micro loan total collected from pay back of loans: Nrs 224000 (138000 from previous year + Nrs 86,000 from 2014)

21 families got the microloan Nrs 108000 (20 Persons*Nrs 5000 and 1 person*Nrs 8000) and started the goat raising.
2 families got the microloan Nrs 30000 (1 person*Nrs 20000 and 1 Person*Nrs 10000) and started the small poultry business.
6 families got the microloan Nrs 56000 (3 Persons*Nrs 10,000, 2 persons*Nrs 9000 and 1 person*Nrs 8000) and started the pig raising.
2 families got the microloan Nrs 30000 (2 Persons*Nrs 15000.00) and started the ginger farming.

Major Achievements from Previous Year

The 18 families who got loan for different kind of income generation activities (goat raising, pig raising and sewing business) in 2013, they got a lot of benefits and extra money ( Nrs 5000 to 35000) and spent it for the their children to better education, repair the houses, food and some clothes for the families, saving in cooperative and pay back 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.
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.

Impact of Settlement level planning

After the settlement level planning the villagers has got one project (repairing of road from VDC to village) from VDC council.

Some examples of activities support by Trianglen


Manu Magar and her husband are raising goats	Ram Thapa has given up his job in the Gulf and is aiming to have more goats
	Man Bahadur Rana has planted ginger and maize

Village situation after Earthquake and aftershock

Seven houses are totally collapsed and 20 houses are partially cracked. Many livestock sheds are cracked and damaged. School building is also partially cracked. People are requesting more shelter and support.