VILLAGE

NP 56 –DHANDAGAUN

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

The the village committee has not followed the Triangle procedure yet. The facilitator facilitated and encouraged the villagers to follow that there should be at least three women in the committee.

How many people were present at the village meeting?

50 male(s) / 68 female(s)

How many members are in the committee?

What are their names and who do they represent?

8 male(s), 1 female(s), (1 dalit)

Chairman: Pitam Bahadur Tamang

Member:   Padam Bahadur Tamang
                Nabaraj Tamang
                Bahadur Tamang
                Kanchi Maya Tamang
                Ram Bahadur Tamang
                Jit Bahadur Tamang
                Bil Bahadur Biswokarma
                Ram Bahadur Tamang

What were the issues raised at the village meeting?

Income generation activities(Vegetables farming, training for improved seed), Skill Training, scholarships, health and sanitation, environmental issues, drinking water, irrigation plan, cattle farming training, construction of road.

What were the priorities presented by the committees?

What did the villagers decide to spend the funds on?

The villagers decided to spend the granted Nrs. 85,000 by investing 15,000/- for scholarship, 15,000/- for community building repairing, 25,000/- for goat farming microloan, 10,000/-Soap Making Training, 10,000/-Smell instant stick making training, 10.000/- and Candle making training.

Has the committee received the funds yet?

Yes in December.

 Activity plan

The villagers spent the granted Nrs. 85,000 by investing 15,000/- for scholarship for 12 boys and 4 girls, 15,000/- for community building repairing, 25,000/- for goat farming microloan for five persons, 10,000/- Soap Making Training, 10,000/-Smell instant stick making training, 10.000/- and Candle making training 32 persons took part in the training (23 girls and 9 boys ).

Who is responsible for the implementation?

The committee, facilitators and villagers.

How were the beneficiaries selected?

The village committee organized the meeting and made the decisions to distribute the money. Generally the meeting classified the people in four groups (Class A, Class B, class C and Class D). They made some determinants to classify the people (land, yearly income, professions, literacy). They included the people in Class A who have more land , high income profession, and can save money from their yearly income, they include the people who can proceed their life only for nine month from their yearly income in class B, they include the people who can proceed their life only for six month from their yearly income in class C and they include the people who can proceed their life only for three month from their yearly income in class D. They selected 5 people from class D and decided to give microloan for goat farming and distribute the scholarships. The scholarships are continued for previous students.

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

They would like to thank the Triangle organization for its support, and they wish continuous help of the organization. And if they got the big amount of money fond they would like to use the fund for constructions of school buildings. Good rest places (Chautari), good roads etc. And they expected more loans for income generation.

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Progress in the reporting period

Changes/delays/comments

Dhandagaun-NP 56

December 2013

Income generation activities(Vegetables farming, training for improved seed), Skill Training, scholarships, health and sanitation,   environmental issues, drinking water, irrigation plan, cattle farming training, construction of road.

All the activities were delayed because of transformation of the money delayed From Ask account to Village account heavy and delayed rain, local festival, the second CA election and the season of party.

All implementation of all activities is on-going. It is expected to be finalized soon.

Dhandagaun-NP 56

March 2014

All planned activities except smell instant stick making training and community building repairing were completed

All the student who have got the scholarship are happy and they all passed the previous class

Nrs. 10,000.00 were planned for smell instant stick making training but they need more fund for soap making and candle making training though the materials are expensive so they added the planned money for soap making and candle making training. And Nrs. 15,000/- for community building repairing but the money is not enough so they want to deposit the money for next year planning.

1. Scholarships granted.

2. Implementation of sanitary precautions.

1. All students passed the examination.

2. All toilets are completed so their surroundings are clean.