Name of village

DHAPUK JAMUNEDANDA-GRAZING Village, NP-4

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

Yes, the villagers followed the Triangle procedure. There were not any deviations.

How many people were present at the village meeting in October 2013?

38 men/45 women and there were 25 from Dalits for Settlement Level Planning, SLP

How many members are in the committee?

4 men, 5 women and 3 Dalits

What were the issues raised at the village meeting?

Drinking water, repairing of foot-trails and road, health awareness, income generation activities, women empowerment, women Skill development etc.

What were the priorities presented by the committee?

What did the villagers decide to spend the Triangle funds on?

The villagers decide to spend Nrs. 7,000 to the social harmony training, Nrs. 15,000 to the health awareness training, Nrs 8,000   for leadership training and Nrs 50,000   for loan to women for goat raising from Triangle money.

VDC approved to support the Besadanda Kafle and Foolpani Bagahadanda road (Foot trail) – Nrs 50,000, drinking water and irrigation project – Nrs. 25,000 and school compounding project Nrs-50,000 submitted by settlement level planning.

Has the committee received the funds yet?

Yes in October 2013

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

• NRS 75,000 invested for micro loan to women income generation.
• 5,000.00 Still in account for the emergency fund.

Who is responsible for the implementation?

The village committee plays the vital role to implement all activities and after that, VDC Secretary and Triangle responsible person Hari support the implementing and and monitoring.

How were the beneficiaries selected?

After completing the settlement level planning the village committees’ member again organized the meeting and made the criteria to distribution of money.   Generally the villager made some indicators for the distribution of money

The beneficiaries are – the family with no or very little land, poor house condition, lack of food for whole year, Labors for others for livelihood, unemployed family, no guarantee for income etc.

Were there any disagreements – discussions about the priorities?

What was the role of the Triangle facilitator?

The villager’s perception was that the Triangle support was very low. After the settlement level planning training and exercise and facilitation from ASK that the money is for supporting system. Now villagers understood and spending in right way.

ASK cooperates and fully focused on the settlement level planning (SLP) process and explain that that the SLP is done through training from Triangle, which also included the engagement of communities to plan and apply for projects from the Village Development Committee. The villagers saw that the Triangle in partnership with ASK is supporting planning, implementation, monitoring, coordination and reporting.

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

Due to lack of awareness it was difficult to manage the money in the right way in previous year and because of some conflict of interest. But after villagers participated in SLP they developed trust and realized, fully agreed, and called it a realistic and participatory way of planning for the village. However, Triangle/ASK has to provide more technical support for the SLP.

Name of village/cluster

Last visit:

Progress in the reporting period

Changes/delays/comments

(Dhapuk Jamunedanda-NP 4)

October 2013

1. Settlement level planning is completed.

2. All planned activities from Triangle Support; social harmony training, health awareness training, leadership training and goat rising are under Implementation

• All the activities were delayed because of heavy and delayed rain, local festival and the training of Settlement Level Planning.   Implementation of all activities is on-going. It It is expected to be finalized in December.
• VDC is cooperating in the SLP process by assigning the Social Mobiliser for training, workshops and planning exercise at village level.

(Dhapuk Jamunedanda-NP 4)

Jan. 2014

All planned activities except different kind of training were completed

• Nrs 30,000 was allocated for different kind of awareness training but it was difficult to find the trainer in the village so committee organized village meeting and changed it to income generation for small grocery store.

Use of Microloan until 2014

Micro loan total collected from pay back of loans: Nrs 170,000 (60,000 from year 2010 and 2011+ Nrs 35000 from 2012 + Nrs 75,000 from 2013)

• 10 families got the microloan (3 Persons*Nrs 10000 , 1 person*Nrs 8000 and 6 person*Nrs 5000) and started the goat raising.
• 2 families got the microloan (1 Persons*Nrs 25,000 and 1 person*Nrs 15,000) and started the small grocery store.
• 2 families got the microloan (2 person*Nrs 5,000) and started the ginger farming.
• 1 family got the microloan (1 person*Nrs 10,000) and started the pig raising.
• 1 family got the microloan (1 person*Nrs 10,000) and started the small candle industry.
• 1 family got the microloan (1 person*Nrs 10,000) and started the buffalo raising.
• 2 families got the microloan (1 person*Nrs12,000 and 2 person*Nrs 10,000) and started the ginger farming.

This village is very big so people are dividing in 5 group and starting the regular saving, credit, and almost all villagers are involved in the micro-credit group through multi propose cooperative.

outcome from Previous Year (year 2012)

Achievement of 2012 from Micro loan so far:

• The 17 families who got loan for goat raising in 2012, they got a lot of benefits and additional money (Minimum Nrs 4000 to maximum Nrs 15,000) and spent it for the dress and books for their children, food and some clothes for the families. Now they have felt the improvement in their livelihood. Therefore, they would like to remember who support the village.
• Those students who got the scholarship, their study was more effective and the teacher said they improved their study with better mark and position.
• The women’ and children and the all villagers health situation improved because of improved smokeless stoves, the use of firewood is more economical and smoke emission is less. Now they are happy and give many many thanks to who support their village with new concept and now every Hhs have improved smokeless cook stove.