Triangle Annual Report from Village

Annual status update

District: Syangja
Period covered by this report: January to December 2014 and monitoring after earthquake May 2015

Name of village

Dhapuk Jamunedanda, NP-4

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?

30 men/36 women and there were 11 from Dalits in Settlement Level Planning- SLP

How many members are in the committee?

(4 men, 5 women)

Name	Position
Bhim Bahadur Gurung	Chair Person
Yam Bahadur Gurung	Secretary
Ms. Binmaya Nepali	Treasure
Til Bahadur Gurung	Member
Ms. Binita Nepali	Member
Dal Bahadur Gurung	Member
Ms. Harimaya Gurung	Member
Ms. Man Kumari Nepali	Member
Ms. Baumati Gurung	Member

What were the issues raised at the village meeting?

Income generation activities, drinking water, women empowerment, health and sanitation, toilet construction, women skill development (bag making), 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)
	Ginger farming	33	1	Triangle
	Curcuma (color ginger) farming	33	1	Triangle
	Fulpati, Bagaha, Salghari road construction	33	1	VDC
	Leadership training	31	2	DDC
	Health awareness raising	31	2	Health Facility
	Sanitation awareness	31	2	Health Facility
	Goat raising	30	3	Triangle
	Community house construction	29	4	VDC/Triangle
	Vegetable farming	28	5	District Agriculture Office

What did the villagers decide to spend the funds on?

The villagers decide to spend Nrs 10,000.00 for ginger farming, Nrs 10,000.00 for curcuma (color ginger) farming and Nrs 70,000.00 for goat 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 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 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

(Dhapuk Jamunedanda-NP 4)

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.

(Dhapuk Jamunedanda-NP 4)

May 2015

All planned activities were completed

Reporting of Micro loan

Use of Microloan until end 2014

Micro loan total collected from pay back of loans: Nrs 256000 (170000 from previous year + Nrs 86,000 from 2014)

18 families got the microloan Nrs 140000 (1 Person*Nrs 15000, 8 persons*10000 and 9 persons*Nrs 5000) and started the goat raising.
4 families got the microloan Nrs 16000 (4Persons*Nrs 4000) and started the ginger+ curcuma farming.
6 families got the microloan Nrs 60000 (1 Person*Nrs 15000, 4 persons*Nrs 10000 and 1 Person*Nrs5000) and started the small poultry business.
2 families got the microloan Nrs 25000 (1 Persons*Nrs 15000 and 1 person*Nrs 10000.00) and started the small grocery store.
1 family got the microloan Nrs 10000 (1 person*Nrs 10,000.00) and started the small furniture works for the villagers.

Major achievements from previous year

The 19 families who got loan for different kinds of income generation activities (goat raising, grocery shop, ginger farming, pig raising, candle making, buffalo raising) in 2013, they got a lot of benefits and extra money (Minimum Nrs 4000 to maximum Nrs 20000) 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.
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 sustainable way and almost all villagers are involved in the 5 different micro-credit group also.

Impact of Settlement level planning

The villagers are also got one project (Road construction) from the VDC

Some examples of activities supported by Trianglen


With a loan, Birbahadur Gurung has bought tools for making furniture	Ginger field of Chitrabahadur Gurung

Binmaya Gurung is raising goats	Environmental awareness is growing

Village situation after earthquake and aftershock

Six houses are totally collapsed and 84 houses are partially cracked. The school buildings are also partially cracked and one room is totally collapse. Health post also heavily cracked, it is difficult to do treatment inside the room. Many livestock sheds are cracked and damaged. People are requesting more shelter but the VDC distributed very few.