Triangle Annual Report from Village

Annual status update

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

Name of village

Diguwa, NP-6 Named : Temple 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?

27 men/25 women and there were 14 from Dalits in Settlement Level Planning- SLP

How many members are in the committee?

5 men, 4 women and 2 Dalits

Name of Committee Members	Position
Ms. Panmaya Gurung	Chair Person
Iman Gurung	Secretary
Lok Bahadur Gurung	Treasure
Debensing Gurung	Member
Tek Bahadur Gurung	Member
Ruk Bahadur Gurung	Member
Ms. Kausila Gurung	Member
Ms. Tuka Kumari BK	Member
Pavi Nepali	Member

What were the issues raised at the village meeting?

Groceries shop, income generation activities, drinking water, women empowerment, youth empowerment, school repairing, 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)
	Repairing of retaining wall of school	33	1	VDC/DDC
	Repairing of road from Sanabhanjyang to Diguwa	32	2	VDC/DDC
	Goat raising	31	3	Triangle
	Small grocery shop	30	4	Triangle
	Sewing and cutting training	30	4	Triangle
	Construction of community building	30	4	Triangle
	Vegetables farming in green house	29	5	Triangle
	Pig raising	27	6	Triangle
	Support to mother group for musical instrument	27	6	Trianlge
	Support to youth club for net and ball	27	6	Triangle
	Poultry business promotion	27	6	Waiting
	Support to mother group for cultural dress	26	7	Waiting

What did the villagers decide to spend the funds on?

The villagers decide to spend Nrs 20,000.00 for goat raising, Nrs 5,000.00 for small grocery shop, Nrs 10,000.00 for sewing and cutting training to women, Nrs 25,000.00 for construction of community building, Nrs 10,000.00 for vegetables farming, Nrs. 8,000.00 for pig raising, Nrs 5,000.00 for collect the musical instrument to mother group and Nrs 6,000.00 for youth club to collect the net and ball 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:

2 Persons got Nrs 10000 for the sewing and cutting training already and started the sewing business.
Nrs 21000 was spent in water lifting system for drinking water.
Nrs 5000 was spent to buy the musical instrument (Madal) for mother group.
Nrs 6000 was spent to buy the volleyball and net for youth club.
Nrs 44000 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

Diguwa-NP 6

Named: Temple Village

September

2014

1. Settlement level planning is completed.

2. All planned activities are in under Implementation

All the activities were delayed because of heavy and delayed rain, Local festival and Ministry of Local Development giving approval for settlement level planning. All activities implementation 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.

Diguwa-NP 6

Named: Temple Village

May 2015

All planned activities were completed

Nrs 25,000 were planned for construction of community building but the villagers were totally busy with the drinking water lifting works and it was too expensive so the village committee agreed to change some of the budget from community house to water lifting.

Reporting of Micro loan

Use of Microloan until end 2014

Micro loan total collected from pay back of loans: Nrs 174600 (130600 from previous year + Nrs 44,000 from 2014)

9 families got the microloan Nrs 45000 (9 Persons*Nrs 5000) and started the small poultry business.
1 family got the microloan Nrs 8000 (1 Person*Nrs 8000) and started the pig raising.
2 families got the microloan Nrs 10000 (2 Persons*Nrs 5000) and started the vegetables farming.
1 family got the microloan Nrs 5000 (1 Person*Nrs 5000) and started the small grocery shop.
11 families got the microloan Nrs 106600 (10 Persons*Nrs 10000 and 1 person*Nrs 6600.00) and started the goat raising.

Major Achievements from Previous Year

The 31 families who got loan for different kinds of income generation activities (poultry business, goat raising, ginger farming and the grocery shop) in 2013, they got a lot of benefits and extra money and spent it for the dress and books for their children, food and some clothes for the families and pay back loan to committee. Now they have felt the a little bit improvement for their 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.
1 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 one micro-credit group and the group is affiliated in VDC level multipurpose cooperative also.

Impact of Settlement level planning

The villagers are also got one project (repairing of Road) from the VDC.

Some examples of activities supported by Trianglen


Manmaya has many goats	Musical instruments to entertain the mother group

Raimati Gurung has a lot of chickens in her poultry house	Locally-made to be used in vegetable production

Dhanmaya Gurung has a small grocery shop	Equipment for a volley ball competion organised by the Youth Club

Village situation after earthquake and aftershock

13 houses are totally collapsed but almost all houses are partially cracked. Two school building are fully cracked out of three and it is difficult to teach inside the room. Many livestock shed are cracked and damaged. People are requesting more shelter for houses and the school but the VDC distributed very few so they requested us for some shelter.


Houses damaged by the earthquake

The school building after the earthquake

Diguwa-2014 rapport (hele året, med kort status efter jordskælvene i april/maj 2015)