Triangle Annual Report from Village

Annual status update

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

Name of new village

Dumsuwa Khola Guava Village- NP-13

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/28 women in Settlement Level Planning- SLP

How many members are in the committee?

3 men, 4 women and 1 Dalit

Name of Committee Members	Position
Thakur Prasad Regmi	Chairperson
Dilliram Regmi	Secretary
Saraswati Gurung	Treasurer
Kul Prasad Regmi	Member
Lila Kumari Magar	Member
Saraswati Regmi	Member
Nilkantha Regmi	Member	WCF Chairperson

What were the issues raised at the village meeting?

Water and sanitation, Income generation activities, road, women empowerment, Vegetables farming etc.

What were the priorities presented by the committee?

S.N.	Name of Project	Total Score of Project*	Priority	Potential Source of funding (Institution)
	Goat raising	33	1	Triangle
	Repairing of road	32	2	VDC
	Stool making training	30	3	Triangle
	Vegetable farming in plastic house	28	4	Triangle
	Bhattekhoriya spout conservation	28	4	Triangle
	Vegetable production training	27	5	Waiting

What did the villagers decide to spend the funds on?

The villagers decide to spend Nrs 35,000.00 for goat raising, Nrs 20,000.00 for Stool making training, Nrs 20,000.00 for vegetable farming in plastic house and Nrs 10,000.00 for bhattekhoriya spout conservation 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:

Nrs 12000 was spent to repair the drinking water stream in the village.
Nrs 68000 rupees invested for micro loan to women and poor’s income generation.
Nrs 6000 is in bank as per the requirement of bank rules

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 the 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

Dumsuwa Khola -NP 13

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 l 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.

Dumsuwa Khola -NP 13

May 2015

All planned activities were completed

The village committee was planned to give the stool making training in settlement level planning but it was difficult to find the trainer so for this year they changed it to income generation activities.

The agriculture service center was supported for vegetables farming so the planned budged was reduced in Nrs 8000 and increased in goat raising.

Reporting of Micro loan

Use of Microloan until end 2014

Micro loan total collected 68000 (all Nrs 68,000 from 2014)

15 families got the microloan Nrs 141000 (24 Persons*Nrs 5000, 1 person*Nrs 10000 and 1 person*11000) and started the goat raising.
2 families got the microloan Nrs 8000 (2 Persons*Nrs 4000.00) and started the vegetables farming.

Impact of Settlement level planning

Mrs Thakur Prasad Sharma (Chairperson of NP-13) was selected for the member for Integrated Planing Committee member for the VDC level planning.
The villagers also got the road repairing project from VDC block-grant.

Some examples of activities supported by Trianglen


Nilakantha has started raising goats	Sita Sharma is also raising goats

Uma Regmi is increasing her income through goat-raising	Narmaya Thapa as established a nursery for vegetable plants

Village situation after earthquake and aftershock

Nine houses are totally collapsed and 18 houses are partially cracked. Many livestock shed are cracked and damaged. People are requesting more shelter but the VDC distributed very few. So they are requesting for more support from outside.