Name of village

Jogithum-Chhapa NP-2 – named Water Village

How was the Village Committee formed? Should consist of min 7 persons, both men and women and representatives of dalits.

The villagers followed the Triangle procedure to practice the governance and democracy at local level. There were not any deviations from the guideline.

How many people were present at the village meeting on SLP?

29 men/20 women, there were 9 from Dalits

How many members are in the committee?

5 men, 4 women

What were the issues raised at the village meeting? See table below

Community health post, Drinking water, Foot trail, Income generation activities, Scholarship for poor children, women empowerment, health and sanitation, education for children, environment sanitation, Women Skill development (sewing and Cutting), drinking water, enterprise development, Irrigation

What were the priorities presented during the Settlement Level Planning in October 2013?

What did the villagers decide to spend the funds on?

The villagers decided to spend Nrs. 12,000.00 on the Chhapa foot trail upgrading and improvement, Nrs. 10,000.00 for social harmony training, Nrs. 12,000.00 for Construction of Jogithum foot trail improvement, Nrs. 32,000.00 to income generating such as goat raising and Nrs. 21,000 for small poultry for women, Nrs. 5,000.00 for Bee keeping training.

Has the committee received the funds yet?

Yes (October) The money was deposited after the settlement level plan was prepared and resources were allocated

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

All planned activities will be started after Nepalese big festival Dashain Tihar (October-Nov) and finalized in December 2013

Who is responsible for the implementation of the activities?

TheTriangle village committee are responsible for the implementation and Hari from ASK will also support to implement and monitor.

How were the beneficiaries selected?

After completing the settlement level planning the village committee members again organized the meeting to distribute the money and for the income generation activities, they developed the criteria themselves. Generally the villager made some indicators for the distribution of money for income generation;

• the family who has no or very little land, No good house condition, Lack of food for whole year, Labours for others for livelihood, Landless people, Unemployed family, No guarantee for settlement, etc.

Were there any disagreements – discussions about the priorities?

What was the role of the Triangle facilitator?

Before the training of settlement level planning, some of the villagers received very little money and experienced also conflict of Interest, so it was difficult to fulfill the expectation of the villagers. Now the facilitators from their own village, neighbors’ village facilitators and Hari explain about the resources available and the supporting system, from Triangle and the villagers agreed and want to spend in right way.

Specially ASK cooperates and fully focus on the settlement level planning process with the engagement of communities, gave information of the Triangle and support to planning, implementation, monitoring, coordination and reporting.

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

Lack of awareness, it was difficult to manage the money to right way in the previous years but after villagers participated in settlement level planning they realized and fully agreed and said ; it was realistic and participatory. However, Triangle has to provide more technical knowledge for the settlement level planning.

Name of village/cluster

Last visit

Progress in the reporting period

Changes/delays/comments

(Jogithum Chhapa-NP 2

Named: Water Village)

October 2013

1. Settlement level planning is completed.

2. All planned activities from Trianglen Support; Chhapa foot trail improvement and upgrading, social harmony   training, Construction of Jogithum foot trail, income generating activities such as goat rising and small poultry for women, Bee keeping training are in under Implementation

1. 1.All the activities were delayed because of heavy rain, Local festival and the training of settlement level planning (SLP). All activities implementation are on-going. It is expected to be finalized in December.
2. 2.VDC is cooperating in the SLP process by assigning the Social Mobilizer for in training, workshop and planning exercise at village level.