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

How many people were present at the village meeting?

3 men, 4 women and   1 Dalit

Water and sanitation, repairing of school furniture, income generation activities, road, women empowerment, vegetables farming etc.

The villagers decide to spend Nrs 60,000.00 for goat raising, Nrs 10,000.00 for curcuma (color ginger) farming and Nrs 20,000.00 for ginger farming from Triangle supported money.

• All Nrs 86000 rupees invested for micro loan to women and poor’s income generation.

How were the beneficiaries selected?

• 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 those of the local bodies (VDC and DDC).

September

2014

1. Settlement level planning is completed.

2. All planned activities are under Implementation

1. 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.
2. VDC is cooperating in the SLP process by assigning the social mobilize in training, workshop and planning exercise at village level.

• 13 families got the microloan Nrs 108000 (11 Persons*Nrs 8000, 1 person*Nrs 13000 and 1 person*7000) and started the goat raising.
• 2 families got the microloan Nrs 20000 (2 Persons*Nrs 10000) and started the small poultry business.
• 1 family got the microloan Nrs 10000 (1 Person*Nrs 10000) and started the pig raising.
• 5 families got the microloan Nrs 25000 (5 Persons*Nrs 5000) and started the ginger farming.

• The 9 families who got loan for different kind of income generation activities (goat raising and poultry business) in 2013, they got a lot of benefits and extra money ( Nrs 5000 to 10000) and spent it for the their children to better education, building houses, food and some clothes for the families and pay back loan to committee.
• 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 a sustainable way and almost all villagers are involved in one micro-credit group and the group is affiliated in VDC level multipurpose cooperative also.

• The villagers got the one project (repairing of road from Fedi to village) from the VDC council.