Name of village

Pakhere, NP-8 -named Iskus Village

Was the Triangle procedure followed in relation to the Settlement Level Planning?

Yes the villagers and village committee followed the Triangle procedure. There were not any deviations.

How many people were present at the SLP village meeting?

28 men/ 32 women

How many members are in the committee?

4 men, 3 women

What were the issues raised at the SLP village meeting in Oct 2013?

Drinking water, Repairing of foot trail and rural road, Health awareness, Goat raising, Poultry farming, pig raising, water resource conservation, Income generation activities, women empowerment, Women Skill development etc.

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

What did the villagers decide to spend the funds on?

Triangle supported money:

The villagers decide to spend Nrs. 10,000 to the Pakhare Water stream conservation, Nrs 30,000 for Goat raising, Nrs 20,000 for small poultry farming and Nrs 20,000 for Pig raising

Has the committee received the funds yet?

Yes (October) after completion of settlement level planning (SLP) Sep-Oct

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

All planned activities will be started after Nepalese festival of Dashain Tihar and will be finalized in December 2013

Who is responsible for the implementation?

The Triangle village committee plays the vital role in implementation of all activities. VDC Secretary, VDC hired social mobilizer and Triangle responsible person Hari also support to implement and monitoring.

How were the beneficiaries selected?

Following the settlement level planning, the committee’s member again organize the meeting to distribute the resource and money for project activity and for the income generation activities. They have made criteria’s themselves. Generally the villagers made some indicators for the distribution of money for income generation;

• the family who has no or very little land, poor physical condition of house, Lack of food security for whole year, Labors or livelihood for others, 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 last training of settlement level planning, some of the villagers used to raise issue like the money is very little and there were difficulty in distribution also due to conflict of interest so it was difficult to fulfill the expectation of the villagers. Now with people’ increased awareness and efforts from facilitators from their own village, neighboring village facilitators and Hari’s explanation about the resource availability and the supporting system from Triangle; the villagers agree, cooperate and want to spend resources in the right way.

ASK specially cooperated and fully focused on the settlement level planning process with the critical engagement of communities, provided information on the Triangle and supported in planning, implementation, monitoring, coordination and reporting.

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

In previous years, due to lack of awareness it was difficult to manage the money in the right way. Now after the villagers participated in settlement level planning (SLP) they realized and fully agreed and named it as realistic and participatory process and approach. But they need more technical knowledge for the settlement level planning. Triangle Money is ok but the villagers have little doubt whether the VDC and DDC will support properly or not for this year.

Name of village/cluster

Last visit

Progress in the reporting period

Changes/delays/comments

Pakhere-NP 8 Named Iskus Village

October 2013

1. Settlement level planning is completed.

2. All planned activities from Triangle Support; Pakhare Water stream conservation, Goat raising, small poultry farming and Pig raising are in progress

1. All the activities were delayed because of heavy rain, Local festival and the training of SLP. All activities implementation are on-going. It is expected to be finalized in December.

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